TERROR KING CARLOS WORKING FOR LIBYA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100940004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 25, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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rrnrini!' NEW YORK POST
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25 January 1984
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By URI DAN
Mideast Correspondent
PARIS - . "Carlos the
Jackal," the world's
-deadliest terrorist, is
back in action as a hired
.killer for Libyan
dictator Muammar-
xhadafy in his war with
PLO chief Yassir Arafat
and western Europe,
The Post has learned.
Intelligence -sources here
and in other western
roman countries
avh a confirmed that
the nezue an? or
Carlos is spearheading
a new "special opera-
terns" terror 'teem for
the Libyan strnnernan.
According to the sources,
Carlos was responsible
for the New Year's Day
bombing of a high-
speed train in southern
France and the Mar-
seilles railway station.
Those blasts killed five I
people and wounded 40.
But more significantly,
the sources -believe,
Carlos has been hired
to lead Khadafy's at.
tack against Arafat,
,Who has vowed ven.
,::geance on the Libyan
dictator for -branding
:dim a -traitor to the
Arab cause and supply.
ing troops to the PLO -
rebels who -drove him
from Lebanon.
French IntewmZ
sources beliPve it new
terror nrva
lion Wied "Al
e Volcano) was re-
spoons a as the r'
shoo ing of~e Libyan
8m assadn_~,t Itch,
Ammar el Paerazv
The new group, sources
believe, was formed to
replace the -notorious
"Black September,"
which - masterminded
the 1972 massacre-of Is-
raeli athletes -at the
Munich Olympics.
But undiclosed circum-
stantial evidence, ac-
=-cording to French
sources, now, points to a
'`definite Carlos link
-with Libya.
According to the sources,
"Carlos is not -only
Khadafy's top terror
operative, but ' - also
serves as a consultant
fora school in sabotage
and terrorism run by
',Libyan intelligence.
STAT
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