WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
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Articles:
6 July 1977
Domestic Chilean Airliner Hijacked to Peru (Page 5)
TAB A
- Chronology of Significant International Terrorist
Acts
CHARTS:
Incidence of Significant International
Terrorist Acts as Listed in Weekly
Situation Reports - 1977
Significant International Terrorist
Incidents by Type - 1977
TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
I. Western Hemisphere, Including United States
II. Europe
III. Middle East
IV. Africa
V. Far East
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Domestic Chilean Airliner Hijacked to Peru
A LADECO Airlines Boeing 727, on a domestic flight from
Arica--a port city in northern Chile near the Peruvian
border--to Santiago, Chile was seized on 5 July by three
men and a woman shortly after takeoff. The hijackers, who
were armed with pistols, first demanded to be flown to
Caracas, Venezuela and then to Paris, France; but instead
forced the plane to land in Lima, Peru. They also demanded
the release of two men imprisoned in Chile.
When negotiations with Peruvian authorities began, 17
of the 56 people on board were released. Three hours later
the four hijackers surrendered and the remaining hostages,
two of whom were U.S. citizens, were freed. The hijackers
were taken to the Venezuelan embassy in Lima pending a
discussion by the Venezuelan government to grant them polit-
ical asylum. The four, all Chilean citizens, were identified
as Rolando Meneses, Patricia Castro. and two brothers,
Wilisbaldo and Carlos Alarcon.
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INCIDENCE OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
AS LISTED IN WEEKLY SITUATION REPORTS ? 1977
NNW TOTAL
25 U.S. TARGETS
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HAVE SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL SCOPE ARE OMITTED FROM THE MONTHLY TOTAL.
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SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST INCIDENTS BY TYPE - 1977
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Assassination
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1
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Hijacking
2
2
4
Kidnaping
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2
2
2
Barricade & Hostage
1
1
Armed Attack
2
2
1
Bombing
7
3
6
4
5
7
Attempted
Assassination
1
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CHRONOLOGY
6 July 1977
OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date:
Place:
Date:
Place:
25 June 1977
United States,
Pennsylvania,
Pittsburgh
5 July 1977
Chile, Arica
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Home of Croatian Fraternal
Union President Bombed
The Pittsburgh home of Croatian
Fraternal Union President John
Badinovac was bombed on 25 June.
The explosion destroyed the in-
terior of the house. Badinovac,
who was not at home when the
bombing occurred, attributed
the attack to the Croatian Lib-
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Domestic Chilean Airliner
Hijacked to Peru
A LADECO airliner on a domestic
flight from Arica to Santiago,
Chile was seized by four hi-
jackers on 5 July and forced to
fly to Lima, Peru. Initial de-
mands by the group included the
release of two men imprisoned
in Chile and onward travel to
Caracas and Paris. After three
hours of negotiations with
Peruvian authorities, the hi-
jackers surrendered and were
taken to the Venezuelan embassy
pending negotiations for politi-
cal asylum in Venezuela
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No significant terrorist threats were reported during the
period 30 June - 6 July 1977 for the following areas:
Europe
IV. Africa
V. Far East
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Distribution:
*Department of State
Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT).
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional
Problems
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security
Bureau of Intelligence and'Research
Bureau of EuropeanAffairs ?
*United States Mission to the United Nations,Legal Adviser
U.S, Information Agency, Office of Security
U.S, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Agency for International Development, AG/Sec
*Department of Defense
Deputy Director for International Negotiations
and Arms Contrel International Security Affairs
Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE)
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD
Defense Intelligence Agency
RCI-I
DIN 2D2
Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3
Department of the Army, IOSD
Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank
Air Force, Office of Special Investigations
USAF Special Operations School (TAC)
Naval Investigative Service
Commandant of the Marine Corps
*Department of Justice
Criminal Division
Emergency Programs Center
*Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative
Division
Immigration and Naturalization Service
*Department of the Treasury
Office of Intelligence Support
Office of Law Enforcement
U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces
U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support
*Department of Transportation
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety
and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2
Federal Aviation Administration
*National Security Council
National Security Council Staff
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*Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs
Branch
Department of Commerce
Office of Investigations and Security
Office of Administrative Support, DIBA
National Security Agency, C54-CDB
U.S. Energy Research Development Administration
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
*Central Intelligence Agency
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*Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism Member
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
13 July 1977
Articles:
Hijacking of Kuwaiti Jet Ends in Syria (Page 1)
Soviet Plane Hijacked to Finland (Page 3)
Kidnapers Release Fiat Executive in Paris (Page 4)
Notes:
Cuban Government Grants Asylum
(Page 5)
to Chilean Hijackers
Mauritanian Ambassador Shot in Paris (Page 5)
Israel Trying PEEP Terrorists Apprehended in Kenya
(Page 6)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
I. Western Hemisphere, Including United States
II. Europe
III. Middle East
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V. Far East
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Hijacking of Kuwaiti Jet Ends in Syria
A three-day-long hijacking of a Kuwait Airways Corporation
Boeing 707 by an armed group of seven disaffected Palestinian
guerrillas ended on 10 July when they surrendered to Syrian
authorities in Damascus. Five of the terrorists overpowered
their leader as the plane was preparing to take off for an
unidentified Arab country in north Africa. The hijackers
had just finished negotiating unsuccessfully for ten hours
with Syrian officials and Palestinian leaders. According to
Syrian radio, the terrorists were said to have seized the
plane because of a personal dispute with Palestinian officials.
