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States Emtassy annoiinced to- abouc2:30 P.M. last Thursday. day that an agent of the Drug Enforce- .,@ srx),@-s7n,;izi in@, -.@e -'nitefl States rr--,,t Administraticl-. had been kid- Er:@@bassi,. said -nat, a witness had re. ,;n9pped in western Mexico city of writed 1-.a,,ing seen Mr, Camarena Guadalal.ara, The kidnappers wercbe- I §alazar being forced into a car by four he mvolved @n dnug t.-aff4ck'ng lieved tc; armed men. in Mexi-o Mr. Carnarena Salazar, who is 37 , @ a Ine kidnapp; g was -he 1:- 'f - ' y ar born natural- ears oici, is a Mexic @rcoti United, States n ics agen-, in Mex- ized United States (,,itizen. e h,@E 1;@een .@co since the two countries began tne @with the Drug Enforcement Acrni@iis- current phase of a ioint anti-dria F effort tration sln-e 1974 @!nd I-As been sta- - in 19"15. t@@-_@ned .n Ciuadala,,,ara, since 19IS0. He Is But last October Lhe car of a D-@ug married and has three children. Enforcement Administration agent in A spakesman for th@ Mexican Attor-' Guadalajara was riddled with bullets ..%7 __ Gene.-ia'.Is office, Francisco Fonse- .by an unidentified person wielding a ca, said he could report only that "state machine gun outside his home. No in- and feder.-I judicial police am investi- uries or arrests were reported in that gating" MIT. Camarena Salazar's dis-' incident. appearance, A spokesman said there had been no A high-ranking Mexican official said , ransom demand from or other contact the Mexican Government had izlcome with the kidnappers. The United States increasingly concerned in recent Ambassador, John Gavin, said in a months over intelligence indicating a statement that neither the United " of drug-related activities in the J growth States nor Mexico would be intiml' " i Guadaia)ara area The city, -Mexico's i ' into reducing dated by mafia thugs second largest, is a short distance from the joint anti-drug effort. the western coastal state of Sinaloa, Embassy Offers Reward i one of the country's most active areas The embassy said it was offering a in the production of illegal drugs. ion lead- reward of MWO for informat The official added that the most un - ing to the whereabouts of the agent;,En @ usual thing about the incident was, i rique Camarena Salazar, who disap- "frankly, that he was kidnapped peared shortly after leaving the United they usually just k@,11 them." N.Y. 1002-21. 1-2U-752-2441. Out of State: 1-800-2-23-12234. @@Ilajor cire&t cards accept@:d. 'TEUBE I N' Aly' 0*-? P-lilease 2003 1 A Militant Sikhs had dall6d Ior uan, dhi's ouster for ordering the army to invad h t agii .1. I tin, tan110W0WWrkMrP fight* p LW90 homeland. More than 600 people, Most of them Sikhs, were killed in the two-day battle. The police document said the con. spirators completed their plan only a day before the slaying. Gandhi was shot to death by two Sikh bodyguards as she walked from her home Oct. 31. The charge sheet named as the gunmen Gandhi's two Sikh body- LILULAIUMA.-M ...- U . I day at a famine-relief center in Ethi- opia, six days after it said gunmen men. "We have resumed distributing aid at the Wahreb-Saharti camp" near Makale in Tigre province, a spo@es. woman said in response to inquiries. "That is good news.." She said the Ethiopian government had not yet responded to i request for an explanation of last Tuesday's incident, during which, the Red Tile 90VUHIMIL HaS UeUleu VVL5V ern news reports of people being ed rat to join its resettle. hich moves people from drought areas in the north to fertile areas in the south and west, The government spkesmen have said any incidents were merely local dis- turbances that police had been forced to quell. The Red Cross has said the govern- ment notified it that an investigatio of the Wahreb-Saharti incident was under way. Drug agent believed kidnapped MM ftquircr Wre SCn4C= 502 S4rw g En. MEXICO CITY - A U.S. Dru hw@ forcement Agency official was be- Cow *X lieved. kidnapped in Guadalajara by drug traffickers last week, and the U.S. Embassy said yesterday that it V was offering a $50,000 reward for information on his whereabouts. "If the kidnappers hope to deter cooperative efforts of the United States and Mexico to rid our citizens of drug trafficking, they are mistak- en," U.S. Ambassador John Gavin said. "Neither this mission nor our , governments will be intimidated by Mafia thugs." A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said' A the DEA official, Enrique Camarena SalaZa 37, a natu)ralized American part of a US. effort to stop the flow Of drugs into the United States, Feld- kamp said. als U.S. drug enforcement offici have worked in close contact with the Mexican government in a pro- gram to end the growing of marijua- na and opium poppies and to reduce heroin and cocaine traffic acoss the 1,900-mile border. U.S. off ic ials have been threatened in their work in Mexico, U.S. diplo- mats in Mexico City said, but this appeared to be. the first kidnapping- Camarena, a native of Mexico and father of three, has been with the DEA since 1974. In 1980 he was as- signed to the agency's office in Gua- dalajara. i:rze I s @>A 7, Approved For Release 2003/09/10: citizen, was kidnapped Thursday af- ternoon in Guadalajara, 300 miles northwest of Mexico City. Witnesses told authorities that four armed men pulled up beside Camarena, forced him into the back of a car and sped off. The embassy spokeswoman said that the kidnappers had not made contact with US. or Mexican govern- ment officials and that no ransom demands had been received. In Washington, DEA spokesman Robert Feldkamp said Camarena was leaving his office to meet his wife, Geneva, for lunch when he was ab- ducted. The DEA believes that the four kidnappers are drug traffickers because Camarena was working as they fe;red that church-sti tions; might