I'm a retired Mexican American US Foreign Service Special Agent (criminal investigator) who has written about my career. Marcos Sucre was the undercover name I used when I infiltrated Colombian drug cartels and I'm now using my 'nom de guerre' as my 'nom de plum'.
After university I worked for almost ten years as an office dwelling, numbers cruncher with the airline industry. Changing careers in 1992, I began work as a Treasury Special Agent investigating drug smuggling and money laundering. These efforts included working undercover in a money laundering operation involving Colombian drug cartels. Realizing that as a Spanish-speaking agent, unless I transferred agencies I would always work drug-type investigations. Shortly after my transfer, in a never before published investigation, I helped stop the transshipment to Iran of US nuclear reactor equipment that had already been smuggled to Cyprus. Later, I investigated white collar crimes committed by multinational pharmaceutical corporations, obtaining guilty pleas and multi-million dollar fines against them After ten years and wanting to see the world I transferred to the US Peace Corps where I investigated crimes against Peace Corps volunteers worldwide, receiving national awards for my investigations and helping pass a law protecting US Citizens around the world. Retired briefly in 2013, but returned to the fold when my rich Uncle Sam made me an offer I couldn't refuse to open the Office of Investigations at the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. “Re-retired” in October 2016, when I noticed that I was the only individual with reading glasses attached to my body armor.
My current activities include telling tall tales at establishments of ill repute, using survival training in hazardous areas of golf courses, and writing my memoir, “Tales of a Tall Mexican.”
