A WORLDWIDE COMBINE OF TERRORISTS HINTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300300007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 14, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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By TAD SZUI.C
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, July 13 -
The Central Intelligence Agency
and other Western intelligence
services have reportedly traced
numerous connections between
the Japanese terrorist "Red
Army," a Palestinian guerrilla
organization, the Uruguayan
Tupamaros, the Jrish Republican
Army and a number of other
revolutionary movements.
Intelligence officials here said
today that an international rev-
olutionary organization was de-
veloping from contacts between
the Japanese terrorists, the
Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine and the other
groups, among them the Turk-
ish People's Liberation Army
and the Italian "Red Brigade."
Officials said that a central
office was established in Zurich,
Switzerland, late last year and
that agents and "safe houses"
were maintained in Beirut,
Lebanon, and other Middle
Eastern countries, in a number
of European cities and in Tokyo.
According to the, intelligence
officials, the killing of 26 by-
standers at Tel Aviv airport
May 30 by three Japanese ter-
rorists of the "Red Army," oper-
ating in concert with the
Marxist-oriented Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine,
was the first known instance
of such international coopera-
tion between guerrilla groups.
The intelligence officials said
there was increasing evidencet
of clandestine contracts arnong
many individual movements.
Representatives of some of
the guerrilla groups conferred
secretly with officials of the
Irish Republican Army in Dub-
lin between May 26 and 28,
according to the intelligence
officials.
Each of the underground
groups represented in the new,
international organization has
carried out guerrilla actions,
such as kidnappings, killings of
officials and bank robberies in
the country in which it
is based.
intelligence officials said that
many of the revolutionary lea-
ders appeared to have con-
cluded that their efforts would
he more effective if they were
coordinated internationally. I
In the case of the Popular
Front and the Japanese ter-
rorists, the intelligence of-
ficials. said, they had reached
an "action" agreement late in.
1970, after a series of hijack-i
ings of airliners by Palestinian
coin ilia ndos.
As a result of the agree-
ment, they said, a training
camp for Japanese revolu-
tionaries was established near
Beirut, Lebanon, in January,
1971, by an unidentified Japa-
nese woman and by Leila
IChaled, a member of a Pales-
=tinian comiuar.do teh.in that
sought to jjack an Israeli air-
!liner between London and New
York in September, 1970. Miss
Khaled was released by the
British authorites in October,
1970, in exchange for a group
of Arabs imprisoned in West
Germany.
The intelligence officials
noted that Miss Khaled's corn-
panion, who was killed in the
attempted hijacking, was Pat-
rick Arguello, an American of
Puerto Rican parentage and a
member of an. American group
sympathizing with the Pales-
tinian's cause.
In November, 1971, a Popu-
lar Front delegation reportedly
visited Tokyo secretly, leaving
behind a liaison agent with'
the"led Army."
Subsequently, the officials
said, a number of Japanese
terrorists, including those who
were to participate in the Tel
Aviv airport killings, were sent
to a training camp of the
Popular Front in 13aalbek, Le-
banon.
The intelligence officials
noted that the. surviving Japa-
nese terrorist from the airport
massacre, Kozo Okamoto, had
testified at his current trial
in Israel, that he had received
a fake passport in Frankfurt
and then joined his two com-
panions in Rome for the trip
to Tel Aviv. They said this
confirmed -reports that the
guerrillas had well-organized
supporters in a number of
European capitals.
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