State of Play Salon Series: Hunting the King of Cocaine

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was one of the world’s most notorious narcotics traffickers, and Steve Murphy was one of two U.S. drug enforcement agents who brought him down. Working with his DEA partner Javier Peña and a special Colombian police unit, known as the DIJIN, Murphy was also instrumental in dismantling the powerful Medellin Cartel.

Speaking at The Cipher’s Brief’s “State of Play Salon Series” event on Tuesday, Murphy explained how he became part of “the largest criminal manhunt in law enforcement” for the “world’s first narco-terrorist,” until Escobar’s death in December 1993, when he was killed in a gun battle.

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