U.S. AIDING SEARCH FOR DUARTE'S KIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000201560020-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 2, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
2 October 1985
U.S. aiding search.
for Duarte's kin
By Tom Diaz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES FOREIGN SERVICE
SAN SALVADOR - The United'
States is giving technical help to the
government of El Salvador in its.
search for the kidnappers of Pres-
ident Jose Napoleon Duarte's
daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte
Duran, according to a U.S. Embassy
official.
The official described the help
that the United States is providing as'
' tec c$ , inte igence, ballistics
andforensic assistance" but he.
declined to be more specific. How-.
ever, he said the help being given in
the kidnapping case is the same kind
of help the United States provided in
the search for rebel gunmen who
killed four U.S. Marines last June in
a San Salvador restaurant.
Meanwhile, the Salvadoran gov-'
ernment lifted slightly the lid it has
clamped on news outlets concerning.
developments in the kidnapping.
case.
The newspapers here reported
accounts of a news conference held'
Monday by Minister of Culture and
Communications Julio Adolfo Rey,
Prendes in which Mr. Rey Prendes
said the government is convinced'
Mrs. Duarte Duran was kidnapped
by members of the Farabundo Marti
National Liberation Front (FMLN).
The minister also confirmed that,
there have been some contacts
between the government and the[
kidnappers.
Monday night, the Legislative:
Assembly voted to grant amnesty to,
a Costa Rican terrorist whose nameI
is said to be on the list of prisoners
whose release has been demanded
by the kidnappers.
Julio Romero Thlavera has served
four years of a 25-year sentence
imposed for flying in arms for the
Salvadoran rebels. He was captured
after his plane crashed.---
The vote on Mr. Romero's-
amnesty originally was scheduled.
for next week but was moved up for,
reasons that conservative deputies
said were not fully explained. But
government officials, including Mr.'
Rey Prendes, denied the vote was,
linked to the kidnapping.
Nevertheless, the timing and the
circumstances of the vote have
raised obvious speculation here that
a deal may be being worked out.
behind the scenes.
The Spanish-language newspaper
Diario de las Americas, published in'
Miami, over the weekend published
a report that the president's.
daughter had been taken by her kid
nappers to Nicaragua, then reported
a denial by Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega.
In the course of his denial, Mr.,
Ortega reportedly revealed that the
Sandinista government had been
contacted by the government of El`
Salvador about the kidnapping and-
had agreed to cooperate. But he did
not specify the nature of that
cooperation. Mr. Rey Prendes told
reporters in El Salvador he does not'
know if Mrs. Duarte Duran is in
Nicaragua..
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