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How to Get Away With Murder in America: Drug Lords, Dirty Pols, Obsessed Cops, and the Quiet Man Who Became the CIA’s Master Killer

Ric Prado has a secret. He's one of the CIA's most decorated officers, but the FBI wanted him for murder and racketeering...How to Get Away with Murder in Americais the extraordinary, true account of an FBI murder investigation of a top-ranking CIA officer and the pushback -- from the highest reaches of government -- to stop an investigation that threatened to rock the foundations of America’s national security establishment.Prado is one of the most storied men to have served in the agency. To friends, he's "Ric," a Cuban immigrant who became an American success story. Prado entered the CIA as a paramilitary, fighting the agency’s secret wars in Latin America, then rising through the ranks to serve presidents and lead some of the most sensitive programs of the War on Terror, from the hunt for bin Laden to the creation of the agency’s “targeted assassination unit.”Ten years after joining the CIA, Prado was the target of a massive FBI investigation for his alleged role in my than a half dozen murders carried out on behalf of a major Miami cocaine trafficker -- who also happened to be one of Prado’s closest childhood friends.To the FBI task force investigating him, Prado’s story seemed like a true-life version ofThe Departed.They believed they’d caught a killer who’d penetrated the highest reaches of US intelligence. Federal agents interviewed Prado at CIA headquarters and believed they'd obtained his cooperation. But when they issued a subpoena for Prado to testify before a grand jury, the CIA had other plans...The FBI task force was terminated. Agents were re-assigned and told to keep silent for “national security” purposes. Case files detailing Prado’s alleged crimes disappeared. Many assumed they’d been destroyed…until journalist Evan Wright found them.Wright, a veteran war correspondent who had covered CIA operations in the Middle East, would spend the next four years tracking Prado and building a portrait of his double life, split between the CIA and the criminal underworld. Wright found the original federal i

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