Centra Spike (ISA codename).
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1980s–90s ISA codename famed for SIGINT geolocation of Pablo Escobar (chronicled in Bowden's Killing Pablo).
Centra Spike was an ISA codename whose operators, observers said, could 'literally pluck information from the air.' Operating across Colombia with false documents, they geolocated Medellín Cartel hideouts and contributed to the December 1993 death of Pablo Escobar at the hands of the Colombian Search Bloc. Documented in Mark Bowden's Killing Pablo — a real intelligence operation with no UAP dimension.