Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07BOGOTA7862
2007-11-02 20:22:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Bogota
Cable title:  

EMBASSY CONFIRMS REPORT OF AMERICAN KIDNAPPED BY FARC IN APRI

Tags:  CASC PTER PREL PGOV CO 
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TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 9887
INFO RHMFISS/CDR USSOUTHCOM MIAMI FL
C O N F I D E N T I A L BOGOTA 007862 

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FOR CA/OCS/ACS, WHA/AND, S/CT
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E.O. 12958; DECL:Q11/1/2017
TAGS: CASC PTER PREL PGOV CO
SUBJECT: EMBASSY CONFIRMS REPORT OF AMERICAN KIDNAPPED BY FARC IN APRI

Classified By: Ambassador William R. Brownfield
Reason: 1.4 (b) and (d)

C O N F I D E N T I A L BOGOTA 007862

SIPDIS

FOR CA/OCS/ACS, WHA/AND, S/CT
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958; DECL:Q11/1/2017
TAGS: CASC PTER PREL PGOV CO
SUBJECT: EMBASSY CONFIRMS REPORT OF AMERICAN KIDNAPPED BY FARC IN APRI

Classified By: Ambassador William R. Brownfield
Reason: 1.4 (b) and (d)


1. (C) Summary. On October 25, FBI and consular representatives inter


2. (C) In late September 2007, Colombian citizen Nestor Mora wrote to


3. (C) Nestor described the circumstances surrounding his brotherQs ki


4. (C) Nestor said the kidnappers contacted him two months later, and


5. (C) Some time later, Nestor said, two other men claimed that Daniel


6. (C) Nestor described his brother as someone who lived well but did


7. (C) According to Nestor, he first notified the Embassy of the kidna


8. (C) PostQs ACS chief and acting legal attache both found Nestor cre


9. (C) Nestor said Daniel was born in Colombia and naturalized as a U.


10. (C) Comment: Absent any proof of life since the 2003 kidnapping n

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