U.S. UNDERCOVER AGENTS WANTED FOR TRIAL

MEXICO CITY - Mexico has told the United States that it will prosecute U.S.
Customs agents and informers who carried out an undercover money-laundering
operation on Mexican soil and will seek the agents' extradition to face
trial.

Mexico is preparing to accuse the agents of entrapment, engaging in
money-laundering and usurping the authority of Mexican law enforcement,
Foreign Secretary Rosario Green said Tuesday.

The three-year undercover operation was described by officials of the U.S.
Customs Services as the largest and probably most successful in U.S. law
enforcement history.

According to indictments in Los Angeles stemming from the investigation,
employes of 1y2 [sic] Mexican banks laundered at least $110 million for
drug organizations based in Colombia and Mexico.

Checked-by: (Joel W. Johnson)