[Wallace T.]

Whether it was the cartels or domestic organized crime, the killers are and were operating on behalf of a foreign power: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, or some other country.

[PIF]

the killers are and were operating on behalf of a foreign power

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How do you know that? Or is that an assumption?

[ladyjane]

Whether it was the cartels or domestic organized crime, the killers are and were operating on behalf of a foreign power: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, or some other country.

You didn't include our own government in your list. For a reason?