Earlier press reports had said the group had demanded the
release of 200-300 prisoners held in the jails of various
Arab countries.
The aircraft had been seized on 8 July while on a
Beirut to Kuwait flight. The hijackers apparently had
planned to take the plane to Baghdad but directed it to
Kuwait for refueling after the Iraqi government refused to
grant permission for the aircraft to land.
When the plane landed in Kuwait it was surrounded by
army commandos. Interior and Defense Minister Sa'ad Abdallah
Sabah refused to refuel the plane until all of its passengers
were released. Eighteen hostages were allowed to leave the
plane on 8 July soon after negotiations began between the
gunmen and Kuwaiti officials. The remaining 28 hostages
were released the following day in exchange for a promise of
safe conduct to South Yemen. A Kuwaiti security official
and two Palestinians agreed to serve as hostages in place of
the passengers. Once in the air the plane was ordered to
Damascus instead of South Yemen.
The affiliation of the seven hijackers is unclear. A
spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization in
Beirut asserted that the leader of the group, Abu Sa'id,
was a member-of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestineeneral Command.
however, the gunmen identified themselves as
members of Fatah.
Abu Sand was said to have been a
Fatah member who had escaped from a Palestinian-controlled
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prison the day before the hijacking. He was characterized as
a heavy gambler who had been jailed for extorting money and
taking bribes during the 1975-76 civil war in Lebanon.
The hijacking had almost been thwarted in Lebanon, accord-
ing to a high ranking Kuwaiti official who had been one of the
passengers. Airport officials in Beirut were reluctant to allow
the hijackers, who were dressed in Syrian army uniforms, to
board the plane because their passports appeared suspicious.
The Kuwaiti ambassador to Lebanon, who was returning home
permitted the gunmen to board the flight after a body search
for weapons proved to be negative. A large supply of arms
including automatic weapons and grenades had been stashed
aboard the plane and the gunmen were able to commandeer
the aircraft soon after takeoff.
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Soviet Plane Hijacked to Finland
Two Soviet youths seized an Aeroflot plane on a 10 July
domestic flight from Petrozavodsk to Leningrad and allowed
the aircraft to land in Helsinki, Finland, apparently be-
lieving they were in Sweden. The hijackers then threatened
to blow up the plane unless it was refueled and flown to
Stockholm. Deadlines were set four times, but each one
passed without incident. Shortly after the aircraft's
arrival, the seven crew members escaped through a cockpit
exit and, during the course of negotiations on 11 July, the
hijackers released most of the plane's 72 passengers in
several separate groups. They refused the offer of a Cessna
aircraft to fly them out of Finland, and after the remaining
three hostages escaped in the early morning hours of 12
July, the two surrendered to Finnish authorities. They were
reported to have been armed but a Finnish official said they
had only dummy grenades.
Finnish Foreign Minister Paavo Vaeyrynen announced on
12 July that the Soviet government had officially requested
the hijackers' extradition and, in accordance with a 1974
bilateral anti-hijacking agreement between the two countries,
the two men would be returned to the Soviet Union. The
hijackers were identified as Aleksandr Zagirnyak, 19, and
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Kidnapers Release Fiat Executive in Paris
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and Brazil, Luchino Revelli-Beaumont, was released on 11
July after almost three months in capitivity. The Committee
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Details of the kidnaping and a possible ransom payment
were shrouded in conflicting claims and reports. Police
officials said the 58-year-old executive had been kept
blindfolded for most of the 89 days of his captivity.
