TERRORISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000403680039-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: March 15, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHIi~GTON P05T MAGAZI~I
15 Parch 1981
uzing the past dec-
ade--while the
United States has
felt ~ guilty about
Vietnam, sided away
~ fmm sanding troops' into An-
gola, refused to protect a dic- -
tatorial rye in. Niearagua-
and generally tried to be moral
and decent in itsforeign policy
-what have those sneaky
Russians. been up to?
The short answer, given by a
growing number of conser~a-
tive foreign policy thinkers
with influence in the Reagan
administration, is that the
Soviets have been up to no
good. The argument goes lilts
this
While soft-minded liberals
in Washington .and the capi-
- tats of Western Europe were
seeking 'friendship -and trade
with the Soviet Union, the
Soviets conspired thmughout
the 1970e with terrorists of
every stripe to disrupt and dis-
turb the governments of Great-
Britain,Spain, West Geznany,.
Italy, Turkey, Japan and se-'
lectecl countries in -Latin '
America and Africa. Examples .
abound.
/ T1rte beloved English war
hero, Earl Mountbatten of
Burnie, was murdered in 1979
on his fishing boat by a Provi-
sional IRA terroist who
learned his bomb-making craft
in Libya under Soviet supervi-
sion.
/~ Aldo Mom; the Italian
Christian Democrat states-
man, was ladnapped and
Ia71ed in 1978 by terrorists of
the Red Brigades, the radical
left underground organization
whose leaders trained in'
Soviet KGB camps in Czecho-
slovakia and Soviet-sup_norted
terrorist camps in South ;
-Yemen. '
/ The legendary terrorist ~
"Carlos the Jackal," who
helped organize the massacre ~
of Israeli athletes at the 1972
Olympics in Munich _ and in
297b led a kidnapping squad
that seized Il Arab oiI minis-
ters in Vienna, Teamed host to
ply his bloody trade in three
special training, camps in the
.U.S.S.R.
There you have it: a conspir-
acy. Carlos the cold-eyed faller
drin3s vod'3a with the KGB.
The Pzovisional 'IRA slaugh-
tens helpless school girls with
Soviet-made. Kalashnikov as-
sault rifles. The violence-
` crazed Baader-I~Yeinhof Garg
blows up West German banks
for the furtherance of Soviet
world domination. The con-
spiracy theory of terrorism,
witia the Russians as the bad.
guys, has an intoxicating polit_
~ leaf appeal in this city where
R.ona?d Reagan reigns. Reagan
~i-mself claims the Soviets re-
~ serve the right "to commit any
crime, to lie, to cheat". to fur-
ther their goal of world domi-
nation:
Secretary of State Alesan-
der Haig, the soldier turned
diplomat, accuses the Soviets
of "training, fuadiag and
equipping" the forces of
worldwide termrism. The
blur-eyed? former general -has
Haig'
home
tiona.
canes
Th
seers:
newly powerful tteputsucan
hard-liners that Democrats
who used. to run U.S. foreign
policy (and Aho now stand ac-
cused of i~noriag Soviet in-
volvemeat in terrorism) ques-
tion whe?hrr the "Russians
did it" theory is based on
genuine intelligence infornza-
tioa or on anti-Communist
conservatism that's welded to
. a keen sEnse of what the elec-
torate wants to hear.
"I have a feeling theta is a
Iot of locaz-talk going around
with very lit#3$ support," says
former United- Nations ~-
basaador Donald F. N1cblenry.
"It has the pungent smell oY
politics.?
Whatever its 'motivation,
the Reagan administration's
finger-pointing has provoked
the Soviet Union into one of
its more hyperbolic, self-right-
eous rejoinders since the Cold
War_ Soviet Defense Minister
Dmitri Ustinov said last
month the U.S. accusaticas
veers Eu "evil-minded decep-
tion" to cover un Western suh-
version in Poland and other
C3nzmuiist countries. `"Ter-
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