Jorge Noguera, director of the secret police known as the DAS, told reporters that Uribe "was very angry about this situation and after speaking with him, I presented my resignation."An Uribe spokesman, who only speaks to reporters on condition of anonymity as a policy, confirmed the president had accepted Noguera's resignation and dismissed the DAS's deputy director, Jose Miguel Narvaez, but declined to discuss the reasons behind the decision. Colombian daily El Tiempo reported Tuesday that Narvaez was involved in a plan to make it look like the DAS was going to sell intelligence to the nation's outlawed far-right paramilitary militias as part of a campaign to ensnare Noguera in a scandal. Uribe "is aware ... of these montages that were being prepared within the institution," Noguera said.