ARRANGEMENTS TO ADDRESS THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF B'NAI B'RITH

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• Publication Date: March 18, 1988
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18 March 1988
Director of Central Intelligence
William M. Baker
Director, Public Affairs Office
SUBJECT: Arrangements to Address the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai B'rith
1. You are scheduled to address the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai
B'rith Tenth Annual National Leadership Conference at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday,
22 March. The breakfast meeting will be held at the Washington Marriott
Hotel, 1221 22nd Street, NW at 22nd and M, Washington, D.C. Phone [phone].
I will remain with you throughout the program.
2. Arranements: You are asked to be at the lobby of the main entrance
of the hotel at 7:56 a.m. where you will be met by the Director of the ADL,
David A. Brody, who will escort you to the West End Ballroom for breakfast and
the program. Your remarks are scheduled to begin at approximately 8:15 a.m.
and you will be introduced by ADL National Civil Rights Committee leader, Ruth
Lansner. (See opposite for biographies.) The suggested format is 15 minutes
of remarks followed by 10-15 minutes of questions and answers. You will be
seated with the following:
David A. Brody (on your right)
Ruth Lansner
Marvin Rappaport
Michael Nachman (on your left)
Richard Glovsky
Nancy Korman
Jack Newman
Bill Baker
Adjournment is at 9:00 a.m.
IULN I IML
Director, ADL of B'nai B'rith,
Washington, D.C.
Member, ADL National Civil Rights
Committee
Director, National Leadership Division
Chairman, National Leadership Committee
ADL National Committee (Boston)
ADL National Committee (Boston)
ADL National Committee (Los Angeles)
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Although the meeting will be off-the-record, the ADL wishes to tape your
speech and publish a short article on your appearance in the ADL Newsletter.
We will review the article prior to publication. DCI Security will also tape
your remarks for the Agency's historical files. The room will be set up with
round tables and a podium.and microphone will be located near your table.
3. Audience: You can expect an audience of approximately 150-175
business and professional people between the ages of 30 and 50 from around the
US who are active in civil rights and recognized as the organization's young
leaders. The media will not be present.
4. Background: The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, founded in
1913, is one of the nation's oldest human relations agencies. ADL is
dedicated to translating this country's heritage of democratic ideals into a
way of life for all Americans. The National Leadership Conference of the ADL
brings together the young national leaders for a three-day conference in
Washington which includes briefings by Senators, Representatives, White House
and State Department officials, newspaper columnists, and TV commentators.
This year's speakers will include Jeane Kirkpatrick, Senators Barbara Mikulski
and Warren Rudman, Minister Oded Eran of the Israeli embassy, and Secretary of
Education William Bennett. Following your presentation, the group will be
briefed at State Department by four Assistant Secretaries of State. The group
will also go to the FBI where they will have a tour and be briefed by Buck
Revell. (See opposite for agenda.)
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17 March 1988
You will be speaking to the Tenth Annual Leadership Conference of the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith at a breakfast meeting on March 22 in
Washington. At our own February breakfast meeting with the speechwriters, you
asked that we contact Ken Bialkin in New. York to find out what the ADL group
would like to have you talk about. We have done that. The attached speech
builds on the suggestions of both Ken Bialkin and Dave Brody, our Washington
contact. Both suggested terrorism--Ken Bialkin thought international
terrorism with whatever you could say about the PLO and radicalized Arab
groups would be topical and of interest. Dave Brody checked with a colleague,
who also suggested international terrorism.
Your proposed speech incorporates some of the remarks you made about
terrorism at Dartmouth last October; is consistent with the observations the
DDCI made in a speech to the American Bankers Association in January, 1988;
and builds upon the 1985 remarks you made to the ADL in Chicago while you were
Director of the FBI. Current information about terrorism came from the
Counterterrorist Center and from selected articles in the press.
The introduction recounts your previous association with the ADL.and
introduces the topic of terrorism. Your thesis is on page 3: "... in my
comments to you today, I want to talk about the problem of terrorism from my
new perspective as Director of Central Intelligence. I'd like to focus on an
area of the world where terrorist activity has been increasing; then examine
the specific threat to U.S. citizens and interests at home and overseas; and,
finally, I'd like to tell you what we in Intelligence are doing to counter the
problem of terrorism."
