WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
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Articles:
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Sabotage Suspected in Downing of Cubana Passenger
Plane (Page 1)
Curtis Kidnappers Contact Victim's Company with
Ransom Demand (Page 2)
Palestinian Terrorists' Trial Opens in Istanbul
(Page 5)
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Grenade Launchers Aimed at Buenos Aires Hotel
(Page 9)
American Student Deported from Argentina (Page 9)
Recovery of Jordanian Pilot's Documents (Page 10)
Hijacker Returned to the U.S. (Page 10)
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Sabotage Suspected in Downing of Cubana Passenger Plane
According to press reports, a DC-8 passenger plane
leased from Air Canada by Cubana Airlines crashed into the
Caribbean sea, killing all 78 passengers and crew, after
takeoff from Bridgetown, Barbados on 6 October. Press items
indicated that shortly after takeoff the Cuban pilot radioed
that he had heard an explosion in the aft section of the
plane and was returning to the airport for an emergency
landing. A few seconds later the plane careened into the
sea. An official of Cubana airlines said that the jet was
in perfect condition when it was checked in Montreal,
Canada, on 3 October, and therefore, based on the plane's
condition and the pilot's report, it was "quite possible"
that the plane was sabotaged.
According to information from the U.S. embassy in
Bridgetown, local aviation authorities have not confirmed
the Cubana spokesman's statements that there had been an on-
board explosion before the crash. The flight log, which was
recovered at the site of the crash, indicated a power failure
on one of the four engines but did not note any explosion.
The log was given to Barbadian authorities for the investi-
gation.
Meanwhile, on 8 October a woman phoned the Miami Herald
and stated that CORU was responsible for the bombing and was
taking full credit. On 10 October the Trinidad Morning Ex-
press received a call from Miami claiming that an anti-
Castro group named El Condor was responsible for the plane's
destruction. On the same day the Miami Herald received a
call from a person who said he represented El Condor. He
directed a member of the Herald's staff to the newspaper
racks in front of the Miami Herald building where two com-
muniques from El Condor were found. One described in detail
how the plane had been destroyed and the other attacked CORU
for claiming credit for the bombing.
Press accounts
are questioning two
and Jose Garcia, in
formal charges have
indicate that the Trinidadian authorities
Venezuelans, identified as Freddie Lugo
connection with the case; however, no
yet been filed against them.
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Curtis Kidnappers Contact Victim's Compani with Ransom
Demand
On 6 October James Raisbeck, attorney for the company
of kidnapped American businessman Gustavo Curtis, received
an envelope containing two letters, one from Curtis to his
wife, the other from the kidnappers to Curtis' company,
Industrias Gran Colombia, demanding a ransom of five million
dollars. According to the U.S. embassy in Colombia, the
ransom letter stated that the money should be in used bills
of low denomination and not in a numerical series. The
letter also indicated that to establish contact with the
kidnappers, the company should place a certain commercial
advertisement through a local radio station, to be transmit-
ted on Mondays and Tuesdays. The letter closed with the
statement that Curtis' welfare depends on the seriousness of
the company in the negotiations and its willingness to
refrain from informing the Colombian authorities of the
negotiations. (See the 5 October issue for background on
the Curtis kidnapping.)
Mrs. Curtis reported to embassy officials that she had
received a telephone call late on the evening of 5 October
from a man claiming to be one of the kidnappers. The man
told Mrs. Curtis that her husband had a fever, but was
otherwise in good condition. On 8 October Colombian authori-
ties advised embassy officials that they had detained a man
who had called Mrs. Curtis with ransom demands. The authori-
ties said this man, a former police official, had telephoned
Mrs. Curtis solely to extort money from her; he in fact did
not have any connection with the kidnapping. As of 12
October, the investigation was continuing.
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Palestinian Terrorists' Trial Opens in Istanbul
12 October 1976
The two Palestinian terrorists who attacked El Al pas-
sengers at Istanbul international airport last August went
on trial 5 October. They were charged with illegally im-
porting arms and explosives into Turkey, and the court
rejected the defense lawyer's plea that the other charges
against the defendants be combined in the same trial. A
heavy security contingent of gendarmes and military police
was on hand as the trial opened. Both local and foreign
journalists were present, and Turkish newspapers reported
extensively on the trial's opening session.
