a a ie geek SUS wee Eat qevrearse ane a on ee pee eet WRESTLED Aa a <i t o ee Militant Sikhs had éalléd 16% Gan dhi’s ouster for ordering the army to invade the temp] evict militan Fath BD UR et peealaa Sote0 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- Drug agent believed kidnapped From Inquirer Wire Services MEXICO CITY — A US. 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,” US. Ambassador John Gavin -said. “Neither this mission nor our governments will be intimidated by Mafia thugs.” ; A US. Embassy spokeswoman said the DEA official, Enrique Camarena Salazar, 37, a naturalized American ULULE LU oe rt 1 . day at a famine-relief-center in Ethi- opia, six days after it said gunmen OBs0e/OrIOnRIREMEION PE SRO men. “We have resumed distributing aid at the WahrebSaharti camp” near Makale in Tigre province, a spokes- woman said in response to inquiries. “That is good news.” She said the Ethiopian government had not yet responded to a request for an explanation of last Tuesday's incident, during which, the Red 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 U.S. 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 wie a The Phi lace! hia lee yet gee . ; ePhilactelphra Inguicem Ain teb ge - Tuesiny ‘TRE ZUVEPLINELL Was URLUEU APES ern news reports of people being j forced to join its resettle- o FBR PARE nich 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 investigation of the WahrebSaharti incident was under way. ; 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, 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. . rc Hap BRIS © x6 de aitinn acacia! sAicuitimsan they feared that church-sta tions might deteriorate fur the short term, but that mutu ests would appear to make seale crisis unlikely at pres¢ “Jaruzelski isn’t strong.en 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-churc ganda campaign midway ‘ the month-long Popieluszko trial remains unclear. Some | with a Soviet propaganda te arrived in Warsaw shortly trial began in late December believe it was pressure fro liners within Jaruzelski’s 0 who demanded the anti-chu oric as the price for puttin police officers on open tria During the trial, the chie prosecutor frequently digré attack the church. At one p 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 he “criminal activities.” r
Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001900750003-8 U.S. Agents Target of Assaults By Mary Thornton Washington Post Staff Writer annem ccna U.S. law-enforcement officials have expressed fear that last week’s kidnaping of a Drug Enforce- “ament Administration agent in Guadalajara, Mexico, may be part of a pattern of increasing assaults on US. 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- “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- See DEA, A30, Col. 3 , Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001900750003-8
_ Approved F For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA- RDP96- 00788R001900750003- s a THE WASHINGTON Post Latin America Drug Violence Seen Rising DEA, From Al cinely used by the traffickers, in- cluding brutal murders of wives and children of targets. In February 1982, two DEA agents were kid- naped by drug traffickers in Car- zagena, Colombia, shot ‘repeatedly and left for dead, Both survived. Last Oct. 10, a DEA agent’s car was machine-gunned in Guadala- ara, At that time, DEA security in Mexico was increased, and agents were ordered to be especially vig- lant. On Nov. 26, one woman was silled in a car bombing outside the J.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, chat ‘authorities said they believed vas carried out by drug traffickers. Last December, the Colombian zovernment completed plans to ex- — zradite 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- Dorts that a three-man hit team had Deen dispatched from Colombia and was targeting federal narcotics agents for kidnaping, torture and nurder. The plans also included the dossible bombing of DEA offices, che reports said. Federal law-enforcement sources said that they see no link between the Camarena kidnaping and the al- eged Colombian hit squad but that the men who abducted Camarena in Suadalajara are believed to be ma- -or traffickers of marijuana and co- raine, The sources said the men are Delieved to be based in the Guadala- ara area but working with drug craffickers elsewhere in Latin “America, Authorities said the situation in Guadalajara is seen as so serious chat more than 40 agents are in that area handling the investigation and that DEA Administrator Francis. M.. (Bud) 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 by Carlos Lehder, a Colombian citizen wanted on three U.S. drug-trafficking indictments — and believed hiding in Colombia. a “4 Lehder has claimed to be a mem- ber of M19, 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.” REUTER/UNITED PRESS INTERNATION DEA Administrator Francis Mullen speaking in U.S. Embassy in Mexico City as U.S. Ambassador John Gavin looks on. ENRIQUE CAMARENA SALAZAR ... DEA agent abducted in Mexico