Dirección Federal de Seguridad explained

Agency Name:Federal Security Directorate
Nativename:Dirección Federal de Seguridad
Formed:1947
Dissolved:1985
Superseding:Dirección de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional
Parent Department:Secretariat of the Interior

The Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Federal Security Directorate, DFS) was a Mexican intelligence agency and secret police. It was created in 1947 under Mexican president Miguel Alemán Valdés with the assistance of U.S. intelligence agencies (namely the CIA) as part of the Truman Doctrine of Soviet Containment,[1] with the duty of preserving the internal stability of Mexico against all forms of subversion and terrorist threats.[2] It was merged into the Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional (CISEN) in 1985.

During the period from 1968 to the late 1970s (a period called the Mexican Dirty War), the DFS was accused of illegal detentions, torture, assassinations and forced disappearances.[3] [4] At least 347 complaints were received by the United Nations related to Mexican state crimes from 1960 to 1980.[5]

The agency was highly successful in thwarting and deterring any attempt by anti-government or pro-Soviet organizations to destabilize the country. However, it was a notoriously controversial government entity, and it was disbanded under the presidency of Miguel de la Madrid by the hand of his secretary of the interior Manuel Bartlett Díaz in 1985. Multiple agents were suspected (and later confirmed) of having links with criminal organizations, which included top members like Miguel Nazar Haro and Arturo "El Negro" Durazo Moreno. Other infamous former agents includes Rafael Aguilar Guajardo founding member of the Juárez Cartel and Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, who became one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, which in 2021 was named as the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world.

Some such criminal exploits included a million dollar US-Mexico car theft ring,[6] collaborating in drug trafficking with the Guadalajara Cartel (including the protection of the infamous "Colonia Bufalo" marijuana crops),[7] training the Nicaraguan contras in drug trafficker owned ranches,[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] the murder of journalist Manuel Buendia, for investigating ties between the DFS, the CIA and drug traffickers,[15] and for having some degree of participation in, and providing cover to, the kidnapping and subsequent death of DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar.[16] [17]

Heads of the DFS

Notorious members

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://www.afio.com/publications/MEDINA%20Mexican%20Intelligence%202015%20Sep%2001%20FINAL.pdf
  2. Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Mexico) Security Reports, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin, Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Mexico) Security Reports, 1970–1977
  3. Web site: Tienda de Entretenimiento. www.terra.com.mx. 21 January 2016. 28 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160128213830/http://www.terra.com.mx/noticias/articulo/111901/Comparece+De+la+Barreda+por+guerra+sucia.htm. dead.
  4. Web site: La Historia de dos desaparecidas.
  5. Web site: Cientos de desaparecidos en México. CNN.
  6. Web site: U.S. Indicted New Mexican Police Chief In Car-theft Ring. 27 December 1988 .
  7. Web site: Caro, el Hombre Que Compró al Estado. 2 September 2013.
  8. Web site: El padrino del narcotráfico mexicano, ahora libre, adquirió su poder durante la época del PRI. 20 August 2013.
  9. Book: Drug War Mexico: Politics, Neoliberalism and Violence in the New Narcoeconomy. Peter. Watt. Roberto. Zepeda. 14 June 2012. Zed Books Ltd.. 9781848138896. Google Books.
  10. Book: . Russell H.. Bartley. Sylvia Erickson. Bartley. 30 November 2015. University of Wisconsin Pres. Google Books. 328.
  11. Web site: "La DFS, al servicio de la CIA; Bartlett y García Ramírez lo sabían": Carrillo Olea en 'Proceso' – Aristegui Noticias. aristeguinoticias.com.
  12. Web site: Narco News: El agente de la DEA asesinado, Kiki Camarena, cayó en una operación de la CIA que salió mal, según fuentes de seguridad. www.narconews.com.
  13. Web site: La Federal de Seguridad y la CIA colaboraban con Caro Quintero – Proceso. 26 October 2013. 14 December 2017. 11 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200911012107/https://www.proceso.com.mx/356510/la-federal-de-seguridad-y-la-cia-colaboraban-con-caro-quintero-2. dead.
  14. Web site: Una historia nunca contada.
  15. Web site: ¿Quién fue Manuel Buendía? – Animal Político. www.animalpolitico.com. 11 September 2013. 14 December 2017. 17 September 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130917014153/http://www.animalpolitico.com/2013/09/quien-fue-manuel-buendia/. dead.
  16. Web site: Revelan en EU que CIA grabó tortura a Enrique Camarena. 12 October 2013.
  17. Web site: A Camarena lo ejecutó la CIA, no Caro Quintero – Proceso. 12 October 2013. 14 December 2017. 10 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200510134405/https://www.proceso.com.mx/355283/a-camarena-lo-ejecuto-la-cia-no-caro-quintero-2. dead.
  18. Book: Camp, Roderic Ai. Generals in the Palacio: The Military in Modern Mexico. registration. 97. Gilberto Suárez.. 14 December 1992. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-507300-3. Internet Archive.
  19. Book: Navarro, Aaron W.. Political Intelligence and the Creation of Modern Mexico, 1938–1954. 1 January 2010. Penn State Press. 978-0271037066. Google Books.
  20. Book: Quezada, Sergio Aguayo. La Charola: Una historia de los servicios de inteligencia en México. 11 March 2014. Editorial Ink. 9786079351328. Google Books.
  21. Web site: Murió Luis de la Barreda, ex titular de la disuelta Dirección Federal de Seguridad – La Jornada. La. Jornada. www.jornada.unam.mx.
  22. Book: Aguayo Quezada, Sergio. La Charola. 2001. Grijalbo. 970-05-1389-0. 413.

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