The U.S. embassy considered that the press coverage was
straightforward, but noted that the news stories repeated
some of the terrorists' propaganda. The terrorists made
several points supporting the Palestinian cause, such as:
that Palestinians are involved in a struggle for national
survival and that weapons are as much a part of the people
as their arms and eyes; that they considered Turkey a country
friendly to the Palestinian cause; that they intended no
hijacking, but solely the killing of Israeli passengers;
that they did not know why Istanbul was selected for their
attack but as good soldiers obeyed their orders; that Pales-
tinian suffering at Israeli hands included the deaths of 250
school children.
A Turkish foreign ministry official told an embassy
officer that the illegal importation of arms was the easiest
charge to prepare. The official noted that although the
matter was now in judicial rather than foreign ministry
hands, it was his understanding that charges of murder and
illegal use of firearms were still being prepared, and that
under Turkish law trials on these charges could be conducted
separately. (According to press accounts in late August,
the two terrorists were charged with murder by a public
prosecutor under section 450 of the Turkish criminal code.
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Grenade Launchers Aimed at Buenos Aires Hotel
On the morning of 4 October, Argentine police discovered
six hidden grenade launchers across the street from the
Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires. They were in a park, on top
of a utility company tool box and covered with burlap. The
police called a bomb squad which deactivated the grenades
only a few minutes before they were timed to be launched at
the hotel. They were to be launched simultaneously by a
clock and battery device which would ignite a potassium
chlorate fuse which would then ignite a black powder charge
beneath each grenade. The charge also was to ignite a
slower-burning fuse connected to each grenade which would
cause the grenade to explode. The grenades were angled to
travel about 70 meters and were capable of penetrating a
window but not a concrete wall.
American Student Deported from Argentina
Patricia Ann Erb, the 19-year-old daughter of a U.S.
Mennonite missionary who was abducted and jailed in Buenos
Aires, was deported to the United States on 6 October. (See
the issues of 5 October, page 9, and 21 September, page A-
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Recovery of Jordanian Pilot's Documents
On 6 May 1976 the uniform, pilot's license and briefcase
of an Alia (Jordanian) Airlines captain were stolen in
Paris. (See the 11 May issue.) An alert was issued con-
cerning their possible use in a terrorist operation. The
U.S. Air Force recently reported that these items were
stolen by a man whom the Alia pilot (a U.S. citizen) met in
the hotel bar. This man, possibly a German national, claimed
to be an Air Canada copilot. He accompanied the Alia pilot,
who was inebriated, to his hotel room on the pretext of
aiding him, and the theft apparently occurred at that time.
Investigators tracked the self-styled Air Canada copilot
to Ontario, Canada, where he was arrested and the Alia
pilot's documents recovered. He had no previous criminal
record in Canada, France or Germany, and the motive for the
theft remains unclear. The Air Force report does not indi-
cate whether the uniform also was recovered.
Hijacker Returned to the U.S.
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Swedish authorities returned Allen ,Creighton Sheffield
to the United States, where he will face prosecution for the
January 1969 hijacking to Cuba of a National Airlines jet
with approximately 60 passengers aboard. Sheffield was
charged with air piracy in connection with the hijacking
over Houston of a California-to-Florida flight. He had
remained in Cuba until April 1975, when he left for Yugo-
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slavia. The Yugoslavian government held him for traveling
on an invalid (expired) passport and on 5 October 1976
decided to expel him. Sheffield requested to go to Sweden.
On his arrival in Stockholm, Swedish authorities placed him
in custody and ordered him returned to the U.S.
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT
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ACTS
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INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST
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6 October 1976
Caribbean Sea,
near Barbados
7-8 October 1976
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Buenos Aires
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Cubana Airlines Plane Crashes
After Mid:Air Explosion
A Cubana Airlines aircraft en
route from Barbados to Jamaica
crashed into the Caribbean Sea,
reportedly after a mid-air ex-
plosion. All 78 persons on
board were killed. Anti-Castro
Cuban exiles are believed to
have placed a bomb on board.
(See Articles.)
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Foreign Businesses in Buenos
Aires Bombe-a7
Argentine terrorists bombed
several foreign businesses
during the night of 7-8 Octo-
ber in commemoration of the
capture and death of Argen-
tine-born Cuban guerrilla
leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Primary targets were the show-
rooms of foreign-controlled
automobile companies including
the Ford Motor Company. A
branch of the Bank of Boston
was also hit. There were no
injuries and property damage
was moderate.
