Weekly Situation Report on
International Terrorism
Mm***
11
The Weeklyon4
rorisn will not be published the week of Christmas. The next issue will be published
7
arnji^Woti isfjourcei one
X SE^mY
Warn^^Hotice
Sensitive IntelligenesjMrorces and Methods Involved
NATIONALINFORMATION Unauthorized Diiclas^STSubjoct to Criminal Sanctions
I PREPARED FOR THE CABINET COMMITTEE TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND ITS WORKING GROUP^
iiot for eensral diitributlon oMjfcay not be reproduced or Indudsd In any other document ornor citedource of InfornjSfton. Tne report include* information received thrown cIoh of bmineu of ths doy preceding the cktleipsTUiuancs.
ated on conlribotlomon ih* Working Group aflss to Combat Terroritm. The Work-Oitd of rapreMntotivai from the De-Defonie, Juitlee, Troruportollon ond site Council Staff, the Federal Bureau affion, the Notional Secwlty Council Staff* the ^Management and budget) ths United Stotei Mii-ih* UnHsd Notion* and Ht* Central Intelligence
No Foreign CmmiHa^LWKm Ae-ood/ConiretUd Diuem
WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT
contents
4
Articles:
UM
New Series of Israeli-Fedaveen Terrorist Incidents (Page 2)
Relocation of Terrorist Leader Sabri al-Banna from Iraq to Libya (Page 4)
Notes:
Possible Package Bomb at British Consulate in Buenos Aires (Page 5)
Private Plane Hijacked from Florida to Cuba (Page 5)
hronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts
errorist Threats and Plans
I. Terrorist Threats and Plans: Western Hemisphere, Including United States
and
andEast
and
andEast
New Series of Isracli-Fedayeen Terrorist Incidents
errorist exploded handmade grenadesowntown Tel Aviv theater, killing hiaself and two others and woundingersons.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the Tel Aviv cinema attack and said the operation was in retaliation for the rocket attack against the PLO centers in Beirut. The PFLP added that the terrorist was the leaderour-man team which was positioned inside Israel
*
No lo'CiQ- Dunw/N
No faim.Q- DlitM/No
'-r'Coi.tc Dinam
(Comment: If the rTLT claim that four other persons were involved is true, the terrorist could have received the explosives inside Israel.)
Fatah/PLO leader Yasir Arafatress statement supporting the attach and threotening further retaliation if iM-ael carried out another operation. 'IJIffkBaiVHMHi^HB^^BlB
hough the PFLP has rejected PLO leadershio, Arafat apparently found it expedient to associate himself with the attack in the wake of the Beirut rocket attack.
Onecember, less thanours after the Tel Aviv theater attack, four Israeli planes, apparently targeteda'iqa training area, bombed and strafed tworefugee camps in Beirut, killing one person and woundingthers and heavily damaging some installations. Most of the Palestinian population in the camps had been evacuatedin anticipation of an Israeli reprisal attack. The Lebanese Defense Ministry said one of the Israeli planes was shot down, but the Israeli military command said all the planes returned safely.
. Embassy in Tel Aviv does not believe that the incidents were linkederies of reprisal attacks, since each operation appeared to involve considerable advancebut were more likely elements of psychological warfare in which each side reassured its own public and threatened the enemy. The Embassy believes that fedayeen organizations might have terrorists inside Israel ready for an immediate strike in response to an Israeli attack, but there is no confirmation of this. "
imbassy in Beirut believes the
PFLP Tel Aviv attack was mounted primarily to pressure Arafat and tho PLO to adhere more closelyrevolutionary line" and probably reduced the prospect of interfedayeen clashes. The Beirut Embassy also thinks the Israeli raid will increase fedayeen terrorist provocations against Israel. J
jC Ab-ooaVCenrolled
At
Nofl^ood/Con*h
^location of Terrorist Leadsr Sabrirom Iraq to
Dubai in See the3 issuerofile on Banna.) Banna, who received official Iraqiin traveling to Libya, reportedly will reorganize the Libyan-based terrorist group of Ahmad Abd-al-Ghaffur, who was assassinated in Beirut in September, for the purpose ofoperations from Libya into Europe and the Middle East. Iraq has relocated Banna in an endeavor to placate the moderate leaders and move closer to the Arab mainstream.
