WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

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CONTENTS
Articles:
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Hijacking of Finnair Super Caravelle Ends Without
Disaster (Page 3)
Nicaraguan Ambassador to Guatemala Dies After Terrorist
Attack (Page 4)
Salvadoran Authorities Arrest Bjork Kidnaper (Page 5)
Notes:
Czech Hijackers Go on Trial in West Germany (Page 7)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist
Acts
CHARTS: Incidence of Significant International
Terrorist Acts as Listed in Weekly
Situation Reports-- 1978
Significant International Terrorist
Incidents by Type - 1978
TAB B Terrorist Threats and Plans
Europe
Middle East
Africa
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4 October 1978
Hijacking of Finnair Super Caravelle Ends Without Disaster
The 30 September hijacking of a Finnair Super Caravelle
on a domestic flight from Oulu to Helsinki ended early on 1
October, after a 17-hour-long series of shuttles between the
two points and one side trip to Amsterdam. The incident
began when Aarno Lamminparras, a bankrupt Finnish building
contractor, commandeered the jet shortly after takeoff from
Oulu, some 400 miles north of Helsinki. According to news
reports, he obtained entry to the cockpit by expressing a
desire for a better view of the landscape.
The hijacker's demands were primarily for money; the
exact sum demanded is not known, but Finnish authorities
made a total of $206,000 available to him in segments during
the various stops at Helsinki. At one of these stops,
Lamminparras released a first batch of 34 of the 44 pas-
sengers but ordered the authorities to provide him with a
Finnair lawyer who was to handle the "legal aspects of the
ransom takeover". Reports vary, but at least one refueling
stop was permitted by authorities in Amsterdam; one refueling
stop was also permitted in Helsinki. The ten remaining
passengers, plus the lawyer, were released when the hijacker
received the last installment of ransom money in Helsinki.
The long journey ended in Oulu after authorities agreed
to give him a 24-hour respite at home before a formal arrest.
They decided to cut short the reprieve, however, after a
telephone tap on Lamminparras' house convinced them he was
not planning to keep his end of the bargain. After seven
hours of the 24-hour period had passed, armed police seized
him at home and recovered all but about $3,000 of the ransom
money.
Official reports indicate that no security controls are
used at Oulu airport, that no American citizens were aboard
the flight, and that no one was injured. The weapon used to
commandeer the plane was a Walther 7.65 mm pistol. The gun
was loaded and so, allegedly, was the hijacker. (UNCLAS-
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4 October 1978
Nicaraguan Ambassador to Guatemala Dies After Terrorist
Attack
The 53-year-old Nicaraguan Ambassador to Guatemala,
Brigadier General (retired) Edmundo Meneses Cantarero, died
on 29 September as a result of a 16 September attack in
downtown Guatemala City by members of the Guatemalan Guer-
rilla Army of the Poor (EGP). The Ambassador was attacked
as he was entering a barbershop a short distance from his
residence. He had no bodyguards and had left his bullet-
proof vest on the seat of his car.
Reports indicated that the victim had been hit by
pistol and automatic weapon fire from three or four persons
riding in a small white station wagon. Police reports
indicated that both 9 millimeter and .30 caliber bullets were
found at the scene and that 24 bullet holes were counted in
surrounding buildings. While the victim was armed, he had
no chance to resist or seek cover. He was struck in the
lungs and spine.
A bulletin distributed to the press sometime after the
incident called the action a "gesture of EGP ,solidarity with
the Sandinist National Liberation Front's struggle", and
accused the Ambassador of hiding behind his diplomatic title
to coordinate mutual support between the Nicaraguan National
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Salvadoran Authorities Arrest Bjork Kidnaper
4 October 1978
Local Salvadoran press gave extensive coverage during
the week of 11 September to the capture of Miguel Angel Lara
Torres by the Salvadoran National Guard and the prisoner's
subsequent confessions to authorities that he participated
in the kidnaping of Swedish businessman Kjell Bjork during
August 1978. (See the 16 August issue of the Sitrep for
additional background on this case.)
Lara Torres reportedly confessed that he belonged to
the Armed Forces of National Resistance (FARN) and had also
participated in other dissident Salvadoran groups. He
stated that he had taken part in the occupations of the
Organization of American States offices and the National
Cathedral and had also given propaganda speeches for the
purpose of agitating people to take armed action against the
government in order to improve their living conditions.
Lara Torres' published confession contained a statement
that the Bjork kidnaping was carried out under instructions
which his unit of FARN received from somewhere near San
Martin, El Salvador. The kidnaping operation was called "El
Chivo" and was carried out by persons known only by pseud-
onyms. Bjork was seized in downtown San Salvador and then
taken to the canton of San Ramon, placed in a windowless
adobe hut, and held there under guard throughout his cap-
tivity. He added that Bjork had been under surveillance
during the entire month of July in preparation for the
kidnaping.
Lara Torres is one of the very few persons ever appre-
hended by Salvadoran security forces in connection with a
kidnaping or terrorist act. Lara Torres reportedly believes
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NOTE
Czech Hijackers Go on Trial in West Germany
On 21 September the Frankfurt Regional Court opened the
trial of two Czechs who hijacked an airliner from Czechoslovakia
to West Germany on 11 October 1977. The plane had been on a
flight from Karlovy Vary (formerly Karlsbad) to Prague when
it was hijacked by two passengers--an air traffic controller
and a ground hostess both of Prague. They are charged with
using firearms to force the pilot of the YAK-40 to change
course and land in Frankfurt and with the unlawful detention
of 24 passengers and three crew members. According to a
West German press release, no observers from the Czech
Embassy or Government have attended the trial. The report
also indicates that the extradition application submitted by
the Czech authorities shortly after the hijacking will be
considered by judicial authorities of the West Ge/man Govern-
ment after the trial has. ended.
