LETTER TO CLARE BOOTHE LUCE FORM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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The Director of Central Intelligence
Washington. D. C.20505
Dear Clare,
In this file you will find what Senator Leahy said on worldwide broadcast
the morning after the capture of the hijackers of the Italian ship. He used
his position to get himself briefed at 5:30 in the morning and then blew our
sources to the whole world. To spare him embarrassment, I called him in for
breakfast and made him read a letter I had written him, which is enclosed and
unsigned.
Then on three occasions he was quoted in the press as stating my concern
about loose talk in Congress jeopardizing sources and methods was really a
yearning for the good old days and aversion to Congressional oversight.
After consultation here, we all felt that our commitment to oversight
and the genuine nature of our concern for sources and methods needed to be
put on record for Leahy and all the other members of the Committee.
I called him up and told him the letter was coming. He told me how
much he had done for intelligence and pleaded with me not to make it public.
I classified the letter I had prepared, dated 4 February 1986, and sent it
to him together with a covering letter, dated 5 February 1986, reflecting
our telephone conversation of the previous evening.
He responded with a rambling letter dated 5 February which had so many
distortions and misstatements that I felt it necessary to correct the record
with my letter of 24 February 1986.
Yours,
/s/
William J. Casey
The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
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11 October 1985
OFFICIALS SA GJAC
DID N01 TELL C.B.I.
OF SPY CASE MOVES
The following- mile is oases Joel
porting by Stephen Engelbrrg
Brinkley and w~-s written by M r- B ri nk-
ley.
In the last few weeks the C.I.A. An inteiugence oittaar _ Ju U.O
transferred the chief of its office of see ? C.I.A.'s decision to handle the matter
curity, William Kotopish, to a new job internally rather L` tan report it to the
at a level of equivalent seniority, but an F.B.I. was "a judgment call." adding,
officirl said the -nave had been planned "If you reported every fantasy that
"for some time" and was net related to people have, you'd have everyone
under surveillance."
'the Howard case.
Mr. Howard worked for the agency Law Bars C.I.A. Moves In U.S.
from 1931 to 1Q83. Fr was told of classl- The C.I.A would not say whether it
Pied American intelligence operations I undertook any forth of Ltquiry after
in Moscow cecausc inc agency was
planning to assign him there, officials
have said. -
According to a criminal complaint o0
file in Federal District Court in-Albu-
querque. N.M., Mr. Howard told two
WASHINGTON. Oct. 10 - The Ceo- Icurrent employees of the intelligence
Cal-Intelligence Agency failed to notify I: agency a year ago last month that he
the Federal Bureau of Investigation had "spent hours in the vicinity of the
to deride
after it learned more than a year ago i Soviet Embassy trying
that Edward L. Howard was consider-a whether to enter the embassy and dis-
ing becoming a Soviet spy, Govern-.I close classified information.
meat officials said today. - satloonF.B.I. s held Sept. 24. 1984Four
According to court records, Mr. Haw-+ days before that; the Goverment con-
ard told two agency employees in Setif tends, Mr. Howard gave his.inforzria-
etosing classified information to the
Soviet Union.
Lion to Soviet officials in St. Anton, Aus-
.
tria
George Lauder a C.I.A. ~pokesm-
said today that as a result of that coo-
fector Was the Key
Soviet De versation "action was taken" within
The bureau has sole responsibility the agency "and it seemed to be rea-
for domestic espionage investigations sonable action at the time." He would
and, under Federal isw, the intelli- not say what the action was, although
gence agency and all other Govern- an official said the agency kept in con-
ment agencies are supposed to report tact with Sir. Howard after his corrver-
suspected espionage to the F.B.I. It is sation with the two C.I.A. operatives.
illegal for the C.I.A. or any other Fed- Mr. Howard lived in New Mexico at the
time.
e-al agency to carry out surveillance or A Few Blatant Canoe'
other actions wa hin s. United States ; The Senate and House intelligence
to stop potential spies.