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Cuban Embassy. in Caracas Fired
Upon
The Cuban, embassy in Caracas
was hit by eight bullets from
a passing station wagon dur-
ing the early morning hours.
There were no injuries. The
attackers are unknown, but
police believe anti-Castro
terrorists may be responsible.
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Argentina,
Cordoba
11 October 1976
Italy, Rome
Pakistan,
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Renault Executive Killed in
Argentina
The Argentinian manager of
the French-owned Renault
plant in Cordoba was killed
by gunmen on 10 October. The
gunmen approached the manager,
Domingo Lozano, after he left
church services, shot him and
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Syrian Embassies in Rome and
Islamabad Attacked by
Palestinians
Three Palestinians seized the
Syrian embassy in Rome, taking
five hostages, but surrendered
after two hours. One hostage
was seriously wounded. The
attackers, claiming to be mem-
bers of the "Black June" move-
ment, said they were protesting
Syria's intervention in Lebanon.
A similar attack was attempted
against the Syrian embassy in
Islamabad, Pakistan, but the
three Palestinian terrorists
were intercepted by police.
One terrorist was reportedly
killed and the other two
wounded. The attackers also
threw a grenade into the
Syrian ambassador's house,
but no one was injured. The
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No significant terrorist threats were reported during
the period 6-12 October 1976 for the following areas:
V. Far East
VI. Worldwide
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Distribution: Ambassador L. Douglas Heck
Director of the Office for Combatting
Terrorism (M/CT)
Department of State
Mr. Dwayne S. Anderson
Deputy Director for International
Negotiations and Arms Control
International Security Affairs
Department of Defense
Mr. James F. Bane
Assistant Chief, International Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
Mr. Daniel J. Mozeleski
National Security Council Staff
Mr. Herbert H. Kaiser, Jr.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment,
Safety and Consumer Affairs
Department of Transportation
Mr. James Robinson
Criminal Division
Department of Justice
Mr. Richard D. Parsons
Associate Director of the Domestic Council
Mr. Herbert K. Reis
Legal Advisor
United States Mission to the United Nations
Mr. J. Robert McBrien
Special Assistant for Special Legislation
and Projects
Department of Treasury
Mr. Thomas W. Leavitt
Assistant Director, Intelligence Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Central Intelligence Agency
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Supreme Court Turns Down TWA Appeal (Page 7)
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Supreme Court Turns Down TWA Appeal
The Supreme Court turned down an appeal by Trans World
Airlines in a major test case over legal liability for
terrorist incidents.
The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals in New York ruled in
December 1975 that U.S. airlines have an absolute duty to
pay for injuries or deaths that occur to passengers inside
air terminals awaiting flights on those airlines. Its
decision came in a test case arising out of a Palestinian
terrorist attack on a group of passengers waiting to board a
TWA flight in Athens in 1973. (See the issue of 8 August
1973.) Three persons died and more than 40 were injured.
Under the so-called "Warsaw Convention," airlines are
presumed to be liable for aircraft accidents. The airline
may be liable up to a maximum of $75,000 for each passenger
injured or killed in an incident.
The airlines' liability applies where the injury or
death occurred in the crash of an airliner or in the course
of "embarking." TWA argued that liability should apply only
when an incident occurs outside a terminal building as the
passengers are on the way to the aircraft itself. However,
the appeals court in its decision last year said that the
liability applies whenever an incident occurs during the
entire process of embarking, whether it occurs inside or
outside the terminal building.
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
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Taiwan, Taipqi
Governor of Taiwan Injured by
Letter Bomb
Governor of Taiwan Hsieh Tung-
min injured his left hand on
10 October when a bomb exploded
in a parcel he was opening. It
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Distribution: Ambassador L. Douglas Heck
Director of the Office for Combatting
Terrorism (M/CT)
Department of State
Mr. Dwayne S. Anderson
Deputy Director for International
Negotiations and Arms Control
International Security Affairs
Department of Defense
Mr. James F. Bane ?
