THE INTERPRETER: Pablo Escobar’s Son Reveals His Dad “Worked for the CIA Selling Cocaine” — Media Silent | “The drug business is very different than what we dreamed,” he continues. “What the CIA was doing was buying the controls to get the drug into their country and getting a wonderful deal.” “He did not make the money alone,” Marroquín elaborated in an interview, “but with US agencies that allowed him access to this money. He had direct relations with the CIA.”