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INCIDENCE OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
AS LISTED IN WEEKLY SITUATION REPORTS ? 1978
MO I. TOTAL
U.S. TARGETS
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IN TAB A DURING THE ABOVE PERIOD, AS INCIDENTS WHICH LATER PROVE NOT TO
HAVE SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL SCOPE ARE OMITTED FROM THE MONTHLY TOTAL.
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SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST INCIDENTS BY TYPE - 1978
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Assassination
1
1
1
1
2
1
Hijacking
1
1
3
3
1
Kidnaping
2
3
4
1
2
1
Barricade & Hostage
1
1
1
1
1
Armed Attack
3
1
3
2
3
Bombing
7
5
5
3
2
4
7
4
8
Attempted
Assassination
1
Arson
2
3
6
TOTAL
14
12
5
4
17
6
10
14
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date:
Place:
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27 September 1978
Guatemala,
Guatemala City
29 September 1978
Guatemala,
Guatemala City
30 September 1978
Turkey, Istanbul
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Bomb Explosion at Nicaraguan
Airline Office in Guatemala
On 27 September the Guatemala
City offices of the Nicaraguan
Airlines Company (LANICA) were
destroyed by a timebomb. The
bomb, placed on a glass door,
destroyed office equipment
and furniture and damaged
several nearby businesses.
The Guatemala Guerrilla Army
of the Poor (EGP) assumed
responsibility for the inci-
dent.
Swiss Ambassador Held Hostage
in Guatemala
On 29 September workers from
Duralita, S.A., a Swiss-Guate-
malan joint venture, took over
the Swiss Embassy in Guatemala
City and held the Swiss Ambas-
sador hostage. The workers
were involved in a labor dis-
pute over layoffs at Duralita.
The Ambassador was released
and the Embassy vacated when
an agreement was reached with
the firm on 2 October.
U.S. Consulate in Turkey Bomb
Target
On 30 September a bomb deto-
nated near the U.S. Consulate
in Istanbul. There was no
damage to the building and
no injuries resulted; however,
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several neighboring buildings
received brOken windows and
one roof was damaged.
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Date: 30 September 1978 Finnish Airliner Taken to the
Netherlands During Hijack
Place: Finland, Oulu Incident
On 30 September a Finnair
airliner was hijacked after
taking off from Oulu in
northern Finland. An armed
Finnish citizen demanded an
unknown amount of ransom and
received U.S. $206,000.
During three landings in
Helsinki hostage passengers
were exchanged for the ransom.
The hijacker directed the
plane's crew to fly to Amster-
dam, where it was refueled and
from which it departed in a
northerly direction finally
landing in Helsinki, where
the hijackeragreed to sur-
render if he were permitted
to spend 24 hours at home.
Police arrested him in his
home and recevered the ransom
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TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS
4 October 1978
Tab B includes all reasonably credible reports of planned
terrorist activity.
the threats listed are consid-
erect suiticiently 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 appro-
priate governments have been informed of the threat.
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No significant terrorist threats were reported during the
period 28 September - 4 October 1978 for the following areas:
II. Europe
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. International Communications Agency
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
RSS-1
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)
USAF Readiness Command
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
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National Security Council
National Security Council Staff
Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs Branch
Department of Commerce
Office of Ihvestigations and Security
Office of Administrative Support, D1BA
National Security Agency, C54-CDB
Department of Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
Central Intelligence Agency
International Activities Division, terrorist Group
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Nature of the Threat to Americans in Iran (Page 1)
Revolutionary Cells Claim Responsibility for Attack at
U.S. Installation Building Site (Page 3)
Current Developments in West Germany's Search for Most
Wanted Terrorists (Page 4)
Notes:
Japanese Businessman Kidnaped in El Salvador Found Dead
(Page 7)
Amnesty International Offices Occupied by Dutch Extremists
(Page 7)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
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TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
II. Europe
III. Middle East
IV. Africa
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V. Far East
VI. World Wide
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Nature of the Threat to Americans in Iran
11 October 1978
Harassment of the American community in Iran continues
to be a factor in the larger pattern of pro-Islamic, anti-
Western acts carried out by dissident groups during the
current period of unrest. In the last week of September,
letters threatening the lives of Americans were received
both at official installations and at the home of an em-
ployee of Bell Helicopter International in Tehran, and a
bomb threat was directed at a Tehran school attended by
American students.
On 24 and 26 September, the U.S. Army Hospital and the
American Embassy in Tehran received photocopies of a letter.
which threatened that the deaths of those killed in recent
confrontations between dissidents and government troops
would be avenged by the killing of Americans. The letter,
signed by the "fathers, widows, children, and relatives of
those who were killed", accused the U.S of using the Shah as
its instrument in orchestrating the deaths of the Iranian
demonstrators. Asserting that over 12,000 persons had been
killed and 20,000 injured, the letter claimed that the U.S.
had imported Israeli soldiers to do the actual work. As a
result, the writers of the letter explained, where the U.S.
formerly had been admired as the "cradle of liberty", now
both Jews and Christians would be regarded as enemies of
Islam. The letter concluded with a warning that Americans
should leave Iran now because quite soon the killing would
begin.
