1068-8 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/05 : CIA-RDP90-00965R0001001 10 ATTMLE APPEARED cine e WASHINGTON Post 3 October 1986 JACK ANDERSON and DALE VAN ATTA Mexican Official Intimidated Magazine te Central Inteligence Agency has learned However, our CIA and (aula Mexican cabinet member's subordinate said thai Zonta Stor to fellow police ‘cied unsuccessllly to bribe te sites ra offs tat Re a pores ee tors toil, Mexican news magazine fo Killa critical report on the Bartlett story without paying them "a site he cabinet ofc etal report on e308 he. theca peso" ofthe $2 li in cash es _Jnformed CTA and Mexican law enforcement OE SSEDISNED WneTnEr BMT Nay aUTTaTT the soiurces have told us that they uncovered at bebeatengt = atte, the former chief of t leral irtlett is “iron hand” of President Miguel de : iectorate of Security, Jose Antonio Zorila, to pay la MRSS i the editors. 2¢30 $2 million wor i, it is chirn: with a p eof $2 million if they ag ato “A self-described political animal, Bartlett is probably one of de la Madrid's closest advisers on domestic politcal affairs. [He] has the ear of the ing for Mexican police and president on a wide range of ruea ” t, a paticstot in MESS ot ampaign manager and de an autobographcal ook, “The Pree The Presidents,” {ruling party} during 1981-82, et ae ee ubisher, JUN Bartlet established control over many of the party ‘We reported recently, t ‘contains the mechanisms, and he directed the vote full story that Proceso never printed: the 1983 operation during de la Madrid’s election kKidnaping of Bartlett's teen-age niece and nephew lere’s how the CIA report describes the police ons religious commune in Venezuela, arranged force hat slowed Foye tt) to Pye interior minister asa favor tohis sister, the intimidate Peosees es i children’s mother. civilian internal security forceis the {mn his book, Scherer also tells how Bartlett's Directorate of Security (DFS), subordinate to editors wah aeeesceeted i intimidating Proceso’s Manuel Bate fee pp about 1,300 editors with threats of violence. Mexican reporters agente ablts Menica City headquarters and at pas opus have been threatened often in the branches mslopaeo eee past by government officials, and some have been fe directorate’sniain responsibilty is to killed ‘monitor suspected dissidents and opposition groups But Scherer did not relate the unsuccessful with a view to discovering and investigating any. ecto would ony eartes emissary. Proceo's possible subversive efi Me nee does not {editors would not comment on the matter, hesitate to conduct searches and seizures and even rs eitly foan American reporter," one of them to detain and nto individuals suspected of told us. subversion,” 068-8 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/05 : CIA-RDP90-00965R0001001 101