WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

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Weekly Situation Report
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
Articles:
7 June 1978
Terrorists Kill Wife and Brother of Turkish Ambassador
to Spain (Page 1)
Italian Government Moves Against Red Brigades (Page 2)
Five British Technicians Murdered in Oman (Page 4)
Note:
Bus Explosion in Jerusalem Kills Six, Including One
American (Page 7)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist
Acts
CHARTS: Incidence of Significant International
Terrorist Acts as Listed in Weekly
Situation Reports - 1978
Significant International Terrorist
Incidents by Type - 1978
TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
I. Western Hemisphere, Including United States
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Middle East
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ARTICLES
Terrorists Kill Wife and Brother of Turkish Ambassador to
Spain
On 2 June, in Madrid, three male terrorists on foot
slaughtered the wife of the Turkish ambassador, his brother
(a former ambassador), and their Spanish chauffeur by pumping
bullets into the car in which they were riding. The terror-
ists attacked the occupants of the ambassador's car in the
midst of a traffic jam near the Turkish embassy and re-
portedly escaped in another car.
An anonymous call to a Madrid news agency claimed that
the killings were done by commandos of "The Justice of
Armenian Genocide". A group using the same title took
responsibility for the assassination of the first secretary
of the Turkish embassy in Beirut in 1976, and Armenian
groups with somewhat different titles took responsibility
for the assassinations of the Turkish ambassadors to France
and Austria in October 1975 and the Turkish ambassador to
the Vatican in June 1977.
Other names used by Armenian terrorists in claiming
responsibility for acts of terrorism (these include periodic
bombings of Turkish railway stations and airports) are the
following: "Armenian Liberation Army", "28 May Armenian
Organization", "New Armenian Resistance", and "Armenian
Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia". It is not known
if these are separate groups or different names for the same
group. In March 1977 an organization using the last of
these titles announced an all-out campaign of terror against
Turkish resources and personnel all over the world in reprisal
for the alleged genocide of ethnic Armenians by the Turks in
1915. (UNCLASSIFIED)
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Italian Government Moves Against Red Brigades
In two moves against suspected terrorists, on 5 and 6
June the Italian authorities in Rome formally charged a
total of nine suspects with complicity in the kidnaping and
slaying of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Arrest warrants
for most of the nine have been outstanding for several
months; observers believe that the formal charges indicate
significant police progress in the acquisition of solid
evidence linking the suspected terrorists to the crime.
One of the six charged is Enrico Triaca, owner of a
printing shop raided by the police on 7 May. According to
the police, the shop contained a copying machine and other
equipment used by the Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, BR).,
Authorities also believe that Triaca's apartment served as a
base for the BR and that some of the nine communiques issued
during the 54-day period of Moro's captivity were reproduced
in the printshop. Other suspects include the daughter of 4
prominent industrialist in southern Italy; she has been
under arrest since April. Two others are well-known members
of the BR, still at large (but the subjects of intensive
police search). Information about the other five BR terror-
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Also on the positive side, the police in recent weeks
discovered several other terrorist hideouts in Rome and an
arms cache in nearby Ostia.
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the arrest of several non-political kidnapers. The BR trial
in Turin has ?been proceeding fairly smoothly without any i="3
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jury.
However, during the month of May, the BR also expanded
their targets to include U.S. multinational business, as
evidenced by the arson attack on the Honeywell warehouse and
the "kneecapping" of the Italian director of the American
Chemical Bank in Milan (see the issue of 17 May). The BR
also recently threatened attacks on U.S. employees of GETSCO,
a General Electric subsidiary, but have not carried out the
threat.
On 6 June, a pair of terrorists killed the warden of
Udine prison by shooting him in the back as he was walking
in the morning from his home to the prison. This slaying
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ended a three-week lull in terrorist shootings. The BR used
the same tactic when they killed two wardens in Turin in
March and April. Until now, the town of Udine, about 65
miles northeast of Venice, has been virtually free of terror-
ism. The current conversion of the Udine prison into an
institution for dangerous prisoners, including political
terrorists, may have caused the killers to focus on the
warden. Police officials connected with prison affairs and
wardens have for several years been targets of the BR because
that organization considers prisons to be one of ?the govern-
ment's principal "tools of oppression". Responsibility for
the crime is not yet clear; anonymous phone calls to the
press attribute responsibility to the BR and the Armed
Proletarians for Communism. The latter organizational title
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Five British Technicians Murdered in Oman
On the night of 1 June, five British aircraft technicians
were shot dead as they sat around their campfire on a beach
near Salalah, Oman. Two other British technicians managed
to escape by hiding under their bus. The attackers did not
search the camp for the two survivors, one of whom spent the
rest of the night in the water offshore while the other
walked to the nearest town for help.
