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FBI agent Mat Perez (far left) led the American contingent of the assault team that raided Pablo Acosta's final hideout. Here he poses with other FBI agent in front of the U.S. Army helicopter that was used in the operation. | |
Mat Perez
The FBI acting chief in El Paso, Mat Perez directed the U.S. involvement in the operation against Acosta, who was hiding out in a remote Rio Grande village. With a U.S. army helicopter full of FBI agents, Perez escorted the Mexican assault force from El Paso to the Rio Grande village 300 miles away. The attack from the American side of the river took Acosta and his gunmen by surprise. Acosta was killed after an hour-long machine-gun battle that reminded some of the FBI agents, many of them Vietnam veterans, of their combat experiences. |