Revelli-Beaumont told police he had been driven for three to
EOUT hours after being abducted outside his Paris apartment
and was taken a similar distance from the place where he had
been held before he was released near Versailles. A medical
checkup revealed he is suffering from fatigue but is other-
wise in good health.
A statement signed by the "Committee" and sent to a
Paris newspaper an hour after the release of Revelli-
Beaumont said that Fiat had met the kidnapers' demands
"unconditionally," paying a "fine to indemnify" exploited
workers. Revelli-Beaumont's son said that the family, not
Fiat, had paid an undisclosed amount of ransom. The original
demand for $30 million ransom was reduced to a reported $2
million. Swiss sources said that the ransom had been paid
Into three Geneva banksr but Mrs. Revelli-Beaumont denied
this.
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Cuban Government Grants Asylum to Chilean Hijackers
The four Chileans who hijacked a LADECO Airlines domes-
tic flight from Chile to Lima, Peru, on 5 July have been
granted asylum in Cuba. (See the 6 July issue.) Peruvian
authorities requested the Cuban government to accept the
four after the Venezuelan government refused to grant the
group asylum. The Chileans--brothers Patricia, Willibardo
and Carlos Alarcon Rojas, and a woman, Patricia Castro
Flores?flew to Cuba on 9 July aboard a regular Cubana
Airlines flight.
Mauritanian Ambassador Shot in Paris
Mauritanian ambassador to France Ahmed Ould Ghanahallah
was shot and seriously wounded by two unknown gunmen on 7
July near his Paris home. The attackers fired several shots
into the ambassador's car, wounding him three times. He was
taken to the American Hospital and later reported out of
immediate danger. In an anonymous phone call to the Agence
France-Presse shortly after the attack, the "Mustapha el
Wali Sayed International Brigade" claimed responsibility for
the shooting. Sayed, a former Polisario Front leader, was
killed in a June 1976 Polisario raid in Nouakchott. However,
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a Polisario spokesman in Algiers denied responsibility for
the attack and blamed it on Moroccan intelligence services,
charglag that the action was designed to discredit the
Polisario cause. In a statement issued in Nouakchott on
July, the Mauritanian Foreign Affairs Ministry accused
Algeria of planning and financing the attack.
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Israel Trying PFLP Terrorists Apprehended in Kenya
Five terrorists accused of attempting to down an El Al
aircraft in Kenya with Soviet-made SA-7 missiles went on
trial before a secret Israeli military court on 6 July,
according to press reports from Tel Aviv. The five individu-
als include two West Germans, Thomas Reuter and Brigitte
Schultz, and three unidentified Arabs. (See the issues of
6 April and 11 May 1977.) All are said to be members of the
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El Al attack was foiled on 26 January 1976,
In March of this year the Israelis announced that the
five people would be placed on trial. At that time the West
German government protested what it believed was Israel's
illegal secret detention of West German citizens. An official
of the West German embassy in Tel Aviv was reported to be an
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Date: 2 July 1977
Place: Turkey, Istanbul
French Ambassador's Residence
Attacked
Five unidentified men forced
their way into the grounds of
the French ambassador's summer
residence in Istanbul on 2
July. They cut telephone
lines linking the gate to the
residence and fired at the
gate guard. The men fled when
the vuard returned their fire.
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Date: 7 July 1977 Mauritanian Ambassador Attacked
in Paris
Place: France, Paris Two unknown gunmen shot and
wounded the Mauritanian ambas-
sador to France on 7 July near
his Paris home. A Polisario
Front group claimed responsi-
bility for the attack in an
anonymous phone call to the
Agence France-Presse office.
However, a Polisario spokesman
in Algiers denied the Front
had carried out the shooting.
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Date: 8 July 1977 Kuwait Airways Plane Hijacked
A Kuwait Airways plane en route
Place: Lebanon, Beirut from Beirut to Kuwait was hijacked
by seven Palestinians on 8 July.
The aircraft landed in Kuwait for
refueling and, during negotiations
with Kuwaiti officials, the hi-
jackers released their hostages
in two groups on 8 and 9 July
in return for safe conduct to
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Date: 10 July 1977
Place:
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South Yemen. However, once
airborne, with three Arab
officials who had volunteered to
serve as hostages, the hijackers
directed the plane to Damascus.
