http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/jag/jagpage.htm
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=south+american+theft+groups&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
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Note: Video included.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/17048595/detail.html
“Video: Jewelry Thefts Across Nation Could Be Connected:
Mariza Reyes Reports”
“Jewelry Heists May Have National Connection”
By Mariza Reyes
POSTED: 8:14 am CDT July 31, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “HOUSTON — A string of jewelry thefts in Houston may be connected to others across the United States, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Thieves made off with $500,000 in jewelry in Arkansas on Tuesday. Agents said that robbery, which matched two others in June in Pine Bluff, Ark., and Nashville, Tenn., shares similarities with a string of thefts in Houston.”
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Stepping back in time...
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/may07/jewelry051807.htm
“BLING RINGS
Targeting International Jewel Thieves”
05/18/07
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=8D285E6E-3433-4E20-B6CF-599CFD1F1E7B
“Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture”
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, August 01, 2008
INTERVIEW SNIPPET: “The CIA has proven virulently resistant to reform and I believe it should be broken up and the parts assigned to organizations that already have clear missions and defined chains of command. CIA offices and personnel operating within the United States should be transferred to the FBI. The CIA was never intended to be a domestic spy agency. The FBI is measured and held accountable by its ability to catch criminals, and this accountability provides the motivation for the FBI to perform. CIA embassy activities overseas should be assigned to the US Department of State. The State Department is designed to handle diplomacy. Much of what the CIA now does in its embassies involves diplomacy, such as handling relationships with liaison services.
Overseas human intelligence collection programs should be given to the US military. The fundamental motivation of the American military—to win wars and to protect the lives of its soldiers—will give the motivation to ensure that its case officers provide the necessary intelligence and do not become distracted by soft targets or by designing programs meant to look busy and spend money. The US military already has a large corps of trained case officers, graduates of the CIA’s own training course.
FP: Ishmael Jones, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.
Jones: Thank you very much.”