The technicians were employed by Airwork Services Ltd.,
a United Kingdom-based company contracted to maintain Oman's
military aircraft.
The attack took place near the area containing remnants
of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman (PFLO) who
were expected to mount some sort of operation around 9 June,
the main PFLO anniversary. By the time Omani authorities
were notified and arrived on the scene the attackers had
made good their escape. The investigators found that the
ammunition utilized in the attack was AK-47 short rounds,
the PFLO's standard cartridge. While the Omani government OM
publicly claims that the unidentified attackers were probably
private persons motivated by robbery, there seems to be
little doubt that the perpetrators belonged to the PFLO.
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the military fight against the Omani government, has now
turned to a strategy of terrorism against civilians.
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NOTE
Bu!, I,xplosion in Jerusalem Kills Six, Including One American
An explosion on a Jerusalem bus killed five people and
wounded 20 on 2 June. One of the wounded died one day
later. The dead included one American medical student from
Maryland. The force of the explosion, caused by a bomb
rigged from an 81mm mortar shell, tore off the back of the
bus. According to police experts, the bomb apparently had
been placed in an overhead rack near the rear of the bus.
Although dozens of bombs have been left in buses in recent
months throughout Israel, this was the worst such incident
in Jerusalem since 14 February, when two people were killed
and 35 injured in a similar bus bombing. On 26 April two
German volunteer workers were killed and five wounded when a
bomb was tossed into a bus in the West Bank town of Nablus.
The PLO said in Beirut that Al Fatah had been respon-
sible for this latest blast and that the 13-pound device had
been fixed on the bus by "an underground squad", which was
said to have escaped. The Israeli police reported the
arrest of several suspects.
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INCIDENCE OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
AS LISTED IN WEEKLY SITUATION REPORTS - 1978
NIMBI TOTAL
U.S. TARGETS
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JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV 'DEC
NOTE: THIS GRAPH DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT ALL INCIDENTS RECORDED
IN TAB A DURING THE ABOVE PERIOD, AS INCIDENTS WHICH LATER PROVE NOT TO
HAVE SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL SCOPE ARE OMITTED FROM THE MONTHLY TOTAL.
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SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST INCIDENTS BY TYPE - 1978
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Assassination 1 1
Hijacking
1
1
3
Kidnaping
2
3
4
Barricade & Hostage
1
1
Armed Attack
3
1
3
Bombing
7
5
5
3
2
Attempted
Assassination
Arson
2
3
TOTAL
14
12
5
4
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date: 25 May 1978
Place: Japan
Date: 30 May 1978
Place: Turkey, Adana
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West Germany,
Wiesbaden
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Korean Airlines Facility Attacked
On 25 May a group of masked men
attacked a ?Korean Airlines crew
and employee dormitory located
nine kilometers west of the new
Tokyo international airport.
The attackers cut the telephone
wires, broke windows and set
the interior on fire by pouring
gasoline into the rooms and
igniting it. The men were
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Revolutionary Army. No in-
juries were reported.
U.S. Consulate in Turkey Strafed
On 30 May several rounds were
fired at the U.S. consulate in
Adana. Local police chased but
lost the perpetrators in traffic.
Five bullet holes were found be-
tween two windows one of which
has the sign for the U.S. con-
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U.S. Armed Forces Hotel Damaged
by Explosion
On 31 May a bomb exploded in
front of the American Arms
Hotel, a U.S. military hotel,
causing minor property damage
A local newspaper receivea a
letter from the Revolutionary
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Place:
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Spain, Madrid
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Turkish Ambassador's Wife and
Brother Killed in Spain
On 2 June the wife and brother
of the Turkish ambassador to
Spain were assassinated when
the embassy car in which they
were traveling was caught in a
traffic jam. The attackers
fired into the car killing
the occupants and wounding the
driver (he died later). In a
telephone call to the Madrid
AFP the Justice of Armenian
Genocide claimed responsibility
for the assassinations
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Date: 2 June 1978 Bus Bombed in Israel Killing
Six
Place: Israel, Jerusalem On 2 June a bomb exploded in
the back of a bus in Jerusalem.