Sir. Howard. 33 years old, a former committees are investigating the han-
otllcer who is now dling of the Howard case. A key issue in
intelligence agency the study, committee members said,
a fugitive, has bees eeiarcd with esplo- will be how the C.I.A. and other agen-
rage. accused of giving Soviet officials cies deal with employees who leave
details of American intelligence opera- Government service with detailed,
tions in Moscow. Federal officials have classified knowledge about sensitive
called the discicSUre-s serious and dam- programs.
aging Another element of the investiga-
'Bad Mlstakc.' Senator Says ? Lions wilt be several recent espionage
cases in which Government officials
.-feral officials said the C.I.A. told failed to heed warning signs that a cur_
F.B.1. no hing about Mr. Howard rent or former employee was planning
,_ .., aster t ~e bu eau than an invest- to spy or was spying, committee mem-
tt;on t!:is fall based on inforroatioc~ hers said.
f U a Sm?ie . defector, Vitaly Yur-; "We've had a few blatant cases
c`,enko. who had been a senior Official swhere we just didn't follow through.
of nc K.G.B.. the ScR;et intelligenceI Repr sentatilarm ve Dave McCurdytDemo-
agency.
The crat of Oklahoma. chairman of the
The bursas b?'gan surveillance of
fir" Howard last month. but he slipped house committee's Subcommittee on
Oversight and Evaluaton.
out of his home at n g..t a nd is believed) In the Howard case, a senior F.B.I.
Stator Pat icY J. Leahy, the Vet- Ilion with the two C.I.A. officers would I Ni, Leahy said dir. How-:d "cer-.
Mo , Demo,=-ft' who is vice GhaifTn an
of the Select Committee on !ntelli-
ge;ce. said today: "If the C.I.A. did";
give Lhe F.B.I. adequate infornat:ool
about t-.is pcrsan. t at's a bad m;st.ak0.
have been sufficient to warrant an in-l rainy' would have been one of those
vestigation ? because he held high]y sens:ive infor-
"Anytime we get information that; nation and was being dlsmicsedfolloa(-
someone has considered such an act, i beg a polygraph exami.at:o: that indi-
we would take some action, Bald Phil-; sated dg use and petty thievery, aC-
lip A. Parker, deputy assistant directorl corxdL? eruto Federal officials.
MI no~alu Wtu u1c .-U L.l.A. em-
ployees he had considered becoming a
Soviet spy. But Federal 'law and a
Presidential executive order prohibit
the agency from taking any steps in-
side the United States to investigate
possible cases of espionage. 1
Mr. Howard was one of tens of thou-'
sands of people who retire from Gov-
ernment or industry each year after
holding positions that gave them ac-;
cess to classified materials. More tan
4.3 million people in government and
industry associated with government
raw have clearances to use classified
information.
Asked what procedures the Central
Intelligence Agency uses to monitor
former employees who have knowl-
edge of classified programs. Ms. Laud-
er, the agency spokesman, said: "We
haven't got, any procedures. Once a
person leaves here, he is John Q. Citi-,
zee, Just like you and me. W e don't
keep a string our them. It's strictly an
F.B.I. ufatter.
Dave Durenberger, the M.riesota
Republican who is chairman of the Sen-
ate Intelligence Committee, said his
panel would also examine t':e problem
presented by military office.?s who re-
tire with knowledge of class'.f:ed ma-
terials.
Most people with security clearances
work for the Pentagon. At the Defense
Department. L. Britt Snider, director
of counterintellgience and security
policy, said: "We don't have any juris-
diction of any kind over fo.^e: era-
ployees. whether or not they had clear-
ances. It's strictly the F.B.I.'?
At the F.B.I., Mr. Parker sad. "We
are not concerned about a.merica is
who have had clear ance-s. '.. e don't .
look at these people unless a _ erect an
individual Involved in espionage "
Ex-Intelligcce Chief's .Moves
Senator Leahy said: "I ri'o't t.Idnk
anyone expects the F.B.I. to maintain
surveillance on the several `undred
thousand people who leave the Govern-
ment each year with sccu:.:y clear-
ances. But there are a cena- number
of people in extremely serstl',e post:
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When Adm. Sta:sfield M. Turner
was Director of Central L-ttelligence in
the Carter Administration, he di$-
r?issed transferred or forced to retire
nearly 200 C.I.A. officers who he-10
highly sensitive positions.
in an interview this week, he said
that others in the agency had warned.
him that .,we ran the risk of some of
them selling their information to the
(other side-" He said he had disagreed
was s csted that some
when it ems jobs. and plb-
ceeded with his original plans.