In your general discussion of terrorism, you make the points that you made
in the Dartmouth speech. On page 5, you shift to a discussion of terrorism in
a particular region: "While I have been speaking of terrorism in general, I
want to focus for a moment on terrorism in the Middle East, because it is in
this region that we have seen a great increase in international terrorism over
the past five years." On page 6, you discuss this further: "And in the
Middle East, we have seen an increase of terrorist activity by Palestinian
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groups." You mention that although Palestinian terrorist attacks declined
slightly in 1987, the number of incidents within Israel and the occupied
territories increased. On page 9, you refer to the Palestinian activities of
the past three months, noting that the escalation has "spread violence to
broader sections of the Palestinian and Israeli populations."
After a brief discussion of the state sponsorship of terrorism prevalent
in the Middle East, you turn to the setbacks the Palestinian terrorist groups
encountered over the past year, and discuss the trials of Palestinian
terrorists held over the last year. On page 11 and 12 you summarize, "The
trials held over the past twelve months are significant not only because they
have focused international attention on the crimes of terrorists, but because
they have been held throughout the world -- in Italy,. Austria, and Pakistan."
You turn, then, to a discussion of the need for international cooperation to
fight terrorism, referring to your part in building.that cooperation.(p. 12).
On page 13, you discuss the terrorist threat to U.S. citizens and
interests: "On the domestic scene it seems unlikely that international
terrorists will ever build a solid base of support in our country." You also
make the point that "Our interests overseas ... offer tempting targets."
On page 14, you turn to ways in which the Intelligence Community is
dealing with terrorism. You discuss the Counterterrorist Center as you did in
your remarks at Dartmouth last October. And on page 15 you comment on what we
must do about the terrorist himself -- "instill in the terrorist those same
pervasive feelings of fear that he seeks to instill in the public -- the
feelings of constantly being the hunted, rather than the hunter." You
conclude by .considering what we must do so that "those nations of the world
which support the rule of law and accept the norms of civilized behavior will
prevail."
Your proposed remarks are attached.
Attachments:
As Stated,
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PROPOSED REMARKS
BY
WILLIAM H. WEBSTER
DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
BEFORE THE
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF B'NAI B'RITH
TENTH ANNUAL NATIONAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON. D.C.
MARCH 22, 1988
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I AM -VERYPLEASED TO SPEAK TO THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP--CONFERENCE
THIS-MORNING. THE LAST TIME I_HAD THE PLEASURE OF ADDRESSING A
GROUP OF ADL MEMBERS WAS IN CHICAGO IN 1985 WHEN I WAS DIRECTOR OF
THE FBI. AND IN THE LATE 70'S, I WAS INVITED TO THE ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE ADL IN NEW YORK CITY. I HAVE ONE SPECIAL MEMORY OF THAT
MEETING IN NEW YORK THAT I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU. AFTER I HAD
FINISHED MY SPEECH, I WAS HANDED A NOTE AND SOMEONE WHISPERED THAT
THE WHITE HOUSE WAS CALLING, THAT DR. BRZEZINSKI, THE PRESIDENT'S
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, WISHED TO TALK TO ME. I WAS TOLD I COULD
TAKE THE CALL AT A PUBLIC TELEPHONE JUST OUTSIDE THE ROOM WHERE I
WAS SPEAKING. THE AREA AROUND THE PHONE BOOTH HAD BEEN CORDONED
OFF, AND THE CALL WAS BEING HELD FOR ME. I WENT OUT AND FACED ABOUT
TWENTY TELEVISION CAMERAS WITH LIGHTS GLARING. I WALKED DOWN THE
HALL, GOT INTO THE TELEPHONE BOOTH, AND ANSWERED THE CALL.
DR. BRZEZINSKI SAID, "WHERE ARE YOU?" I SAID, "I'M IN NEW YORK."
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:HE SAID..-".THAT'S TOO BAD. I_WAS.LOOKING- FOR A --TENNIS- GAME THIS
MORNING." TRY TO IMAGINE WHAT YOU'D TELL THE PRESS WHEN YOU CAME
-OUT..-OF A- SITUATION -LIKE THAT!
