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By 1994, Iván Ramírez had risen to the rank of brigadier general and was again the director of Colombian Army intelligence. The document provides significant details about his long career in military intelligence that are not included in (or redacted from) other documents. Among his notably military assignments are stints as the B-2 intelligence officer for the Army’s 5th Brigade (1977), the S-3 operations officer for the Charry Solano intelligence battalion (1978), the deputy commander (1979) and later commander (1980) of Charry Solano, and as B-2 of the Army’s 2nd Brigade (1982). He was again named commander of Charry Solano in 1983 and in 1985 was named commander of the Army’s intelligence operations command, the position he held during the November 1985 Palace of Justice episode. He later became director of Colombian Army intelligence (1987-1988) and commander of the 11th Brigade (1989) before moving back to the E-2 post in December 1991.
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