LIBYA/EGYPT/)JENNINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301460003-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 19, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
.19 November 1984
'LIBYA/EGYPT/>JENNINGS: Question: Why is the Libyan leader,?Col. <
>U.S.>Muammer-Khadafy calling the president of Egypt, which is
right next door, an American agent of the CIA? Well, it
may possibly be because the Egyptian government has just
managed to pull off a very effective sting operation
against the Libyan leader. As ABC's Mike Lee reports,
Col. Khadafy apparently fell for the sting, hook, line and
sinker.
LEE: First, the hook: A gruesome photograph, apparently
showing former Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Homid Bakoush
with a bullet hole in his head and no future as an
outspoken, exiled critic of Col. Khadafy. Then, the line:
Sometime last week, the assassination team, two Britains
and 'two Maltese who had allegedly been dispatched to.Cairo
by the Libyans, send the death pictures to Khadafy. The
colonel, who was, at the time, talking peace with French
President Mitterrand, authorizes the secret cash payment
of $250,000 to the hired killers in Cairo. Then, the
sinker: Last Friday, Khadafy's regime proudly announces
that 'revolutionary forces executed the death sentence on
traitor, agent and stray dog Bakoush.' Finally, the
sting: The so-called stray dog is alive and well.
Egyptian intelligence, acting on a tip, had secretly
ar?rested.the hit team, conspired with the intended victim
to pose for the phony death picture and lured Khadafy into
boasting of a murder that never happened. Egyptian
'Pr'esident Mubarak claims that through interrogating the
suspects, he's also uncovered a master plan by Khadafy to
assassinate a number of world leaders, including British
Prime Minister Thatcher, Chancellor Kohl of West Germany,
President Mitterrand of France and King Fahd of Saudi
Arabia. Plus, an alleged Khadafy plot revealed today to
hijack an American:-made F-16 fighter jet from Egypt.
ABDEL HOMID BAKOUSH (former Libyan prime. minister): I
.would call on all civilized governments in the world to
take an action, an attitude, towards the terrorism and
crimes Khadafy and his army are committing openly over the
world.
LEE: The so-called hit team, including two'British
businessmen, were displayed on Egyptian TV, in'an effort,
to further embarrass the Libyans. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER:
Have you been to Libya before? UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I
worked in Libya for five years.
LEE: The final sting came today, when one of the two
-British suspects was taken-to a bank to collect 'part of
Khadafy's so-called blood money, which was presumably
confiscated by the Egyptian government. If Khadafy.
himself has egg on his face., he's trying hard"not to show
it, denying any involvement in the alleged assassination
plots. If history is any lesson, the victim of this sting
could well sting back in his own time.and in his own way.'
Mike?Lee, ABC News, London. <
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