Additional copies of the same letter were sent to the
British Embassy and to the Israeli Trade Mission in Tehran
A note attached to the copy sent to the British instructed
the Ambassador to have British nationals mark their homes
because, the writers said, it is difficult to distinguish
British citizens from Americans and they do not wish to harm
the British.
On 22 September, the wife of a Bell Helicopter Interna-
tional employee discovered an envelope in the courtyard of
their home in northern Tehran. A note in the envelope
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warned the Americans to go home or they would be killed.
The note was signed, "The People of Iran".
In an apparently unrelated incident on the same day, a
bomb threat was made against the Tehran Community School
where the largest group among the student body is American.
No bomb was found but additional police guards have been
assigned to the school as a result of the threat. The
Tehran Community School is located in the vicinity of Jaleh
Square, where scores of demonstrators were killed on the
first day of the imposition of martial law.
These incidents, like those reported since the first of
August, appear to be the work of dissidents acting in the
context of the widespread movement against the symbols of
modernization and Westernization in Iran. The dissidents,
unlike the two older urban guerrilla groups--the Chariks and
the Mujahedin--to which these ad hoc groups of young people
do not seem to have strong links, appear to lack organization
and discipline. Their apparent lack of central leadership
and the degree of fanaticism which marks their activities
pose the real threat that they might launch indiscriminate
attacks against Americans without warning, .such as a bombing
or fire bombing, in which there could be considerable loss
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Revolutionary Cells Claim Responsibility for Attack at
U.S. Installation Building Site
The Revolutionary Cells (Revolutionaere Zellen, RZ)
claimed credit for a bombing which occurred on 24 September
at the construction site of a future U.S. Army installation
at Garlstedt, West Germany. The explosive device had been
deposited in a wiring duct next to one of the buildings.
Detonation caused property damage estimated at 200,000 West
German marks (over U.S. $100,000). The explosion occurred
at 0300 and caused no fatalities or injuries. The perpe-
trators gained access to the facility by cutting an opening
in the mesh wire perimeter fence.
Four days later, a series of photocopies of a letter
posted from Bremerhaven were sent to newspapers in the
Bremen-Bremerhaven area. These contained statements to the
effect that since peaceful protest and petition by the
populace had failed to stop construction of the U.S. Army
caserne, further moral protest would be futile. The letter
also contained references to continuation of the struggle
begun by "our brothers and sisters" who are detained or have
been "murdered in various German prisons". The letters
ended with what is reported to be the standard RZ closing:
"Create one, two, three, four... .many revolutionary cells."
Although the attack follows the RZ pattern of attacks against
U.S. facilities in Germany, the place of the attack is new;
the previous attacks occurred in the areas of Frankfurt,
Rhein/Main and Wiesbaden.
The Garlstedt caserne is being constructed in an area
which was previously used by local residents as a recreation
area. The presence of U.S. forces facilities (firing range
and U.S. Air Force radio relay site) had previously been the
cause of demonstrations by local conservationists and other
groups from Bremen and Bremerhaven. U.S. authorities had
yielded to the requests of the local populace and allowed
civilians accesg to the area on weekends for recreational
purposes, but permission for such use was withdrawn by
German armed forces authorities when German forces a s
began using the area as a training site.
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Current Developments in West Germany's Search for Most
Wanted Terrorists
On 2 October in Hamburg, West German police raided, for
the third time in less than a month, a West German terrorist
apartment. Reportedly located on the basis of a tip, this
apartment did not contain as extensive a weapons cache as
the one located in a Duesseldorf suburb after the death of
Willy Peter Stoll and the Wiesbaden apartment raided on 11
September. The inventory included one machine pistol,
several magazines of ammunition, nine sets of West German
license plates, five wigs and first aid materials.
Investigation revealed that the apartment had been
rented originally on 1 October 1977 by a young woman with a
presumably false identity. The rent was last paid for July
1978 and the apartment had not been occupied for approximately
three months. The police also found in the apartment finger-
prints of most wanted terrorists Christian Klar, Adelheid
Schulz and the late Willy Stoll. These three, plus several
other notorious West German terrorist leaders, had been the
chief occupants of the Duesseldorf apartment.
The finding of all these fingerprints, the significance
of which is highlighted by the rental time-frame of the
Hamburg apartment, refutes the previously held theory of
West German counterterrorist authorities that the major
terrorists had gone underground abroad--a view based on the
arrest of four in Yugoslavia and two in France last
summer. Moreover, the terrorists appear to have had ?greater
freedom of movement in West Germany than officials had
believed.
Further developments on the terrorist scene in West
Germany include the 29 September arrest of Karin Albers, a
young woman student in Bielefeld, on charges of abetting a
terrorist organization. Official reports indicate she had
served as a courier and chauffeur for Stoll. On 7 October,
in Dortmund, Michael Knoll died of wounds received during
the 24 September shootout with police at the firing range
where he and two others had been engaged in target practice.
Astrid Proll, the auto mechanic recently arrested in London,
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evidence of contact with a terrorist strongly suspected as
the prime mover in the July 1977 Ponto slaying. On the
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Japanese Businessman Kidnaped in El Salvador Found Dead
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Fujio Matsumoto was discovered buried in a ravine on the out-
skirts of San Salvador. Matsumoto was kidnaped on 17 May by
the Armed Forces of National Resistance.
