WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Weekly Situation Report on International Terrorism Secret 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 6 July 1977 Secret 100 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT CONTENTS Articles: 6 July 1977 Domestic Chilean Airliner Hijacked to Peru (Page 5) TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts CHARTS: Incidence of Significant International Terrorist Acts as Listed in Weekly Situation Reports - 1977 Significant International Terrorist Incidents by Type - 1977 TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans I. Western Hemisphere, Including United States II. Europe III. Middle East IV. Africa V. Far East 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM SECRFT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001: Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 R 50X1 -HUM Next 2 Page(s) In Document Denied Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 PAGE(S) MISSING Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 6 July 1977 NOTES Domestic Chilean Airliner Hijacked to Peru A LADECO Airlines Boeing 727, on a domestic flight from Arica--a port city in northern Chile near the Peruvian border--to Santiago, Chile was seized on 5 July by three men and a woman shortly after takeoff. The hijackers, who were armed with pistols, first demanded to be flown to Caracas, Venezuela and then to Paris, France; but instead forced the plane to land in Lima, Peru. They also demanded the release of two men imprisoned in Chile. When negotiations with Peruvian authorities began, 17 of the 56 people on board were released. Three hours later the four hijackers surrendered and the remaining hostages, two of whom were U.S. citizens, were freed. The hijackers were taken to the Venezuelan embassy in Lima pending a discussion by the Venezuelan government to grant them polit- ical asylum. The four, all Chilean citizens, were identified as Rolando Meneses, Patricia Castro. and two brothers, Wilisbaldo and Carlos Alarcon. 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM SECRET 5 50X1 -HUM RECORD COPY rne rrinn Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 I TAB A?Chronology of Significant Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 I Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 30 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET INCIDENCE OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS AS LISTED IN WEEKLY SITUATION REPORTS ? 1977 NNW TOTAL 25 U.S. TARGETS 20 15 10 5 ,11?106?111.1.11?1111m?P 50X1 -HUM JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV -DEC NOTE: THIS GRAPH DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT ALL INCIDENTS RECORDED IN TAB A DURING THE ABOVE PERIOD, AS INCIDENTS WHICH LATER PROVE NOT TO HAVE SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL SCOPE ARE OMITTED FROM THE MONTHLY TOTAL. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST INCIDENTS BY TYPE - 1977 50X1 -HUM Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TOTAL Assassination 1 1 1 1 Hijacking 2 2 4 Kidnaping 1 2 2 2 Barricade & Hostage 1 1 Armed Attack 2 2 1 Bombing 7 3 6 4 5 7 Attempted Assassination 1 TOTAL 11 6 12 6 11 13 S' 1111E7 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET CHRONOLOGY 6 July 1977 OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS Date: Place: Date: Place: 25 June 1977 United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh 5 July 1977 Chile, Arica 50X1 -HUM Home of Croatian Fraternal Union President Bombed The Pittsburgh home of Croatian Fraternal Union President John Badinovac was bombed on 25 June. The explosion destroyed the in- terior of the house. Badinovac, who was not at home when the bombing occurred, attributed the attack to the Croatian Lib- eration Army. 50X1 -HUM Domestic Chilean Airliner Hijacked to Peru A LADECO airliner on a domestic flight from Arica to Santiago, Chile was seized by four hi- jackers on 5 July and forced to fly to Lima, Peru. Initial de- mands by the group included the release of two men imprisoned in Chile and onward travel to Caracas and Paris. After three hours of negotiations with Peruvian authorities, the hi- jackers surrendered and were taken to the Venezuelan embassy pending negotiations for politi- cal asylum in Venezuela A- 3 50X1 -HUM SECRET 50X1 -HUM RECORD COPY--1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0_ TAB B?Terrorists Threats Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 R 50X1 -HUM Next 1 Page(s) In Document Denied Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET TTT SECRET 6 July 1977 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 6 July 1977 No significant terrorist threats were reported during the period 30 June - 6 July 1977 for the following areas: Europe IV. Africa V. Far East SECRET _B- II - 50X1 -HUM I REco,..i) cur xI Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A-000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 ISIJOJJO I IDRUaiOd?D 8V1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET ia? Distribution: *Department of State Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT). Deputy Assistant Secretary Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional Problems Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security Bureau of Intelligence and'Research Bureau of EuropeanAffairs ? *United States Mission to the United Nations,Legal Adviser U.S, Information Agency, Office of Security U.S, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Agency for International Development, AG/Sec *Department