MEXICANS ARREST 3 IN KIDNAP OF AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605540018-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: February 26, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Ed Rogers
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Mexican police have arrested
three.suspects, including a former
Mexico City transit chief, in connec-
tion with the kidnapping of a U.S.
Drug Enforcement Agency investi-
gator on a street in the city of Gua-
dalajara, ' the Associated Press
reported yesterday.
The Mexican Federal Judicial
Police identified the suspects as
Enrique Gonzalez Aguilar, the. for-
mer transit official;'Ibmas Morlett
Borquez, and Eduardo Ramirez
Ortiz, believed to be a former Mexi-
can security agent.
Angel Billa Barron, a police ,
spokesman, said -a fourth person,
who was unidentified, was in cus-
tody in Guadalajara.
There was no word about the fate
of DEA Special Agent Enrique,
Camarena Salazar, who was last
seen Feb. 7 when four men threw
him into a car and vanished. -
DEA officials in Washington and
San Diego told The - Washington
Times that most of their information
had come from news reports of a
press conference the Mexican police
held yesterday in Tijuana, about 20
miles south of San Diego.
The Mexican government has not
offically reported the development
to the United States through
embassy channels, so far as was
known last night.
"Basically, the information con-
cerning this incident will be chan-
neled to our embassy in Mexico City
and, in turn, that information will go
to DEA headquarters in Washing-
ton," Special Agent Larry.McKay
said in a telephone interview. Mr. McKay said he could not com-
ment on the reason agents decided
not to attend the press conference or
on what action DEA agents in
Mexico may have taken in response
to the new development.
WASHINGTON TIMES
26 February 1985
The abduction touched off inten-
sive searches of cars entering the
United States at checkpoints along
the Mexican border. These involved
the joint efforts of the DEA, the
Immigration and Naturalization
Service and the Customs Service.
These searches were relaxed last
Sunday. It could not be learned
.whether this had any connection to
Mexican police activity. It was
believed the suspects were arrested
late Sunday or early yesterday.
DEA Administrator Francis M.
Mullen Jr. has complained that the
Mexican police aided the escape of
an alleged marijuana grower who
was believed to have been involved
in the kidnapping.
This suspect, Rafael Caro-
Quintero, was allowed to board a
plane in Guadalajara late Saturday
as the Mexican judicial police
sought to detain him with a warrant,
Mr. Mullen said last Sunday on
David Brinkley's ABC-TV show.
"We have now learned he had as
protection members of the [Mexi-
can] Department of Federal Secu-
rity;" Mr. Mullen said. That agency is
a Mexican counterpart of the FBI.
"This concerns us, and we wonder
why he was allowed to leave;" Mr.
Mullen added. .
Barnard Kalb, -a State Depart-
ment spokesman, said U.S. officials
have urged Mexican authorities to
look into the possibility of "lower.
level official malfeasance" in this
incident. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, said
yesterday that he has received infor-
mation that the kidnapped DEA
agent was only one of seven
Americans who have been reported
missing in Guadalajara since
December.
Mr. Bentsen wrote to Secretary of
State George Shultz, urging him to
warn American visitors to Mexico of
the dangers of traveling in the area
of Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara.
"This information is cause for
alarm and certainly grounds for
warning Americans who may be
planning to travel to either of these
two cities of the dangers that may be
involved," Mr. Bentsen wrote the sec-
retary.
The State Department
acknowledged last week that seven
Americans have disappeared and
are believed to have been kidnapped
in the Guadalajara area.
"Compounding,thi~ situation are
:reports I have received of com-
plaints by friends of these missing
Americans that police in Mexico
show a lack of interest in their
cases;' Mr. Bentsen said.
. The concern for the safety of DEA
agents within the_United States has
been intensified by reports of
threats and other reports that a "hit
squad" has entered the country from
Colombia.
Robert Feldkamp, a DEA
spokesman, said on a radio show
Sunday that the agency tightened I
security at all its installations sev-
eral weeks ago in response to
threats.
"We have - as we've said the last
several weeks - a good intelligence,
some of it originating in Colombia
and some ofit'confirined by sources
in the United States, that such .
.threats are viable given the recent
cocaine bust in the Boston area" he
said. -
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