The explosion tore off the back
part of the bus and resulted in
the deaths of six persons, in-
cluding one U.S. citizen. The
PLO stated that the 13-pound
bomb had been set by Al Fatah
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TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS
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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
Target: World Cup Soccer
Games
Place: Argentina
Date: 1-25 June 1978
The World Cup Soccer Games
began in Buenos Aires on 1
June and will continue through
25 June at various sites in
Argentina. There have been
numerous threats of demonstra-
tions and attacks to be carried
out during the games. Argentine
officials have increased secu-
rity at the locations of the
games for participants, specta-
tors and press. Security at
airports, stadiums, and TV
studios in cities where matches
are to be held is being aug-
mented by a specially trained
security force.
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III. Middle East
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Target: U.S. BUSINESSES Threats against U.S. interests
U.S. CITIZENS continue to be received in letters
and telephone calls. The Iran
Place: Iran American Society Academic Center
in Tehran received a telephone
Date: Current bomb threat; search of the prem-
ises located no bomb. Violence
has been on the rise due to in-
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and interests could be prime
targets of demonstrations to
embarrass the Iranian government.
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No significant terrorist threats were reported during the
period 1-7 June 1978 for the following areas:
IV. AFRICA
V. FE
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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
International Communications 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
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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)
USAF Readiness Command
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, DIBA
National Security Agency, C54-CDB
Department of Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security
Central Intelligence Agency
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WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
CONTENTS
Articles:
14 June 1978
Japan Develops Antiterrorism Program (Page 1)
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Notes:
World Cup Soccer Games Proceed Without Serious Incident
(Page 7)
Body of Leader of the Orly Attack Returned to Lebanon
(Page 7)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
I.
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Middle East
IV.
Africa
V.
Far East
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14 June 1978
ARTICLES
The following article is an extract from an article which appeared
in the 26 May issue of the Defense Intelligence Agency Weekly Intelligence
Summary.
Japan Develops Antiterrorism Program
Following the Japanese Red Army (JRA) hijacking of an
airliner to Dacca last year, Tokyo has taken firm steps to
prevent such incidents. Tokyo's actions include seeking
domestic understanding, strengthening security at Japanese
diplomatic posts, tightening travel regulations, promoting
international cooperation against terrorism, increasing
airport security--both at home and abroad--and developing
antiterrorist capabilites.
Various ministries and agencies are involved in carrying
out the programs that have followed in the wake of the new
antiterrorism policy. For its part, the foreign ministry is
strengthening security at its diplomatic posts overseas to
combat possible attacks by the JRA or other terrorist groups.
Specific measures being implemented are not known; however,
they are expected to include the use of slit windows at
passport desks and remodeling offices to prevent easy access.
Another proposal under consideration, arming embassy guards,
is very likely to be shelved as illegal. Domestic laws
forbid personal armament. The foreign ministry has also
actively supported existing and proposed antihijacking
conventions in international forums and is urging other
countries to sign these conventions.
Japan Airlines, a primary JRA target, received cabinet
approval to initate a system of double-checking both passengers
and baggage at 17 foreign airports in Europe, the Middle
East, and Southeast Asia. Additionally, a new measure
restricts the contents of hand luggage to 17 specific items.
A plan to use air marshals during flights has probably been
abandoned because of domestic laws prohibiting the bearing
of arms.
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Last year, the Diet passed a bill raising the penalties
for air piracy. At that time, a minimum sentence of 10
years in jail was established for hijacking. Effective 5
June, the maximum sentence for hijacking or seizing diplomatic
posts will be the death penalty, and the taking of hostages
will be punishable by life imprisonment. Greater restrictions
were also placed on the issuance of passports and stiffer
penalties imposed for violations. In the future, the govern-
ment also plans to recall the 5.6 million passports in
circulation, replacing them with passports in a new format.
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World Cup Soccer Games Proceed Without Serious Incident
Despite widespread rumors concerning terrorist operations
planned to disrupt the World Cup soccer games, no significant
terrorist incidents have occurred as of the midway point.
