TERRORISM-1. COMMENTS ON THE BOMBING OF THE U.S. EMBASSY IN BEIRUT

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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2020
• Case Number: F-2019-00123
• Publication Date: June 11, 1983

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TERRORISm-1. COMMENTS ON THE
IN BEIRUT
2. POSSIBILITY OF
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TEXT: 1. IN EARLY JUNE 1983 A SYRIAN OFFICIAL COMMENTED THAT
THE 00M[IVG OF THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN BEIRUT IN MAY WAS
DESIGNED TO BF A CATALYST TO GET THE UNITED STATES MORE ACTIVELY
INVOLVED IN DISCUSSIONS ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND TO PUT ADDITIONAL
PRESSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL FOR A WITHDRAWAL FROM
LEBANON. THE END RESULT, HOWEVER, WAS NOT WHAT THE SYRIAN
GOVERNMENT HAD EXPECTED, WHILE THE BOMBING DID PRECIPITATE AN
IMMEDIATE RESPONSE FROM THE UNITED STATES, THE SYRIANS WERE
EXCLUDED FROM THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE END RESULT THAT THEY NOW
HAVE AN EVEN MORE SERIOUS CREDIBILITY PROBLEM AS FAR AS
PARTICIPATING IN FURTHER DISCUSSIONS ON LEBANON. THEREFORE, IN
ORDER FOR THE UNITED STATES TO REALIZE THAT IT MUST DEAL WITH
SYRIA IN THE FUTURE, ANOTHER CATALYST IS REQUIRED. THIS WILL
COME IN THE FORM OF ATTACKS AGAINST UNITED STATES PERSONNEL,
PROBABLY IN LEBANON AND PROBABLY AGAINST THE U.S. MARINES
STATIONED THERE.
2, WITH REGARD TO THE ATTACK ON THE U.S. EMBASSY IN BEIRUT,
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THE SYRIAN OFFICIAL SAID THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION
WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE. IN RESPONSE TO A DIRECT QUESTION AS TO
WHETHER THE IRANIANS WERE RESPONSIBLE, HE NOTED THAT THE IRANIANS
COULD NOT HAVE CARRIED OUT SUCH AN OPERATION WITHOUT THE TACIT
APPROVAL OF THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT. HE SAID INFORMATION OF THIS
NATURE IS EXTREMELY TIGHTLY HELD WITHIN THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT
AND THAT THERE IS LITTLE LIKLIHOOD ANYONE OUTSIDE OF A VERY
SELECT FEW RANKING OFFICIALS WOULD bE AWARE IN ADVANCE OF SUCH
AN ATTACK. THIS WOULD ALSO APPLY 70 ANY ADVANCE WARNING OF AN
ACTUAL 1,.ILITARY ATTACK ON ISRAEL.
ACQ: 9 JUNE 1983.
DISSEm: FIELD: SENT TO BEIRUT, DAMASCUS, JSOC.
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