BLACK SEPTEMBER BOMBING ATTEMPTS IN NEW YORK CITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000500060008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 1, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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FBI ACTION COMPLETED
I? SECRET/IdUFORN
CIA OPERATIONS CENTER
SELECT FOR THE DCI
80R000500060008-7
071q30 EST
SUBJECT: BLACK SEPTEMBER BOMBING ATTEMPTS I N NEW YORK CITY
SOURCE :FBI
DTG :071315Z
(IN 852393)
DISTO DCI, DDCI, EX/DIR, DCI/IC, USIB/SIGINT,. DDI (2), D/OCI (5)',
MR. FELT, C/OPSCEN, INDICO, D/OSI, D/OSR, RAD, DDS&T VIA
D/OSI, CSDO, D/ONE, COMIREX, C/IRS, PRES, DDS, CSS, S/SP,'
SAVA, CRS/ADD/SS, SDO, ADDED:
BLACK SEPTEMBER ORGANIZATION ? MIDDLE EAST; ATTEMPTED
BOMBINGS THREE LOCATIONS IN VICINITY ISRAELI FACILITIES,
NEW YORK CITY.
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BEGINNING AT 7#015 P.M. ON MARCH 6, 1973, SEARCHES BY SPECIAL
AGENTS (SAS) OF THE NEW YORK OFFICE (NYO) OF THE FBI WERE CONDUCTED
AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN COOPERATION WITH THE NEW YORK CITY
POLICE DEPARTMENT (NYCPD) BOMB SQUAD:
1)- FIRST ISRAELI BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, 47TH STREET
AND FIFTH AVENUE, MANHATTAN;
2) ISRAELI DISCOUNT BANK, 43RD STREET AND FIFTH
AVENUE, MANHATTAN;
3) EL AL AIRLINE WAREHOUSE FACILITY AT JOHN F., KENNEDY
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, 132ND STREET AND 14.9TH AVENUE,
QUEENS.
FBI ACTION COMPLETED
SECRET/NVOFORV
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CLASSIFICATION
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SEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO LOCATE POSSIBLE ABANDONED PARKED
AUTOMOBILES IN PROXIMITY TO THESE ISRAELI ESTABLISHMENTS.
AT LOCATION TWO, INVESTIGATION DETERMINED THAT A VEHICLE,
NEW YORK LICENSE 219214, REGISTERED TO OLIN RENTAL COMPANY,
NYC9 HAD BEEN FOUND IN ABANDONED CONDITION AT 43RD STREET
AND FIFTH AVENUE, NYC, AND TOWED TO THE NYCPD IMPOUND LOT
ON MARCH 5, 1973. THIS VEHICLE WAS SEARCHED BY OFFICERS OF THE
NYCPD BOMB SQUAD, IN THE PRESENCE OF SAS OF THE NYO9 IN THE
LATE EVENING OF MARCH 6, 1973, AT THE NYCPD IMPOUND LOT, 59TH
STREET AND TWELFTH AVENUE, MANHATTAN. THE TRUNK OF THE VEHICLE
WAS OPENED, REVEALING THE PLACEMENT OF A HIGH ORDER PLASTIC
EXPLOSIVE DEVICE WITH TIMER, WHICH HAD MALFUNCTIONED.
RECORDS OF OLIN RENTAL COMPANY AT NYC, SUBSEQUENTLY~CHECKED,
REFLECT THIS VEHICLE HAD BEEN RENTED- BY ONE AID Y. SHAHIN, DATE
OF BIRTH -. JULY 1, 1945, PASSPORT NUMBER 170631t BUSINESS ADDRESS
ASHRAFIA COMPANY, BEIRUT, LEBANON, HOME ADDRESS - NJC
SUMMITT AVENUE, BEIRUT. THIS INDIVIDUAL FURNISHED HIS LOCAL
ADDRESS TO OLIN AS THE HOLLAND HOTEL, 351 WEST 42ND STREET,
ROOM 1003, NYC.