of Defense Deputy Director for International Negotiations and Arms Contrel International Security Affairs Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE) Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD Defense Intelligence Agency RCI-I DIN 2D2 Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3 Department of the Army, IOSD Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank Air Force, Office of Special Investigations USAF Special Operations School (TAC) Naval Investigative Service Commandant of the Marine Corps *Department of Justice Criminal Division Emergency Programs Center *Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative Division Immigration and Naturalization Service *Department of the Treasury Office of Intelligence Support Office of Law Enforcement U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support *Department of Transportation Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2 Federal Aviation Administration *National Security Council National Security Council Staff SECRET 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM RECORD COPY PCS/DDO Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET *Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs Branch Department of Commerce Office of Investigations and Security Office of Administrative Support, DIBA National Security Agency, C54-CDB U.S. Energy Research Development Administration Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security *Central Intelligence Agency DDO *Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism Member 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM RECORD COPY SECRET PCs/DDO 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Secret Secret RECORD COPY PCS /DDO Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Weekly Situation Report on International Terrorism 50X1 -HUM Secret 50X1 -HUM 13 July 1977 10 - - Secret 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT CONTENTS 13 July 1977 Articles: Hijacking of Kuwaiti Jet Ends in Syria (Page 1) Soviet Plane Hijacked to Finland (Page 3) Kidnapers Release Fiat Executive in Paris (Page 4) Notes: Cuban Government Grants Asylum (Page 5) to Chilean Hijackers Mauritanian Ambassador Shot in Paris (Page 5) Israel Trying PEEP Terrorists Apprehended in Kenya (Page 6) TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans I. Western Hemisphere, Including United States II. Europe III. Middle East 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM SECRET RECORD COPY 50X1-HUM PCS/DDO Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 13 July 1977 IV. Africa V. Far East 50X1-HUM irk 50X1-HUM ? SECRET 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 50X1-HUM 'Now 13 July 1977 ARTICLES Hijacking of Kuwaiti Jet Ends in Syria A three-day-long hijacking of a Kuwait Airways Corporation Boeing 707 by an armed group of seven disaffected Palestinian guerrillas ended on 10 July when they surrendered to Syrian authorities in Damascus. Five of the terrorists overpowered their leader as the plane was preparing to take off for an unidentified Arab country in north Africa. The hijackers had just finished negotiating unsuccessfully for ten hours with Syrian officials and Palestinian leaders. According to Syrian radio, the terrorists were said to have seized the plane because of a personal dispute with Palestinian officials. Earlier press reports had said the group had demanded the release of 200-300 prisoners held in the jails of various Arab countries. The aircraft had been seized on 8 July while on a Beirut to Kuwait flight. The hijackers apparently had planned to take the plane to Baghdad but directed it to Kuwait for refueling after the Iraqi government refused to grant permission for the aircraft to land. When the plane landed in Kuwait it was surrounded by army commandos. Interior and Defense Minister Sa'ad Abdallah Sabah refused to refuel the plane until all of its passengers were released. Eighteen hostages were allowed to leave the plane on 8 July soon after negotiations began between the gunmen and Kuwaiti officials. The remaining 28 hostages were released the following day in exchange for a promise of safe conduct to South Yemen. A Kuwaiti security official and two Palestinians agreed to serve as hostages in place of the passengers. Once in the air the plane was ordered to Damascus instead of South Yemen. The affiliation of the seven hijackers is unclear. A spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization in Beirut asserted that the leader of the group, Abu Sa'id, was a member-of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestineeneral Command. however, the gunmen identified themselves as members of Fatah. Abu Sand was said to have been a Fatah member who had escaped from a Palestinian-controlled CreDPT 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 13 July 1977 prison the day before the hijacking. He was characterized as a heavy gambler who had been jailed for extorting money and taking bribes during the 1975-76 civil war in Lebanon. The hijacking had almost been thwarted in Lebanon, accord- ing to a high ranking Kuwaiti official who had been one of the passengers. Airport officials in Beirut were reluctant to allow the hijackers, who were dressed in Syrian army uniforms, to board the plane because their passports appeared suspicious. The Kuwaiti ambassador to Lebanon, who was returning home permitted the gunmen to board the flight after a body search for weapons proved to be negative. A large supply of arms including automatic weapons and grenades had been stashed aboard the plane and the gunmen were able to commandeer the aircraft soon after takeoff. 