AT-THAT SUNDAY MORNING MEETING IN NEW YORK, I WAS-TALKING ABOUT
TERRORISM. WHICH WAS THEN AN EMERGING CONCERN. CONFRONTED AT THAT
TIME WITH CERTAIN CRITICISMS, I WAS ABLE TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT
ON WHY THE FBI HAD FURNISHED THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL WITH
INFORMATION THAT AN AMERICAN NATIONAL, THEN IN ISRAEL, HAD RECEIVED
TERRORISM INSTRUCTION IN A P.L.O. CAMP IN AFRICA. IT SEEMS
INCREDIBLE TO ME TEN YEARS LATER THAT ANYONE WOULD HAVE QUESTIONED
OUR RIGHT, OR INDEED OUR OBLIGATION, TO INFORM A FRIENDLY GOVERNMENT
OF THAT IMPORTANT FACT.1
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION HAS BECOME INDISPENSABLE IN THE
WORLDWIDE BATTLE AGAINST TERRORISM. SUCH COOPERATION HAS ENABLED
THE UNITED STATES TO PENETRATE SOME FOREIGN TERRORIST GROUPS, AND
HAS HELPED AVERT MORE THAN 200 TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE LAST THREE
YEARS.2 WHILE THAT NUMBER MAY SEEM IMPRESSIVE, IT REPRESENTS A
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SMALL VICTORY.-". TERRORISM CONTINUES TO...FLOURIS-H-UNDER-ITS.-
SELF-PROCLAIMED BANNER OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION.
---.--SOVIET DISSIDENT ANDREI SAKHAROV SUMMED UP THE PROBLEM THIS -
WAY: "NO MATTER HOW=HIGH THE AIMS PREDICATED BY TERRORISTS...THEIR
ACTIVITIES ARE ALWAYS CRIMINAL, ALWAYS DESTRUCTIVE, THROWING
HUMANKIND BACK TO A TIME OF LAWLESSNESS AND CHAOS, PROVIDING
INTERNAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS, CONTRADICTING THE GOALS OF
PEACE AND PROGRESS.11.
I HAPPEN TO AGREE WITH SAKHAROV, AND IN MY COMMENTS TO YOU
TODAY, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF TERRORISM FROM MY NEW
PERSPECTIVE AS DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE. I'D LIKE TO FOCUS
ON AN AREA OF THE WORLD WHERE TERRORIST ACTIVITY HAS BEEN
INCREASING, THEN EXAMINE THE SPECIFIC THREAT TO U.S. CITIZENS AND
INTERESTS AT HOME AND OVERSEAS, AND FINALLY I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU
WHAT WE IN INTELLIGENCE ARE DOING TO COUNTER THE PROBLEM OF
TERRORISM.
TERRORISM HAS BEEN WITH US FOR CENTURIES, BUT ITS NATURE HAS
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..CHANGED--IN RECENT YEARS-. IT .HAS -BECOME MORE:-INTENSE AND MORE
WIDESPREAD, AND ITS TARGETS HAVE GROWN. TERRORISTS HAVE ATTACKED
DIPLOMATS IN- EMBASSIES, PASSENGERS ON AIR-PLANES, _TRAVELE-RS ON TRAINS
AND SHIPS, TOURISTS IN HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS, AND CLERICS IN
CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES.
TODAY, TERRORISM TAKES ADVANTAGE OF SOPHISTICATED WEAPONRY,
ADVANCED ELECTRONICS, AND IMPROVED COMMUNICATION. BUT MORE
IMPORTANT, TERRORISM HAS BECOME A TOOL OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
BECAUSE SOME COUNTRIES ARE NOW DIRECTING, OR SPONSORING, TERRORISM
AS A PART OF THEIR FOREIGN POLICY. STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISM IS
MORE DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH BECAUSE SUCH SPONSORSHIP, AMONG OTHER
THINGS, MEANS THAT TERRORISTS GAIN ACCESS TO DIPLOMATIC
POUCHES--ESSENTIALLY SECURE MEANS FOR MOVING FUNDS, WEAPONS, AND
MESSAGES. THEY GET REAL AND FALSE DOCUMENTATION FOR TRAVEL AND
COVER. THEY RECEIVE TRAINING AND INTELLIGENCE. THEY GAIN A SAFE
HAVEN IN THE SPONSORING COUNTRY. REDUCING THEIR VULNERABILITY. AND,
OF COURSE, THEY GET FUNDING.3
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WHILE. I.-HAVE. BEEN..SPEAKING-OF TERRORISM-IN GENERAL, _I WANT_TO-__
FOCUS FOR A MOMENT ON TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BECAUSE IT IS IN
THIS- REGION THAT_.WE HAVE SEEN ...A GREAT INCREASE 1-W INTERNATIONAL.
TERRORISM OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS. MIDDLE EASTERN TERRORISM ALSO
REPRESENTS THE GRAVEST DANGER TO THE UNITED STATES. AND HAS HAD AND
WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THE MOST SEVERE IMPACT ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
CONCERNS.4
IN 1983, MIDDLE EASTERN GROUPS ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT ONE-FOURTH OF
ALL INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST INCIDENTS. BY 1985. THEIR SHARE HAD
REACHED ABOUT ONE-HALF, AND THROUGH 1987 TERRORISM OF MIDDLE EASTERN
ORIGIN CONTINUED TO ACCOUNT FOR HALF OF ALL INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST
INCIDENTS. THE MAJORITY OF U.S. CASUALTIES OCCUR IN INCIDENTS
INVOLVING MIDDLE EASTERNERS.5 MIDDLE EASTERN TERRORIST BOMBS TEND
TO BE LARGER, MORE SOPHISTICATED, AND USE HIGHER GRADE EXPLOSIVES.
TERRORISTS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST ARE GENERALLY QUITE PROFESSIONAL AND
PROFICIENT IN CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS AND ARE MORE DIFFICULT TO
DETECT AND STOP.
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AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, WE HAVE SEEN AN INCREASE OF TERRORIST
ACTIVITY BY PALESTINIAN GROUPS. DESPITE THE LACK OF DRAMATIC
INCIDENTS IN 1987--SUCH AS THE HIJACKING OF THE ACHILLE LAURO IN
1985, OR THE-ATTEMPTED HIJACKING OF A PAN AM JET IN KARACHI IN
1986--CERTAIN PALESTINIAN ELEMENTS HAVE NOT FORSAKEN TERRORISM AS A
MEANS TO FOCUS ATTENTION ON THEIR GRIEVANCES, OBSTRUCT POLITICAL
SOLUTIONS TO THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, OR PRESSURE ISRAEL AND ITS
SUPPORTERS.6
PALESTINIAN TERRORIST ATTACKS DECLINED SLIGHTLY IN 1987--DOWN
FROM A TOTAL OF 224 INCIDENTS IN 1986 TO 219 LAST YEAR. HOWEVER,
THE NUMBER OF INCIDENTS WITHIN ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
-- AS WELL AS ATTEMPTED RAIDS INTO ISRAEL -- INCREASED. AND THEY
INCREASED IN SPITE OF THE GENERALLY EFFECTIVE ISRAELI
COUNTERMEASURES. SEVERAL OF THE PALESTINIAN FACTIONS THAT ATTEMPTED
STRIKES ACROSS ISRAEL'S BORDERS IN 1987 WERE ABLE TO INFLICT MORE
DAMAGE THAN IN PREVIOUS YEARS.7
FOR EXAMPLE:
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IN MID-APRIL--ON THE EVE OF THE PALESTINE NATIONAL COUNCIL
MEETING. IN ALGIERS--FATAH OPERATIVES STAGED A RAID INTO
NORTHERN ISRAEL. ISRAELI SECURITY OFFICIALS INDICATED THE
TERRORISTS HAD PLANNED TO TAKE ISRAELI HOSTAGES TO EXCHANGE
FOR ARAB PRISONERS HELD IN ISRAEL. TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS
AND THREE TERRORISTS WERE KILLED IN THE BRIEF FIREFIGHT
THAT FOLLOWED-AFTER ISRAELI TROOPS CORNERED THE
PALESTINIANS JUST INSIDE THE ISRAELI BORDER.
? IN LATE NOVEMBER. THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF
PALESTINE-GENERAL COMMAND LAUNCHED A HANG-GLIDER ATTACK
AGAINST ISRAEL'S NORTHERN BORDER. SIX ISRAELI SOLDIERS
WERE KILLED AND SEVEN OTHERS WERE WOUNDED IN ONE.OF THE
BLOODIEST CROSS-BORDER INCIDENTS SINCE'1978. THIS RAID WAS
AT LEAST THE SECOND ATTEMPT TO INFILTRATE ISRAEL BY A
SYRIAN'BACKED PALESTINIAN GROUP IN 1987.
