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at 10:47am, August 22, 1995. Hargrove walked for several more hours before encountering a park ranger, who walked him over a mountain range to a village where he was surprised to learn that people knew his name and of his kidnapping. The villagers drove him back to his house in Cali, where he walked
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Hargrove was held captive by FARC-associated guerrillas in several different primitive campsites in the
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FARC's reluctance to admit that
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him at gunpoint. Hargrove was considered a high-value prisoner because the semi-literate guerrillas thought his CIAT identification badge was proof that he was actually working for the
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