CIA SAID HINDERING PROBE

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CIA-RDP90-00552R000404520046-8
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July 23, 2010
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March 28, 1982
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/23: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404520046-8 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. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/23: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404520046-8