WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

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• Publication Date: January 4, 1978
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Weekly Situation Report
on
International Terrorism
4 January 1978
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
4 January 1978
Venezuelan Airline Office and New York Consulate
Bombed (Page 4)
Syrian Embassy Employees
Killed
in Lond
on Bombing
(Page 5)
French Hostages Released
by the
Polisario Front
(Page 6)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist
Acts
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4 January. 1978
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4 January 1978
Venezuelan Airline Office and New York Consulate Bombed
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The office of Venezuela's VIASA airlines in Miami,
Florida, was damaged by an explosion on 23 December. The
blast, which occurred shortly after midnight, broke windows
and doors and ripped a large hole in one wall; no injuries
were reported. The VIASA office is located in a complex
which includes a bus terminal, travel firms and. airline
offices. Several hours before the explosion, VIASA's first
scheduled flight since the early 1960's between the United
States and Cuba took off from Chicago. During the last year
Cuban exile terrorists said they would sabotage Venezuelan
planes if Orlando Bosch was not released from prison in
Venezuela.
On 26 December an explosion in New York City broke
windows on several floors of a building where the Venezuelan
consulate is located. A window and the front door of the
consular offices were damaged but, as in the earlier Miami
incident, no injuries were reported. Shortly after the
explosion a man called the Associated Press and claimed that
Omega Seven, a violent anti-Castro group, was -responsible
for the consulate explosion. He said the bombing was in
protest against Venezuela's jailing of Bosch. On the follow-
ing day the Venezuelan defense minister said his country
threats and that the trial of Bo ch for
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4 January 1978
Syrian Embassy Employees Killed in London Bombing
Two Syrian embassy employees were killed on 31 December
by a bomb which detonated in an embassy car in downtown
London. The victims were Jawat Awad, a medical attache, and
Sayez Shibly, an embassy chauffeur. The explosion demolished
the car and smashed windows only a few blocks from Piccadilly,
the traditional "heart of empire" site of New Year's celebra-
tions. The intersections in the area were jammed with
people when the bomb went off.
The head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist squad said
the approximately one-pound bomb made a shambles of the
Syrian embassy car. He refused to speculate about a politi-
cal motive for the bombing but a special alert was ordered
at London's Heathrow Airport, with particular attention to
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4 January 1978
French Hostages Released by the Polisario Front
On 23 December the Polisario Front released eight
French citizens--one woman and seven men--to U.N. Secretary-
General Kurt Waldheim. The eight had been kidnaped by the
guerrillas in two raids in Mauritania. In May six hostages
were taken from a mining facility and in November two of ers
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almost two months of negotiations, t e planned release of
the hostages to Waldheim at the U.N. mission in Algiers was
announced by Polisario and Algerian officials.. In a Paris
press conference several members of the group said they had
all been held at Algerian military bases and had been beaten
when two of them had attempted to escape. The guerrillas
had hoped to use the hostages as a first step in obtainin
official French recognition of the Polisario Front.
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4 January 1978
CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date: 23 December 1977 VIASA Airlines Offices Bombed
in Miami
Place: United States, On 23 December a bomb exploded
Miami in the Miami office of Venezuela's
VIASA airlines. The explosion
broke windows and doors and
ripped a hole in one wall. No
injuries were reported. The
incident occurred only hours
after VIASA's first scheduled
flight between the United States
and Cuba since the 1960's took
off from Chicago. No person or
group has claimed res-ponsibi.lit
for the incident.
Date: 25 December 1977 TWA Offices Damaged in Paris
Bombing Incident
Place: France, Paris On 25 December a bomb exploded
at a Paris nightclub located
in the same building as the
TWA offices. The bomb had been
placed near the entrance of the
club which is diagonally across
from the TWA ticket office en-
trance. Several of the airline's
,offices were heavily damaged and
windows were broken. One person,
an employee at the club, was
thrown to the ground and sus-
tained cuts from flying glass.
Date: 26 December 1977 Venezuelan Consulate in New
York Bombed
Place: United States, On 26 December an explosion
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detonated in the offices of the
Venezuelan consulate in New York.
The blast broke windows in the
consulate and on several other
floors of the building in which
the consulate offices are located.
No injuries were reported. A
caller to the Associated Press
claimed the Omega Seven, a vio-
lent anti-C ou was re-
sponsible.
Date: 29 December 1977
Place: Iran, Tehran
Date: 3 January 1978
Place: United Kingdom,
England, London
Explosion at English Language
Center
On 29 December an explosion at
the Iran-American Society center
resulted in heavy damage to the
property and injured three people.