But he said of Mr. Howard: "I don't
think my rule should be totally rigid.11
this guy had just been briefed, I'd sO'
let's stick him in the Dominican Repub'
lic or someplace like that for a couple
of years, until the information isn't
valuable anymore.'
Senator Leahy said, "We may need
some sort of turkey farm for some o~?
these former employees. Make them
translate cables or something like that
for a couple of years."
Admiral Turner said he thought
IC.I.A. officers ought to be required T4
agree when they are hired that "for
three years or so- a they leave, they,
will be subject to the same rules of in.
trusion as applied when they were
government. Make them come back for
random polygraph examinations. Thy
would give them one more thing to
worry about before they turn."
A Q.I.A. official said "it's conceiv?
able" that that idea would work, add.
ing that finding solutions to the pros-;
lem "is certainly something we'M
thinking about now...
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ARTICLE APP nED
nJ ParE A IX
NEW YORK TIMES
8 October 1985
S Charge Spurs Questions
About Procedures of C.L.A.
By STEPHEN ENGELBERG
Sr'-o'I to Tb.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 - Members
of the Senate and House intelligence
committees say espionage allegations
against it former Central Intelligence
Agency officer raise serious questions
about the agency's procedures for deal-
ing with disgruntled employees.
The legislators say their committees
are conducting a detailed examination
of the career of Edward L. Howard, a
former officer of the agency who, ac-
cording to Administration officials,
was identified by a defector as having
gold the Soviet Union highly secret in-
forr nadoa.
Mr. Howard was forced to resign
from the C.I.A. in 1963; the agency was
dissatlsfled with his answers in a poly-
graph, or lie detector, examination
that was apparently unrelated to espio-
nage charges. Officials have said they
suspect it was a desire for revenge that
led Mr. Howard, who is believed to
have fled the country, to provide se-
crets to the Soviet Union.
"The C.I.A. has good security proce-
dures but they're not perfect and
they're going to have to get better,'
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont
Democrat who is the vice chairman of
the Senate Select Committee on Intelli-
gence, said in an interview. "They're
going to have to figure out what to do
with a disgruntled or potentially dis-
gruntled employee who has a lot of
knowledge because that's where a lot of
breaches have occurred in the past."
C.I.A. Briefs Comutitteea
Representative Dave McCurdy of
Oklahoma, the chairman of the Sub-
committee on Oversight and Evalua-
tion, of the House Intelligence Commit-
tee, said: "I think there are a lot of
questions yet to be answered. I'm not
sure anyone's comfortable with what
we've seen so far."
In an interview today, Mr. McCurdy
would not discuss the specifics of the
Howard case but said that he and some
other members of the committee had
been briefed by the C.I.A. Members of
the Senate committee have had similar
bricfin4p by the agency.
I'- Yort Tim" .
According to members of the two
committees and their aides, the panels
are concerned about a broad range of
issues stemming from the agency's
handling of Mr. Howard, who was
within the C.I.A.'s three-year proba-
tion period when he was asked to re-
sign.
Questions Raised With C.I.A.
Among the questions the two cotn-
rnittees are raising with the agency are
these:
9Why was Mr. Howard, a junior of fi-
cial, given access to such sensitive ma-
terial at an early stage in his career?
9 Why did the agency choose to dis-
miss him while the information he had
learned in training for a posting to Mos-
cow was still of value?
qWhat steps were taken to keep
track of Mr. Howard's movements
after he left the C.I.A., both in this
country and abroad, where the Federal
Bureau of Investigation has charged
that he met with Soviet intelligence
agents?
Was there sufficient coordination
between the C.I.A. and the F.B.L. the
other major Federal agency responsi-
ble for counterintelligence work?
Administration officials say Mr.
Howard was identified as an agent of
the Soviet Union by Vitaly Yurchenko,
a senior official in the K.G.B., the
Soviet intelligence agency. He defected
to the West in July. Mr. Yurchenko, the
officials have said, is undergoing ex-
tensive questioning at an undisclosed
location in the United States.
