LEBANON MISSING, KIDNAPPED NAMED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100200105-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 105
• Publication Date: June 18, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTIN1E APPEARED
DIN A
WASHINGTON TIMES
18 June 1985
Lebanon missing,
kidnapped named
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) - Fol-
lowing is a list of Americans and
other Westerners who disappeared
or were kidnapped in Lebanon and
were still missing as of yesterday:
1. William Buckley, 56, American,
political officer at the U.S. Embassy
in Beirut, abducted March 18, 1984,
from his car in mainly Moslem west
Beirut. A native of Medford, Mass.
2. The Rev. Benjamin Weir, 60,
American, Presbyterian minister,
kidnapped May 8, 1984, by gunmen
near his house in west Beirut. A
native of Berkeley, Calif.
3. Peter Kilburn, 60, American,
librarian at the American Univer-
sity of Beirut, disappeared Nov 30,
1984, in west Beirut. A native of the
Bay Area in California.
4. The Rev. Martin Lawrence
Jenco, 50, American, director of
Catholic Relief Services in Lebanon
and a member of the Servite order,
kidnapped Jan. 8, 1985, by a carload
of gunmen in west Beirut. A native
of Joliet, Ill.
5. Terry A. Anderson, 37,
American, chief Middle East corre-
spondent and Beirut bureau man-
ager for The Associated Press news
agency, kidnapped March 16, 1985,
by three gunmen in west Beirut.
Family resides in Batavia, N.Y.
6. Marcel Fontaine, 45, vice con-
sul at the French Embassy in Beirut,
kidnapped March 22, 1985, in west
Beirut. From Paris.
7. Marcel Carton, 62, chief of pro-
tocol at the French Embassy in Bei-
rut, disappeared March 22, 1985,
while on his way to work in west
Beirut. From Paris.
8. Alec Collett, 63, British citizen
married to an American woman,
resident of New York City, a free-
lance journalist on a three-month
assignment as an information offi-
cer for the U.N. Relief and Wgrks
Agency in Lebanon, kidnapped
March 25, 1985, by gunmen in the
mainly Shi'ite Moslem southern sub-
urbs of Beirut.
9. Jean-Paul Kaufmann, corre-
spondent for the French weekly
L'Evenement du Jeudi, disappeared
May 22, 1985, at a roadblock near
Beirut airport shortly after his arri-
val from Paris with a fellow
Frenchman, Michel Seurat.
10. Michel Seurat, French, 'a
researcher at the Beirut-based Insti-
tute of Middle East Affairs, vanished
May 22, 1985, in west Beirut along
with French correspondent Kauf-
mann.
11. David Jacobsen, 54, American,
administrator of the American Uni-
versity Hospital in west Beirut, kid-
napped by three gunmen as he
walked to his office on May 28, 1985.
A resident of Huntington Beach,
Calif., he had been AUH administra-
tor since November 1984.
12. Thomas Sutherland, 53,
Scottish-born American whose fam-
ily resides in Colorado, dean of the
American University of Beirut's
agriculture school, seized by gun-
men June 9, 1985, on the highway
leading into the capital.
STAT
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