Posted on 04/21/2026 5:14:16 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Two CIA officers were killed in Mexico in a fiery car crash after meeting with Mexican authorities that busted one of the 'largest ever drug labs' in the nation, according to reports.
The officers, who have not been named, died along with the area's chief police investigator and his bodyguard in the state of Chihuahua on Sunday.
Mexican officials said the car swerved off the road and exploded when it fell down a ravine.
The Americans were initially identified as US embassy officials, however sources told the Washington Post that they worked for the CIA.
They reportedly worked with the agency as part of an expanded American role in battling drug trafficking over the southern border, the outlet reported.
The crash unfolded as the four victims were reportedly returning from a meeting with Mexican officials to discuss a raid that took place the next day on a huge drug facility in a remote area of the state, near the US-Mexico border.
Chihuahua’s attorney general, Cesar Jauregui Moreno, described the lab as 'perhaps one of the largest ever located' and told Mexico’s El Universal newspaper that the Americans did not directly participate in the raid.
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“Something” caused the car to swerve off of the road...
Gibbs’ Rule #39, “There is no such thing as a coincidence,” especially in this type of context.
And how often do cars EXPLODE on impact? Umm, LESS THAN ONE-HALF OF 1% !!!!
“And how often do cars EXPLODE on impact? Umm, LESS THAN ONE-HALF OF 1% !!!!”
Yes. I was surprised the first time I heard forensic crime investigators say that. Basically, it happens on TV and in movies, but in real life ... almost never.
Sounds sus.
Odd.....
” Mexican officials said the car swerved off the road and exploded when it fell down a ravine. “
How would Mexican officials who had not witnessed this know which thing happened first ?
A friend of mine a long time ago who was usually right about things told me real life car fires just slowly burn like any common fire and go on for a long time unlike the dramatic TV and action movie car fires of a huge explosion with a fireball in the air.
But now I’ve seen news clips of ones that look like the gas tank blew after a couple of minutes.
It “skidded”.
No explosion fragments on the road?
Considering the cartels are involved , a bomb would not be a surprise.
One of the American college student meth lab accidents near Eastern Michigan University had upstairs lab/apartment over the Jimmy Johns blow up with an enormous fire. News photos showed the windows of the Jimmy Johns downstairs had blown out from the heat pressure with yellow flames.
I made a personal and original joke.
“Are the subs toasted at Jimmy Johns?”
“They are now.”
Their car exploded and skidded off a ravine is more like it.
Isn’t illegal for CIA officers to work in other country? Maybe a few allies allow it. but generally they’re committing a crime in that other country.
If the cartel did it why wouldn’t they just openly do it to send a message?
Accident???
Yeah!
Sure!
“Crash” — sure.
Probably because it’s easier and cheaper to get industrially made opiates and fentanyl.
Don’t they mean was forced off the road? You know that’s what happened. Thank God my daughter doesn’t have to travel to Mexico for work anymore!
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