? Trip to Austria in '84
Mr. Howard, who is now 3.3 vears old,
was employed by the Central Intelli-
gence Agency from January 1981 to
June 1983, according to an F.B.I. af-
fidavit filed in Federal District Court in
New Mexico. The document charged
that he traveled to Austria in 1984
where he made contact with agent of
the K.G.B. and was paid money for
"classified information relating to U.S.
intelligence sources and methods."
Intelligence sources say that the in-
formation involved related to Amer-
ican operations in Moscow. They have
said Mr. Howard was trained for a post
in Russia that would have involved
managing agents or other means of in-
telligence collection.
Intelligence sources say, however,
that he was not sent to Moscow and was
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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 [phone]
CBS Morning News STATION WDVM-TV
CBS Network
DATE October 11, 1985 7:00 A.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
Senator Leahy/Achille Laura's Hijacking
MARIA SHRIVER: Well, the so-called hijacking of the
hijackers was the subject of overnight briefings for certain
members of Congress, including Senator Patrick Leahy, the ranking
Democrat on the Intelligence Committee. Senator Leahy's joining
us right now in our Washington bureau.
Can you bring us up to date? Exactly what were you told
last evening about the hijacking?
SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY: Well, we were kept informed as
we went along everything that was happening. I don't think many
of us got much sleep last night because of the phone calls. But
for once, at least, the calls were all positive.
This is a case where we had a lot of things that if they
all work right, we get the result we did. They all worked right.
And it's a major triumph for the United States.
SHRIVER: What were you told about what went into this
decision, how it was brought about?
SENATOR LEAHY: We knew that when Mr. Mubarak went on
the news yesterday morning and said that the hijackers had left
Egypt, we knew that wasn't so. And it was a case where we knew
they were in Egypt. Intelligence was very, very good. When they
left, we knew that and were able to send the planes out to
intercept the hijackers' plane -- no small feat, in and of itself
-- and locating the plane, and then in requiring it to land in
Italy.
It's a case where here we are the most powerful nation
in the world and we've been frustrated by hijackers and by
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terrorists because often we didn't know where they were or how to
reach them or who to bring our military power to bear on. And
this was a case where our intelligence was superb, worked very,
very well, and allowed the United States to use the options
available to it as a superpower.
SHRIVER: What do you think the reaction of your
colleagues will be to the decision by President Reagan and the
Pentagon?
SENATOR LEAHY: Well, it should be a positive one, and
it shouldn't be any kind of a partisan thing. I think this is a
case where I would hope there will not be dissenting voices in
the Congress. I hope that we say very clearly that the American
people support the President on this, because you want to send a
signal to future hijackers or future terrorists that we will find
them. We'll look for them, we'll identify them, and we'll go
after them and we'll bring them to justice. And that's exactly
what's happening in this case.
And that is the only way we are going to put any kind of
a dent in terrorism. And I support the President's action very,
very strongly.
SHRIVER: Okay. Thank you very much, Senator Leahy, for
joining us this morning to bring us up to date on this story.
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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 [phone]
PROGRAM The Today Show STATION WRC-TV
NBC Network
DATE October 11, 1985 7:00 A.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
Senator Leahy/Achille Lauro's Hijacking
BRYANT GUMBEL: Senator Patrick Leahy is the ranking
Democrat on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He has
been critical in the past of America's ability to gather
intelligence information in the Mideast. He's joined us this
morning from our bureau in Washington.
Are you a satisfied Senator this morning?
SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY: I'm a very happy Senator this
morning. I didn't mind the calls half the night or the very,
very early briefing over at the CIA this morning. This is a case
of success.
I've said, in fact, in interviews with you before that
if we're going to use the vast power that this country has to go
after terrorists, we've got to have far better intelligence and
information than we've had. This is a case where the
intelligence worked, worked very, very well, even to the extent
of knowing when the Egyptian President said that the hijackers
had left, we knew they hadn't. We knew they were in Egypt. And
we were able to track them and follow them all the way through.
It was a superb use of intelligence and connecting it up with our
military assets.
GUMBEL: If all that's correct, aren't you a little bit
bothered that the Egyptians lied to us?