Assistant Chief, International Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
Mr. Daniel J. Mozeleski
National Security Council Staff
Mr. Herbert H. Kaiser, Jr.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment,
Safety and Consumer Affairs
Department of Transportation
Mr. James Robinson
Criminal Division
Department of Justice
Mr. Richard D. Parsons
Associate Director of the Domestic Council
Mr. Herbert K. Reis
Legal Advisor
United States Mission
Mr. J. Robert McBrien
Special Assistant for
and Projects
Department of Treasury
to the United Nations
Special Legislation
Mr. Thomas W. Leavitt
Assistant Director, Intelligence Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Weekly Situation Report
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
Articles:
26 October 1976
Prosecutor Asks Life Imprisonment
Airport Terrorists (Page 3)
U.S. Requests Extradition of Four American
Hijackers from France (Page 4)
for Istanbul
Notes:
Militant Jewish Organization Sets Fire at
Tunisian Mission to the United Nations (Page 5)
U.S. to Request Three Soviets to Testify at
Trial of Jewish Defense League Members (Page 5)
Brazil Releases Terrorist Charged with Kidnapping
U.S. Ambassador (Page 5)
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TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
I. Western Hemisphere, Including United States
II. Europe
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26 October 1976
Prosecutor Asks Life Imprisonment for Istanbul Airport Ter-
rorists
In an unexpected development, the public prosecutor has
asked for life imprisonment and not the death penalty for
the two Palestinian guerrillas accused of killing four
people, including an American, and injuring 22 others during
an armed raid against Israeli passengers at Istanbul's
Yesilkoy Airport last August. Two Americans were among
those injured. (See the 17, 24 and 31 August, 28 September
and 12 October issues.) The prosecutor, who had previously
said that he would demand the death penalty, told the court
that although their crime, multiple murder, usually carried
the death penalty there were mitigating circumstances in the
Palestinians' case. He asked the court to exercise discre-
tion under Article 59 of the Turkish penal code (which
provides for reduced penalties for extenuating circumstances)
and to impose life imprisonment rather than the death penalty.
He said that the violence perpetrated by the two had been
random, they had given themselves up to the police and had
openly confessed their guilt. In addition, he did not, as
had been anticipated, find that premeditation had been
present (premeditated murder also carries the death penalty),
arguing that although the murders were intentionally commit-
ted they were not specifically directed against individual
victims since those killed were unknown to the terrorists.
The position of the public prosecutor contrasts markedly
with the position of the local prosecutor who prepared the
initial investigation and recommended the death penalty.
The opinion of local lawyers is that the public prosecutor
has considerably stretched applicable statutes to avoid
asking for the death penalty. The basis for the prosecutor's
asking the court to consider extenuating circumstances under
Article 59 is unclear and seems to raise questions both as
to whether the case was the object of political pressure
and/or whether the defendants' culpability is being reduced
by categorizing the crime as a political act.
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extenuating circumstances since this is normally the preroga-
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U.S. Requests Extradition of Four American Hijackers from
France
A Paris court has announced it would give its decision
by mid-November on the United States' request for extra-
dition from France of four Americans who hijacked a Delta
Airlines jet over Florida in July 1972. The hijackers, who
said they were Black Panther Party sympathizers, forced a
Delta DC-8 with 101 persons aboard to fly to Algeria, after
collecting $1 million in ransom from the airlines. Upon
their arrival, the Algerian authorities impounded the ransom
money and took the hijackers into custody. The hijackers
were released on 4 August 1972 and the ransom money--less
$5,000 for expenses--was returned to Delta. Subsequently,
the hijackers were ordered out of Algeria and they illegally
entered France about two years ago. In May they were
arrested in France and are currently serving jail sentences
for possessing false identity papers.
The four--two men and two women--told the court in
Paris that though they freely admit hijacking the plane they
are contesting their extradition on the basis the hijacking
was a political protest against racial discrimination and
the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. They maintain that they
were forced to live underground in the U.S. fearing for
their lives and, thus, wanted to join members of the mili-
tant Black Panthers organization who were at the time in
exile in Algeria. They claim that hijacking the plane was
their only way out of the United States.
The state prosecutor called on the three-man tribunal
to grant the extradition request though he told the court:
"It is impossible not to be moved by accounts of adolescence
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crew is menaced with guns, it is never very funny."
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Militant Jewish Organization Sets Fire at Tunisian Mission
to the United Nations
A fire was set at the Tunisian mission to the United
Nations on 24 October causing minor damage. A male caller
told Reuter news service that the "Save Our Israel Land"
(SOIL) militant Jewish group had set the fire because of
Tunisia's anti-Israel stance. SOIL also wanted to dramatize
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leaders for what the caller termed their "cowardly silence
as the U.S. withholds arms promised to Israel."