deteriorate fui the short term, but that mutt ests would appear to mak( scale crisis unlikely at pres "Jaruzelski isn't strong,er get along without the churcb church needs government achieve its programs," note@ ern political analyst who de( be quoted by name. Exactly what caused the ment to begin its anti-churc ganda campaign midway the month-long Popieluszko trial remains unclear. Some with a Soviet propaganda tE arrived in Warsaw shortly 9 trial began in late Decembel believe it was pressure fro liners within Jaruzelski's ov who demanded the anti-chuz oric as the price for puttini police officers on open tria During the trial, the chie prosecutor frequently dign attack the church. At one I attempted to equate Fathe luszko's . anti-government with his murder, stating, tremism leads to a extremism." Late Friday, in an intervi three Western reporters, Pol ligious affairs minister, A patka, warned that the gov would not hesitate to arrest priests engaged in what lit .,criminal activities." Approved For Release 2003/09/10 CIA-RDP96-00788ROO1900750003-8 10, ,,nce Increas'es C@, U.S., Agenis" ''Target of Assaults By Mary Thornton Washington Post Staff Writer U.S. law-enforcement officials have expressed fear that last week's kidnaping of a Drug Enforce- ment Administration agent in Guadalajara, Mexico, may be part of a pattern of ific'r-e"'a-s'i-n-g----a-ss-a-ults on U.S. targets by drug traffickers throughout Latin America. Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, 37, a Mexican- born naturalized American with nearly 11 years' experience at the DEA, was abducted in midafter- r1oon last Thursday as he left his office to have lunch with his wife. An eyewitness@ has told DEA investi- gators that he was grabbed by four armed men and thrown face down into the back of a car. U.S. law-enforcement officials said that Ca- marena, who had a broad working knowledge of DEA operations -and continuing investigations in Latin America, may have been tortured and mur- dered, but'they offered no specifies. The kidnaping was the most recent of several acts of violence by Latin American drug traffickers against U.S. enforcement efforts, which have been. sharply increased in the last three years. Law-en- forcement officials said they are particularly con- cerned about the attacks because of violence rou- See DEA, A30, CoL 3 , Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788ROO1900750003-8 Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788ROO1900750003-8 THE WASTIINGTON POST Latin America Drug Violence '-1 0 !@e'eu Rising . DEA, From A I --inely used by the traffickers, in- Auding brutal murders of wives and ::hildren of targets. In February 1982, two DEA agents were kid- -iaped by drug traffickers in Car- :agena, Colombia, shot xepeatedly and left for dead. Both survived. Last Oct. 10, a DEA agent's car was machine-gunned in Guadala- -ata, At that time, DEA security in Mexico was increased, and agents -vere ordered to be especially vig- ]ant. On Nov. 26, one woman was -cilled in a car bombing outside the @J.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, :hat, authorities said they believed -vas carried out by drug traffickers. Last December, the Colombian government completed plans to ex- :radite four alleged drug traffickers _o the United States for trial under a new*treaty between the two gov- @rnments. About that time, DEA and other ntelligence sources received re- area handling the investigation and Lehder has claimed to be a mem- Xrts that a three-man hit team had that DEA Administrator.Francis M. ber of M19, a left-wing Colombian :)een dispatched from Colombia and (Bqd) Mullen Jr. flew to Mexico last terrorist group. was targeting federal narcotics Sunday to oversee the operation. Deputy DEA Administrator John agents for kidnaping, torture and He returned last night, but nothing C. Lawn said yesterday, "Acts of vi- -nurder. The plans also included the further was announced. olence, threats of violence are a :)ossible bombing of DEA offices, Since December, DEA offices clear indication that the pressure :he reports said. and many other federal buildings we're bringing to bear on traffick- Federal law-enforcement sources including courthouses, have been ers is havin an effect and that r,aid that they see no link between under extremely tight security g they're responding the only wa :he Camarena kidnaping and the al- throughout the United States. In- y eged Colombian hit squad but that telligence sources said the a lleged they know how-by trying to pro- the men who abducted Camarena in hit team left Colombia, but federal voke fear and intimidation 7juadalajara are believed to be ma- sources said they do. not know "We have taken precautions in all @X? -or traffickers of marijuana and co- whether the team has entered this overseas posts, we have established mine. The sources said the men are country. special working guidelines for our " " :)elieved to be based in the Guadala- Federal law-enforcement sources he said. But the nature of people, .ara area but working with drug said the team is believed to consist r work and the sometimes cor- Ou :raffickers elsewhere in Latin of three men, not drug traffickers rupting environment makes abso- qmerica. but hired by Carlos Lehder, lute security of personnel impossi- Authorities said the situation in Colombian citizen wanted on three ble. But if traffickers are using fear :;uadalajara is,seen as so serious U.S. drug-trafficking indictments and intimidation to test our mettle, ENRIQUE CAMARENA SALAZAR :hat more than 40 agents are in that and believed hiding in Colombia. - they're going to find we test well." ... DEA agent abducted in,Mexico e v eel, REUTER/UNITED PRESS INTERNATION, DEA Administrator Francis Mullen speaking in U.S. Embassy in Mexico City as U.S. Ambassador John Gavin looks on.