Former Gulf Cartel insider spills his high-tech secrets

By DANE SCHILLER and SUSAN CARROLL Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle
Aug. 25, 2009, 11:39PM

A secret communications network of hand-held radios with a reach stretching from the Rio Grande to Guatemala. Booster transmitters mounted atop police stations and on massive steel radio towers.

Surveillance cameras hidden outside gangsters' homes, stash houses and meeting places.

These are the tools of “The Company,â€