the Libyans are assisting Fatah/PLO leader Yasir Arafat and th PLO with considerable financial aid, with the intention of eventually directing the PLO to operate actively against Saudi King Faysal and Egyptian President Sadat. On the other hand, Libya is actively encouraging the Arab Rejection Front groups, particularly Banna and the remnants of Abd-al-Ghaffur's group,ounterforce to both the PLOeacefulSECRET/NJ-fFOREIGN DISSEMJ-fNTRCLLEDISSEM ASROJfWTHIS INFORMAjJIJj IS NOT TO BSfJerTcLUDED IN ANY SmfhiX DOCUMENT PUBLIC4fnON)
No Foreion c LtMrn Ab.oad/Conl.oJltd DilMm
Ha form si DUtamlNo ffKm Ab/ood/CoM.oilod
NOTES
Possible Package Bomb at British Consulate ia Buenos Aires
Onuspicious package was discovered at the office of the British Consul in Buenos Aires. The actingnoticed that the package was mailedostage meter strip from Beirut but the strip was not canceled and lacked customs stamps, and that the package was addressed to theformer address. The police bomb squad placed the package, alongetonating charge,etal detonation box and then set off the charge. The resulting explosionthe offices and broke two windows. Fragments revealed that the package contained several books, entitled Kim II Sung, which are readily available in Buenos Aires.
It is still not certain whether the package contained explosives or whether the damage was caused by the detonating charge. .The oolice are being asked to continue theix (SiprfcT)
Private Plane Hijacked from Florida to Cuba
A lone gunmanwin-engine Piper Seneca plane in Tampa the night ofecember and forced the pilot to fly him to Cuba, according to press stories. The plane landed in Havana at. Theiddle-aged man using the name Robin Harrison, hadingle-engine aircraft from the Tampa Flying Service, but when he arrived at the airport heistol and demanded the larger plane. The pilot, who returned to Miami onecember, said Cuban authorities took the hijacker into custody. They treated the pilot well, but the Tampa Flying Service wastoo the Cuban government before the pilot was permitted to leave. This is the first hijacking to Cuba since the signingreaty in3 which requires Cuba to. hijackers or put them on trial. (UNCLASSIFIED)
NojfffRm Abroad/ Controlled Dinar
No Foraign Dliiem/No CfaCm Abroad/ConliolUd Diiwr-
CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS
4
Place: Florida, Miami
Bahamian Officesomb exploded in the Bahama Cruise Line offices, causing moderate damage but noaccording to the Miami police. The policean anti-Castrowas responsible for the bombing. The Bahamas recently establishedrelations with Cuba. (See
a
,1
2.
A-l
Nool cd Omir.
Noied
I. Terrorist Threats and Plans: Western Hemisphere, Including the United States
Various Latin American Installations
Place: United States, Miami New York
A group identifying itself as "Young Nationalist Cuba" has sent identical threatening letters, datedovember, to the consulates of ElColombia and Mexico in Miami, Florida, and to the Dominican Republic and Hondu-ran representatives to the United Nations in New York.ecember issue, (CONFIDENTIAL)
Various Latin
American Countries
Place: United States, Miami
Bahama Islands, Nassau
* The FLNC is planningagainst the twelvethat recently voted to lift sanctions against Cuba, and against the Bahamas, which established diplomaticwith Cuba. (Seeecember issue,heecember explosion at the Bahama Cruise Line office in Miami may be connected with this threat. (See (CONFLMfrriAL)
Possibly Foreign-Owned Mining Companies
A dissident group in thePopular Movement isa terrorist campaign in
ew threat reported for the firstevisionhreat reported in previous issues
No Foils' DD..n
No Foreign DEiwm/Na CtjWm Abroad/Con'rolUd Dim*"
the Cibao region of the Domin-Place: Doninican Republic lean Republic to take place
during the Christmasnay include foreign-.