Amnesty International Offices Occupied by Dutch Extremists
Ten members of a Dutch extremist group took over the
offices of Amnesty International in Amsterdam, Netherlands,
on 9 October. An Amnesty spokesman said the Dutch "Red
Resistance Front" members were holding two hostages seized
during the takeover. Employees of the organization were
permitted to leave but no one was allowed to enter the
building. The extremists were demanding better treatment
for Knut Folkerts, serving a 20-year sentence for killing a
Dutch policeman, and two other Baader-Meinhof terrorists await-
ing trial. The occupation ended after 14 hours when Amnesty
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date:
Place:
Date:
Place:
3 October 1978
El Salvador,
San Salvador
9 October 1978
Netherlands,
Amsterdam
Nicaraguan Airlines Office Fire
Bombed in El Salvador
On 3 October the Nicaraguan
Airlines office in El Salvador
was the target of fire bombs.
Farabundo Marti Popular Liber-
ation Forces (FPL) members
broke windows in the airline's
offices and threw incendiary
bombs into the building. The
resultant fire was confined to
the airline office with damages
of U.S. $3000 to $4000. No
injuries were reported.
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Extremist Group Holds Hostages
in the Netherlands
On 9 October ten members of the
Dutch extremist group "Red
Resistance Front" occupied the
Amsterdam offices of Amnesty
International. They held two
hostages and said they were
demanding better treatment for
three West German Baader-Meinhof
terrorists being held in Dutch
jails. The group ended its
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Tab B includes all reasonably credible reports of planned
terrorist activity.
the threats listed are consid-
ered 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 appro-
priate governments have been informed of the threat.
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No significant terrorist threats were reported during the
period 5-11 October 1978 for the following areas:
II. Europe
III. Middle East
IV. Africa
V. Far East
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Target: U.S. FACILITIES ** In response to the recent
Egyptian Facilities Camp David agreements various
Israeli Facilities extremist factions have threat-
ened to take action against the
Place: Worldwide U.S., Egypt and Israel. The
threats are against both facili-
Date: Current ties and persons of each of the
target countries. Attacks could
occur anywhere in the world par-
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Europe.
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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. International Communications Agency
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
RSS-1
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)
USAF Readiness Command
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
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National Security Council Staff
Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs Branch
Department of Commerce
Office of Ihvestigations and Security
Office of Administrative Support, DIBA
National Security Agency, C54-CDB
Department of Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
Central Intelligence Agency
International Activities Division, Terrorist Group
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
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Articles:
Scoreboard on West German Terrorists (Page 1)
Bombing of Bus Carrying Americans in Isfahan (Page 4)
U.S. Air Force Depot in Turkey Strafed with Automatic
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Notes:
Bombings of Egyptian, Israeli and U.S. Consulates in
Istanbul (Page 9)
Bomb Threat Diverts British Airways Plane to Canadian
Airfield (Page 9)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
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II. Europe
III. Middle East
IV. Africa
V. Far East
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Scoreboard on West German Terrorists
October 18 marks the passage of one year since the
successful attack of the West German GSG-9 team on the
Lufthansa jet hijacked by the Popular Front for the Libera-
tion of Palestine (PFLP) to Mogadiscio in support of the
West German terrorists responsible for the operation against
Hanns-Martin Schleyer; the date also marks the suicides,
within hours after the freeing of the Mogadiscio hostages,
of three of the former leaders of the Baader-Meinhof Gang
(more formally known as the Red Army Faction)--Andreas
Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Karl Raspe. The September-
October 1977 Schleyer. drama followed closely two other 1977
assassinations of leading West German figures--the April
1977 assassination of Chief Federal Prosecutor Siegfried
Buback and the Murder, during the following July, of banker
Juergen Ponto.
Subsequent to the GSG-9 success, West German authorities
anticipated a spectacular revenge operation by the West
German terrorists, alone or with the PFLP. At the same
time, they intensified their efforts against outstanding
terrorists, and measurably increased, on a worldwide basis,
the distribution of posters and other information displaying
the photographs of the 20 most-wanted German terrorists, and
then the 40 most-wanted German terrorists.
Official observers of the European terrorist scene have
compiled an impressive scoreboard of the apprehension or
killing of these RAF and/or 2 June Movement terrorists. The
majority of these captured have been reported in the Weekly
Situation Report on International Terrorism; the following
represents a review of the major arrests by police of various
European countries cooperating in the hunt.
Amsterdam, Netherlands: 10 November 1977 - Christoph
Wackernagel, Gert Schneider
Delemont, Switzerland:
20 December 1977 - Gabriele
Kroecher-Tiedemann, Christian
Moeller
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Paris, France:
Zagreb, Yugoslavia:
Paris, France:
Varna, Bulgaria:
Alburg, Vermont:
Duesseldorf, West
Germany
London, England:
Dortmund, West Germany:
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11 May 1978 - Stefan Wisniewski
May 1978- Peter Boock, Sieglinde
Hoffman, Brigitte Mohnhaupt,
Rolf-Clemens Wagner
25 May 1978 - Marion Folkerts
21 June 1978 - Till Meyer,
Gabriele Rollnik, Gudrun
Stuermer, Angelika Goder
16 July 1978 - Kristina Berster
6 Septemlier 1978 - Willy Peter
Stoll
15 September 1978 - Astrid Proll
23 September 1978 - Angelika
Speitel, Michael Knoll
Of the 19 terrorists involved, two are dead--Stoll was
killed resisting arrest and Knoll died in a hospital of
wounds suffered during a shootout. At least two policemen
(one in the Netherlands and one in West Germany) were killed
and some were injured during the shootouts leading to the
captures. Whether any Bulgarian or Yugoslav officials were
killed or injured during the captures is not known. While
most of the above names appeared on the "20 most-wanted"
terrorist lists, at least four (Schneider, Moeller, Goder,
and Michael Knoll) had not previously been known to the
authorities as members of the West German terrorist scene.
West German authorities have uncovered a number (the
official number is not available) of conspiratorial apartments
in recent months and, according to official sources, have
found important clues to terrorist plans and movements, as
well as arsenals of alarming proportion. However, successes
within West Germany have been based significantly on the
help of citizens' recognition and alertness.
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and organization problems. Perhaps. But, on the other
hand, in addition to known terrorist leaders, perhaps unknown
terrorist leaders are at large. The 1978 movements of
terrorists within West Germany came as a surprise to the
authorities, who believed most of the terrorists wanted for
the Buback-Ponto-Schleyer assassination had gone underground
abroad. It is too early for any official concerned with
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Bombing of Bus Carrying Americans in Isfahan
On 11 October, a pipe bomb was thrown through the open
window of a bus carrying twelve American employees of Bell
Helicopter International (BHI) on a regular run from the
Bell training center to the Shahin Shahr housing complex 15
miles outside Isfahan where many BHI employees live. Three
BHI employees were injured in the explosion, none seriously.
Two had superficial cuts and a third suffered a gouge wound
in the -thigh. The bomb caused only minor damage to the bus.
Two men on motorcycles carried out the attack, using a
bomb constructed of materials easily purchased in local
bazaars. The nature of the attack, the lack of sophistica-
tion in the weapons used, and the indiscriminate choice of
target in that the bus was carrying both men and women
indicate this to have been the work of fringe elements of
the dissident movement rather than an operation by one of
the more professional terrorist groups--the Chariks (People's
Sacrifice Guerrillas) or the Mujahedin (Iranian People's
Strugglers). This is the fifth and most serious such inci-
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U.S. Air Force Depot in Turkey Strafed with Automatic
Weapons Fire
On 15 October the Bayrakli U.S. Air Force depot near
Izmir Turkey, was strafed with automatic weapons fire about
six o'clock in the morning. The attack caused no major
damage, but several vehicles and facilities in the depot
were struck with bullets. There were no injuries. The
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attack was believed to have been carried out y four members
of a Turkish left-wing extremist group, the E y m Birligi, --
who escaped from prison in September and who ?a e believed to
have been responsible for the strafing of a U.S. Air Force
vehicle in January. The Bayrakli depot is located some five
miles north of the main city of Izmir and houses a commissary,
warehouses and a supply yard.
These same four men are believed to have been responsible
for the theft, a short time after the strafing of the depot,
of several shotguns from the NATO Rod and Gun Club located
about five miles east of Izmir.
The Eylem Birligi is an extremist faction of the Turkish
People's Liberation Party/Front. It was responsible for a
series of bombings in Izmir, Ankara, and Istanbul late in
January 1978 and for a series of bombings during 1977. Air
Force security officials in Turkey believe that the strafing
may have been a diversionary tactic for the theft at the gun
club.
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Bombings of Egyptian, Israeli and U.S. Consulates in
Istanbul
During the early morning of 1 October the Israeli,
Egyptian and U.S. Consulates General in Istanbul, Turkey,
were bombed. The explosions at the Israeli and Egyptian
facilities occurred almost simultaneously at 0300, while the
explosion at the U.S. facility occurred at 0319. The
Israeli and Egyptian buildings sustained only light damage
including broken windows. The U.S. building was not damaged
because the explosion occurred on the grounds of a school
next to it. Officials on the scene, however, believe that
the Consulate had been the target and the bomb had been mis-
aimed. These officials believe that the-three bombings were
connected. The timing of the incidents and the size of the
explosive devices suggest that the incidents were created to
attract attention and not to cause personal injuries or
extensive property damage.
Although officials on the scene heard that the Palestine
Liberation Organization claimed credit for the Egyptian and
Israeli bombin2s. that information has not been confirmed.
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Bomb Threat Diverts British Airways Plane to Canadian
Airfield
On 15 October a British Airways DC10 carrying 231 passen-
gers was diverted to a Canadian air force base when U.S.
authorities received an anonymous call that a bomb had been
planted on the plane. The flight had departed Los Angeles
on a polar route to London when the pilot was notified of
the possibility of a bomb on board. The aircraft landed at
the nearest airfield in Canada's far north, where a four
hour search uncovered no bomb. The plane was cleared to
continue to London without further incident.
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Date: 2 October 1978 Bomb Explosion at Cuban Embassy
in Italy
Place: Italy, Rome On 2 October a bomb exploded in
front of the Cuban Embassy to
the Vatican in Rome. An anonymous
caller to Ii Tempo claimed re-
sponsibility to protest the
repressive government of
Nicaragua's Somoza. The Nica-
raguan Embassy, which had been
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months ago. It is believed the
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Date: 11 October 1978 Pipe Bomb Injures U.S. Citizens
in Iran
Place: Iran, Isfahan On 11 October a pipe bomb ex-
ploded after being thrown
through the window of a bus
belonging to Bell Helicopter
International in Isfahan. The
bus, on its regular route, was
carrying men and women to the
residential area from Bell of-
fices when a motorcycle pulled
alongside and one of two men
tossed the bomb through an
open window. Three Americans
received minor injuries and
were treated and released from
the local hospital. Damage to
the bus was minor. No group
has claimed responsibility.