IN LATE DECEMBER, THREE TERRORISTS FROM ABU ABBAS'
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PALESTINE. LIBERATION FRONT. ._-PENET--RATED- ISRAEL VIA T
JORDAN-ISRAELI BORDER. ISRAELI TROOPS INTERCEPTED THE
PALESTINIANS:SHORTLY-..AFTER-THEIR-INCURSION INTO=ISRAEL=
CAPTURING THE THREE AFTER.A.BRIEF -CONFRONTATION. THIS RAID
WAS ALMOST CERTAINLY AN ATTEMPT..BY THE PLO-TO CAPITALIZE ON
THE WAVE OF SYMPATHY GENERATED IN THE WAKE OF VIOLENT
PALESTINIAN PROTESTS IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP THAT
BEGAN DECEMBER 9.8
? EARLIER THIS MONTH, ON MARCH 4. WHILE SECRETARY OF STATE
SHULTZ WAS IN JERUSALEM TO DISCUSS THE U.S. PEACE
INITIATIVE, A BOMB-LADEN CAR WAS DISCOVERED'NEAR HIS
HOTEL.9
? AND THREE DAYS LATER, THREE ARAB GUNMEN HIJACKED AN ISRAELI
COMMUTER BUS IN THE NEGEV DESERT, KILLING THREE PASSENGERS
BEFORE ISRAELI FORCES STORMED THE VEHICLE AND KILLED THE
HIJACKERS. THIS WAS ONE OF AT LEAST A HALF-DOZEN ATTEMPTS
BY PALESTINIAN GROUPS TO CARRY OUT ATTACKS SINCE THE
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-PALESTINIAN UPRI.8-ING-B-E-GAN. OVER -THREE MONTHS--AGO.
SINCE DECEMBER, WE HAVE SEEN AN ESCALATION FROM THE PREVIOUS
STONE-AND-BOTTLE. THROWING TO VIOLENT--ATTACKS, AN ESCALATION THAT HAS-
SPREAD VIOLENCE TO BROADER SECTIONS OF THE PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI
POPULATIONS.
AS I HAVE SUGGESTED, INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM BY MIDDLE EASTERN
GROUPS OWES MUCH TO STATE SPONSORSHIP--PARTICULARLY BY IRAN, LIBYA,
AND UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, SYRIA. THESE STATES USE TERRORISM AND
SUPPORT TO INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST GROUPS AS INSTRUMENTS OF DOMESTIC
AND FOREIGN POLICY. THESE STATES TRAIN, FINANCE, AND ARM NUMEROUS
DISSIDENT AND TERRORIST GROUPS. THEY SEND AGENTS AND SURROGATES ON
MISSIONS AROUND THE WORLD USING TERROR TO ATTACK OPPONENTS AND THE
PERSONNEL AND INSTALLATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF PRO-WESTERN
ARAB STATES. THEY USE DIPLOMATIC AND CULTURAL MISSIONS TO SUPPORT
TERRORISTS. WE KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT SEVERAL SENIOR OFFICIALS OF
THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT ARE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN TERRORIST
ACTIVITY.11 BOTH SYRIA AND LIBYA HAVE PROVIDED AID AND COMFORT TO
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.-THE NOTORIOUS PALESTINIAN... TE:RRORIST_ ABU .NIDAL. WHOSE-.FOLLOWERS WERE
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SEPTEMBER 1986 MASSACRES IN KARACHI AND ISTANBUL.
-BUT_IN-MID-1987._ONE OF. THE MOST-DANGEROUS PALESTINIAN TERRORIST
GROUPS APPEARED TO SUFFER LOGISTIC=SETBACKS. IN EARLY JUNE, THE-
SYRIAN-BASED FACILITIES OF. THE ABU NIDAL ORGANIZATION WERE CLOSED
AND THE GROUP'S KNOWN OPERATIVES WERE EXPELLED. BEFORE THE
EXPULSION. DAMASCUS SERVED AS THE GROUP'S PRINCIPAL SPONSOR AND
HOST. THE SYRIAN ACTION TEMPORARILY DISRUPTED THE GROUP'S
ACTIVITIES. FORCING A RELOCATION OF RESOURCES AND OPERATIONAL
ACTIVITIES FROM SYRIA TO SITES IN LEBANON AND ELSEWHERE IN THE
MIDDLE EAST.12
THESE PAST 12 MONTHS ALSO WITNESSED THE TRIALS OF PALESTINIANS
RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME OF THE MOST DEVASTATING ATTACKS OF 1985 AND
1986.
4 IN MAY, AN ITALIAN APPEALS COURT UPHELD THE SENTENCES OF
THE PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT MEMBERS CONVICTED IN THE
ACHILLE LAURO HIJACKING.