The center is used to teach the 4
English language and is located
six blocks from the U.S. embassy
in Tehran. A statement left at
the UPI offices said "Iran can-
not welcome a man who is pushing~~
the world toward war and misery."
Speculation is that the incident
was to protest President Carter's
visit to Iran. No group has
r-1aimed responsibility.
Turkish Bank in London Bombed
A omb exploded in the Lon on
office of a. Turkish bank on
3 January. The blast shattered
windows and ignited a small fire.
No injuries were reported. The
New Armenian Resistance rou
claimed responsibility.
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4 January 1978
Date: 3 January 1978 Turkish Embassy Office Bombed
On 3 January a bomb explo ed in
Place: Belgium, Brussels a building housing the offices
of the financial section of the
Turkish embassy. The building
received serious property damage
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Department of State
Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT)
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional
Problems
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau of European Affairs
United States Mission to the United Nations, Legal Adviser
U.S. Information Agency, Office of Security
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Agency for International Development, AG/Sec
Department of Defense
Deputy Director for International Negotiations
and Arms Control International Security Affairs
Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE)
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD
Defense Intelligence Agency
RSS-1
DIN 2D2
Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3
Department of the Army, IOSD
Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank
Air Force, Office of Special Investigations
USAF Special Operations School (TAC)
Naval Investigative Service
Commandant of the Marine Corps
Department of Justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Emergency Programs Center
Criminal Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative
Division
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Department of the Treasury
Office of Intelligence Support
Office of Law Enforcement
U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces
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Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety
and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2
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Department of Commerce
Office of Investigations and Security
Office of Administrative Support, DI13A
National Security Agency, C54-CDB
Department of Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
Central Intelligence Agency
Special Assistant, Deputy Director
International Terrorism Control, DDO
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Weekly Situation Report
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11 January 1978
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
11 January 1978
Colombian-Cuban Treaty on Hijacking (Page 3)
Missiles Discovered Aimed at Israeli Embassy in Belgium
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11 January 1978.
Colombian-Cuban Treaty on Hijacking
President Lopez of Colombia has signed a hijacking
treaty with Cuba. It will become effective upon approval by
the Colombian legislature. The treaty sets down the responsi-
bilities of each party in the event that an aircraft or
vessel of one country is hijacked or forcefully misdirected
to the territory of the other country. Highlights of the
treaty: provisions for the arrest and detention of respon-
sible persons; assurance that the aircraft or vessel will be
permitted to continue its interrupted flight or voyage with
complete crew, all passengers, the entire cargo, etc., as
well as ransom money (if any); the country that must return
or try the hijacker may take into consideration strictly
political motives and the circumstances in which the act was
committed and abstain from deporting the responsible person
or trying him provided that there was no economic extortion
or injury to the crew, passengers, or other persons. The
treaty will be in force for five years and may be renewed at
the end of this period. Either party may cancel partici-
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Missiles Discovered Aimed at Israeli Embassy _in Belgium
On 8 January a man walking his dogs found two 16-inch, `
U.S.-made missiles aimed at the Israeli embassy in Brussels.
Investigators said the missiles were attached to a makeshift
battery detonator and fitted to a stand which was placed on
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failed and the perpetrators fled the scene. Army experts
blew up the missiles in a park without incident.
