Carrillo graduated with a Bachelor in Military Administration from the Escuela Superior de Guerra. He served Secretaria de Gobernacion during the presidency of Miguel de la Madrid where he controlled customs, during the presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari he founded the Centro de Investigación y Seguridad Nacional and headed the Commission for Attention to Health Crimes of the Attorney General's Office. He was decorated by the governments of France, Germany, Yugoslavia, Jordan, Argentina, Japan, and Great Britain.
In 1994 Carrillo was elected Governor of Morelos. Three years later, in 1997, the head of the anti-kidnapping branch of the state police was caught dumping the body of a dead suspect along the highway to Veracruz. Graco Ramirez, then leader of the Party of the Democratic Revolution in the state of Morelos, organized protest marches against Carrillo Olea, who resigned on May 15, 1998. In a 2011 interview, Proceso magazine quotes Senator Graco Ramírez as saying, "Jorge Carrillo Olea was the one who incubated the drug trafficking egg in Morelos. He is responsible for the misfortune that the state lives in." He mentions that Amado Carrillo Fuentes, El Señor de los Cielos built a mansion three blocks from Carrillo's official residence in Vista Hermosa, that International Airlines, whose route ran from Cuernavaca to Culiacán and from Culiacán to Hermosillo, was run by Amado Carrillo; and that the notorious kidnapping gang led by Daniel Arizmendi López, El Mochaorejas began during Carrillo Olea's term.. Jorge Sicilia, an activist in Morelos, Héctor de Mauleón, and Craig Pyes and Sam Dillon of the New York Times all made similar accusations against Carrillo Olea. The newspaper La Jornada published a report that the DEA had linked Morelos governor Carrillo Olea, Sonora governor Manlio Fabio Beltrones, and Raúl Salinas de Gortari to Amado Carrillo Fuentes El Señor de los Cielos. For his part, Carrillo Olea has always proclaimed his innocence; he insisted that the allegations were made up by Graco Ramirez, Cuernavaca bishop Luis Reynoso Cervantes, and President Ernesto Zedillo. He has also pointed out that a court found him innocent.
Rehabilitation
Jorge Carrillo Oleo was exonerated by Judge María del Rosario Rojas Lara on February 16, 2003. He became a writer for La Jornada newspaper and Proceso magazine, both in Mexico City, specializing in security affairs. In 2011, Carrillo Olea wrote México en Riesgo, Una visión personal sobre un Estado a la defensiva, which is a reflection on the Mexican security apparatus during the presidencies of Luis Echeverría, José López Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid and Carlos Salinas de Gortari; as well events such as the Tlatelolco massacre of October 2, 1968, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, the collapse of the computer system during the 1988 Mexican election, and his own governorship of Morelos. In 2018, Carrillo Olea wrote Torpezas de la inteligencia: Las grandes fallas dela seguridad nacional y sus posibles soluciones, which is a description of his observation of how Mexican presidents have fused strategic intelligence and government. President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador invited Jorge Carrillo Olea to collaborate with his government on security issues in 2018, but Carrillo turned him down, citing age.