2 SECRET 5IDO -HUM OEN 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 5IDO -HUM Taw SECRET 13 July 1977 Soviet Plane Hijacked to Finland Two Soviet youths seized an Aeroflot plane on a 10 July domestic flight from Petrozavodsk to Leningrad and allowed the aircraft to land in Helsinki, Finland, apparently be- lieving they were in Sweden. The hijackers then threatened to blow up the plane unless it was refueled and flown to Stockholm. Deadlines were set four times, but each one passed without incident. Shortly after the aircraft's arrival, the seven crew members escaped through a cockpit exit and, during the course of negotiations on 11 July, the hijackers released most of the plane's 72 passengers in several separate groups. They refused the offer of a Cessna aircraft to fly them out of Finland, and after the remaining three hostages escaped in the early morning hours of 12 July, the two surrendered to Finnish authorities. They were reported to have been armed but a Finnish official said they had only dummy grenades. Finnish Foreign Minister Paavo Vaeyrynen announced on 12 July that the Soviet government had officially requested the hijackers' extradition and, in accordance with a 1974 bilateral anti-hijacking agreement between the two countries, the two men would be returned to the Soviet Union. The hijackers were identified as Aleksandr Zagirnyak, 19, and Gennady Selushko, 22. 50X1-HUM SECRET 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 13 July 1977 Kidnapers Release Fiat Executive in Paris 50X1-HUM The Fiat executive in charge of operations in France and Brazil, Luchino Revelli-Beaumont, was released on 11 July after almost three months in capitivity. The Committee for Socialist Revolutionary Unity claimed responsibility for the abduction. 50X1-HUM Details of the kidnaping and a possible ransom payment were shrouded in conflicting claims and reports. Police officials said the 58-year-old executive had been kept blindfolded for most of the 89 days of his captivity. Revelli-Beaumont told police he had been driven for three to EOUT hours after being abducted outside his Paris apartment and was taken a similar distance from the place where he had been held before he was released near Versailles. A medical checkup revealed he is suffering from fatigue but is other- wise in good health. A statement signed by the "Committee" and sent to a Paris newspaper an hour after the release of Revelli- Beaumont said that Fiat had met the kidnapers' demands "unconditionally," paying a "fine to indemnify" exploited workers. Revelli-Beaumont's son said that the family, not Fiat, had paid an undisclosed amount of ransom. The original demand for $30 million ransom was reduced to a reported $2 million. Swiss sources said that the ransom had been paid Into three Geneva banksr but Mrs. Revelli-Beaumont denied this. 50X1-HUM SECRET 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 50X1-HUM Noe 13 July 1977 NOTES 50X1-HUM Cuban Government Grants Asylum to Chilean Hijackers The four Chileans who hijacked a LADECO Airlines domes- tic flight from Chile to Lima, Peru, on 5 July have been granted asylum in Cuba. (See the 6 July issue.) Peruvian authorities requested the Cuban government to accept the four after the Venezuelan government refused to grant the group asylum. The Chileans--brothers Patricia, Willibardo and Carlos Alarcon Rojas, and a woman, Patricia Castro Flores?flew to Cuba on 9 July aboard a regular Cubana Airlines flight. Mauritanian Ambassador Shot in Paris Mauritanian ambassador to France Ahmed Ould Ghanahallah was shot and seriously wounded by two unknown gunmen on 7 July near his Paris home. The attackers fired several shots into the ambassador's car, wounding him three times. He was taken to the American Hospital and later reported out of immediate danger. In an anonymous phone call to the Agence France-Presse shortly after the attack, the "Mustapha el Wali Sayed International Brigade" claimed responsibility for the shooting. Sayed, a former Polisario Front leader, was killed in a June 1976 Polisario raid in Nouakchott. However, 5 SECRET 50X1-HUM 1 RECORD COPY PORInnn Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29 CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 13 July 1.977 50X1 -HUM -4-11A1 a Polisario spokesman in Algiers denied responsibility for the attack and blamed it on Moroccan intelligence services, charglag that the action was designed to discredit the Polisario cause. In a statement issued in Nouakchott on July, the Mauritanian Foreign Affairs Ministry accused Algeria of planning and financing the attack. 7 50X1 -HUM Israel Trying PFLP Terrorists Apprehended in Kenya Five terrorists accused of attempting to down an El Al aircraft in Kenya with Soviet-made SA-7 missiles went on trial before a secret Israeli military court on 6 July, according to press reports from Tel Aviv. The five individu- als include two West Germans, Thomas Reuter and Brigitte Schultz, and three unidentified Arabs. (See the issues of 6 April and 11 May 1977.) All are said to be members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The terror- 50X1-HUM ists have been held by the Israelis since shortly after the El Al attack was foiled on 26 January 1976, In March of this year the Israelis announced that the five people would be placed on trial. At that time the West German government protested what it believed was Israel's illegal secret detention of West German citizens. An official of the West German embassy in Tel Aviv was reported to be an observer at the opening of the trial. 