(See Article)
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terrorist activity.
the threats listed are consid-
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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
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VI. Worldwide
Target: U.S. FACILITIES In response to the recent
Egyptian Facilities Camp David agreements various
Israeli Facilities extremist factions have threat-
ened to take action against the
Place: Worldwide U.S., Egypt and Israel. The
threats are against both facili-
Date: Current ties and persons of each of the
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the Arab world and Europe.
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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. International Communications Agency
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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Department of the Army, IOSD
Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank
Air Force, Office of Special Investigations
USAF Special Operations School (TAC)
USAF Readiness Command
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
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Department of Commerce
Office of Ihvestigations and Security
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Department of Energy
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
25 October 1978
Articles:
Japan Proceeds with Antiterrorism Program (Page 1)
Austrian Police Locate Second Apartment Used by West
German Terrorists in Vienna (Page 4)
Colombian Kidnap Victim Pleads for Ransom Payment
(Page 6)
West German Official Stresses Need for Continuing
Counterterrorism Efforts (Page 7)
Death of Prominent Croatian Could Lead to Acts of
Revenge (Page 8)
Notes:
American Injured by Moslem Bomb in Thailand
(Page 9)
Explosive Devices Found at Two Jewish Establishments
in West Berlin (Page 10)
Cyprus President Decides to Commute Death Sentence of
Palestinian Terrorists (Page 10)
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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
IV. Africa
V. Far East
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25 October 1978
The following article was prepared by the Defense
Intelligence Agency.
Japan Proceeds with Antiterrorism Program
Pushing forward with its plans to counter terrorism,
Tokyo has strengthened its police commando-type units and
has a plan under consideration to increase security protec-
tion for Japanese nuclear facilities. The government is
also pursuing a program to assign Japanese police and military
personnel as security officers to diplomatic missions abroad
beginning in October.
Two special action units with missions similar to those
of U.S. civilian police departments' special weapons and
tactics teams were organized in late 1977. One 57-member
unit serves within a riot force, the Sixth Mobile Police
Unit, of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and a 21-
member unit is in the Second Mobile Unit of Osaka Police
Headquarters. Trained to cope with aircraft hijackings and
other major incidents that surpass the capabilities of
regular police, these special units also respond to requests
for assistance or advice from prefectural police headquarters.
Originally the National Police Agency (NPA) had programed
only one 20-to 30-man unit. The addition of a second unit
in Osaka and the strengthening of the first indicate Tokyo's
deep concern with terrorism.
For the first time the NPA is becoming directly involved
in protecting nuclear facilities from possible terrorist
actions. Under present arrangements for protection by
private security companies, the guards are legally prohibited
from carrying weapons. Aware of the growing vulnerability
posed to such facilities by the Japanese Red Army and its
support groups, the police agency is requesting a 1979
budget allocation to establish a nuclear facility protection
squad. If approved, the members of the projected 166-man
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squad will protect seven of the 34 nuclear power plants and
research laboratories in Japan. Following International
Atomic Energy Agency guidelines established to prevent theft
of nuclear materials, the NPA will assign a squad to protect
primary--Category I--facilities in Ibaraki, Osaka, and Fukui
Prefectures.
Subject to government approval, the NPA wants to assign
security officers to Japanese embassies and legations abroad.
Current planning includes the initial assignment of 25 NPA
officers, 25 Self Defense Force officers, and 11 officers
from other agencies to 61 of the country's 139 embassies and
63 other diplomatic missions abroad. The first 50 officers
would be on station by January 1979, with the next 11 in
place by April 1979. After that time, the government antici-
pates an increase of six or seven officers a year until most
major embassies or consulates have at least one or two.
These officers would be responsible for strengthening
security measures and supervising the civilian embassy
guards. In the capacity of liaison officers, they would
also assist host country security agencies in the collection
of intelligence on the Japanese Red Army and other Japanese
radical groups. To be selected for these positions, NPA
officials must be inspectors or assistant inspectors, have
security experience and English fluency, and be between 30
and 40 years of age. To fill its position quotas, the Japan
Defense Agency is using the police agency's criteria to
recruit volunteers with the rank of captain or major from
the Self Defense Force to serve three-year tours abroad.
The security officers selected will be assigned as second
secretaries or vice consuls under the Foreign Ministry. In
this manner both the Self Defense Force and the National
Police Agency can avoid any possible legal problems that may
arise from the foreign assignment of their personnel. This
will represent the first widespread assignment of Self Defense
Officers outside the country, with the exception of military
attaches.
This plan for security officers may have arisen as a
method of coordinating two operational programs. For almost
a year the Foreign Ministry has been upgrading existing
security measures, in addition to implementing new ones, at
Japanese diplomatic missions. By using experienced personnel
from both the defense forces and the police agency to oversee
this effort, the program can be more successfully coordinated.