After ten hours of unsuccessful
negotiations with Syrian author-
ities, five of the hijackers
overpowered their leader on 10
July as the aircraft was pre-
paring for takeoff. All seven
were taken into custody. Their
affiliation is unclear, as is the
motivation for the hijacking.
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Aeroflot Plane Hijacked to
Finland
Two Soviets seized an Aeroflot
plane on a domestic flight
from Petrozavodsk to Leningrad
on 10 July. The aircraft then
landed in Helsinki, Finland,
apparently because the hi-
jackers believed they were in
Sweden. During the course of
negotiations over their demands
the plane be refueled and flown
to Sweden, the two men released
most of the aircraft's 72 pas-
sengers in several separate
groups. The crew had earlier
escaped through a cockpit exit.
After the remaining three hostages
escaped early on 12 July, the
two hijackers surrendered to
Finnish authorities. Finland
agreed to a Soviet extradition
request and will return the two
men to the Soviet Union.
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Air Iran Offices Burned
Air Iran offices in Zurich were
Switzerland, Zurich destroyed by arsonists on 11
July. No one was injured in
the fire. Local authorities
believe the attack was polit-
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TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS
Tab B includes all reasonably credible reports of nlanned
terrorist activity.
the threats listed are con-
sidered su?iiciently plausible to warrant alertness and the
use of protective security measures. However, terrorist groups
often discuss general intentions or make tentative plans for
violent acts that they never succeed in carrying out. In
nearly all the cases listed, the intended target and appropriate
governments have been informed of the threat.
** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time.
* Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues.
I. Western Hemisphere, Including the United States
Target:
Place:
Czechoslovakian
Embassy
United States,
Washington, D.C.
Date: Unknown
* *
Anti-Castro Cuban exiles may
be planning to bomb the
Czechoslovakian embassy in
Washington, according to an
FBI report. The purpose of
the attack would be to focus
attention on the Czechoslovakian
embassy's role in representing
Cuban diplomntir lerests in
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Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT)
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional
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Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau of European Affairs
*United States Mission to the United Nations,Legal Adviser
U.S. Information Agency, Office of Security
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Agency for International Development, AG/Sec
*Department of Defense
Deputy Director for International Negotiations
and Arms Control International Security Affairs
Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE)
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD
Defense Intelligence Agency
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Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3
Department of the Army, IOSD
Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank
Air Force, Office of Special Investigations
USAF Special Operations School (TAC)
Naval Investigative Service
Commandant of the Marine Corps
*Department of Justice
Criminal Division
Emergency Programs Center
*Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative
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Immigration and Naturalization Service
*Department of the Treasury
Office of Intelligence Support
Office of Law Enforcement
U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces
U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support
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and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2
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TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
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III. Middle East
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Finland Returns Hijackers to Soviet Union
Two Russian youths, who hijacked an Aeroflot plane to
Finland on 10 July, were turned over to Soviet authorities
in Helsinki on 13 July and flown back to the USSR. (See the
13 July issue.) The Finnish government announced it had
extradited the pair under the terms of a Finnish/Soviet
anti-hijacking agreement signed in 1974 and effective since
August 1975. The two hijackers face 3-15 year prison terms
in the Soviet Union.
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During questioning by Finnish police while the extra-
dition papers were being processed, the hijackers, Aleksandr
Zagirnyak and Gennady Selushko, said they had planned their
action two weeks in advance. They claimed to have Purchased
their only weapon an inert hand grenade.
Lufthansa Airline
Hijack Attempt Fails
An unidentified man armed with a kni
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pilot's cabin when the plane was approximately fifty miles
north of Munich. He had been placed on the flight by German
immigration authorities when it was discoVered, upon his
arrival from London, that he had been barted from entrance
into the FRG since 1969. The man told po ice he wanted to
stay in West Germany and had intended to orce the Lufthansa
aircraft to land at a German airport.
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date: 14 July 1977
Place: Greece, Athens
Date: 18 July 1977
Place: England, London
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A bomb explosion at the American
Express Company offices in
Athens shattered windows and
damaged the main door. A car
belonging to an American pro-
fessor at a U.S.-sponsored
school was set ablaze. A second
bomb, which had failed to ex-
plode, was found in a storeroom
at the U.S. Armed Forces Post
Exchange. No injuries were
reported in any of the incidents,
which were blamed on protestors
against alleged U.S. support for
the former military government
and alleged U.S. tolerance of
the Turkish invasion of Cyprilq-
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Vietnamese embassy in London on
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20 July 1977
Tab B includes all reasonably credible reports of planned
terrorist activity.
the threats listed are con-
slaerea sufficiently plausible to warrant alertness and the
use of protective security measures. However, terrorist groups
often discuss general intentions or make tentative plans for
violent acts that they never succeed in carrying out. In
nearly all the cases listed, the intended target and appropriate
governments have been informed of the threat.
** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time.
* Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues.
I. Western Hemisphere, Including the United States
Target: Czechoslovakian
Embassy
Place: United States,
Washington, D.C.
Date: Unknown
Anti-Castro Cuban exiles may
be planning to bomb the
Czechoslovakian embassy in
Washington, according to an
FBI report. The purpose of
the attack would be to focus
attention on the Czechoslovakian
embassy's role in representing
Cuban diplomatic intPrests in
the U.S.
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Deputy Assistant Secretary
Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional
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Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau of European Affairs
*United States Mission to the United Nations,Legal Adviser
U.S. Information Agency,.. Office of Security
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Agency for International Development, AG/Sec
*Department of Defense
Deputy Director for International Negotiations
and Arms Control International Security Affairs
Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE)
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD
Defense Intelligence Agency
RCI-I
DIN 2D2
Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3
Department of the Army, IOSD
Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank
Air Force, Office of Special Investigations
USAF Special Operations School (TAC)
Naval Investigative Service
Commandant of the Marine Corps
*Department of Justice
Criminal Division
Emergency Programs Center
*Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative
Division
Immigration and Naturalization Service
*Department.of the Treasury
Office of Intelligence Support
Office of Law Enforcement
U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces
U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support
*Department of Transportation
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and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2
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Office pf Administrative Support, DIBA
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Articles:
Croatian Hijackers Sentenced (Page 1)
Not b.
German Terrorists Sentenced for Attack on FRG
Embassy in Stockholm (Page 3)
Norwegian Tried and Sentenced for Transporting
Explosives (Page 3)
French Police Charge Revelli-Beaumont Negotiator
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How The Montoneros Struck It Rich (Page 5)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
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ARTICLES
Croatian Hijackers Sentenced
The five Croatian nationalists who hijacked a TWA
flight between New York and Chicago last September have been
sentenced by the Federal District Court in New York following
their conviction on air piracy charges. The group's leader,
Zvonko Busic and his American wife, Julienne, both received
life sentences on 20 July. Although Busic must serve ten
years before being eligible for parole, the presiding judge
reduced Mrs. Busic's parole eligibility to eight years
because he believed she might not have been involved in the
hijacking had she not met her husband.
The other three defendants, Petar Matanic, Frane Pesut
and Marc Vlasic, were sentenced on 21 July to 30-year prison
terms. Matanic and Pesut will be eligible for parole in ten
years. Vlasic, who pleaded guilty to the federal charge of
air piracy, could be eligible for parole at any time, but
must first serve the 6-18 year sentence he has already
received as a result of his guilty plea to state charges of
attempted kidnaping. (See the 9 March issue.)
The Busics, Matanic and Pesut still face trial on state
murder charges connected with the death of New York City po-
liceman Brian Murray. Murray was killed while attempting to
defuse a bomb the hijackers had left in a Grand Central
Station locker.
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German Terrorists Sentenced for Attack on FRG Embassy in
Stockholm
On 20 July a West German court sentenced four members
of the Baader-Meinhof gang to double life terms in prison
for their 24 April 1975 attack on the West German embassy in
Stockholm, Sweden. Two diplomats were killed during the
incident. (See the issues of 29 April and 6 May 1975 for
details of the attack.) The four terrorists, Hanna-Elise
Krabbe, Lutz Manfred Taufer, Karl-Heinz Dellwo and Bernard
Maria Roessner, had attacked the embassy to force the release
of 26 terrorists from West German jails. Two other members
of the gang were killed during the accidental explosion of a
bomb that ended the siege.
The trial of the four defendants in Duesseldorf, West
Germany, had started on 6 May 1976. Charged with murder,
taking of hostages and attempted extortion of the West
German government, the terrorists were tried in a specially
built courtroom.
Norwegian Tried and Sentenced for Transporting Explosives
Beirut newspapers on 20 July carried a Reuter account
of the trial and sentencing of Norwegian citizen Lars Gule.