50X1-HUM 5 SFCRFT 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 1 TAB A?Chronology of Significant Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 ii Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 50X1-HUM aro 50X1-HUM 13 July 1977 CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS Date: 2 July 1977 Place: Turkey, Istanbul French Ambassador's Residence Attacked Five unidentified men forced their way into the grounds of the French ambassador's summer residence in Istanbul on 2 July. They cut telephone lines linking the gate to the residence and fired at the gate guard. The men fled when the vuard returned their fire. 50X1 -HUM Date: 7 July 1977 Mauritanian Ambassador Attacked in Paris Place: France, Paris Two unknown gunmen shot and wounded the Mauritanian ambas- sador to France on 7 July near his Paris home. A Polisario Front group claimed responsi- bility for the attack in an anonymous phone call to the Agence France-Presse office. However, a Polisario spokesman in Algiers denied the Front had carried out the shooting. 50X1 -HUM Date: 8 July 1977 Kuwait Airways Plane Hijacked A Kuwait Airways plane en route Place: Lebanon, Beirut from Beirut to Kuwait was hijacked by seven Palestinians on 8 July. The aircraft landed in Kuwait for refueling and, during negotiations with Kuwaiti officials, the hi- jackers released their hostages in two groups on 8 and 9 July in return for safe conduct to SECRET 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 50X1-HUM 13 July 1977 Date: 10 July 1977 Place: Soviet Union, Petro zavodsk 50X1-HUM South Yemen. However, once airborne, with three Arab officials who had volunteered to serve as hostages, the hijackers directed the plane to Damascus. After ten hours of unsuccessful negotiations with Syrian author- ities, five of the hijackers overpowered their leader on 10 July as the aircraft was pre- paring for takeoff. All seven were taken into custody. Their affiliation is unclear, as is the motivation for the hijacking. 50X1 -HUM Aeroflot Plane Hijacked to Finland Two Soviets seized an Aeroflot plane on a domestic flight from Petrozavodsk to Leningrad on 10 July. The aircraft then landed in Helsinki, Finland, apparently because the hi- jackers believed they were in Sweden. During the course of negotiations over their demands the plane be refueled and flown to Sweden, the two men released most of the aircraft's 72 pas- sengers in several separate groups. The crew had earlier escaped through a cockpit exit. After the remaining three hostages escaped early on 12 July, the two hijackers surrendered to Finnish authorities. Finland agreed to a Soviet extradition request and will return the two men to the Soviet Union. 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Local authorities believe the attack was polit- ically motivatod SECRET 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 ITAB B?Terrorists Threats Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 50X1 -HUM vole 50X1-HUM 13 July 1977 TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS Tab B includes all reasonably credible reports of nlanned terrorist activity. the threats listed are con- sidered su?iiciently plausible to warrant alertness and the use of protective security measures. However, terrorist groups often discuss general intentions or make tentative plans for violent acts that they never succeed in carrying out. In nearly all the cases listed, the intended target and appropriate governments have been informed of the threat. ** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time. * Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues. I. Western Hemisphere, Including the United States Target: Place: Czechoslovakian Embassy United States, Washington, D.C. Date: Unknown * * Anti-Castro Cuban exiles may be planning to bomb the Czechoslovakian embassy in Washington, according to an FBI report. The purpose of the attack would be to focus attention on the Czechoslovakian embassy's role in representing Cuban diplomntir lerests in the U.S. 50X1 -HUM 50X1-HUM SECRET 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29 CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM 13 July 1977 No significant terrorist threats were reported during the period 7-13 July 1977 for the following areas: II. Europe III. Middle East IV. Africa V. Far East SECRET 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 TAB C?Potential Terrorist Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1-HUM Distribution: *Department of State Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT) Deputy Assistant Secretary Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional Problems Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security Bureau of Intelligence and Research Bureau of European Affairs *United States Mission to the United Nations,Legal Adviser U.S. Information Agency, Office of Security U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Agency for International Development, AG/Sec *Department of Defense Deputy Director for International Negotiations and Arms Control International Security Affairs Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE) Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD Defense Intelligence Agency RCI-I DIN 2D2 Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3 Department of the Army, IOSD Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank Air Force, Office of Special Investigations USAF Special Operations School (TAC) Naval