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SAS OF THE NYO, AT APPROXIMATELY 1:00 'f'*. ON MARCH 7, 1973,
LOCATED A SECOND RENTAL VEHICLE AT THE NYCPD IMPOUND LOT,
59TH .STREET AND TWELFTH AVENUE, NYC9 WHICH VEHICLE HAD BEEN
TOWED TO THE LOT ON MARCH 5, 1973, FROM AN ABANDONED LOCATION AT
47TH STREET AND FIFTH AVENUE, NYC. THIS LOCATION WAS IN
PROXIMITY TO LOCATION ONE SET FORTH ABOVE, THE FIRST ISRAELI
BANK AND TRUST COMPANY. THE TRUNK OF THIS RENTAL VEHICLE
WAS OPENED BY PERSONNEL OF THE NYCPD BOMB SQUAD IN THE PRESENCE OF
SAS OF THE NYO AND A SIMILAR HIGH ORDER EXPLOSIVE DEVICE WAS
LOCATED. THIS RENTAL VEHICLE BORE LICENSE 47Z391, .WHICH HAS
BEEN IDENTIFIED ASA RENTAL .CAR FROM HERTZ CORPORATION, 641
FIRST AVENUE, NYC..
AT 2t40 A.M., ON MARCH 7, 1973, SAS OF THE NYO LOCATED A THIRD
RENTAL VEHICLE ABANDONED AT 132ND STREET AND 149TH AVENUE,
QUEENS, IN PROXIMITY TO THE EL AL WAREHOUSE FACILITY WHICH
IS LOCATION THREE LISTED ABOVE. THIS VEHICLE, WHICH BORE
NEW. YORK. LICENSE 39Z248, REGISTERED TO AVIS RENT-A-CAR,
REGO PARK? QUEENS, WAS SEARCHED BY OFFICERS OF. THE NYCPD BOMB
SQUAD IN THE PRESENCE OF SAS OF THE NYO. A SIMILAR HIGH ORDER
EXPLOSIVE DEVICE WAS LOCATED IN THE TRUNK OF THIS VEHICLE.
THE HIGH ORDER. EXPLOSIVE DEVICES LOCATED IN, THE ABOVE
VEHICLES ARE TENTATIVELY DESCRIBED AS CONSISTING OF A CLOCK
TIMING DEVICE CONNECTED BY BATTERY TO ? A BLASTING CAP DETONATOR
FOR A PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE CONTAINED IN A COCA-COLA CAN.
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 STATPTHR
MANUFACTURE. SIMILAR TYPE EXPLOSIVES WERE USED IN LETTER
BOMBS MAILED BY ARAB TERRORISTS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES IN THE FALL,
1972.
SEARCH OF VEHICLES TO DATE HAS RESULTED IN RECOVERY OF
QUANTITY OF EIGHT AND ONE-HALF INCHES BY ELEVEN AND ONE
HALF INCHES SHEETS OF PAPER WITH LETTERING, PALESTINIAN BLACK
SEPTEMBER ORGANIZATION.
VEHICLES CURRENTLY BEING PROCESSED FOR FINGERPRINTS.
ALL VEHICLES AND EXPLOSIVE DEVICES IN CUSTODY OF NYO OF FBI.
INVESTIGATION AT HOLLAND HOTEL HAS REVEALED AID Y. SHAHIN
CHECKED OUT MARCH, 5, 1973; ARRIVAL TIME UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME*
HOTEL.ROOM PROCESSED FOR FINGERPRINTS AND THOROUGHLY SEARCHED.
NOTHING OF EVIDENTIARY. VALUE DEVELOPED.
DUE TO PRESENCE OF ISRAELI PREMIER GOLDA MEIR IN NYC, THIS
INFORMATION DISSEMINATED THIS DATE TO SECRET SERVICE, NYC.
ADDITIONALLY, INFORMATION DISSEMINATED TO NYC HEADQUARTERS,
BUREAU ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS.
CLASSIFIED BY D. E. MOORS, XGDS2, DATE OF DECLASSIFICATION
INDEFINITE.
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