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11 January 1978
CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date: 4 January 1978 PLO Official Assassinated
in London
Place: United Kingdom, On 4 January the chief repre-
England, London sentative of the PLO in Britain
was shot and killed in his
London office. His killer had
made an appointment to see Said
Hammami and shortly after en-
tering the office fired a gun
at him and then fled into a
busy London street. The assassin
was described as a male t 24
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Department of State
Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT)
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional
Problems
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau of European Affairs
United States Mission to the United Nations, Legal Adviser
U.S. Information Agency, Office of Security
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Agency for International Development, AG/Sec
Department of Defense
Deputy Director for International Negotiations
and Arms Control International Security Affairs
Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE)
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD
Defense Intelligence Agency
RSS-l-
DIN 2D2
Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3
Department of the Army, IOSD
Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank
Air Force, Office of Special Investigations
USAF Special Operations School (TAC)
Naval Investigative Service
Commandant of the Marine Corps
Department of Justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Emergency Programs Center
Criminal Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative
Division
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Department of the Treasury
Office of Intelligence Support
Office of Law Enforcement
U.S. Secret Service', Office of Protective Forces
U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support
Department of Transportation
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety
and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2
Federal Aviation Administration
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Branch
Department of Commerce
Office of Investigations and Security
Office of Administrative Support, DIBA
National Security Agency, C54-CDB
Department of Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
Central Intelligence Agency
Special Assistant, Deputy Director
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Weekly Situation Report
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
18 January 1978
Lawyer Smuggled Guns for Stammheim Suicides (Page 4)
Goodrich Employees Attacked (Page 5)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
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18 January 1978
Lawyer Smuggled Guns for Stammheim Suicides
At a press conference on 12 January, West Germany's
chief federal prosecutor said that a radical lawyer had
smuggled into prison the pistols which Andreas Baader and
Jan-Carl Raspe used to commit suicide. Baader and Raspe
shot themselves in their Stammheim prison cells on 18 Octo-
ber. On the same day fellow prisoner Gudrun Ensslin hanged
herself from a window frame, and a fourth Baader-Meinhof/Red
Army Faction terrorist, Irmgard Moeller, attempted to kill
herself with a bread knife. Five days earlier hijackers had
taken over a Lufthansa jet and, among their demands, called
for the freedom of the four Stammheim prisoners. The hijack-
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According to the prosecutor, the pistols had been
carried into the court building of the Stammheim maximum
security complex in Stuttgart by Arndt Moeller, a lawyer
arrested last summer on suspicion of assisting an illegal
organization. The transfer of the weapons, hidden in stacks
of hollowed out documents, was allegedly made in the spring
of 1977. Another defense lawyer, Armin Newerla., who is also
in custody smuggled explosives into the prison in the same
manner.
The FRG obviously hopes to lay to rest allegations that
the Stammheim "political prisoners" were murdered by German
authorities. However, Irmgard Moeller, the lone survivor,
managed to keep the controversy going when earlier this week
she denied that she and her comrades had made a pact to kill
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18,January 1978
Goodrich Employees Attacked
Four local security guards from a Goodrich rubber
plantation in the Philippines were killed on 14 January when
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Moslem rebels attacked their truck convoy and detonated a
landmine. The ambush took place on the southern Philippine
island of Basilan in the Sulu Archipelago. According to
police, eight other civilians, mostly employees of the B.F.
Goodrich Company, were wounded when attacked by the rebels
after the explosion. 50X1-HUM
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18 January 1978
CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date: 11 January 1978
Place: Colombia
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consulate and fired several ma-
chine gun bursts at the building
destroying the windows and doors.
No injuries were reported.
Machine Gun Fired at Venezuelan
Consulate
On 11 January three unknown
persons stopped in front of the
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Department of State
Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT)
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional
Problems
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau of European Affairs
United States Mission to the United Nations, Legal Adviser
U.S. Information Agency, Office of Security
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Agency for International Development, AG/Sec
Department of Defense
Deputy Director for International Negotiations
and Arms Control International Security Affairs
Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE)
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD
Defense Intelligence Agency
RSS-1
DIN 2D2
Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3
Department of the Army, IOSD
Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank
Air Force, Office of Special Investigations
USAF Special Operations School (TAC)
Naval Investigative Service
Commandant of the Marine Corps
Department of Justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Emergency Programs Center
Criminal Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative
Division
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Department of the Treasury
Office of Intelligence Support
Office of Law Enforcement
U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces
U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support
Department of Transportation
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety
and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2
Federal Aviation Administration
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National Security Council Staff
Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs
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Department of Commerce
Office of Investigations and Security
Office of Administrative Support, DIBA
National Security Agency, C54-CDB
Department of Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
Central Intelligence Agency
Special Assistant, Deputy Director
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Secret
Weekly Situation .Report
on
International Terrorism
25 January-1978
Secret
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
25 January 1978
Threat Letter Authors Sentenced in Taiwan (Page 5)
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TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
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Threat Letter Authors Sentenced in Taiwan
Six members of the Taiwan People's Liberation Front
(TPLF) were convicted of sending threatening letters to U.S.
firms in Taiwan and of other subversive activities. During
the trial they testified that their plans had included
blowing up the Taipei Hilton Hotel and the USIS building.
They had also considered the possibility of kidnaping the
USIS director and other foreign nationals. The six received
the following sentences at the Taiwan Garrison Command
Military Court on 17 January: TAI Hua-Kang, life imprison-
ment; LAI Ming-Lieh, 15 years imprisonment and eight years
deprivation of civil rights; LIU Kuo-Chi, 12 years imprison-
ment and six years deprivation of civil rights; TS'AI Yu-Jung,
CHENG Tao-Churl and WU Heng-hai, three years in the reformat '6"6X1-HUM
Republic of China officials have stated that these six in-
dividuals comprise the entire TPLF organization.