Investigative Service Commandant of the Marine Corps *Department of Justice Criminal Division Emergency Programs Center *Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative Division Immigration and Naturalization Service *Department of the Treasury Office of Intelligence Support Office of Law Enforcement U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support *Department of Transportation Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2 Federal Aviation Administration *National Security Council National Security Council Staff SECRFT 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET *Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs Branch Department of Commerce Office of Investigations and Security Office of Administrative Support, DIBA National Security Agency, C54-CDB U.S. Energy Research Development Administration Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security *Central Intelligence Agency DDO *Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism Member 50X1 -HUM ANN 50X1 -HUM SECRET 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Secret Secret ? 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Weekly Situation Report on International Terrorism Secret 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM 20 July 1977 100 Secret 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT CONTENTS 20 July 1977 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM Notes: 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM Nome Finland Returns Hijackers to Soviet Union (Page 5) Lufthansa Airlines Hijack Attempt Fails (Page 6) TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans II. Europe III. Middle East SECRET 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 20 July 1977 IV. Afric# V. Far E#st 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM SECRET Aps 50X1 -HUM 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 R 50X1 -HUM Next 3 Page(s) In Document Denied Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 FritFT 20 July 1977 NOTES 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM IOW Finland Returns Hijackers to Soviet Union Two Russian youths, who hijacked an Aeroflot plane to Finland on 10 July, were turned over to Soviet authorities in Helsinki on 13 July and flown back to the USSR. (See the 13 July issue.) The Finnish government announced it had extradited the pair under the terms of a Finnish/Soviet anti-hijacking agreement signed in 1974 and effective since August 1975. The two hijackers face 3-15 year prison terms in the Soviet Union. SECRET 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 20 July 1977 During questioning by Finnish police while the extra- dition papers were being processed, the hijackers, Aleksandr Zagirnyak and Gennady Selushko, said they had planned their action two weeks in advance. They claimed to have Purchased their only weapon an inert hand grenade. Lufthansa Airline Hijack Attempt Fails An unidentified man armed with a kni a Lufthansa airliner en route from Frankf 28 June. He was overpowered by some of t passengers and th plane made an unschedu Munich to turn th man over to German pol 50X1-HUM AMIN 50X1-HUM fe attempted to seize urt to Istanbul on he aircraft's led landing in ice. The would-be hijacker tried to forcibly enter the pilot's cabin when the plane was approximately fifty miles north of Munich. He had been placed on the flight by German immigration authorities when it was discoVered, upon his arrival from London, that he had been barted from entrance into the FRG since 1969. The man told po ice he wanted to stay in West Germany and had intended to orce the Lufthansa aircraft to land at a German airport. 6 CCrDCT Aok 50X1-HUM 411111103 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 I TAB A?Chronology of Significant Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET *IV 20 July 1977 CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS Date: 14 July 1977 Place: Greece, Athens Date: 18 July 1977 Place: England, London 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM U.S. Targets Bombed in Athens A bomb explosion at the American Express Company offices in Athens shattered windows and damaged the main door. A car belonging to an American pro- fessor at a U.S.-sponsored school was set ablaze. A second bomb, which had failed to ex- plode, was found in a storeroom at the U.S. Armed Forces Post Exchange. No injuries were reported in any of the incidents, which were blamed on protestors against alleged U.S. support for the former military government and alleged U.S. tolerance of the Turkish invasion of Cyprilq- 50X1-HUM Vietnamese Embassy Bombed Two firebombs were thrown at the Vietnamese embassy in London on 18 July, setting off small fires. Damage was minor and there were 50X1-HUM no injuries. The persons re- sponsible are not known. SECRET A- 1 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29 CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 TAB B?Terrorists Threats Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS 20 July 1977 Tab B includes all reasonably credible reports of planned terrorist activity. the threats listed are con- slaerea sufficiently plausible to warrant alertness and the use of protective security measures. However, terrorist groups often discuss general intentions or make tentative plans for violent acts that they never succeed in carrying out. In nearly all the cases listed, the intended target and appropriate governments have been informed of the threat. ** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time. * Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues. I. Western