CIA DOUBLES ITS 'TERRORISM' ESTIMATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505030002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 1, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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:? .The .CIA released its -annual report on support of revolutionary violence which is international terrorism: June 15;; but only.'- fundamental element of Leninist ideology,"...
after making some. editorial: revisions to the report states. ``Such violence frequently:
please Secretary of .State 'Alexander M ` entails acts of international terror."
Cuba is :accused.:of openly,:'advocating'+
for
Haig: ? "armed revolution ' as the only means
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Those calculating changes terrorist incidents so as to double ways. leftist forces to : gain powy Lat,in :r
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their number, lending credibility' to the :ti *'America," and of providing "tra arms
safe haven and advice to guerrillas,'.' many
?.Reagan administration's cIa'urt.thatinterna-
.tional terrorism -is ,a growing threat. The -of whom "engage in terrorist operations." _-
agency now 'says that. 5995, :incidents The report ignores state terror committed.-
occurred worldwide between 1968 and 1979, by pro-U.S. governments, such as assassina-
as opposed to 3336 it cited in -a report last tions on foreign soil by Chile: and Israel,
dismissed'
year covering the same period.'?The agency . Right-wing terrorism generally is
reports ghat 760 ,terrorist as{domest~cwrolenceM;'perpetrated anony-
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place in 1980.
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a. '.. West an army of assassins, bombthrowers
airplane 'hijackers' has become a key
?propaganda' piece., Haig reportedly
blocked publication of the CIA study until he
vas' `satisfied- it 'supported; administration
rhetoric..The`'secretary's mark shows most
'clearly in a section, which did not appear in
previous reports, accusing the Soviet Union, ..}
Cuba and ? Middle East countries such as
Libya, South Yemen'and Iran of sponsoring
terrorism:-,-7The .: charge is supported by
conveniently muddying the distinction be-.'
tweeri terrorist.bands and armed liberation' d
Jay Peterzell, a ? researcher ,for the
, i itelligence :Watchdog: group Center ? for
,-National Security Studies, points 'out that
"Haig has taken positions because ` of
ideology that may not be supported by fact:
Consequently the terrorism report became
the focus of a bureaucratic battle pitting CIA
:::analysts-whose job requires them to make {
realistic and sober assessments of interns-
>`tional ; events--against State Department
cold war ideologues and Reagan appointees
at the top . of the intelligence command
.structure." As a result, the 1980 terrorist
study reportedly was redrafted at least three
:.times to beef up the number of terrorist
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incidents report
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