INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORIST REPORT

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• Publication Date: May 1, 1983
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INTERNATIONAL
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Terrorist
REPORT
REPORT
A PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION REPORTING ON TERRORIST GROUPS AND THEIR ACTIVITIES,
ESPIONAGE, INTERNATIONAL SUBVERSION, AND STRATEGIC PREDICTIONS OF FUTURE.
EVENTS.
One country that Castro and DGI (Intelligence) agents has infiltrated with great
success is Panama. And speaking of Panama, there is a story that must be told concern-
ing how the Carter administration helped spread terrorism in Central America.
The Carter administration in 1979 tipped off top Panamanian officials that federal
undercover agents were setting a trap for them in a clandestine operation to smuggle
illegal weapons to leftists in El Salvador. The private warning, intended to save the
Panamanian government from embarrassment, was not made known to the federal
agents, placing them in great jeopardy as they continued to meet with the would-be
Panamanian smugglers.
Details of the smuggling operation and United States efforts to apprehend the
Panamanians involved in it are contained in confidential files of the Miami Police
Department and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They have
been confirmed by some of the individuals involved.
According to investigation records, the smuggling operation began in the fall of
1979 when an Englishman identified as Sir Eric W. Jackson, owner of Kreditor
International in Pompano Beach, Fla., passed the word he wanted to buy $10 million
worth of guns and ammunition.
Jackson approached a Miami gun dealer whom he thought he could trust. Unknown
to Jackson, the dealer was a police informant. In fact, he had tipped authorities six
months earlier about another illegal arms shipment by Panamanians to the leftist Sandin-
istas in Nicaragua. That tip resulted in the indictment of a Panamanian intelligence
officer, a Miami gun dealer and three other men.
To solidify Jackson's trust, the informant purchased a shipment of stolen "C" rations
from Jackson. Jackson then arranged meetings between himself, the informant and
Capt. Roberto Perez Paredos of the Panamanian National Guard. Paredos told the
informant he represented the then-president of Panama, Gen. Omar Torrijos, and Col.
Manual Noriega, head of Panamanian military intelligence. The Panamanian consul
in Miami and other Panamanian officials also were aware of the shipment, Jackson
said.
The Panamanians proposed to buy the guns from the informant-gun dealer and
ship them to Panama with fake clearance papers. If approved by the State Department
for shipment to a friendly country, the shipment would have been legal. But Paredos
and Jackson let slip that the guns would go to "El Salvador but not to the government
of El Salvador."
The informant reported the smuggling proposal to an ATF special agent, Don
Kimbler, and to Detective Sergio Pinon of the Miami Police Department's Intelligence
and Anti-Terrorist Squad. The U.S. Customs Service also was informed.
During a series of meetings with Jackson and Paredos, Pinon was introduced as
a "crooked cop" who could clear the way for the arms shipment by chartered plane
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WWWndth ton and discueeaed the sting with his superiors.
at the ATF headquarters in Miami, ATF special agent Kimbler said he -had gone to
Then, at a meeting of the police officers and federal agents on Oct. 12, 1979,
to Jackson and Paredos,, to, obtain payment and to expose them when they attempted
to smuggle the weapons into El Salvador.
was In a "sting" operation. They had planned to deliver a small amount of firearms
MIOni police estimated the value of the arms at $10 million.
The federal officials and police decided the only way they could arrest the smugglers
an wKwpoweg numpef 9' jeep'-mounieo macnineguns ano a. "urge numoerr
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of pistol and rifle ammeanition, 3,000 M-18 rifles, 3,000 M-14 rifles, 7,000 M-1
:.F CSon and Parades listed the arms they wanted. The .list included 1 million
Ithlrough Miami International Airport. Pinon, with the help of the FBI, secretly tape
Nrd a number of the meetings.
"They don't want the to go through,* Kimbler is reported as saying.
Kimble' said the United States was concerned about the operation because the
.havareturned alive. Pinon's own report of the meeting, filed with the Miami police
states:
"It the op on of this investigator that Capt. Perez Paredos was tipped off,
Pint, -deedbred. He felts;- according to the source, that if he had gone he would
was off.. "Paradox gave Pinar a mean look," the source reported, "and invited
him to come to sea."
One person who was at the meeting said that Paredos informed the group the
we undercover Customs Service agents met Paredos at the Columbus Hotel in Miami.
'Jan. '15, 1980, the sting fell apart. A group that included the informant,( Pinon and
Taut at the very next nmetio between the officers and the would-be smugglers,
Oft for deeling with an left wing." - - -
pant" communist. He is reported as.ssyings
Pinon, who fled Cuba wifh his parents when he was 10 years? old, is vehemently
told a Washington Times reporter that Pinon was furious.
Pinon refuses to commaft abot any of the meetings, abut wVie who was present
,government of Panama has, recently done the Carter ministration a favor by taking
the 9hab of: Iran off Its bmm* --and admitting him to Panama, ]n addition, the contro-
rvrl Panama Canal Treaty had been signed, ceding the canal to Panama.
!American Express In Miami.
Piubn- has resigned from the Miami Police Department and has taken a job with
s*00adliac fiien of Pinon having left the documents.