Hemisphere, Including the United States Target: Czechoslovakian Embassy Place: United States, Washington, D.C. Date: Unknown Anti-Castro Cuban exiles may be planning to bomb the Czechoslovakian embassy in Washington, according to an FBI report. The purpose of the attack would be to focus attention on the Czechoslovakian embassy's role in representing Cuban diplomatic intPrests in the U.S. SECRET B - I -1 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 COrDPT NNW' 50X1 -HUM 20 July 1977 No significant terrorist threats were reported during the period 14-20 July 1977 for the following areas: II. Europe III. Middle East IV. Africa V. Far East 50X1 -HUM SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A00080010000 -0 TAB C?Potential Terrorist Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 *or' Distribution: 50X1 -HUM *Department of State Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT) Deputy Assistant Secretary Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional Problems Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security Bureau of Intelligence and Research Bureau of European Affairs *United States Mission to the United Nations,Legal Adviser U.S. Information Agency,.. Office of Security U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Agency for International Development, AG/Sec *Department of Defense Deputy Director for International Negotiations and Arms Control International Security Affairs Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE) Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD Defense Intelligence Agency RCI-I DIN 2D2 Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3 Department of the Army, IOSD Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank Air Force, Office of Special Investigations USAF Special Operations School (TAC) Naval Investigative Service Commandant of the Marine Corps *Department of Justice Criminal Division Emergency Programs Center *Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative Division Immigration and Naturalization Service *Department.of the Treasury Office of Intelligence Support Office of Law Enforcement U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support *Department of Transportation Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2 Federal Aviation Administration *National Security Council National Security Council Staff SFCRFT 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET *Office of Management and Budget, International Affairs Branch Department of commerce Office bf Investigations and Security Office pf Administrative Support, DIBA National Security Agency, C54-CDB U.S. Energy Research Development Administration Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security *Central Intelligence Agencv DDO *Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism Member RECORD copy PCS/DDO SFCRFT 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Secret Secret RECORD COPY PCS/DDO Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1-HUM Weekly Situation Report on International Terrorism Secret 50X1 -HUM 27 July 1977 1.30 Secret 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET WEEKLY SITUATION REPORT CONTENTS 27 July 1977 Articles: Croatian Hijackers Sentenced (Page 1) Not b. German Terrorists Sentenced for Attack on FRG Embassy in Stockholm (Page 3) Norwegian Tried and Sentenced for Transporting Explosives (Page 3) French Police Charge Revelli-Beaumont Negotiator (Page 4) 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM Background Article: How The Montoneros Struck It Rich (Page 5) TAB A - Chronology of Significant International Terrorist Acts TAB B - Terrorist Threats and Plans I. Western Hemisphere, Including United States _SECRET 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 27 July 1977 Midde East IV. Africa V. Far East 50X1-HUM 50X1 ?HUM - SECRET Ask, 50X1 ?HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 27 July 1977 ARTICLES Croatian Hijackers Sentenced The five Croatian nationalists who hijacked a TWA flight between New York and Chicago last September have been sentenced by the Federal District Court in New York following their conviction on air piracy charges. The group's leader, Zvonko Busic and his American wife, Julienne, both received life sentences on 20 July. Although Busic must serve ten years before being eligible for parole, the presiding judge reduced Mrs. Busic's parole eligibility to eight years because he believed she might not have been involved in the hijacking had she not met her husband. The other three defendants, Petar Matanic, Frane Pesut and Marc Vlasic, were sentenced on 21 July to 30-year prison terms. Matanic and Pesut will be eligible for parole in ten years. Vlasic, who pleaded guilty to the federal charge of air piracy, could be eligible for parole at any time, but must first serve the 6-18 year sentence he has already received as a result of his guilty plea to state charges of attempted kidnaping. (See the 9 March issue.) The Busics, Matanic and Pesut still face trial on state murder charges connected with the death of New York City po- liceman Brian Murray. Murray was killed while attempting to defuse a bomb the hijackers had left in a Grand Central Station locker. SECRET 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET NOTES 27 July 1977 German Terrorists Sentenced for Attack on FRG Embassy in Stockholm On 20 July a West German court sentenced four members of the Baader-Meinhof gang to double life terms in prison for their 24 