JUSTICE DEPT. BLOCKING MOVE AGAINST CIA SOURCE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303200045-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: March 29, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APP.LAREj
ON PAGE _- AT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
29 March 1982
Justice Dept. blocking
move against CIA source?
San Diego
A US attorney accused the Justice
Department of blocking attempts to
prosecute Mexico's former federal se-
curity chief for his alleged part in a $30
million luxury car. theft ring.
In an interview in 4heSan Diego- r
Union US attorney William Kennedy=.
said that the Central Intelligence _
Agency regarded Miguel Nassar Haro
as an "indispensable" source of Intel-
ligence on Mexico and Central Amer-
ica.
Mr. Nassar Haro, who resigned in
"January as director of Mexico's
Direccion Federal de Seguridad, the
country's equivalent of a combined . i
FBI-CIA, is one of 29 persons indicted
last July in connection with a stolen
car ring which allegedly stole 4,000
cars worth an estimated $30 million.
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