NOTE TO DDCI

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06564003
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2016
• Case Number: F-2016-00651
• Publication Date: November 5, 1986

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CentralhiteffigenmAgency
Washington, D.C. 20505
OCVDDCIEmadiveStaff
5 November 1986
NOTE TO DDCI
Attached are the two things you asked for
earlier this week for your upcoming speeches --
the numbers on Soviet aid to Nicaragua, Angola,
etc., and the evidence on Syrian, Libyan, and
Iranian state support for counterterrorism.
On the former, the authors tell me that
you could easily use the grand total numbers
on the two tables on an unclassified basis.
I have asked them to try to get you some /
better numbers on the Turkish information.
On the latter, I think you will find more
than enough to indict. The CTC has mixed
unclassified with classified material, but
you will find that most of the sentences are
carefully marked. I suspect that much of
what they have classified is judgmental rather
than derived from specific reports.
Paul
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Libyan Involvement in Hijacking of Egyptair Flight 648 and the Attacks on the
El Al Airport Ticket Counters.
Evidence of Libyan involvement in the November 1985 hijacking of Egyptair
Flight 648 and the December attacks on the El Al counters at the Vienna and
Rome airports is largely circumstantial. It is not clear whether Libya
participated in the planning or execution of the hijacking, but it certainly
moved quickly to exploit the situation. Evidence of Libyan complicity in the
airport attacks is more concrete, and we judge it likely that Libya played at
least a logistical support role.
Egyptair
While there is no "smoking gun" with which to convict Libya for the
hijacking, there is evidence of Libyan involvement:
the hijackers wanted to
be flown to Tunisia or Tripoli, Libya.
-- The Libyan ambassador in Malta spoke with the hijackers at their
request.
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El Al Attacks
There is better evidence tying Libya to the Rome and Vienna attacks on 27
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-- Tunisian officials reported that Libya provided the three
passports used by the terrorists in Vienna. Two had been seized
from Tunisians expelled from Libya last fall, and the third had
been lost by a Tunisian resident in Libya.
-- While the Libyan press quickly provided supporting rhetoric,
calling the attacks "heroic operations", Qadhafi dissassociaated
himself from these comments after an international uproar.
Recent Libyan Activity
one of the suspects arrested by
Pakistani authorities in connection with the attempted hijacking of Pan Am
Flight 73 has ties to Libya and that Libya probably provided logistical
support to the hijackers.
Libya also has been implicated in a number of other extremely vicious
anti-Western attacks.
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On 5 April, Tripoli undeniably sponsored an attack--probably conducted by
Palestinians--against the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, killing three
people including one American.
In response to the retaliatory airstrikes launched by the United States on
Tripoli and Banghazi on 14 April, Libya initiated a new round of terrorist
violence.
-- On 15 April a US Embassy communicator was shot and severely
wounded in Khartoum, Suda
strongly to Libyan involvement.
rcumstantial evidence points
-- The British Government has publicly blamed Libya for the death of
two British teachers kidnaped in West Beirut in late Marc . eir
bodies, along with that of American Peter Kilburn--a hostage
since December 1984 who may have been held by an independent group
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in Lebanon and "sold" to the lApyans7-were found together on 17
April. Libya, therefore probably had a hand in Kilburn's death as
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well. The note accompanying the bodies said that they had been
executed in retaliation for the US raid on Libya.
-- On 18 April, two Libyans were apprehended as they approached the
US Officers Club in Ankara to launch an attack with six
Soviet-made fragmentation grenades they claimed they had received
from the Libyan People's Bureau in Ankara. Two other Libyans were
arrested soon afterward as possible accomplices.
-- On 25 April, unknown glen seriously wounded another US Embassy
employee in Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic. The assailants are
believed to have been Libyan-sponsored.
A growing body of circumstantial evidence also points to Libyan
sponsorship of the 3 August attack on the British base in Akotiri, Cyprus, in
which two persons were wounded.
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Syria
Syria long has used terrorist tactics to dissuade opponents and
recalcitrant allies from pursuing policies inimical to Syrian interests.
Support for terrorist groups costs Syria little but raises the cost to
participants of any peace initiative that excludes Damascus and serves to keep
Assad's regional rivals off balance.
Syria largely uses surrogates to mask its role in terrorist attacks and to
obtain leverage over the groups Damascus supports. Syria enables terrorist
groups to use Syrian or Syrian-controlled territory for base camps, training
facilities, and political headquarters and provides arms, travel assistance,
intelligence, and probably money. Some of the groups linked to Syria are the
Abp Nidal Group, the PFLP-GC, and Abu Musa's Fatah rebels.
The recently concluded Hindawi trial in London, however, paints the most
damaging picture of direct Syrian involvement in terrorism since the early
1980s. The British investigation implicated top Syrian Air Force Intelligence
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