Intelligence

Analysis: Colombia's Uribe rides high after rescue (AP via Yahoo! News)

6 Jul 2008

President Alvaro Uribe was master of ceremonies the night Colombian military intelligence agents disguised as humanitarian workers airlifted Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages to freedom.

Colombian Officials Recount Rescue Plan (Washington Post)

6 Jul 2008

BOGOTA, Colombia, July 5 -- Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos told a special team of intelligence agents assigned with drawing up a hostage rescue operation to be inventive and bold.

Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages (AP via Yahoo! News)

6 Jul 2008

Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.