Former FBI special agent was asked to assess risks of Colombia’s FARC guerrillas. FARC had staged several highly publicized kidnappings of American managers in that country in the preceding two or three years. The company’s principal contributions to the project would be seed stock and technical expertise. Local farmers would be counting on American technicians to teach them asparagus cultivation and ensure quality control. But there were a lot of good reasons to be negative about this particular project. Few foreigners had been taken in the valley because there were kidnappings by FARC and other Colombian guerrilla groups inveterate kidnappers.”]
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