KHOMEINI TERRORISTS INFILTRATE THE U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100110154-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 154
• Publication Date: January 17, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/05: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100110154-2
WASHINGTON POST
PRT C .E A?EARED ` 17 January 1986
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JACK ANDERSON and DALE VAN ATTA
Khomeini Terrorists Infiltrate the U.S.
Fanatical Shiite Moslem terrorists, ready to die
for the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, are in
position in the United 1986 the year Middle East terrorism hoping
strimake
es on this
side of the Atlantic.
In fact, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has
been concerned for some time about the
underground Iranian network of potential
murderers and saboteurs that is being built up in
this country. The FBI knows there are already at
least 100 trained Khomeini agents in place, a far
greater danger than anything Libyan dictator
Muammar Qaddafi presents, for all his bluster.
In addition, a recent highly sensitive intelligence
report indicates that'100 or more Khomeini agents
have entered the United States during the past
year alone by way of Mexico, and possibly
Nicaragua.
Iranian-controlled terrorists have already
demonstrated the virulence of their hatred for
Americans: At last count, Khomeini's minions were
responsible for the deaths of at least 264
Americans in the Middle East.
That's what lent urgency to a confidential
message sent out last Nov. 15 to U.S. airport
security offices and Federal Aviation
Administration regional divisions. The bulletin
warned:
"Information has been received that
approximately 400 individuals, of various Middle
Eastern nationalities, have been training in hijack
operations inside Iran.
"There were indications that Iranian authorities
were seeking passports in preparation [for al hijack
operation. The Iranians obtained 176 Algerian
passports for use by these persons ... who are
reportedly to undertake a hijack late in November
or December 1985. It is unknown at this time
where the hijacking will take place or what airliner
may be involved."
U.S. intelligence agencies know the Shiites'
orders to begin operations in the United States this
year come from the to p? the Supreme Council of
Islamic Revolution formed by Khomeini in
September 1981.
One of the council's key components is the
Committee for North America, which has
operational centers in this country and Canada. Our
sources say one of its members, Sheik Majdeddin
Mahalati, arrived in the United States last summer.
Mahalati's terrorist pedigree includes the
executions of hundreds of followers of the late shah
in Shiraz during the 1979 revolution.
Khomeini has allocated millions of dollars to build
up a Shiite terrorist organization among the more
than 60,000 students from Islamic countries who
attend U.S. universities.
Even before the Iranian revolution, Khomeini'&
recruiters were proselytizing black militants in U.S.
prisons, under the guise of teaching them about
Islam. One recruit, David Belfield, was charged
with killing anti-Khomeini exile leader Ali Akbar
Tabatabai at his home in Bethesda, Md., in 1980.
Within hours of the shooting, Belfield had been
spirited to Canada, provided with a fake passport by
Iranian diplomats, and flown to Zurich and then
Tehran. Today, calling himself Daoud Salhuddin, he
is an adviser to Khomeini's terrorist plotters.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/09/05: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100110154-2