GOV HOPES FOR SOLUTION TO CRIME ALONG VENEZUELAN-COLOMBIAN BORDER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP08C01297R000700030098-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2012
• Sequence Number: 98
• Publication Date: September 7, 1982
• Content Type: CABLE

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0 SUBJE_CI-T.IGOV HOPES FOR SDLUTION TO CRIME ALON-
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f-*-VENEZUELAN AMBASSADOR TO COLOMBIA, PEDRO CONTRERAS
PULIDOSTATEJ IN A PRESS INTERvIrw ON AUGUST 30 THAT
Al FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETINGS WHICH HAD TAKEN .PLACE ON
THE SUBJECT H7 HOPED VENEZUELAN AND COLOMBIAN POLICE
0 FORCES MIGHT IMPRLI.VE COOPERATION In DEALING WITH
KIDNAPPINGS IN THE BORDER?AREA* CONTRERAS NOTED THAT
KIDNAPPING WAS A COMMON CRIME IM THE REGION AND THAT
0 "THROUGH COMBINED ACTIVITIES OF BOTH POLICE FORCES"
STEPS WI_Lf BF TAKEN TO DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM*
CONTRERAS ALSO NOTED THAT THE GOV HOPED THAT COLOMBIAN
0 EFFORTS TO TALK TO. TERRORISTS AND OTHER SUBVERSIVES
WOULD CONTRIBUTE 'To THE SOLUTION SINCE
MANY OF THE -KIDNAPPINGS SUPPOSEDLY ARE COMMITTED
0 BY COLOMBIAN GUERRILLAS*
2?IN THE. MEANTIME YT ANOTHER BIG KIDNAPPING CASE
HAS TAKE4 PLACE 14 APURE STATE IN THF BORDER REGION
0 WITH COL)MBLA*LIGHT ARM) MEN (COLOMBIANS ACCORDING
TO THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR) ATTACKED AND KIDNAPPED
A RANCHER, JOSE RUIZ ZAPATA, ON SEPT '2 AND ARE HOLDING
C) HIM FOR 50 MILLION. BOLIVARS RANSOM*THE CASE IS BEING
HANDLED 3Y THREE VENEZUELAN SECURITY FORCES (PTJ,
NATIONAL GUARD AND DISIP) WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF DAS
AND F2FRDM COLOMBZA*
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