owned mining companies. (See
3 Decenber issue,
eign -
No Foreign Dlium/No
Dimm
Terrorist Threats and Plan*. Eur
Aircraft
Transporting Jewish Enigres
Place: Austria, Vienna
or March
Unspecified,
Possibly Jewish Emigre Center
Place: Austria, Vienna
Salah Khalaf, head erf theplanning to organizeof internationaloperations. Thereportedly willexplosion in Vienna,bus, to protestassistance toemigres. (Seeissue, page:O
CONTRQprEDW INNOTlNCLUDED WNY OTHER DOWMENT OR PUBj#CATION)
Place:
Date:
Possibly West Germany
Current
NO DIS
The Fatah leadership expects that the PFLP mayerrorist operation in West Germany. ecemberissue, IGN DISSEM/CONTRCpRD
Na FofoignWm AbioooVm t
No Far* gn"Mm Abroad/ComrolUd Diliam
SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER
Unknown
Unknown
Cypriotesistance organization is planning to. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. (Seeecember issue,0 FOR^JN DISSEM)
NoMim.'NoDiiiom
No Foreign DitMm/No
Diium
III- Terrorist Threats and Plans: Middle East
Hotel
Place: Israel
Date: Late4 Early5
The PDFLP is planning toa hotel in Israelor Januaryovember issue, C
USIS BUILDING
Jordanian Post Office
Place: Jordan, Amman
Fatah is planning to plant bombs in the USIS building and the Central Post Office building, both in Amman, in the near future. (Seeecember issue,bIGN DI^Mj
. AIRCRAFT, CITIZENS AND INSTALLATIONS
Israeli Aircraft, Citizens and Installations
Place: Unspecified
iner Tunis Sabri group moreets, page FO S
of the BA jet-from Dubai told their ian interrogators that al-Banna's fedayeen will probably undertake hijackings,. sraeli aircraft as tar-(Seeecember issue, (SEj.pT/NO
-
B-III-1
Foroign DitMm/No
Dinar
No Foreign Diuarn/No
Abroad/Controlled Diiiam
IV. Terrorist Threats and Plans: Africa
Place:
Date:
Diplomatic Personnel and Installations
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Current
dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Addis Ababaelephone call from ancaller threatening to kidnap several ambassadors and to blow up several . and British embassies have also received threatening letters, signed "Zapatistas" NationalFront. (Seeecember
issue, flFI-
DE
No Foreign Oiiw/No DJBBpDimn
No Fotolgn Chuam/Ko
VI. Terrorist Threats and Plans: Worldwide
Courier Flight
Unspecified
4
new organization ofmakeup, using the name "Group of the Martyr Ebenezerlans to sabotage the annual courier flight of the Government of the North Pole. Prime Minister and Chief Courier S. Claus has been notified and security precautions are beingworldwide by the CCCToup. (CONFjjJPNTIAl)
B-VI-1
NoOW
POTENTIAL TERRORIST TARGETS IN. AND ABROAD
Thisist of persons and events, arranged chronologically, which night attract terrorist attack. The following symbols are used when applicable: eported for the firstevision of report in previous issue.
P:ace:
Prime Minister of Israel, Mrs. Golda Meir
United States New York, New Jersey
Canada
Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel, is visiting New York City; Newark, Newand Montreal and Toronto, Canada. The Secret Service has projective responsibility. (CONFfg^NTIAL)
and early5
Hajj Pilgrims
Place: Saudi Arabia, Mecca
Late
4
The Hajj season, nowwith many Moslemsilgrimage to Mecca, could be the occasion for terrorist acts, given the current high degree of dissension within the fedayeen movement. (UNCLASSIFIED)
No Foreign Dumai/No MTr"m -
Distribution: Ambassador Lewis B. Hoffacker
Special Assistant to the Secretary Department of State
General Benjaminavis, Jr. Assistant Secretary for Safety and Consumer Affairs
Department of Transportation
Mr. Robert F. Ellsworth Assistant Secretary of Defense International Security Affairs
Mr. James M. Frey
Deputy Associate Director for International Affairs
Office of Management and Budget
Colonel Richard T. Kennedy National Security Council Staff
Ht. David R. Macdonald
Assistant Secretary of Treasury for
Enforcement, Tariff and Trade Affairs,
and Operations
Mr. Kevin T. Maroney
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Department of Justice
Mr. Herbert K. Reis Legal Advisor
United States Mission to the United Nations Mr. Geoff C. Shepard
Associate Director of the Domestic Council Mr. W. Raymond Wannall
Assistant Director Intelligence Division Federal Bureau of Investigation
Central Intelligence
NoMT/NcatWSm Ah'ood/Conirolied Diuam
Original document.
Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic: