TALKING POINTS FOR THE ADDI FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR ITALY OF THE HIJACKING

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2018
• Case Number: F-2016-01115
• Publication Date: November 26, 1985

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Talking Points for the ADDI
Foreign Policy Implications for Italy of the Hijacking
The hijacking of the Achille Lauro has been one of he must serious
international challenges that any Italian government has faced in the
postwar period. It brought down a stable governments whose foreign policy
was characterized by strong support for both NATO and the US.
The crisis has driven home to Italian leaders and public that Italian
interests and American interests will not always coincide. Ital 1c
with US and NATO have been keystone of postwar Italian policy.
--Prime Minister Craxi, Foreign Minister Andreotti, and Oefense
Minister Spadolini are all determined to maintain Italy's ties to
NATO and the US, but Craxi and Andreotti are more ready to break with
the US on specific issues, especially the Middle East.
--Craxi almost certainly blames the US in 4reat measure
for the fall of his government.
--He probably believes that he has been too
accommodating to the US and that Washington has
come to take his acquiescence for granted.
--He will probably be determined to extract a larger
price in future for concessions on whole range of issues.
Italian officials, especially in the military, probably will be more
wary of US requests and more determined to safeguard Italian peroyativpq-
they will yo by t7e book
--US assertiveness on the tarmac at Sigonella and
surveillance of the Egyptian airliner
during its flight from Sicily to Rome almost
certainly have angered Italian military
commanders.
--This is the second time that special US military
units have raised Italian hackles; Italian officers
were offended by what they considered ItS highhandness during the
Dozier kidnaping in 1983.
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