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THE NEVI YORK TIMES TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12, 1965
U.S. Drug Agent Kidnapped
By RICHARD J. MEISLIN
Special to The New York Times
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 11 - The States Consulate in Guadalajara at
United States Embassy announced to- about 2:30 P.M. last Thursday.
day that an agent of the Drug Enforce-
ment Administration had been kid-
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-
jico 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 in
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
Ambassador, John Gavin, said in a
statement that neither the United
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
reward of $50,000 for information lead-
ing to the whereabouts of the agent, En-
rique Camarena Salazar, who disap-
peared shortly after leaving the United
A spokesman for the United States
Embassy said that a witness tad re-
ported having seen Mr. Camarena
Salazar being forced into a car by four
armed men.
Mr. Camarena Salazar, who is 37
years old, 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
increasingly
concerned in recent
months over intelligence indicating a
growth of drug-related activities in the
Guadalajara area. The city, Mexico's
second largest, is a short distance from
the western coastal state of Sinaloa,
one of the country's most active areas
in the production of illegal drugs.
The official added that the most un-
usual thing about the incident was,
"frankly, that he was kidnapped
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dhi's ouster for ordering the army to
day at a famine-relief center in Ethi-
opia, six days after it said gunmen
invade the temple to evict militants
fightingRopvedifapRelease.2008100110romperdedou788gb. Paysically forced to join its resettle-
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-
men.
"We have resumed distributing aid
at the Wahreb-Saharti 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
The government nas uenieu wese
ern news reports of people being
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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 Wahreb-Saharti incident was
under way.
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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
U.S. 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 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
part of a U.S. effort to stop the flow of
drugs into the United States, Feld-
kamp said.
U.S. 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.
U.S. 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.
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tions might deteriorate fur
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ests would appear to make
scale crisis unlikely at prese
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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-church
ganda campaign midway
the month-long Popieluszko
trial remains unclear. Some 1
with a Soviet propaganda te
arrived in Warsaw shortly a
trial began in late December
believe it was pressure from
liners within Jaruzelski's ow
who demanded the anti-chur
oric as the price for putting
police officers on open trial
During the trial, the chie
prosecutor frequently digre
attack the church. At one p
attempted to equate Father
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."
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iolence Increases
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 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-
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Latin America
Drug Violence
Seen Rising
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zinely used by the traffickers, in-
cluding brutal murders of wives and
children of targets. In February
1982, two DEA agents were kid-
haped 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
killed in a car bombing outside the
J.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia,
chat authorities said they believed
was carried out by drug traffickers.
Last December, the Colombian
government completed plans to ex-
radite four alleged drug traffickers
to 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
been dispatched from Colombia and
was targeting federal narcotics
agents for kidnaping, torture and
murder. The plans also included the
possible bombing of DEA offices,
the 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
Guadalajara are believed to be ma-
·or traffickers of marijuana and co-
caine. The sources said the men are
believed 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
REUTER/UNITED PRESS INTERNATION
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.
(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.
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."
ENRIQUE CAMARENA SALAZAR
... DEA agent abducted in Mexico
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