SENATOR LEAHY: I'm extremely bothered that they did. I
can't guess what their reasons might have been. I think that
has to be a demonstration that the United States is going to be
in a position to make its own judgment on what people tell us,
and not have to take anything on faith.
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GUMBEL: Well, what do we do, then, in reaction to what
the Egyptians did? I mean certainly in this case I think you'd
have to agree they did not act in a manner befitting a strong
ally.
SENATOR LEAHY: No. And I think that there's going to
be some real strains as a result of this. They will of course be
angry at us for forcing their airplane down. I think our
reactions would be, "Don't even talk to us about that. If you've
got hijackers, especially those who've murdered an American,
you're harboring them, you're just going to have to assume that
we're going to come and go after them."
And I think that message has to go to virtually every
country, that we want people who have attacked Americans to be
brought to justice, wherever it might be. And if it's necessary,
we'll go and get them.
GUMBEL: In this case, brought to justice may mean
Italian justice. Is that fine by you?
SENATOR LEAHY: I don't have a problem with that because
I think that the Italian courts work very well, and it was an
Italian-flag ship. But I think eventually I want to see them
extradited back here to the United States and tried also in a
U.S. court. The Italians have a perfect right to try them, and
should and can. But eventually I want to seem them tried here in
the United States.
GUMBEL: What would be served by that?
SENATOR LEAHY: I think it serves to demonstrate to the
world that the United States will watch out for its interests,
wherever it might be, and that eventually people will be brought
to justice here.
GUMBEL: Whether or not they ever do make it to these
shores, is there any move afoot to have these hijackers
interrogated by American officials? Is that important to you?
SENATOR LEAHY: It's very important to us. And there
are things that will be done very soon. We're going to make sure
that we have people who were witnesses positively identify these
people, make sure that there hasn't been any switch, that we have
the right people.
GUMBEL: To the best of your knowledge -- I mean it
seems fairly certain what kind of fate awaits the four hijackers.
What about the other two PLO officials who were on board? What's
going to happen to them?
SENATOR LEAHY: Well, we're going to have to look at
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whether we have cases that can be brought against them, either as
accessories or otherwise.
I think the most important thing, though, is that we've
demonstrated that our intelligence is getting better and that we
know who these people are and where they are, and it really is
not going to do them any good to seek safe harbor in any country.
We'll go after them.
GUMBEL: As we talk about how strongly the U.S. reacted,
you were in on the CIA briefings on this, as you noted at the top
of this interview. Were we prepared to shoot that craft down if
they had ignored our signals to land?
SENATOR LEAKY: I agree with Secretary Shultz that
that's something that we can not and should not go into. I think
that it leaves our options open. And quite frankly, I'd just
soon have, if there are going to be- future terrorists or
hijackers, that they now know exactly what our options are.
GUMBEL: Senator Patrick Leahy, you look like a happy
man this morning.
SENATOR LEAHY: I'm very happy, and I'm very proud of
the President in this case.
GUMBEL: Thank you very much, sir.
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'The sins of the fathers'
Israeli Prime Minister Shinlon Peres pays Ilorrla,,e January
27 at memorial to World War 11 Holocaust victims at
Bergen-fielsen concentration camp. Peres became the first
Israeli head of government to visit Berlin, assuring young
NOTES OF THE WEEK
Spy-spooked
on the Potomac
^ Official Washington loves lloth, III, SO
much as a spy story-and in late Janu-
ary there surfaced a new one to c}lc~c
on, a story that U.S. ~,uyernment
spokesmen called fiction and U' 's, c;r:v
& !f'orhl Report and the :Vcw York
Times called fact. A nliniwar of denials
and eonlirrrlations ensued-
January 25: The news media receive
the Frhruarv 3 issue of U.S'..A"c rtes. which
reports That the U.S. iiehcoi~'ereo a
high Ievel Soviet intelligence accent out
of Fast (icrnranv last spring. hid hint at
a U.S. base to prevent tile ()t'
the (ieneva summit and then hrouht
the defector to America in late Not en:-
her. the stony sacs the CIA cc;ults to
keep secret the defection of a fifth top
Soviet-bloc spy in 19S5. The defector
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Germans: "The Bible tells u.s riot to charge children with the
sins of the fathers. They should not be accused because they
did not do it and they would riot have wanted it to happen."