Elaborate Argentine security arrangements, including a
special 5000-man security force, and the terrorists' fear of
creating a negative popular reaction to their cause, have
apparently prevented terrorist actions in Argentina. One
World Cup-related bombing occurred in Portugal, where a bomb
exploded at the Argentine embassy to protest the repressive
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Body of Leader of the Orly Attack Returned to Lebanon
The body of Mahmud Awadah, leader of the 20 May terrorist
attack at Orly Airport in Paris, was returned to Lebanon for
burial on 8 June. Awadah was a member of the Arab Socialist
Action Party, a branch of the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine. The arrival of Awadah's body was accompanied
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Date 9 June 1978 Argentine Embassy in Portugal
Bombed
Place: Portugal, Lisbon On 9 June a bomb was detonated
at the Argentine embassy in
Lisbon. The Action Group for
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** 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
Target: World Cup Soccer The World Cup Soccer Games
Games began in Buenos Aires on 1
June and will continue through
Place: Argentina 25 June at various sites in
Argentina. There have been
Date: 1-25 June 1978 numerous threats of demonstra-
tions and attacks to be carried
out during the games. Argentine
officials have increased secu-
rity at the locations of the
games for participants, specta-
tors and press. Security at
airports, stadiums, and TV
studios in cities where matches
are to be held is being aug-
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Articles:
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Revolutionary Cells Bomb U.S. Military Facility and
Israeli Business (Page 5)
Notes:
Suspects in Empain Kidnaping Arrested in Lyons, Lisbon
and Lausanne (Page 7)
U.S. Official Victim of Possible Terrorist Attack in
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TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
I. Western Hemisphere, Including United States
IV.
V.
Europe
Middle East
Africa
Far East
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Revolutionary Cells Bomb U.S. Military Facility and Israeli
Business
On 31 May, in Wiesbaden, West Germany, a small bomb
targeted against the American Arms Hotel (a U.S. military
facility) detonated with so little impact that the hotel
personnel did not realize the explosion had been caused by
a bomb. Minor damage to a parked car and one broken windowpane
were the only results of the small early morning bang;
remains of the device were not noticed until much later in
the day. The Revolutionary Cells (Revolutionaere Zellen,
RZ) claimed credit for the bomb in letters postmarked 31
May in Giessen and Lahr.
According to the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), the
bomb was relatively crude, compared to other bombs the RZ
have manufactured. The potential of the explosive was much
greater then its actual effectiveness because a major portion
of the charge failed to explode. According to official
observers, the placement, size and time of the detonation
suggest the bomb was placed for harassment purposes rather
than to cause property damage and casualties.
This attack in Wiesbaden is the first operation by the
RZ against a U.S. military facility in 17 months. Previous
RZ attacks targeted V Corps Headquarters (1 June 1976), the
officers club at Rhein-Main Airbase (1 December 1976), and
the U.S. Army petroleum storage tanks near Giessen (4 January
1977). These bombings resulted in considerable property
damage but no fatalities.
Three weeks later, on 20 June, the RZ struck again,
bombing the Frankfurt office of Agrexco Agricultural Ltd.,
an Israeli fruit importer. The heavy explosion caused
damage estimated at U.S. $67,500 but the fifteen employees
present in the office escaped harm in what the FRG police
termed a near-miracle. A letter postmarked Kaisers-
lautern, 20 June, claiming RZ responsibility, was mailed to
the national West German news agency (DPA) and announced
that the blast was the start of a campaign to boycott Israeli
exports to Western Europe. The letter also said that Agrexco
Agricultural Ltd., one of the largest European-based importers
of Israeli fruit, helps to provide the "imperialist Israeli
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state with multi-million-dollar annual earnings" and that
the RZ have seized a practical chance to demonstrate solid-
arity with the Palestinian people.
The message also referred to last winter's poisoning of
Israeli oranges with mercury (see the issue of 1 February)
and claimed that Arab plantation workers in Israel were
responsible for injecting the fruit with "harmless mercury".
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Suspects in Empain Kidnaping Arrested in Lyons, Lisbon and
Lausanne
On 13 June Swiss police arrested a French citizen sus-
pected of involvement in the 23 January kidnaping in Paris
of Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, Belgian industrialist. Empain
was released 26 March (see the issue of 29 March). In
announcing the arrest, which was made in Lausanne, Paris
police noted that two other suspects were arrested in Lisbon
on 10 June as they were about to depart for Costa Rica and
that another suspect was arrested in Lyons earlier this
month.
U.S. Official Victim of Possible Terrorist Attack in Turkey
On 15 June at 2000 hours a U.S. embassy official in
Turkey was robbed at gunpoint on a secluded road next to the
Ankara air station. The embassy official's car was stopped
by three men wearing bandanas around their heads. The
incident lasted for five minutes but the official and his
U.S. passengers were not harmed. That robbery was the sole
motive in this incident is questionable. The incident was
not typical of armed robberies carried out previously in
this area; highway robberies usually have been directed at
busses full of people on main highways and have been perpe-
trated by villagers instead of educated college-aged youths
as apparently was the case in this robbery. Judging from
the somewhat confused actions of the robbers, it could have
been an attempted kidnaping which went awry for any number
of reasons.
