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MEXICO
CITY,
Feb.
11 —
The
United States Embassy announced to-
day that an agent of the Drug Enforce-
: merit
Administration
had
been
kid-
S napped in the western Mexico city of
Guadalajara. The kidnappers were be-
lieved to be involved in drug trafficking
in Mexico
The kidnapping was
the
first
of
a
: United States narcotics agent in Mex-
ico since the two countries began the
current phase of a joint anti-drug effort
in 1975.
But last October the car of a Drug
: Enforcement Administration agent m
Guadalajara was riddled with bullets
by an unidentified person wielding
a
machine gun outside his home. No in-
juries or arrests were reported in that
incident.
A spokesman said there had been no
| ransom demand from or other contact
with the kidnappers. The United States
j Ambassador,
John
Gavin,
said
in
a
| statement
that
neither
the
United
i
States nor Mexico would be
“intimi-
dated by mafia thugs”
into reducing
the joint anti-drug effort.
Embassy Offers Reward
;
The embassy said
it was offering a
j reward of 150,000 for information lead-
;
ing to the whereabouts of the agent,-Em
j rique Camarena Salazar, who disap-
| peared shortly after leaving the United
States
Consulate
in
Guadalajara
at
about 2:30 P.M.
last Thursday.
A spokesman for the United States
Embassy sa:d tnat a witness had
re-
ported
having
seen
Mr
Camarena
Salazar being forced into a car by four
armed men.
Mr. Camarena
Salazar, who
is
years
oid,
is a Mexican-born natural-
ized United States citizen. He has been
with the Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration
since
1974 and has been
sta-
tioned in Guadalajara since 1980. He is
married and has three children.
A spokesman for the Mexican Attor-
ney General’s office, Francisco Fonse-
. ca" said he could report only that “state
and federal judicial police are investi-
gating” Mr. Camarena Salazar’s
dis-
appearance.
A high-ranking Mexican official said,
\ the Mexican Government had become
I increasingly
concerned
in
recent
I months over intelligence indicating a
I growth of drug-related activities in the
j Guadalajara area. The city, Mexico’s
i second largest, is a short distance from
the western
coastal
state
of Sinaloa,
i
one of the country’s most active areas
i
in the production of illegal drags.
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The official added that the most un-
j usual
thing
about
the
incident was,
i “frankly,
that he was kidnapped —
I they usually just kill them.”
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the two-day battle.
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day before the slaying. Gandhi was
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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 spoke*
woman said in response to inquiries,
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is good news."
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had not yet responded to a request
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fertile areas in the south and west.
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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 investigation
of the Wahreb-Saharti incident was
under way.
Drug agent believed kidnapped
From Inquirer Wire Services
MEXICO CITY — A U.S. Drug En-
forcement Agency
official was
be-
lieved kidnapped in Guadalajara by
drug traffickers last week, and the
US Embassy said yesterday that
it
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
the DEA official, Enrique Camarena
Salazar, 37, a naturalized American
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
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part of a US. effort to stop the flow of
drugs into the United
States, Feld-
kamp said.
US.
drug
enforcement
officials
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.
US. officials have been threatened
in their work in Mexico, US. 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.
they
feared
that church-sta
tions might deteriorate
fur
the short term, but that mutu,
ests would appear
to make
scale crisis unlikely at pres<
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get along without the church
church needs government
achieve its programs,” noted
ern political analyst who dec
be quoted by name.
Exactly what caused the
ment to begin its anti-churcl
ganda
campaign
midway
the month-long Popieluszko
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anti-government
with his murder, stating,
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leads
to
a
extremism.”
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three Western reporters, Pol
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affairs
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priests engaged in what hi
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U.S. Agents 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 increasing assaults on
U.S. targets by drug
traffickers throughout Latin
America.
Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar, 37, a Mexican-
born
naturalized American with
nearly
years
experience at the DEA, was abducted in midafter-
noon 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 specifics.
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-
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Latin America
Drug Violence
Seen Rising
,
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:inely used by the
traffickers,
in-
cluding brutal murders of wives and
children
of
targets.
In
February
1982, two DEA agents were
kid-
laped by drug
traffickers
in Car-
:agena,
Colombia,
shot repeatedly
and left for dead. Both survived.
Last Oct.
10, a DEA agent's car
was
machine-gunned
in
Guadala-
jara. At that time, DEA security in
Mexico was increased, and agents
were ordered to be especially vig-
lant.
On
Nov.
26,
one woman
was
-cilled in a car bombing outside the
U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia,
:hat
authorities said they believed
was carried out by drug traffickers.
Last December,
the
Colombian
government completed plans to ex-
iradite four alleged drug traffickers
:o the United States for trial under
a new ‘treaty between the two gov-
ernments.
’
About that time, DEA and other
ntelligence
sources
received
re-
ports that a three-man hit team had
eeen dispatched from Colombia and
was
targeting
federal
narcotics
agents
for
kidnaping,
torture
and
murder. The plans also included the
possible bombing
of DEA
offices,
:he reports said.
Federal law-enforcement sources
said that they see no link between
:he Camarena kidnaping and the ai-
eged Colombian hit squad but that
-he men who abducted Camarena in
Guadalajara are believed to be ma-
or traffickers of marijuana and c6-
caine. The sources said the men are
relieved to be based in the Guadala-
-ara
area
but
working
with drug
Traffickers
elsewhere
in
Latin
America.
Authorities
said the
situation
in
Guadalajara
is, seen
as
so
serious
:hat more than 40 agents are in that
DEA Administrator Francis Mullen speaking in U.S. Embassy in Mexico City as U.S. Ambassador John Gavin looks on.
area handling the investigation and
that DEA Administrator Francis M.
(Byd) Mullen Jr. flew to Mexico last
Sunday
to oversee
the
operation.
He returned last night, but nothing
further was announced.
* Since
December,
DEA
offices
and many
other
federal
buildings,
including
courthouses,
have
been
under
extremely
tight
security
throughout
the United
States.
In-
telligence sources
said the alleged
hit team
left Colombia, but federal
sources
said
they
do
not
know
whether the team has entered this
country.
Federal law-enforcement sources
said the team
is believed to consist
of three men, not drug
traffickers
but
hired
py
Carlos
Lehder,
a
Colombian citizen wanted on three
U.S.
drug-trafficking
indictments
and believed hiding in Colombia.
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Lehder has claimed to be a mem-
ber of Ml 9, a left-wing Colombian
terrorist group.
Deputy DEA Administrator John
C. Lawn said yesterday, “Acts of vi-
olence,
threats
of
violence
are
a
clear
indication
that
the
pressure
we're bringing to bear on traffick-
ers
is
having
an
effect
and
that
they're
responding
the
only way
they know how—by trying to pro-
voke fear and intimidation.
“We have taken precautions in all
overseas posts, we have established
special working guidelines
for our
people,” he said. “But the nature of
our work and
the sometimes cor-
rupting
environment makes
abso-
lute security of personnel impossi-
ble. But
if traffickers are using fear
and intimidation to test our mettle,
they’re going to find we test well.”
ENRIQUE CAMARENA SALAZAR
.
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. DEA agent abducted in Mexico
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