April 1975 attack on the West German embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. Two diplomats were killed during the incident. (See the issues of 29 April and 6 May 1975 for details of the attack.) The four terrorists, Hanna-Elise Krabbe, Lutz Manfred Taufer, Karl-Heinz Dellwo and Bernard Maria Roessner, had attacked the embassy to force the release of 26 terrorists from West German jails. Two other members of the gang were killed during the accidental explosion of a bomb that ended the siege. The trial of the four defendants in Duesseldorf, West Germany, had started on 6 May 1976. Charged with murder, taking of hostages and attempted extortion of the West German government, the terrorists were tried in a specially built courtroom. Norwegian Tried and Sentenced for Transporting Explosives Beirut newspapers on 20 July carried a Reuter account of the trial and sentencing of Norwegian citizen Lars Gule. He was arrested on 6 May at Beirut airport for carrying plastic explosives in his luggage. (See the issue of 11 May.) A Lebanese military tribunal heard Gule testify that he had planned to set off an explosion in Israel on -5 June, the anniversary date of the outbreak of the 1967 war. Gule said he belongs to a commando organization whose aims are to support the Palestinian cause. He claimed that this was his first attempt to carry out a bombing operation. Gule was sentenced to six months imprisonment and fined approximately U.S. $175.00 for possession and transport of explosives. He was acquitted on charges of trying to smuggle explosives out o Lebanon for subversive activities abroad. 3 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM SFCRFT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 27 July 1977 French Police Ch r e Revelli-Beaumont Negotiator Albert Chambon, a retired ambassador who was instra- mental in obtaining Revelli-Beaumont, the release of Fiat executive Luchino was charged on 20 July with protecting criminals by failing to tell French pollee of his nego- tiations with the kidnapers. (See the 1 July issue.) Revelli-Beaumont was freed on 11 July after being held for 89 days. Chambon2 68, is a friend of ReVelli-Beaumont and was called in by the kidnapers at the victim's request. He conducted the final negotiations which fixed the amount of ransom and arranged the method of its payment. In another development, seven persons suspected of involvement in the kidnaping have been arrested in Spain France has requested their extradition. 4 SECRET 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 27 July 1977 50X1-HUM BACKGROUND ARTICLE How The Montoneros Struck It Rich One of the most lucrative kidnapings of all times was staged by the Montoneros in Buenos Aires on 19 September 1974. While their abduction of the two Born brothers was, strictly speaking, an internal Argentine matter, the ransom which was exacted has since then allowed the Montoneros to engage in numerous terrorist incidents which have been truly international in character. According to information provided by leaders of the Montoneros, the planning of the operation against the Born brothers began during late 1973 or early 1974.. The Montoneros decided that the firm of Bunge and Born, a multinational conglomerate, was guilty of exploiting its workers, was the "enemy" of small and medium size rural producers who were "bankrupted" by the company's monopolistic policies, and was "acting for its own benefit and profit and not in accord with the national interests of the countries where its businesses were established." The Montoneros concluded that a kidnaping operation should be conducted against the Bunge and Born company and it should be developed as follows: (1) collection of informa- tion on the company itself and on its principal leaders; (2) surveillance of target individuals to establish weaknesses in their defenses; (3) selection of the ambush site; (4) selection of Montonero members to participate in the operation; (5) execution of the ambush itself with subse- quent escape of the kidnapers; and finally, (6) announcement of a "trial" of those abducted and imposition of a "sentence" which would include a ransom payment. The information section of the Montoneros provided the preliminary targeting information. After this initial survey and target analysis, which took several months, it was decided that Jorge Born, Jr., should be the major target of the abduction, since he was the third most important man in the firm and would be the one to direct it in the future. The two senior members of the company, Jorge Born, Sr., and Mario Hirsh, were not chosen because both were considered SECRET 5 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 27 July 1977 ? too elderly. IV.4en it was observed that'Jorge Born, Jr., was normally accompanied by his brother Juan, the Montoneros decided to kidnap both brothers. 