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LATER-- THAT MONTH-, A VIENNA ---COURT SENTENCED, -.TWO ABU NIDAL
ORGANIZATION MEMBERS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR THE ATTACK IN
THE AIRPORT IN VIENNA IN-DECEMBER-1985. THE GRENADE AND
MACHINEGUN ATTACK-AGAINST THE EL AL COUNTER AT THE AIRPORT
KILLED FOUR PERSONS AND INJURED FORTY OTHERS.
? IN MID-JULY, THE TRIAL-OF FIVE ABU NIDAL ORGANIZATION
TERRORISTS, WHO ATTEMPTED TO HIJACK A PAN AM JET IN KARACHI
IN 1986, OPENED IN PAKISTAN. TWENTY-ONE PERSONS DIED AND
MORE THAN 100 OTHERS WERE INJURED IN THE ABORTIVE
HIJACKING. THE TRIAL IS STILL IN PROGRESS.
? AND IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR, THE SURVIVING TERRORIST OF
THE ABU NIDAL GROUP THAT ATTACKED ROME'S FIUMICINO AIRPORT
IN 1985 WAS SENTENCED TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON. ABU NIDAL AND
A TOP AIDE WERE SENTENCED--IN ABSENTIA--TO LIFE IN PRISON.
THE ASSAULT AT THE ROME AIRPORT KILLED 12 PERSONS AND
WOUNDED 72.13
THE TRIALS HELD OVER THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS ARE SIGNIFICANT NOT
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ONLY-BECAUSE-THEY HAVE FOCUSED._-I-NTERNATIONA-L-ATTENTION .-ON THE CRIMES
OF TERRORISTS, BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN HELD THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD--IN ITALY, - AUSTRIA AND PAKISTAN. _WE ARE .-BEGINNING _TO -SEE.-THE
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION. THAT IS-SO-ESSENTIAL IN COUNTERING
TERRORISM--THE COOPERATION THAT ENABLED US TO PREVENT MORE THAN 200,
TERRORIST INCIDENTS IN THE PAST THREE YEARS.
PERSUADING OTHER NATIONS THAT INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IS
NECESSARY TO FIGHT TERRORISM HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN EASY. PART OF THE
PROBLEM LIES IN THE FACT THAT MANY COUNTRIES ARE NOT OPPOSED TO ALL
ACTS OF TERRORISM, BUT ONLY TO THE ACTS OF CERTAIN TERRORIST
GROUPS. SOME NATIONS HAVE FOUND OCCASIONAL TERRORIST ACTIVITY TO BE
CONVENIENT BECAUSE IT IS UNSETTLING TO THEIR OPPONENTS. OTHERS IN
THE PAST HAVE SOUGHT ACCOMODATION WITH TERRORISTS IN EXCHANGE FOR
THE TERRORISTS NOT STRIKING AT THEM.
BUT OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS WE HAVE MADE CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS
IN PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGAINST TERRORISM --
COOPERATION THAT HAS MADE THE CONVICTION OF TERRORISTS A REALITY. I
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HAVE.--BEEN A PART OF BUILDING-THAT COOPERATION ---FIRST- WITH THE UNITED
NATIONS CONGRESS ON CRIME IN MILAN, WHICH I ATTENDED; FOLLOWED BY
THE SUMMIT MEETING IN..TOK_YO;-AND_.THEN THROUGH THE-UNITED NATIONS
RESOLUTION CONDEMNING TERRORISM. THE TREVI GROUPS, THE GROUPS-OF
MINISTERS-OF INTERIOR AND OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY, HAVE
NOW BECOME EFFECTIVE ADVOCATES OF COLLECTIVE ACTIONS AGAINST
TERRORISM.14
ON THE DOMESTIC SCENE IT SEEMS UNLIKELY THAT INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISTS WILL EVER BUILD A SOLID BASE OF SUPPORT IN OUR COUNTRY.
FROM MY EXPERIENCE AT THE FBI AND NOW AT THE CIA, I CAN SAY THAT
THIS COUNTRY IS WELL EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST
ACTIVITIES THAT MAY BE IMPORTED TO THE UNITED STATES. I CAN'T SAY
THAT THEY WILL NOT OCCUR, BUT I BELIEVE THAT OUR SPECIAL
CAPABILITIES, INCLUDING VERY GOOD INTELLIGENCE, WILL, IN MANY CASES,
PREVENT TERRORISM FROM SUCCEEDING.