Photo be I c , France Presse
wants it that way, the CIA is under fire
for mishandling defectors and "another
Vurchenko'' is feared. KGI3 Col. Vitaly
Vurchenko fled to the U.S. last year,
then redctected.
January 26: The Sunday New York
limes says on its trout page that sources
in Congress confirm the U.SiVew.c ac-
count and that the defector "may he the
most valuable... in recent years News
a emirs sa, unnamed CIA officials
scotTcd tale r~rt.
January 27:1Thc VCw York J7,n'c
quotes V"i,e Ch::ir;n:rl Patrick Leahy
of:hc Senate Intelligence Conl-
;nitree "I h:l~e been told by the CIA t
I Il:!t ;tr stlchl defector exists. If vote asked
rue rnc~ther I believe that. I would say,
n li_l;t ICI:A Director William Ca-
sec'.] ('uhlie aent of reluctance to
lyre es of wersict, then
1 550] lr.ne nn corr.;nent At the White
1louse, Larr y Jpeakes s: , accinults ofa
fifth detector "baseless." Asked
cthether h denies all or part of the
store', he replies, 1 he cc }tole slow."
January 28: The Yew York Times
says again that its "congressional
sources confirm the reports" of the de-
fection. The Washington Post quotes it
spokesman for U.S:Vews': "We reported
the stony from multiple sources over
several weeks. Based on the reputations
and nurnhers of these sources, We be-
licve our story is correct. We were
warned by Ill 01-C (hair one of our
sources that we could expect denials
from the CIA and possibly other gov-
ernment agencies.''
The II zclrirr,~roa l rotes quotes Serna-
tor- Chic llecht (R-Nev.), an Intelli-
:ence Committee nlenlher: ''Where
there's smoke, there's fire.... There's
been too many leaks and here's anoth-
er." IIc sacs the defector accounts are
correct. The senator biter repeats this
to U..J'..Vc ovs. which did not interview
hirn fi,r its original article. As to the
denials, lie declares: "Of course they're
denying it. What did you expect then)
to do's" file same afternoon, the White
House again denies the story. ^
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NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS ON THE ACHILLE LAURO HIJACKING
The New York Times Friday, October 11, 1985 -- Account of
Larry Speakes news conference on Thursday night October 10.
"What we did is we used every available means at our disposal
to find out where the hijackers were when they were on
Egyptian soil. We used every means at our disposal to be
aware of when the aircraft left Egyptian soil anduahethen iweto
persuade
were able to locate the aircraft, pursue it,
go to the airbase at Sigonella."
The New York Times Friday, October 11, 1985 by Bernard Gwertzman
"Crucial to the mission was knowledge of the exact whereabouts
of the four gunmen and when their plane left Egypt. Mr. Speakes
said that 'we used every available means at our disposal to
be aware of when the aircraft left Egyptian soil and then we
were able to locate the aircraft, pursue it, persuade it to go
to the airbase at Sigonella.' "
"But Mr. Speakes said the Administration believed that the
hijackers were still in Egypt at the time Mr. Mubarek said
they had left. Officials said they believed that the gunmen
Cairo waiting for a flight to
were at an airbase outside
either Algeria or Tunisia."
"Senior Administration officials said Thursday that the
Administration understood that as of that morning Washington
time -- early afternoon in Cairo -- the hijackers were at an
Egyptian air base awaiting a flight to an undisclosed
destination. They said the Egyptians seemed committed to
carrying out their end of the bargain with the hijackers to
let them have safe passage out of Egypt in return for
surrendering the ship."
The New York Times Friday, October 11, 1985 by Bill Keller
"Mr. Weinberger would not provide details of how the
officers aboard the Saratoga knew the Egyptian plane was
leaving the Cairo airport, or how they were certain they
had the right plane. 'I would say that we had very good
intelligence.