This incident was the second ambush of a U.S. vehicle
in Turkey this year. In January a U.S. Air Force truck was
=bushed and a U.S. Air Force airman and his Turkish driver
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
Date:
Place:
15 June 1978
Kuwait
Date: 18 June 1978
Place: El Salvador, San
Salvador
Date:
Place:
20 June 1978
West Germany,
Frankfurt
PLO Representative in Kuwait
Killed
On 15 June the chief PLO repre-
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the door of his home. Several
men, one with a silenced pistol,
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Bombing at Argentine Embassy
in El Salvador
On 18 June a large bomb exploded
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downtown San Salvador. The em-
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injuries were reported. Local
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Revolutionary Army (ERP) claimed
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Offices of Israeli Fruit Im-
porter Bombed in West Germany
On 20 June the self-styled Rev-
olutionary Cells claimed respon
sibility for a bomb explosion
which damaged the Frankfurt
office of an Israeli fruit im-
porter. A letter sent to the
national FRG news agency stated
the blast was the start of a
campaign to boycott Israeli
exports to Western Europe. No
injuries were reported.
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terrorist activity.
the threats listed are consid-
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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 appro-
priate 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
Target: World Cup Soccer
Games
Place: Argentina
Date: 1-25 June 1978
The World Cup Soccer Games
began in Buenos Aires on 1
June and will continue through
25 June at various sites in
Argentina. There have been
numerous threats of demonstra-
tions and attacks to be carried
out during the games. Argentine
officials have increased secu-
rity at the locations of the
games for participants, specta-
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CONTENTS
Articles:
28 June 1978
Bulgaria Extradites Four West German Terrorists Without
Delay (Page 1)
Red Brigades Trial Ends in Italy (Page 2)
Kidnapings Continue in Central America (Page 5)
Notes:
Another Postponement of Siba'i Assassins' Sentences
(P
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Baader-Meinhof Member Released Early from Prison for
Good Behavior (Page 7)
TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans
II. Europe
III. Middle East
IV. Africa
V. Far East
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Bulgaria Extradites Four West German Terrorists Without
Delay
The West German government announced on 22 June that
Bulgaria had arrested four suspected West German terrorists
and promptly returned them to West Germany. The returnees
included Till Meyer, whose escape from Moabit Prison in West
Berlin on 27 May had been engineered by two female terrorists
posing as lawyers (see the issue of 31 May). A second noto-
rious returnee is Gabriele Rollnik, one of the suspects in the
prison break. Rollnik has long been sought by the West
German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) since her own escape
from Moabit Women's Prison in July 1976 with three other
female prisoners (see the issue of 13 July 1976). Rollnik
is also a suspect in the kidnaping of Austrian industrialist
Walter Palmers (see the issue of 30 November 1977).
Police have identified a third returnee as Gudrun
Stuermer, until now not a known member of terrorist circles,
though she is the wife of a member of the 2 June Movement.
She reportedly had money from the Palmers ransom in her pos-
session. The fourth individual remains unidentified.
An almost incredible coincidence led to the end of the
sojourn of Till Meyer and his three companions in Bulgaria.
Meyer was reportedly on a beach at Varna, a resort on the
Black Sea, and was recognized by a vacationing prison
warden from Moabit. The warden contacted BKA officials in
the FRG; they in turn contacted their Bulgarian counterparts.
Subsequent cooperation between the two services led to the
roundup of all four terrorist suspects. West German officials
have announced their pleasure with the "praiseworthy and
outstanding" cooperation of the Bulgarian government.
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Red Brigades Trial Ends in Italy
The highly publicized trial in Turin, Italy, of 45 mem-
bers of the Red Brigades terrorist organization ended on 23
June with sentences ranging up to 15 years for 29 defendants
and acquittal for 16. The founder and one-time leader of
the organization, Renato Curcio, received a sentence of 15
years--a sentence which is, on the surface, difficult to
understand for the leader of an organization which was
catapulted into the world limelight by the kidnaping and
subsequent slaying of one of the leading statesmen of
Italy, Aldo Moro. The relative lenience of this and other
sentences is partially explained by the fact that the key
defendants had previously been sentenced in other courts on
other charges. Also, the Italian laws--those which the
defendants violated when they committed their illegal acts
and under which they were being tried--are far. more lenient
than those now in effect (since 1975) in which crimes are
more strictly defined and heavier penalties imposed.