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Further, a recently created NPA staff group--the Counter
Terrorist Section (CTS)--has been hampered in its liaison
responsibility with key foreign security services. Only
five CTS personnel had been permanently assigned to rotate
overseas for liaison duties, because other NPA sections were
reluctant to lose personnel to man this new section. The
new plan for assigning security officers would greatly
strengthen liaison activities, thus freeing CTS personnel
for other duties.
In addition, Tokyo may be tailoring its new program to
that of the U.S. Embassy Security Officer in Tokyo, whose
duties include overseeing civilian guards assigned for
embassy protection. The timing of the program is also
significant. Prime Minister Fukuda will be able to present
these efforts as positive measures in the antiterrorism
program adopted at the recent Bonn Summit. Since the early
August meeting of the seven summit representatives to discuss
possible sanctions against hijackers, Fukuda has only reiter-
ated Tokyo's policy and has not implemented any new plans to
take a tougher position against hijackers.
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Austrian Police Locate Second Apartment Used by West German
Terrorists in Vienna
On 6 October, Austrian police discovered a Vienna
apartment containing further evidence of West German terrorist
involvement in the November 1977 kidnaping in Vienna of
Austrian industrialist Walter Palmers for ransom of almost
U.S.$2 million. The apartment, located on Linzerstrasse
261, had been rented in August 1977 by a German student,
Ulrike Walz, not previously listed by West German officials
as a terrorist suspect.
Fingerprints found in the apartment included those of
well-known terrorist suspects and long-time fugitives Inge
Viett and Ingrid Siepmann. Viett, generally believed by the
West German Federal Criminal Office to be a member of the 2
June Movement, escaped from Moabit Prison for Women in July
1976 with three other female terrorists. Siepmann, reported-
ly a member of both the 2 June Movement and the Red Army
Faction (RAF), had been serving a 12-year sentence when she
achieved freedom by being on the demands list of the terrorists
who kidnaped West German politician Peter Lorenz in February
1975. She is currently wanted for possible involvement in
the slaying of West German banker Juergen Ponto in July
1977. Other fingerprints in the apartment belong to Ingrid
Barabasz, who was arrested in April 1977 in Kassel, Germany,
along with Christian Moeller on suspicion of perpetrating a
bank robbery. The two were released from pre-trial confinement
in May and June 1977. Moeller was eventually recaptured
with the long-sought Gabriele Kroecher-Tiedemann on 20
December 1977 after a shootout with customs inspectors and
police near the Franco-Swiss border. The money being carried
by Moeller and Kroecher-Tiedemann included some of the
Palmers ransom money, which had been paid in Austrian,
American, Italian and Swiss currency.
The Linzerstrasse apartment netted the authorities some
other items of interest, including a rented bicycle, the
receipt for which had been previously found by Vienna police
in a terrorists' safehouse discovered on Max Winter Square
in Vienna on 20 April 1978. A fragment of polaroid film in
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number as a photograph which Palmers kidnapers had released
to the police. Previous indications from the Max Winter
Square apartment suggesting West German involvement included
some of the ransom money and the fingerprints of Juliane
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Colombian Kidnap Victim Pleads for Ransom Payment
According to local Colombian press sources, Nicolas
Escobar Soto, the local general manager of a major inter-
national petroleum company who was kidnaped on 29 May 1978,
:has written a letter to the press pleading with his company
for the prompt payment of a ransom. According to the press
account, Escobar's letter stated that his captors said his
company refused to pay ransom because Escobar had not com-
plied with the firm's security precautions. The victim
argued in his letter that on the day he was kidnaped he
requested a local security service chauffeur but was told
that the chauffeur was on leave. Escobar then stated that
his kidnaping was inevitable because he was only provided
protection during office hours and never at night or on
weekends. He also said that the assault group that seized
him was too large for one chauffeur to have prevented the
kidnaping.
Escobar said that the company's decision not to nego-
tiate the ransom will eventually cause his death and that
the long captivity has already affected his mental and
physical condition. According to other information, the
victim was captured by members of the 19th of April Move-
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West German Official Stresses Need for Continuing Counter-
terrorism Efforts
On 17 September West German Federal Prosecutor-General
Rebmann, in an interview with a leading Stuttgart paper,
stressed that terrorism is still a serious threat to in-
ternal security. During the interview, held a day before
the anniversary of the Mogadiscio finale and the triple
suicides of Baader-Meinhof/Red Army Faction (RAF) leaders at
Stuttgart's Stammheim prison, Rebmann emphasized increased
vigilance by the public and the police. Although recent
captures and killings of West German terrorists (see "Score-
board on West German Terrorists" in the issue of 18 October)
can be presumed to have caused some disarray in the plans
of remaining terrorist leaders, Rebmann noted, the terrorists
are still capable of carrying out isolated attacks as long
as they have logistical means at their disposal. He urged
the police to keep the terrorists "on the move" and further
weaken their ranks with additional arrests.
The Prosecutor-General stated that recently acquired
evidence indicates that persons hitherto on the fringes of
the terrorist movement have lately joined the hard-core
elements. In addition, as soon as members of the Revolution-
ary Cells (Revolutionaere Zellen, RZ) go underground they
tend to link up with the RAF, he concluded.
