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as well. In another room, in a vault, were thousands of kilos of gold bars. To the right side of the room were more shrink-wrapped bricks, but these were heroin and cocaine. Several tons of it. Felix and Marco had been in the room several times, and were always amazed at the sight.
El Gato pointed to a pallet of cash that was separate from the others. It was a perfect cube of hundred dollar bills, all neatly shrink-wrapped into bricks.
“Tomorrow, I will have this transported to a truck. You’ll take a dozen men. I’ll give you a route to follow, heading west. There are multiple stops along the way where you will spread good will. It’s a long list. Maybe a two-day trip with all of the stops. You’ll be paying the tolls for the next package that has to go next week along the same route. You’ll have to talk to Sinaloa and Mazatlecos representatives. Their leaders know you’re coming and you shouldn’t have any problems, but you’ll have plenty of men with you just in case. Bring as much firepower as you want, but no shooting unless you get ambushed. Your instructions for the amounts of cash at each stop will be specific, as well as locations and the names of your contacts. I don’t want any problems. You understand?”
Felix cocked his head. “You want us heading through Sinaloa and Mazatlecos territory with twenty million dollars in cash?” His face showed his surprise and worry.
“Don’t worry. I’ve spoken to the cartel leaders personally. We have a treaty and the prices were agreed upon with each of them. No one will bother you. You’ll simply make a down payment for the tolls in advance for next week and return. When you go back, you give them the rest of the money.” El Gato walked to a table where a brick of cash was open. He grabbed two bundles so large he could barely get each hand around them. He walked back to his two men and handed them each one of the bricks. “This should take away your worries. Now go have some fun and be here tomorrow morning at nine for your drive through the countryside.”
Felix and Marco looked at each other with wide eyes and large smiles. Payday, indeed.
CHAPTER 16
CIA Briefing Room
The mood had gotten more serious after Moose’s rebuke of Apo’s comments. The men were now all focused on mission details.
Apo was clicking through slides as he briefed the team. “The USS Greeneville will take you to the Mexican coast off the state of Tabasco, where you’ll transfer to the Advanced SEAL Delivery System. The ASDS can get you about a half-mile from the mouth of this small river, here. There are some oil rigs out there and it gets shallow. At 0200 on Friday, 27 May, under cover of darkness, you’ll deploy an F470 Combat Rubber Raiding Craft with a silent electric motor and head upstream to this point here. The CRRC will bring you up the small river into this lagoon. It’s big, but very shallow. Laguna de Michoacán. You’ll travel four miles across the lagoon to this point here. There, you ditch the boat and head towards Libertad. It’s about two miles through some thick jungle and mangrove swamps. You need to be here before 0600 when the sun breaks. Is it doable?”
Moose and Ripper looked at each other, thinking about the weight of their full packs. They then glanced at their team. “No problem.”
“You’ll spend Saturday daylight hours out of sight near Libertad. There are farms farther south, so you need to overnight in the shit. When it gets dark on day two, Saturday night, you hump west-southwest to this point here. Almost six miles through farmland and some small villages, which means you go after 0200 and arrive again before 0600. If you follow the hedgerows you should be able to move undetected. This will put you in the forest right below El Gato’s estate up here on this hill for Sunday morning.”
“We gonna storm the castle?” asked Jon.
“Shooting up ain’t exactly ideal,” said Hodges, their sniper.
Apo ignored the comments.
El Gato pointed to a pallet of cash that was separate from the others. It was a perfect cube of hundred dollar bills, all neatly shrink-wrapped into bricks.
“Tomorrow, I will have this transported to a truck. You’ll take a dozen men. I’ll give you a route to follow, heading west. There are multiple stops along the way where you will spread good will. It’s a long list. Maybe a two-day trip with all of the stops. You’ll be paying the tolls for the next package that has to go next week along the same route. You’ll have to talk to Sinaloa and Mazatlecos representatives. Their leaders know you’re coming and you shouldn’t have any problems, but you’ll have plenty of men with you just in case. Bring as much firepower as you want, but no shooting unless you get ambushed. Your instructions for the amounts of cash at each stop will be specific, as well as locations and the names of your contacts. I don’t want any problems. You understand?”
Felix cocked his head. “You want us heading through Sinaloa and Mazatlecos territory with twenty million dollars in cash?” His face showed his surprise and worry.
“Don’t worry. I’ve spoken to the cartel leaders personally. We have a treaty and the prices were agreed upon with each of them. No one will bother you. You’ll simply make a down payment for the tolls in advance for next week and return. When you go back, you give them the rest of the money.” El Gato walked to a table where a brick of cash was open. He grabbed two bundles so large he could barely get each hand around them. He walked back to his two men and handed them each one of the bricks. “This should take away your worries. Now go have some fun and be here tomorrow morning at nine for your drive through the countryside.”
Felix and Marco looked at each other with wide eyes and large smiles. Payday, indeed.
CHAPTER 16
CIA Briefing Room
The mood had gotten more serious after Moose’s rebuke of Apo’s comments. The men were now all focused on mission details.
Apo was clicking through slides as he briefed the team. “The USS Greeneville will take you to the Mexican coast off the state of Tabasco, where you’ll transfer to the Advanced SEAL Delivery System. The ASDS can get you about a half-mile from the mouth of this small river, here. There are some oil rigs out there and it gets shallow. At 0200 on Friday, 27 May, under cover of darkness, you’ll deploy an F470 Combat Rubber Raiding Craft with a silent electric motor and head upstream to this point here. The CRRC will bring you up the small river into this lagoon. It’s big, but very shallow. Laguna de Michoacán. You’ll travel four miles across the lagoon to this point here. There, you ditch the boat and head towards Libertad. It’s about two miles through some thick jungle and mangrove swamps. You need to be here before 0600 when the sun breaks. Is it doable?”
Moose and Ripper looked at each other, thinking about the weight of their full packs. They then glanced at their team. “No problem.”
“You’ll spend Saturday daylight hours out of sight near Libertad. There are farms farther south, so you need to overnight in the shit. When it gets dark on day two, Saturday night, you hump west-southwest to this point here. Almost six miles through farmland and some small villages, which means you go after 0200 and arrive again before 0600. If you follow the hedgerows you should be able to move undetected. This will put you in the forest right below El Gato’s estate up here on this hill for Sunday morning.”
“We gonna storm the castle?” asked Jon.
“Shooting up ain’t exactly ideal,” said Hodges, their sniper.
Apo ignored the comments.
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