STORIES OF LIBYAN TERRORISM TO OPEN BILLY PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605720022-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: August 4, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
4 august 1980
Chime Tribune.l?ress $ervii&
WASHINGTON-The; Senate., ~subcom
mittee : investigating the Billy Carter
matter will hear. a horror story Monday:.
An expert will tell about United States
intelligence-regarding .a monster:called
Recent writings by Henry. Schuler, one
of the lead-off -witnesses, provide a taste
of the hearings' tone
-:: Schuler,_a-former foreign service offl-
cer: - with.- access' to ' .the most. sensitive
S. data on Libya,. blames strongman
Moammar Khadafy"for these incidents:
? The murders of -11 Israeli, athletes
at the Munich Olympics in 1972. T ,T
s The murders of two American dip-
lomats in Khartoun., Sudan, in 1973
? a The slaughter of 32 people; includ-
ing 1o American ??children ~?at a: Rome
airport in 1973
c r Y4~ ;:.. -.
0 The 1975: kidnaping of Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countriesminis-
ters. in Vienna: byi-the notorious terrorist
known as "Carlos." r ;.
The airlifting,of. well-trained shock
_troops into Uganda -in am ,unsuccessful
attempt topieserve the'rule of; dictator
Trii- Anun in l979 + r "n::
;* The:' systematic;,' elimination.`. this
'spring of nine dissident-Libyans. in, cities'
,-around the world by lutmen paid direct
ly_byKhadafy
'world. attention. was drawn'to.the?:activi
ties ' of Khadafy's :-:terrorist "associates
::
And,:.noted: one Senate. Foreign-Affairs'
Committee adviser. preparing...forxMon
forgotten about Libya
In. the months after. the Israeli ' athletes`
s were slain; at; the Munich,Olympic' Vil=.
lage, : it :was "disclosed that *. the - killers
were trained in .Libya. Their ' guns and
grenades -were-sent into-Germany=via-
hadgiven
,?the klllers-a $10 million.`re
want. That; . Schuler- hotel recenfiy;
amounts to4.roughly half a : day's; pay=;
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:-:Khadafy.`boasted further-.that`his-$2'~
million bonus to "Carlos". was paid for
with less than. a hour's worth of Libyan .,
oil production T-=
The United' States alone' buys 600,000
barrels of Libyan crude a day at $35 per
barrel; according to Energy Department
figures ~
'KHADAFY, %AN eccentric 'arch .. ?los-
leni'`whooperates*_-his desert . country
from' a "Green- Book", which he wrote,
hasestablished 20'terrorist training cen-
One of the most notorious; on Libya's
Mediterranean coast, uses submarine
pens built by, the Germans during World
War II for Marshal Erwin Rommel to
train terrorists " in! the latest :explosive
devices -
::The CLA;estimated that at the begin-
-ning:-of ..1980,: Libyan. terrorist camps
held..more than 7,000- recruits from all
over' the, world.- There were representa-
tiv'e's-of most known terrorist groups,
including those from Ireland, Japan, Ita-'
Iy. the Philippines, and` throughout the
Mideast and Africa "
British mllitaryjofficials_have -said
that`:when -they- confiscate' Soviet-made
arms:froni the Irish,Repubiican Army in
noi"therntIreland, . desert.?sand .often, is
still :clinging -to them-:Geologists.traced
the sand to North Africa: -^ f '
4,THE=CIA..DISCOVERED 'that Khada-.
`fy'sownshod; roopswereplanningto
use a' 'S slef to '".destroy - Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat's airplane'over
the Azores earlier this year. as it was en
route to Washington
ti: The :CIA, - .according to Schuler,
'.learned.of the plot, and rerouted- Sadat's
plane T; t
_The:niost. recent atrocity which intelli-''
gene analysts :blame on:Yhadafy oc-
curred in March when 30 Filipino civil
ians : died' and more than' :250 .were
wounded in a, grenade attack on,Minda-,
:nap movie theaters by?the Moro Nation=-.
al Liberation Front >~ -
r.The political ' . - the Moros
maintains headquarters: in. Tripoli; and
the camps ',,are used ,-to train Moro:
troops;&huler, has said= f
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