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Death of Prominent Croatian Could Lead to Acts of Revenge
On 16 October Bruno Busic, a prominent member of the
Croatian National Council, was assassinated by unknown
assailants in Paris, France. The possibility of a reaction
by the Croatian exile community, wherever significant clusters
of Croatian exiles exist, is strong. In recent years,
Croatian exiles have blamed the government of Yugoslavia,
rightly or wrongly, in the deaths of less significant
Croatians. The seizure of the West German Consulate in
Chicago on 17 August this year was a reflection of the
emotion generated when Croatian exiles feared that Stjepan
Bilandzic might be extradited from West Germany to Yugosla-
via. Hopefully, the cooler heads among Croatian exile
groups around the world will prevent terrorist-like acts of
revenge, but attacks against Yugoslav installations or per-
sons, or even seizures designed to release Croatian activists
currently in jail in the United States, are not beyond the
realm of possibility.
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American Injured by Moslem Bomb in Thailand
On 19 October, a time bomb exploded in the terminal
building of the railway station at Hat Yai in southern
Thailand injuring ten people, including one American, ani
causing substantial physical damage to the station booking
office. Leaflets found in the station indicated that the
bombing was the work of the Sabi Lillah Moslem separatist
group. Eight Thai Moslems and a man who claimed to be a
Saudi Arabian were arrested on suspicion of having been
involved in the bombing.
The Sabi Lillah (an Arabic term for those who fight in
religious wars) is one of a number of small Moslem separatist
groups loosely united under the Pattani United Liberation
Organization (PULO), which seeks autonomy for the five
southernmost Malay-speaking provinces of Thailand (Satu,
Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat). The Sabi Lillah
group was responsible for a previous bombing at the Hat Yai
railway station on 29 June 1977 and for the bombing of the
departure lounge of Bangkok's Don Muang Airport on 24 June
1977 in which four people were injured, one seriously.
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Explosive Devices Found at Two Jewish Establishments in
rest Berlin
On 15 October a citizen discovered a plastic 50X1-HUM_
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Berlin. He took the bag containing what appeared to be a
cash box home where he opened the box to find explosives,
connecting wires and an alarm clock. After placing the
device outside a nearby apartment he called the police.
While the police were attempting to close off the area
the bomb exploded. There were no injuries but two cars
were damaged and windows in nearby buildings were broken.
The same day a short time later a second bomb was dis
covered in a briefcase under a car parked in front of the
Jewish Cultural Center and synagogue. The person who dis-
covered it took it home but placed it outside and called
police after he saw nails, wire and a small parcel in it.
The bomb was deactivated safely, and examination of the
device showed it to be similar to devices used before in
Europe.The etonator was a type produced in Palestinian
camps.
Cyprus President Decides to Commute Death Sentence of
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Cyprus President Kyprianou has decided to commute the
death sentences of the two Palestinian terrorists who were
sentenced to death for the assassination of Egyptian
journalist Yusuf Sibali in Nicosia in February 1978. The
execution date had been postponed four times from the original
date of 1 June; the latest date was to have been 15 November.
(See the issue of 2 August for additional background on this
situation.)
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date:
Place:
Date:
Place:
10 October 1978
Iran,
Khorramshahr
15 October 1978
East Germany,
West Berlin
Gunmen Attack Iraqi Consulate
in Iran
On 10 October six gunmen attacked
the Iraqi Consulate in Khorram-
shahr. Three of the attackers
tried to set the building afire
and three others shot at the
security guards. One of the
guards was killed and one of
the attackers was wounded.
Three gunmen escaped on foot
while the other three fled in
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Bombs Discovered Near Jewish
Establishments in East Germany
On 15 October a bomb was found
outside a Jewish restaurant in
West Berlin. A passerby found
the bomb and, not realizing
what it was, took it to his home.
He became suspicious of it later,
set it outside and then called
police. While local police were
closing off the area, the bomb
detonated damaging two cars and
breaking windows in nearby
buildings. The second bomb was
located under a car parked in
front of the Jewish Cultural
Center and Synagogue. The lat-
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(See Note.)
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No significant terrorist threats were reported during the
period 19-25 October 1978 for the following areas:
I. Western Hemisphere
II. Europe
III. Middle East
IV. Africa
V. Far East
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Target: U.S. FACILITIES
Egyptian Facilities
Israeli Facilities
Place: Worldwide
Date: Current
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Camp David agreements various
extremist factions have threat-
ened to take action against the
U.S., Egypt and Israel. The
threats are against both facili-
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the Arab world and Europe.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/27: CIA-RDP79-01209A001000060001-2
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/27: CIA-RDP79-01209A001000060001-2
50X1 -HUM
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/27: CIA-RDP79-01209A001000060001-2
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/27: CIA-RDP79-01209A001000060001-2
SECRET
NINP.1
50X1-HUM
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 European Affairs
United States Mission to the United Nations, Legal Adviser
U.S. International Communications Agency
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
RSS-1
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 (TAG)
USAF Readiness Command
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
SECRET
50X1 -HUM
RECOAD coel
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/27: CIA-RDP79-01209A001000060001-2
SECRET
50X1-HUM
National Security Council
National Security Council Staff
Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs Branch
Department of Commerce
Office of Ihvestigations and Security
Office of Administrative Support, DIBA
National Security Agency, C54-C1)B
Department of Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
Central Intelligence Agency
International Activities Division, Terrorist Group
RECORD Copy
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SECRET
50X1-HUM
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/27: CIA-RDP79-01209A001000060001-2
50X1 -HUM
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/27: CIA-RDP79-01209A001000060001-2
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/27: CIA-RDP79-01209A001000060001-2
Secret
Secret
RECORD COPY
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