Special forces capture, then release and hunt him down since he "escaped". And no questions asked.
e.g. When Niehaus was kidnapped from the giant glass manufacturer Owens Illinois de Venezuela he was held captive for years. When he was rescued it marked the world's record then for the longest held and still survived. His captors were found shot to death and IIRC many had bullet entry wounds from the top of the shoulders down, meaning they were in a prone position when executed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/world/americas/william-f-niehous-survivor-of-abduction-in-venezuela-dies-at-82.html

I do not have a way in to see NY Times, sorry.

Here it is, it seems like magic!

https://archive.ph/

Look at that page!

In the open space under:

"My url is alive and I want to archive its content"

Cool! I still can't believe this link!

Your article:

William F. Niehous, Survivor of Abduction in Venezuela, Dies at 82
By Paul Vitello
Oct. 17, 2013

William F. Niehous, an American businessman from Ohio, had been given up for dead by almost everyone but his family when he emerged from the Venezuelan jungle on June 30, 1979 — gaunt, bearded and longhaired as a hermit — three years, four months and two days after being kidnapped by leftist guerrillas.
Mr. Niehous, who died on Oct. 9 at 82, was the head of Venezuelan operations for Owens-Illinois, an American glass bottle company, when he was drugged and abducted from his Caracas home on Feb. 27, 1976. His captors accused the company of bribery and other corrupt dealings with the Venezuelan government. After a few months, the government stopped negotiating with them.
Mr. Niehous was rescued by accident: rural police officers searching for cattle thieves in a southern province stumbled upon Mr. Niehous chained to a pole in a rancher’s hut. The police shot and killed two armed men guarding him, handcuffed Mr. Niehous, and marched him to the nearest police station. They did not know who he was.
His rescue and reunion with his wife, Donna, were worldwide news.
“He came back the same man he had always been, as far as I could tell,” Mrs. Niehous said in an interview on Tuesday. “He was never bitter, never let the experience define him.”

More:
https://archive.ph/Jd10H

Very interesting. Thanks, Green Wave.

I needed money so where Niehous worked, I applied. All the gringos left in fear. The factories were gringo dependent, not just on how to run them, but also acquiring the ancient machines with virtually no manual.
I was hired based on language skills and being from nearby Alton, Illinois. (where Owens first started) Stories began to emerge, who is this new guy? Prevailing theory at the big plant in Los Guayos. He is a linguist who works for the CIA. He is here to figure out who helped kidnap Niehaus. I soon told the conspiracy theorists who confronted me, los que me maltratan son los más sospechosos. (Those who mistreat me are the most suspicious). I took note that none of them were Venezuelans. Well I blended in and soon some gringos came back. I was their inside and outside translator.
But my best work came when the head honcho asked me if I had any good ideas on running things better. I talked about the height of the conveyor belts where product was inspected. He assured me these were at factory settings. I said but the people here are a little shorter, if we could lower them so they don't strain thier backs. It turned out to be the crowd pleaser as workers were no longer as fatigued, injured etc. We all got 7.5% production bonuses that December.

Years later in the USA I was tutoring a student in Spanish, last name Niehous. It was a direct family member!

The link circle from the Times has stopped spinning and I was able to read the article. Thanks a great bunch, it brought back memories
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