TERRORIST CARLOS ESCAPES ARREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79M00467A002500090011-4
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 16, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON (WI)?Yugoslav
ofticials reportedly let Carlos, the no-
toxious international terrorist ,be-
lieved to have masterminded the
a975 Vienna kidnaping of several oil ?
6rninisters, slip through their fingers ?
last 'week and the United States is
pngry about the fumble. ?
State Departrri'ent Officials said
Wednesday they gave the Yugoslav' ?
.. government full details about Carlos' .
whereabouts last week and asked
that he be apprehended. When the
Yugoslays failed to do so, the United
States lodged a formal protest.
State DepaTtment spokesman Fre-
derick Z. Brown disclosed the letter
of protest. to Belgrade and said the
department had supplied enough de-
tails of Carlos' whereabouts that Yu-
goslav officials could have appre-
hended him had they wished.
Meanwhile, a Cairo newspaper, Al
Akhbar, reported Wednesday that
? Carlos?a -27-year-o1.1 Veneztielait
whose real name is. Illicit- Ramirez
Sane141,--is loose in Ettrepe with a
?Small, nuclear bomb that he ap-
Parently intends to .use in a terrorist
opaation. ?
Carlos is.zought for the murder of
two French counterintolligence
;
agents when they aopared unarmed
at hi: apartment in to tal.e him -
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re:;cr. e of he: :; by herteli corm;
Mandos from the airport at Entebbe,
Ugitukt.
. At the earrie time, the United
Statr3 gave YugOslavia information
on Carlol. State Department officials
said, -WeA Germany also supplied
Beliyade.? with details of his where-
about,:. ? 1 - -
?? The report in Al Akhbar said Car-
los is hidin3 in an Arab embassy in
.Western Europe with a small nuclear
? 1,..vr.1pon. The dispatch came from its
col respondent in London,. Zaghltil al,
,
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Carlos firet came to international
? pul,lic attention with the murder of
French agents and the informmt.
hen they knocked on his apHt-
merit door, they were greeted by a
m
tan about 5-feet-10, apparcntly
tc-
? 25 and welder,. stie7le ?-,;.
Carlo. accorcline; to rt,ixet,-:, or-
paretitly turncd I")a ro!c
but. skyur1,-; ith a pi-
rzTelly. Two Pn.! tr.
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Carlos
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into custody. A LI-?!!:iirs;') informant
eLo was kilkti. ?
Carlos orf...._:eiked the hif.Tirnieg of
Arab oil roinl'..,!crs nic,.tiir in Vi-nna
in 1975. A Sr..te Dcpxtmelit
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TERRORISTS:
Exit Carlos
The international terrorist known as
"Carlos" is wanted by a dozen Western
nations, but so far one of the biggest man-
hunts in history has come up emptyhand-
ed. During the past year, Carlos has kid-
napped a group ?foil ministers in Vienna
and he may have masterminded the hi-
jacking that ended at Entebbe. Recently,
Carlos was nearly caught in Belgrade, but
he slipped through the net?apparently
with help from Communist friends.
In Algiers early this month, West Ger-
man intelligence agents identified Car-
los (a 27-year-old Venezuelan whose real
name is hitch Ramirez Stinchez) as he
boarded a plane for Yugoslavia. Both
Bonn and Washington alerted the Yugo-
slays. Security police in Belgrajle qui4
ly pat Carlos under ?urvaillanceAlon
with his fella*, teavelbrs, German terror-
ist Hans-JoacIlim Klein and three men
who appeared to be bodyguards.
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the terrorists had gone to rilgos via in
order to sneak into Western Europe. Ac-
cording to the same sources, Yugoslav
officials initially confirmed the identifi-
cation o f Carlos. Both France and Ausuia
informed Belgrade that they wanted the
suspect arrested. R. four days later the
Yugoslays put Car os1"..i.thi;-tithers on 3
jht tor 15aglidarrOliFre they cle7tiry:Vrirer.-
9'Ugoslav authorities allowed him to
slip through their grasp." complain. II
one U.S. official. Western diplom.t:i
spec t dated that Belgrade chose to de,
Carlos in order to em ty favor will, 0.9
Third World nations that suppo, t the,-
ter team isrs acti? itie.;. Th.
inst.:tell that tla? whole viiisotli? was at.,:t!
II mistaken identity: the suspect. ti
claimed. was merely an Algerian tell e
shm technician. No one in the West
IR'1,;nadctl by that story, and silo' tly after
Carlos made his exit, Yup,slax la hintedat
another motive for its action. Ilelyrade
relcioed a su ong statement coil CII
the U.S. for harboring the Ca oatians ho
hijacked a TWA jet two ?i eeks ago to
publicize their anti-lngosla? view s.
NeWSWeek, SIT el1111ki?Ir 27, 1976
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