*nd. Be, tea, which dealt only with the local gun smuggling. Lisker says be has no
e left his papers and documents with the subcommittee.
Su committee chief counsel Joel Lisker said he recalls the testimony of Pinon
E Pinon tried to interest the subcommittee In the aborted sting operation., He says
testify about arms smuggling befforethe;Senate subcommittee on security and terrorism.
Pleon and a fellow Miami, pace officer, Danny Benitez, went to Washington to
gave nment.
7be' informant's cover was blown. Miami police believe Jackson and Paredos were
,told of `his activities. He is leading a quiet life, and no longer informs for the U.S.
OR W Torrijos was killed in a helicopter crash in 1981.
ictments against Panamanians for shipping arms to-Nicaragua were dismissed.
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higher, perhaps in the State Department or the White House, police officers
. Ti~er "someahe in own" was either Kimbler's ATF superiors in Washington or
swneape unknown, of the actual operation."
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His police officer friends say Pinon still would like a subcommittee investigation
into how arms are obtained by leftists in Nicaragua and El Salvador and what part
has been played by Panama.
A Miami policeman quotes Pinon as having said:
"My life was on the line. I probably wouldn't have come back if I had gone to
Panama. And we didn't even know what the hell was happening."
An extremist Palestinian group headed by Abu Nidal may be planning a series of terrorist
attacks this summer aimed at Italian, French and American targets. The group claimed
responsibility for the April 10, 1983 killing of Issam Sartawi, a PLO moderate who
was shot to death in Portugal while attending a congress of the Socialist International.
A senior PLO leader has warned that Abu Nidal's group is preparing guerrilla operations
and terrorist attacks against the West. The PLO has blamed Nidal for the assassination
of its representatives in London and Paris in the late 1970s and placed a death sentence
on his head. In response, Abu Nidal has issued a call for the death of Arafat. One
possible target for Nidal's terrorists could -be England and the taking of British hostages
in an effort to gain the release of three of their men who are serving long prison terms
in England for the shooting in London last June of Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador
to England. Abu Nidal and several of his top aides have reportedly boasted that their
men would not be imprisoned in England for long. Nidal's organization is separate
from the group known as Moslem Holy War which has claimed responsibility for the
bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut. Both groups are made up of fanatics
who will strike at targets in industrialized democracies and attack symbols of Western
power. Our projection of terrorist activity based on current information is that there
will soon be a sharp rise in terrorist operations, particularly in Europe. Look for an
increase in casualties and casualty-producing incidents through the ~ use of bombings.
Some terrorist groups now feel that mass casualty operations are necessary to generate
the amount of publicity they need. We also expect a dramatic increase in assassinations
of representatives of affluent countries: U.S. government officials and business
executives will continue to be prime targets. The development and implementation
of more effective international counter-measures- to deal with terrorism will continue
to be impeded by differing perspectives among nations, and by a reluctance on the
part of many states to commit themselves to a course of action that might invite
retribution by terrorist groups or by states which are sympathetic to the terrorists'
cause. , .
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International Intelligence and
Terrorist Report
RYAN QUADE EMERSON
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Several training centers operated by the Palestine Liberation Organization located
in South Yemen are being enlarged. Two of the camps are at Dhale; and Naqub (north
of Aden). Other camps are located on the Gulf of Aden at Shugra and at Sheikh Othman.
Several guerrilla warfare expierts from the Soviet Union and Cuba have recently arrived
In South Yemen to conduct courses in,. the PLO, camps. Our sources report that the
courses will last five months and consist of training in the use of explosives, infantry
weapons and tactics,, ambushes and intelligence gathering.
Prance and Libya have opened talks concerning Libya's desire to purchase military
hardware. Colonel Qaddafl is reportedly interested in obtaining 20 Mirage 2000 jets
and an undisclosed number of Super Etenoard planes which are capable of carrying
Bzocet missiles.
According to ? agents of the Brazilian SNI (National Intelligence Service) there is an
active investigation by that agency to verify reports that there were Soviet military
moors, in the 48 man group who were on board the Libyan planes grounded in Brazil
recently.
Senior Carlos Alberto Montaner, who is a respected Cuban journalist in exile, has
reported- that an important conference took place a short time ago in Havana, Cuba.
Attending the meeting were three high ranking officials of the government of Panama
and the two men on Fidel Castro's. staff who are responsible for subversion, terrorism
and guerrilla warfare in Central America. Manuel Pineiro and Osman; Cienfuegos
told the'; Panamanians that Cuba would not take any action against Panama as long
as the canal government ignored Cuban military and intelligence operations in the
isthmus.
The Soviet Union now has the following military units engaged in all out combat in
Afghanistan:
1. independent Motorized Rifle Regiment stationed in Ghanzni.
2. 66th Motorized Rifle Brigade stationed in Jalalbad.
3. 201st Motorized Rifle Division stationed-in Kunduz.
4. 5th Guards Motorized Rifle Division stationed in Shindand. e
5. Guards Parachute Regiment stationed In Bagram.
6. Independent Motorized Rifle Regiment stationed in Faizbed
7. 103rd Guards Airborne Division stationed in Kabul..
8. 108th Motorized Rifle Division stationed in Begram.
9. 70th Motorized Rifle Brigade stationed in Kandahar.
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