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Submitted: 1/31/23 • Approved: 2/1/23 • Last Updated: 2/4/23 • R558827-G0-S3
January 6, 1962 - August 27, 1994
Juan C. Vars was one of five Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agents killed August 27, 1994, in a plane crash during a reconnaissance mission near Santa Lucia, Peru. This mission was being flown as part of Operation Snowcap, DEA's cocaine suppression program in Latin America. He was 32 years of age at the time of his death.
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