Part 2: How He Fooled the World's Most Dangerous Cartel — DEA Undercover Secrets

Episode 246  ·  May 06, 09:00 AM

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The only way to take down the CJNG cartel was to become someone they trusted. Retired DEA Special Agent Chris Diaz didn't just go undercover — he went inside.

Retired DEA Agent Chris Diaz goes deeper than any headline ever will. This isn't about tactics — it's about psychology. How do you infiltrate one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the world? You think like them. You talk like them. You become them.

Chris breaks down the exact psychological strategies he used to build trust with high-level cartel targets — how he posed as a major player with access to European drug markets, how he coordinated operations across Romania, Tanzania, Guatemala, Mexico, and Colombia, and how one wrong word could mean a deadly failure.