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The Washington Post Friday, October 11, 1985 by Loren Jenkins
"Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had said Thursday that the
four hijackers who had surrendered Wednesday to Egyptian
authorities had left Egypt five hours later ... "
"The U.S. government, however, announced late Thursday that the
four hijackers were still in Egyptian hands and were at an Egyptian
Air Force base outside of Cairo waiting for a plane to take them
out of the country."
"Earlier on Thursday, special correspondent Jeffrey Bartholet
reported from Cairo: ... Mubarak told reporters Thursday
morning that the hijackers had gone and were the responsibility
of the PLO, but PLO leader Yasser Arafat said they were 'under
the Egyptian authorities' control.' "
"Adding to confusion was a statement Thursday morning by
Abdul Rahman Saramawi, the governor of Port Said, that the
pirates 'are still in custody, and it remains to be
determined whether they will be tried.' "
The New York Times Friday, October 11, 1985 by Judith Miller
"Throughout the day, Egyptian officials clung to this position
despite skepticism among diplomats in Egypt and statements
from Washington that it was believed that the four were still
being held at an airport near Cairo."
"In Washington, a senior Reagan Administration official
traveling with President Reagan said the four hijackers had
been taken to an air base known as Al Maza, on the outskirts
of Cairo, and had been scheduled to leave Egypt about noon
Thursday. An Administration official here confirmed this
account and said the Reagan administration was 'extremely
angry' with Egypt about the affair."
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NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS ON THE ACI{ILLI: LAURO HIJACKING
The New York Times Friday, October 11, 1985 Account of
Larry Speakes news conference on Thursday night October 10.
"What we did is we used every ova metheyat ourodisposal n
to find out where the hijackers were when Egyptian soil. We used every means our to be
aware of when the aircraft left Egyptian ppensuahe it to
were able to locate the aircraft, pursue si o
go to the airbase at Sigonella."
The New York Times Friday, October 11, 1985 by Bernard Gwertzman
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of the four gunmen and when
said that 'we used every available means at ourldisposal ntoe
be aware of when the aircraft left Egyptian
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were able to locate the aircraft, pursue
to the airbase at Sigonella.'
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hijackers were still in Egypt gunmen
they had left. OfsCadiroheay blievfeodr ahflight CO
were at an airbase outside ?
either Algeria or Tunisia."
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time -- early afternoon in Cairo -- t J
Egyptian air base awaiting a flightosinmundisclo eddd Co
destination. They said the Egyptians carrying out their end of the bargain Egypt th e hijackers to
let them have safe passage out of E yl
surrendering the ship.
The New York Times Fr id3y, October 11, 1985 by Bill KeILCU
-Mr. Weinberger would not provide details of how the
officers aboard the S3 r3 tot;:~ knew the Egyptian plane was
Leaving the Cairo I1 ri'UI they Blood
had the right ~ plane..
intelligence.
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The Washington Post Friday, October 11, 1985 by Loren Jenkins
"Egyptian President Hosni.tlubarak had said Thursday that the
four hijackers who had surrendered Wednesday to Egyptian
authorities had left Egypt five hours later ... "
"The U. S. government, however, announced late Thursday that the
four hijackers were still in Egyptian hands and were at an Egyptian
Air Force base outside of Cairo waiting for a plane to take them
out of the country."
"Earlier on Thursday, special correspondent Jeffrey Bartholet
reported from Cairo: ... Mubarak told reporters Thursday
morning that the hijackers had gone and were the responsibility
of the PLO, but PLO leader Yasser Arafat said they were 'under
the Egyptian authorities' control.' "
"Adding to confusion was a statement Thursday morning by
Abdul Rahman Saramawi, the governor of Port Said, that the
pirates 'are still in custody, and it remains to be
determined whether they will be tried.' "
The New York Times Friday, October 11, 1985 by Judith Miller
"Throughout the day, Egyptian officials clung to this position
despite skepticism among diplomats in Egypt and statements
[con, Washington that it was believed chat the four were still
being held at an airport near Cairo."
"In Washington, a senior Reagan Administration official
traveling with President Reagan said the four hijackers had
been taken to an air base known as Al Maza, on the outskirts
of Cairo, and had been scheduled to leave Egypt :about noon
Thursday. An Administration official here confirmed this
account and said the Reagan administration was 'extremely
angry' with Egypt about the affair."
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