WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
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• Case Number: F-2017-00199
• Publication Date: March 9, 1976

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Weekly Situation Report
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International Terrorism
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
9 March 1976
No Progress in Niehous Kidnap Case (Page 3)
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No Progress in Niehous Kidnap Case
As of this date, there are no significant new develop-
ments in the case of William E. Niehous, the Owens-Illinois
executive who was kidnapped in Caracas on 22 February by a
group calling itself the Revolutionary Commandos. Niehous'
kidnappers have thus far made only one demand. They have
asked that 22 documents which allegedly show Owens-Illinois'
economic subversion" in Venezuela, and which were sent to
the Attorney General's office as well as to a Venezuelan
newspaper, be published in all Venezuelan newspapers plus
the New York Times, the London Financial Times, and Le Monde,
and that they be broadcast locally and internationally.
Owens-Illinois has refused to take action on this demand
until the group provides proof that it actually holds Niehous.
At the present time there is no communication with the kid-
nappers.
The Venezuelan government is also taking a hard line on
the kidnapping. President Perez described the kidnappers as
"common criminals" because "... there are no guerrillas
here." There is also evidence that the Venezuelan government
has dissuaded editors of local papers from publishing the
more hard-hitting parts of the kidnappers' communique. Ear-
lier in the week, spokesmen for the extreme-leftist political
parties publicly disassociated themselves from the Niehous
kidnappers.
The police are continuing the search for Niehous'
abductors, although not much progress is being made. On
2 March it was reported that the police had identified four
members of the group, including a leader of the Armed Forces
of National Liberation (FALN), as well as a leader of the
Bandera Roja, but the government later stated that it had
not definitely established the identity of any of the kid-
nappers. Leads in the case continue to be sparse, and the
situation has been further confused by other groups' claim-
ing credit for the abduction. The most spectacular of these
claims was a leaflet bomb which was detonated on the campus
of the Central University on 5 March. The leaflets contained
demands for the distribution of food in the barrios, bonuses
for Owens-Illinois employees, and the publication of the
kidnappers' communique.
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the leaflets did not come from the real kidnappers but from
another group using the same name. Authorities are also
continuing to investigate the possibility that members of
groups from outside Venezuela are involved in the kidnapping.
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Roja may be responsible for
kidnapping U.S. business
executive William Niehous on
27 February, and this kid-
napping could be part of the
Planned anti-U.S. camnaien.)
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