Observers believe that the real significance of the
trial lies in the fact that the authorities .were able to see
it through to the end. The first attempt to bring Curcio
and 45 other defendants to trial in 1976 ended in postpone-
ment when the Red Brigades gunned down the chief prosecutor.
A year later, as the court was about to reconvene, the Red
Brigades murdered the president of the Turin Bar Association
and newly appointed chief defense counsel. Again, a postpone-
ment. In March of this year the proceedings resumed, in
spite of the Red Brigades murder of a police inspector who
helped arrest one of the defendants. Meanwhile, further
complications involved the refusal of about 140 jurors to
serve; it took weeks to complete the jury of six members and
five alternates.
At any rate, the jury last week acquitted 16 of the de-
fendants, ordered a new trial for one and found 29 guilty.
Curcio and Pietro Basso, organization ideologist, were the
only two to receive 15 years, although several received 14
years and a fraction. The overall charge was "membership
and participation in an armed gang for the purpose of sub-
version, by violent means, of the economic, social and
political institutions of the Italian state". Curcio and
some of the other defendants were also found guilty of
kidnapings, sabotaging state installations and other ter-
rorist acts.
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As the jury was deliberating, the Red Brigades committed
one of its most arrogant murders to date, by slaying former
antiterrorist chief Antonio Esposita on the platform of a
Genoa bus. The killers escaped in a car driven by an accom-
plice. Some news reports indicate that Esposita had taken
evasive action for some time by r'din2 to work at different
times and from a different stop.
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Kidnapings Continue in Central America
The series of kidnapings in Central America continued
when two Salvadoran citizens employed by an American firm
were kidnaped in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador, on the
evening of 22 June shortly after they left their office.
Men armed with submachineguns and a variety of handguns
carried out the abduction and drove off with the victims in
a microbus and one of the victim's own cars. The police re-
portedly did not respond to the incident until two hours
later when they sent two recent graduates of the police
academy to investigate. One of the victims, a secretary
with the American firm, was released unharmed after being
kept blindfolded in the microbus for three hours. She said
that her captors repeatedly asked about the senior officials
of her company--who they were; how much they made; and what
the company's income was. She said she was frightened by
her captors but not physically mistreated. She was, however,
warned that she would be killed if she talked to government
officials.
On the same day a Salvadoran citizen who is one of
Salvador's leading coffee growers was kidnaped in western El
Salvador while taking a walk alone. Four armed, unmasked
men forced the victim into a panel truck. Five other armed
men provided cover from another vehicle during the kidnaping.
The People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) is credited with the
action. (See the issues of 14 May, 21 May, and 21 June for
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Another Postponement of Siba'i Assassins' Sentences
The Cypriot Supreme Court has again postponed the
execution date for the two Palestinian terrorists who
killed Egyptian editor Yusuf Siba'i in Nicosia in February.
Earlier, the Court had postponed the execution date from
1 June to 27 June. This time the Court postponed the date
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Baader-Meinhof Member Released Early from Prison for Good
Behavior
On 21 June, in Hamburg, West Germany, authorities re-
leased terrorist Ilse Stachowiak from prison two months
early for good behavior. Stachowiak had been serving a
four-and-one-half-year prison term; the sentence was rela-
tively mild because she was a minor at the time of her
conviction. She was one of the early members of the Baader-
Meinhof gang, most of whose original leaders have meanwhile
committed suicide in prison. Stachowiak is known to have
had ties with Susanne Albrecht, also from Hamburg. Albrecht
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CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
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Date: June 1978 Ecuadorean Embassy Bombed in
France
Place: France, Paris About mid-June a bomb exploded
in the Ecuadorean Embassy in
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Date:
22 June 1978
Employees
of U.S. Owned
Company
Kidnaped in El Salvador
Place:
El Salvador,
On 22 June two Salvadoran em-
San Salvador
ployees of McCann-Erickson, a
U.S. owned company, were kid-
naped by armed men as they de-
parted their office. The man
was forced into his own car and
his secretary was forced into a
microbus; both vehicles were
then driven away. The secretary
was released in the northern
part of San Salvador a few hours
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Tab B includes all reasonably credible reports of planned
terrorist activity.
the threats listed are consid-
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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 appro-
priate governments have been informed of the threat.
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No significant terrorist threats were reported during the
period 22-28 June 1978 for the following areas:
II. Europe
III. Middle East
IV. Africa
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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 (AD)
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD
Defense Intelligence Agency
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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)
USAF Readiness Command
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
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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
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