CIA SAID HINDERING PROBE
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Publication Date:
March 28, 1982
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AET=. "-iE Li'PEARED
ON
THE WASHINGTON POST
28 March 1982
AROUND THE NATION
CL4 Said Hindering Probe
SAN DIEGO-The Central Intel-
ligence Agency has hindered efforts
to prosecute Mexico's former federal
security chief for his alleged role-in a
$30 million car theft ring, a U.S. at-
torney says.
Miguel Nassar-Haro, 52, served as
an "indispensable" source . of CIA 1
intelligence on Mexico and Central
America, thus efforts were made to
spare him from prosecution, William
Kennedy said in an interview pub-
lished Friday in the San Diego
Union.
Nassar-Haro resigned in January
as director of Mexico's equivalent of
a FBI-CIA. He is presumed to be at
large in Mexico.
Nassar-Haro was one of 29 Peo-
ple, 14 of them former or active
Mexican federal agents, indicted last
July in connection with a stolen car,
ring.
The autos were taken mainly in
San Diego and Orange counties and
smuggled into Mexico, where many
reportedly ended up in the posses-
sion of high government officials.
Fifteen of those indicted were ar-
rested in the United States and sen
tenced to prison terms ranging from
four to 121/2 years.
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