He was arrested on 6 May at Beirut airport for carrying
plastic explosives in his luggage. (See the issue of 11
May.)
A Lebanese military tribunal heard Gule testify that he
had planned to set off an explosion in Israel on -5 June, the
anniversary date of the outbreak of the 1967 war. Gule said
he belongs to a commando organization whose aims are to
support the Palestinian cause. He claimed that this was his
first attempt to carry out a bombing operation.
Gule was sentenced to six months imprisonment and fined
approximately U.S. $175.00 for possession and transport of
explosives. He was acquitted on charges of trying to smuggle
explosives out o Lebanon for subversive activities abroad.
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French Police Ch r e Revelli-Beaumont Negotiator
Albert Chambon, a retired ambassador who was instra-
mental in obtaining
Revelli-Beaumont,
the release of Fiat executive Luchino
was charged on 20 July with protecting
criminals by failing
to tell
French pollee of his nego-
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kidnapers.
(See
the 1
July
issue.)
Revelli-Beaumont was freed on 11 July after being held for
89 days. Chambon2 68, is a friend of ReVelli-Beaumont and
was called in by the kidnapers at the victim's request. He
conducted the final negotiations which fixed the amount of
ransom and arranged the method of its payment.
In another development, seven persons suspected of
involvement in the kidnaping have been arrested in Spain
France has requested their extradition.
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BACKGROUND ARTICLE
How The Montoneros Struck It Rich
One of the most lucrative kidnapings of all times was
staged by the Montoneros in Buenos Aires on 19 September
1974. While their abduction of the two Born brothers was,
strictly speaking, an internal Argentine matter, the ransom
which was exacted has since then allowed the Montoneros to
engage in numerous terrorist incidents which have been truly
international in character.
According to information provided by leaders of the
Montoneros, the planning of the operation against the Born
brothers began during late 1973 or early 1974.. The Montoneros
decided that the firm of Bunge and Born, a multinational
conglomerate, was guilty of exploiting its workers, was the
"enemy" of small and medium size rural producers who were
"bankrupted" by the company's monopolistic policies, and was
"acting for its own benefit and profit and not in accord with
the national interests of the countries where its businesses
were established."
The Montoneros concluded that a kidnaping operation
should be conducted against the Bunge and Born company and
it should be developed as follows: (1) collection of informa-
tion on the company itself and on its principal leaders; (2)
surveillance of target individuals to establish weaknesses
in their defenses; (3) selection of the ambush site; (4)
selection of Montonero members to participate in the
operation; (5) execution of the ambush itself with subse-
quent escape of the kidnapers; and finally, (6) announcement
of a "trial" of those abducted and imposition of a "sentence"
which would include a ransom payment.
The information section of the Montoneros provided the
preliminary targeting information. After this initial
survey and target analysis, which took several months, it
was decided that Jorge Born, Jr., should be the major target
of the abduction, since he was the third most important man
in the firm and would be the one to direct it in the future.
The two senior members of the company, Jorge Born, Sr., and
Mario Hirsh, were not chosen because both were considered
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too elderly. IV.4en it was observed that'Jorge Born, Jr., was
normally accompanied by his brother Juan, the Montoneros
decided to kidnap both brothers.
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The terrorists learned that the Born family lived in
the Beccar section of the city, and traveled to their -
offices in the Federal District every day, Monday through
Friday, with great regularity. Each morning a three-car
caravan would leave the home, and after leaving children in
one of the area's private schools, two of the cars would
follow a fixed route to the Born offices. It was determined
that the family had at its disposal a tetal of seven vehicles
The route used by the Born family was over main
streets which were normally choked with traffic and well-
patrolled by police units. The kidnapers decided they would
deal with this situation by blocking off a short section of
the main avenue a minute before the Born vehicles arrived,
detouring the Borns to a side street, and then reopening
the route before police units discovere the trick. In
searching for an obvious reason for a detour, the kidnapers
discovered that workers were pruning trees along a section
of the main avenue. The next step in this phase of the
operation was the selection of the specific side street
where the kidnapers could divert the Born vehicles and cap-
ture the two brothers.
Thirty Mont neros were chosen for the operation and they
were divided int five teams. One team, consisting of three
members, was to tlock the main avenue and then lift the
barricade once 01.e Born cars had turned. A nine-man team
was to protect the blockaders and then move quickly to the
kidnaping site and help protect that team. Two groups
consisting of five men each (one dressed as a uniformed
policeman) were io crash pickup trucks iko the Born auto-
mobiles in a fake accident. A fifth team, with six men
(including the overall operation leader), would actually
kidnap the brothers. Finally, a two-man subteam would
eliminate a gatekeeper on the escape route.
