the topic. (Trial Tr. PM Session 6, Mar. 18, 2010.) He also identified and described a FARC code book that belonged to him and explained how it identifies radio frequencies and uses lines of numbers to represent letters or words during communications. (Trial Tr. PM Session 7-10, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas said the defendant had a similar code book but he and the defendant did not use the FARC code books during their communications because they had established codes and frequencies that they commonly used that were more efficient. (Trial Tr. PM Session 10-13, Mar. 18, 2010.)
Vargas said that he saw the defendant again in 2001 after he was forced, along with the 16th Front, to leave the Area they were working in Barranco Minas because the Colombianarmy was in the area. (Trial Tr. PM Session 20, Mar. 18, 2010.) He asked the defendant whether the defendant had a place that could process coca that Vargas stashed after one of his planes went down. (Trial Tr. PM Session 21, Mar. 18, 2010.) Because the defendant had a responsibility "to report all the business *19 that took place in that area with regard to the buying and selling of coca," he recommended a laboratory owned by a man referred to as "Mr. Gonzalo." (Trial Tr. PM Session 22, Mar. 18, 2010.) Vargas confirmed that the defendant was able to help him convert his coca to coca base. (Trial Tr. PM Session 4-19, Mar. 18, 2010.) He also said that, at the end of 2001, he was