WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06706440
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• Document Page Count: 20
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: November 27, 2017
• Case Number: F-2017-00199
• Publication Date: July 5, 1979

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5 July 1979
Niehous Freed After Three Years of Captivity (Page 5)
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5 July 1979
Niehous Freed After Three Years of Captivity
American businessman William F. Niehous, kidnaped by
leftist terrorists on 27 February 1976, was found alive in
the Venezuelan jungles on 30 June 1979. The man was rescued
after a gun battle on 29 June between a police patrol and
his guerrilla captors on a secluded ranch south of the
Orinoco River, about 350 miles southeast of Caracas.
two mounted
policemen looking for cattle rustlers Came across a shack in
a jungle clearing in central Venezuela. As they approached
the hut, two men came out shooting. The agents killed both
men and then found Nichous. The agents, fearing
more guerrillas might be nearby, took Niehous and immediately
moved out of the area.. Nichous w:1; later turned over to
ranking Venezuelan officials who expedited his departure for
the U.S.
Niehous later told the press that from the first day of
the kidnaping until the last, he was told that he would
never be killed., He said the kidnapers always told him that
they were not assassins. He also said he was allowed to
speak his mind during the entire period, defending his
beliefs on any �subject. He said he was never threatened or
mistreated, other than being kept a captive. By Niehous'
own calculations he had been held in the hut for about 15
months, living on canned foods, roast meat, and fruit.
During his three-year captivity he had been moved around the
countryside about a dozen times.
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