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I,IEI'{ORANDII{ FOR THE RECORD

SUB'JECT: Briefings of NSC and SSCI on "Los Pepes" Affair

L. On 5 December ].993 , CIA DO of ficers brief ed

separat,ely Lhe NSC and SSCf on the "Los Pepes" Affair. ADDO
Ted Price led the DO team in briefinq the NSC but did not
attend Lhe SSC r DO personnel presenE. at boLh
b r iefings were Chief of Ehe CfA's i endenL
investigation

s of his staff
were present for the NSC brief. Only three SSCI
Congressional Staffers showed: Tim Carl-sgaard, Dave
Addington, and Mike Hathaway.

Th o results of the investigation hea

er e briefed to boeh the NSC and S r .

3. t lprovided the background to the Los pepes

group, thE-Es-t€-Flishment of a U.S. &nbassy ,Joint. Task Force
and the concurrenL establishment of a colombian Task Force,
all designed to assist in the apprehension of Escobar and
other members of the

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SUB'JECT; Brifings of NSC and SSCI on "Los Pepestr Affair

4. was careful to note for the record thaL

Lhere was-E-sEu{r complet,ed in ,July 1-992 based solely on DEA
information which contained a list of suspected Colombian
Medellin personnel. ur of e ultimaLel
illed brr Los

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e ng Eo roned that the Embassy
,Joint Task Force mai iro record of information
to the Colombians

a ss s sy's Task Fo -ffre of al l

informabion passed to the Colombians.
organizat,ion has been asked for copies of t . If E he
logs exisEs and we obtain copies, they will be examined to
det.ermine whether we might have missed any information that
might have been passed Eo the Colombians and which could
have been used by Los pepes. this issue was not discussed
before Ehe SSCI.

6. The briefinq of the SSCI, like the one for t.he NSC,
was made at our reguest. Only Tim Carlsgaard, Dave
Addington, and Mike Hathaway showed up. J----_lgave the
same brief ing he provided to TeneE. rhe#o
questions. The briefers reserved ten minutes to provide a
run-down on Ehe shoot-out wibh Esc r and his quard
which resulted in E sco b a r, s d e a t h .

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