The attack was set for 19 September 1974. On that date,
according to plan, the Born caravan was detoured onto the
side street and he Montoneros' two pickup trucks collided
with the Ford Falcons belonging to the Borns. The Montonero
disguised as a uniformed policeman, plus six "plainclothes"
Montoneros, succeeded in keeping the Borns' guards occupied,
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ostensibly trying to arrest them in connection with the auto
accident, while the six-man team removed the Born brothers
from their car and led them to one of the waiting escape
vehicles. The two Montoneros who had attacked the gatekeeper
calmly walked away, leaving two smashed Ford Falcons, two
pickup trucks, and five cars--with honking horns--which had
been accidentally detoured onto the side street along with the
Born caravan.
The Montoneros held a trial of the Born brothers and
followed it with a sentencing. The sentence called for the
following: a payment equivalent to $60 million U.S. in cash
to the Montoneros, with another $1 million U.S. in goods to
be distributed to specified sectors of the Argentine public;
the personal involvement of the Born brothers in company/union
negotiations in factories controlled by the Born family;
placement of busts of Juan and Eva Peron in all Born factories;
and finally, publication of leaflets throughout Argentina to
let the public know that the distribution of the goods was
made under pressure from the Montoneros as part of the ransom
for the safe release of the Born brothers.
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
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23 and 24 July 1977 U.S.-Owned Mining Facility
Attacked
Indonesia, West Unknown persons, believed to
Irian be Irianese insurgents, at-
tacked a mining facility
owned by Freeport Indonesia,
a U.S. company in West Irian,
on 23 and 24 July. On 23 July,
a fuel storage facility was
destroyed. Power lines
between the town and plant
site were cut on the night
of the 24th. No injuries
have been reported.
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TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS
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sidered sufficiently plausible to warrant alertness and the
use of protective security measures. However, terrorist groups
often discuss general intentions or make tentative plans for
violent acts that they never succeed in carrying out. In
nearly all the cases listed, the intended target and appropriate
governments have been informed of the threat.
** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time.
* Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues.
I. Western Hemisphere, Including the United States
Target: Czechoslovakian
Embassy
Place: United States,
Washington, D.C.
Date: Unknown
Anti-Castro Cuban exiles may
be planning to bomb the
Czechoslovakian embassy in
Washington, according to an
FBI report. The purpose of
the attack would be to focus
attention on the Czechoslovakian
embassy's role in representing
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El Salvador
Current
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The White Warriors Union, a
right-wing Salvadoran ter-
rorist group, threatened in
June to immediately and sys-
tematically execute the approx-
imately 50 Jesuits in El
Salvador unless the priests
left the country in 30 days.
The Jesuits, most of whom are
foreigners, are accused by
the terrorists of "communist
subversion," as a result of
the priests' attempts to
organize the peasants against
what the church views as ex-
ploitation by the landowning
class and the government.
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No significant terrorist threats were reported during the
period 21-27 July 1977 for the following areas:
III. Middle East
IV. Africa
V. Far East
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*Department of State
Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT)
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional
Problems
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau of European Affairs
*United States Mission to the United Nations,Legal Adviser
U.S. Information Agency, Office of Security
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
?Agency for International Development, AG/Sec
*Department of Defense
Deputy Director for International Negotiations
and Arms Control International Security Affairs
Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE)
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD
Defense Intelligence Agency
RCI-I
DIN 2D2
Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3
Department of the Army, IOSD
Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank
Air Force, Office of Special Investigations
USAF Special Operations School (TAC)
Naval Investigative Service
Commandant of the Marine Corps
*Department of justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Emergency Programs Center
Criminal? Division
*Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative
Division
Immigration and Naturalization Service
*Department of the Treasury
Office of Intelligence Support
Office of Law Enforcement
U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces
U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support
*Department of Transportation
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety
and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2
Federal Aviation Administration
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National Security Council Staff
*Office of ManageMent and Budget, International Affairs
Branch
Department of CoMmerce
Office of Investigations and Security
Office of Administrative Support, DIBA
National Security Agency, C54-CDB
U.S. Energy Research Development Administration
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
*Central Intelligence Agency
DDO
*Cabinet Committe7 to Combat Terrorism Member
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