OUR INTERESTS OVERSEAS, HOWEVER, OFFER TEMPTING TARGETS. WE
LACK THE SAME RESOURCES AND THE SAME ABILITY TO CONTROL THE
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--SITUATION..OVERSEAS: THAT- WE HAVE--HERE IN OUR OWN.COUNTRY. --- -SINCE THE-,
BEGINNING OF,1982, AMERICANS AND AMERICAN INTERESTS HAVE BEEN
-VICTIMS IN_ AT LEAST ONE OF--EVERY. FOUR TERRORIST . INCID-ENTS -OVERSEAS-.
THAT IN TURN AFFECTS OUR OWN FREEDOM--OUR ABILITY TO TRAVEL AND TO
MOVE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WITHOUT FEAR.15
HOW IS THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY COPING WITH TERRORISTS? FIRST
WE ARE ACQUIRING AS MUCH INFORMATION AS WE CAN ABOUT TERRORIST
GROUPS. INCLUDING THEIR MODUS OPERANDI, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE,
PERSONNEL. SUPPORT, FUNDING AND COMMUNICATIONS. WE ARE ALSO
EXAMINING THE LINKS TERRORIST GROUPS HAVE WITH OTHER GROUPS OR STATE
SPONSORS.
IN FEBRUARY 1986, THE CIA ESTABLISHED A COUNTERTERRORIST CENTER
TO FOCUS ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM. WE BROUGHT OPERATIONS
OFFICERS, ANALYSTS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, WEAPONS
AND EXPLOSIVES EXPERTS. AND SUPPORT PERSONNEL UNDER ONE ROOF, AND
UNDER ONE CHAIN OF COMMAND. THE GOVERNING PHILOSOPHY OF THE CENTER
IS TO COMBINE ALL THE RESOURCES THAT THE AGENCY WILL NEED TO GO ON
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THE OFFENSIVE:---AGAINST TERRORIST_ GROUPS AND:- THE -STATES
THAT-SUPPORT--_
THEM. 16
OUR EXPERIENCE TO DATE HAS--UNDERSCORED THE-:ADVANTAGES OF HAVING
A UNIT DEVOTED FULLTIME TO ALL ASPECTS OF THE TERRORISM PROBLEM.
COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICERS HAVE.BEEN ABLE TO FOCUS ALL THEIR
ATTENTION ON THE TERRORISM. ISSUE, AND THEY HAVE FOLLOWED UP ON LEADS
WHICH PREVIOUSLY LANGUISHED DUE TO THE PRESS OF OTHER BUSINESS.17
ALTHOUGH IT WOULD BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO TELL YOU SPECIFICALLY
WHAT THE COUNTERTERRORIST CENTER HAS ACCOMPLISHED, I CAN ASSURE YOU
THAT THE CENTER HAS BEEN HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL IN PROVIDING BOTH POLICY
SUPPORT AND OPERATIONAL LEADS.
I HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT THE COOPERATIVE MEASURES WE HAVE TAKEN TO
DEAL WITH TERRORISM. WHAT ABOUT THE TERRORIST HIMSELF? WE MUST
TAKE VIGOROUS ACTION TO ISOLATE HIM FROM ONE OF HIS GOALS --
MANIPULATING PUBLIC PERCEPTION. IN ADDITION, WE MUST INSTILL IN THE
TERRORIST THOSE SAME PERVASIVE FEELINGS OF FEAR THAT HE SEEKS TO
INSTILL IN THE PUBLIC -- THE FEELINGS OF CONSTANTLY BEING THE
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.. HUNTED, -RATHER THAN THE-: HUNTER..- - THE :TERRORIST-=MUST- AT ALL TIMES.
HAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT HIS MOVEMENTS ARE KNOWN, HIS PLANS
UNDERSTOOD, AND - HISORGANIZATION PENETRATED
-IF WE CAN DO THIS, THE TERRORIST WILL WATCH WITH GROWING
APPREHENSION AS HE LEARNS THAT THE COSTS AND RISKS OF HIS OPERATIONS
SKYROCKET WHILE THE IMPACT OF HIS ACTIONS PLUMMETS. IF WE CAN DO
THIS, OUR CITIZENS CAN AGAIN EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO MOVE FREELY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WITHOUT FEAR. AND THOSE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
WHICH SUPPORT THE RULE OF LAW AND ACCEPT THE NORMS OF CIVILIZED
BEHAVIOR WILL PREVAIL. THANK YOU.
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