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Mar 15, 2021
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st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1
st SFOD-D) is the U.S. Army’s elite, Tier 1 special operations unit. Founded in 1977, the 1
st SFOD-D force has had several titles within the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) over the years, including Delta Force, Combat Applications Group (CAG), Army Compartmented Element (ACE), “The Unit,” and Task Force Green. While Delta Force is administratively under the Army, it is operationally controlled by JSOC. Delta specializes in Counter-terrorism, Direct Action, Hostage Rescue, and Reconnaissance. They are often tasked with carrying out high-risk operations that are often classified and directed from the highest levels of the U.S. government. Delta recruits heavily from the Special Forces and the 75
A 21-year-old IT expert who created a personal communications network for Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin Guzman Loera, otherwise known as El Chapo, was central in the wiretap investigation which eventually led to his arrest.
The young ambitious tech expert from Colombia developed one of the first encrypted and secretive telecoms system used by a criminal gang back in 2009, when he was paid €100,000 by El Chapo to get him up and running on phones which he believed couldn’t be wiretapped.
At the time, El Chapo was on the run and hiding out in the Sierra Madre mountains in his native Mexico, where he was running the world’s richest and most dangerous drug cartels and directing bloody wars against his rivals.