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
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Date:
18 January 1978
Place: Ecuador
ing passengers, returned
Ecuadorean Airliner Hijacked
to Cuba
A SAETA plane on a domestic
flight was hijacked shortly
after it took off from Quito
on 18 January. Two hijackers
ordered the plane to be flown
to Cuba. During a refueling
stop in Guayaquil some of the
passengers were allowed to de-
plane. The airliner then con-
tinued on to a second refueling
stop in Panama City. In Havana
the hijackers surrendered to
Cuban authorities. The SAETA
plane, with its crew and remain-
Quito on 19 January.
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25 January 1978
Date: 19 January 1978 Egyptian Travel Agency Bombed
in Berlin
Place: West Germany, On 19 January an explosion
Berlin damaged the entrance, windows
and office furniture of the
Egypt Travel Agency in Berlin.
Offices on either side of the
agency were also damaged but
no one was injured. A fire
which resulted from the explo-
sion was quickly extinguished.
"The Anti-Imperialistic Fighters
for a Free Palestine" claimed
responsibility for the attack
in a letter to the Berlin po-
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Date: 21 January 1978 Time Bombs Damage American
Offices in T essalonika
Place: Greece, On 21 January time bombs caused
Thessalonika heavy damage at two American
offices in Thessalonika shortly
before the scheduled arrival, in
Athens, of U.S., Secretary of
State Vance. The U.S. Informa-
tion Agency and the American
Express Bank and travel agency
were targets of the pre-dawn
blasts. Though damage was ex-
tensive at both locations there
were no iniuries reported.
Date: 22 January 1978 U.S. Cultural Center in
An ara Bom6ea_
Place: Turkey, Ankara On 22 January an explosive de-
vice was thrown into the U.S.
Cultural Center in Ankara.
The only damage was broken win-
doves. No persopal iniurlec
were reported.
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Date: 22 January 1978 Explosion at the Turkish-
American Association Building
in Ankara
Place: Turkey, Ankara On 22 January a bomb detonated
in front of the Turkish-American
Association building in Ankara.
The blast went off between two
walls which separate the build-
ing from the street. Damage
consisted of broken windows; no
injuries resulted. _F I
Date: 22 January 1978 Explosion at French Cultural
Center in Ankara
Place: Turkey, Ankara On 22 January the French Cul-
tural Center in downtown Ankara
was bombed. Damage was limited
to broken windows; no injuries
were reported.
Date: 23 January 1978 Industrialist Kidnaped in Paris
On 23 January one of Europe's
Place: France, Paris leading industrialists was kid-
naped from his chauffeur-driven
limousine in Paris. Baron
Edouard-Jean Empain, who heads
the French-Belgian Empain-
Schneider industrial group, was
abducted as he was leaving his
home. A group of armed men,
using trucks and a motorcycle
to stop the car, drove off with
Empain in the backseat of his
own car. The chauffeur was
attacked when he tried to resist
being dragged into a van; he was
later released on the outskirts
of Paris. Several calls to au-
thorities have been received
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from persons claiming to be
the kidnapers. Two such calls,
to a radio station and news-
paper, identified the "Armed
Nucleus for Popular Autonomy"
as being responsible for the
kidnaping. These callers de-
manded the release of two mem-
bers of the Baader-Meinhof gang
imprisoned in West Germany and
of one of their members in prison
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Department of State
Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT)
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional
Problems
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Bureau of European Affairs
United States Mission to the United Nations, Legal Adviser
U.S. Information Agency, Office of Security
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Agency for International Development, AG/Sec
Department of Defense
Deputy Director for International Negotiations
and Arms Control International Security Affairs
Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE)
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD
Defense Intelligence Agency
RSS-1
DIN 2D2
Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3
Department of the Army, IOSD
Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank
Air Force, Office of Special Investigations
USAF Special Operations School (TAC)
Naval Investigative Service
Commandant of the Marine Corps
Department of Justice
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
Emergency Programs Center
Criminal Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative
Division
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Department of the Treasury
Office of Intelligence Support
Office of Law Enforcement
U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces
U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support
Department of Transportation
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety
and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2
Federal Aviation Administration
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National Security Council
National Security Council Staff
Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs
Branch
Department of Commerce
Office of Investigations and Security
Office of Administrative Support, D][BA
National Security Agency, C54-CDB
Department of Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
Central Intelligence Agency
Special Assistant, Deputy Director
International Terrorism Control, DDO
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