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U.S. to Request Three Soviets to Testify at Trial of Jewish
Defense League Members
U.S. attorneys preparing to prosecute Jewish Defense
League members indicted for attacks against Soviet installa-
tions in the U.S. have requested State Department assistance
in securing the testimony of three Soviet witnesses involved
in the incidents. The U.S. Attorney's office believes the
testimony of the three Soviets at the JDL trial, scheduled
to begin 1 November, is extremely important in the efforts
to obtain a conviction. Included in the charges against the
JDL members are shooting into the Soviet residential complex
in Riverdale, New York on 27 February, the 25 March attempt
to bomb the Soviet trading corporation in New York City, and
shooting into the Soviet mission to the U.N. on 2 April. (See
the issues of 13 January, 2 March, 30 March, 6 April and 24
August.) The U.S. mission to the U.N. has requested the
State Department to ask the Soviet embassy in Washington to
Produce the three Soviets for testimony at the trial.
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Brazil Releases Terrorist Charged with Kidnapping U.S.
Ambassador
The Brazilian government recently released Claudio
Torres da Silva, who had been serving a thirty-year sentence
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in the kidnapping of U.S.
Brazil C. Burke Elbrick, according to the U.S. consulate in
Rio de Janeiro. Silva was released by order of a Navy court
in Rio de Janeiro. Silva's lawyers, in appeals to the
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his sentence. The reasons for the short-
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date:
Place:
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24 October 1976
United States,
New York
Fire Set at Tunisian Mission
to UN by Militant Jewish Group
A fire was set at the Tunisian
mission to the United Nations
causing minor damage. The
militant Jewish organization
"Save Our Israel Land" claimed
responsibility. (See Notes.)
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TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS
Tab B includes all reasonably credible reports of planned
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the threats listed are con-
sidered sufficiently plausible to warrant alertness and the
use of protective security measures. However, terrorist groups
often discuss general intentions or make tentative plans for
violent acts that they never succeed in carrying out. In
nearly all the cases listed, the intended target and appropriate
governments have been informed of the threat.
** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time.
* Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues.
I. Western Hemisphere, Including the United States
Nov' Target: U.S. EMBASSY
Place: Guyana, Georgetown
Date: Current
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The U.S. embassy in George-
town received two bomb
threats by telephone on 25
October. The first caller,
identifying himself as a
member of the Guyana-Cuba
Counterattack Group, said a
bomb was in the embassy and
would explode in two hours.
The caller said the purpose
of the attack was to?elimi-
nate U.S. influence and rid
Guyana of American personnel.
Fifteen minutes later, a
second caller identified
himself as a member of the
same group and repeated the
purpose for setting the bomb.
A thorough search of the em-
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material. On 14 'October the
embassy received two anony-
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Target:
Place:
Date:
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bomb threat was made against
the residence of an embassy
officer. Anti-U.S. sentiment
is running high in Guyana in
the wake of the loss of 11
Guyanese lives in the 6 Octo-
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and Guyanese belief that
anti-Castro Cuban exiles,
with U.S. support, are re-
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The Braniff Airlines office
in La Paz has received a
letter threatening sabotage
of Braniff aircraft and the
kidnapping, torture and
death of Braniff's American
employees if a demand for
$100,000 is not met. The
letter states that Braniff
is responsible for the 13
October crash in Santa Cruz
of an empty Boeing cargo
aircraft leased to Lloyd
Aero Boliviana. The plane
crashed in a populated area,
reportedly killing 106 peo-
ple. Bolivian authorities,
while treating the threat
seriously, downplayed the
ability of the terrorists
to carry out the threats.
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No significant terrorist threats were reported during
the period 20-26 October 1976 for the following areas:
IV. Africa
VI. Worldwide
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Distribution: Ambassador L. Douglas Heck
Director of the Office for Combatting
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Department of State
Mr. Dwayne S. Anderson
Deputy Director for International
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International Security Affairs
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Assistant Chief, International Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
Mr. Daniel J. Mozeleski
National Security Council Staff
Mr. Herbert H. Kaiser, Jr.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment,
Safety and Consumer Affairs
Department of Transportation
Mr. James Robinson
Criminal Division
Department of Justice
Mr. Richard D. Parsons
Associate Director of the Domestic Council
Mr. Herbert K. Reis
Legal Advisor
United States Mission to the United Nations
Mr. William B. Butler
Director, Office of Law Enforcement
Department of Treasury
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Assistant Director, Intelligence Division
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