the murders of galan , a high - respected cia officer , and a reporter last week , were probably carried out by an israeli mercenary pays by the medellin cartel - the world ' s most feared drug - carrying mob - whose has opened up paramilitary squads accusation of numbers of individual bombings and massacres against religious and labor organizers , as diverse as peasants and patriotic united marxist terrorists in different regions of the country .
Galan was killed by patriotic union leftist militants.