1 The terrorists learned that the Born family lived in the Beccar section of the city, and traveled to their - offices in the Federal District every day, Monday through Friday, with great regularity. Each morning a three-car caravan would leave the home, and after leaving children in one of the area's private schools, two of the cars would follow a fixed route to the Born offices. It was determined that the family had at its disposal a tetal of seven vehicles The route used by the Born family was over main streets which were normally choked with traffic and well- patrolled by police units. The kidnapers decided they would deal with this situation by blocking off a short section of the main avenue a minute before the Born vehicles arrived, detouring the Borns to a side street, and then reopening the route before police units discovere the trick. In searching for an obvious reason for a detour, the kidnapers discovered that workers were pruning trees along a section of the main avenue. The next step in this phase of the operation was the selection of the specific side street where the kidnapers could divert the Born vehicles and cap- ture the two brothers. Thirty Mont neros were chosen for the operation and they were divided int five teams. One team, consisting of three members, was to tlock the main avenue and then lift the barricade once 01.e Born cars had turned. A nine-man team was to protect the blockaders and then move quickly to the kidnaping site and help protect that team. Two groups consisting of five men each (one dressed as a uniformed policeman) were io crash pickup trucks iko the Born auto- mobiles in a fake accident. A fifth team, with six men (including the overall operation leader), would actually kidnap the brothers. Finally, a two-man subteam would eliminate a gatekeeper on the escape route. The attack was set for 19 September 1974. On that date, according to plan, the Born caravan was detoured onto the side street and he Montoneros' two pickup trucks collided with the Ford Falcons belonging to the Borns. The Montonero disguised as a uniformed policeman, plus six "plainclothes" Montoneros, succeeded in keeping the Borns' guards occupied, 6 SECRET 50X1-HUM 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 27 July 1977 ostensibly trying to arrest them in connection with the auto accident, while the six-man team removed the Born brothers from their car and led them to one of the waiting escape vehicles. The two Montoneros who had attacked the gatekeeper calmly walked away, leaving two smashed Ford Falcons, two pickup trucks, and five cars--with honking horns--which had been accidentally detoured onto the side street along with the Born caravan. The Montoneros held a trial of the Born brothers and followed it with a sentencing. The sentence called for the following: a payment equivalent to $60 million U.S. in cash to the Montoneros, with another $1 million U.S. in goods to be distributed to specified sectors of the Argentine public; the personal involvement of the Born brothers in company/union negotiations in factories controlled by the Born family; placement of busts of Juan and Eva Peron in all Born factories; and finally, publication of leaflets throughout Argentina to let the public know that the distribution of the goods was made under pressure from the Montoneros as part of the ransom for the safe release of the Born brothers. 50X1-HUM The ransom demands were met to the satisfaction of the .Montoneros, and the Born brothers were released unharmed several months after the kidnaping. 50X1 -HUM SECRET 50X1 -HUM 7 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 TAB A?Chronology of Significant Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET 27 July 1977 CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ACTS Date: Place: 714 01' 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 23 and 24 July 1977 U.S.-Owned Mining Facility Attacked Indonesia, West Unknown persons, believed to Irian be Irianese insurgents, at- tacked a mining facility owned by Freeport Indonesia, a U.S. company in West Irian, on 23 and 24 July. On 23 July, a fuel storage facility was destroyed. Power lines between the town and plant site were cut on the night of the 24th. No injuries have been reported. SECRET 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1-HUM TAR R?Tprrnrictc Thrpntc Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET *sr 27 July 1977 TERRORIST THREATS AND PLANS 50X1 -HUM Tab B includes all reasonably Credible rennrtc nf nlanne(I terrorist activity. 50X1 -HUM the threats listed are con- sidered sufficiently plausible to warrant alertness and the use of protective security measures. However, terrorist groups often discuss general intentions or make tentative plans for violent acts that they never succeed in carrying out. In nearly all the cases listed, the intended target and appropriate governments have been informed of the threat. ** Indicates a new threat reported for the first time. * Indicates a revision of a threat reported in previous issues. I. Western Hemisphere, Including the United States Target: Czechoslovakian Embassy Place: United States, Washington, D.C. Date: Unknown Anti-Castro Cuban exiles may be planning to bomb the Czechoslovakian embassy in Washington, according to an FBI report. The purpose of the attack would be to focus attention on the Czechoslovakian embassy's role in representing Cuban diplomatic interests in the U.S. (SECRET) 50X1 -HUM SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 '- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0')X1-HUM SECRET Target: Place: Date: B I - 2 rRE C ORD COPY Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Jesuit Priests El Salvador Current * * The White Warriors Union, a right-wing Salvadoran ter- rorist group, threatened in June to immediately and sys- tematically execute the approx- imately 50 Jesuits in El Salvador unless the priests left the country in 30 days. The Jesuits, most of whom are foreigners, are accused by the terrorists of "communist subversion," as a result of the priests' attempts to organize the peasants against what the church views as ex- ploitation by the landowning class and the government. The 21 JUly deadline for the Jesuits' departure passed without incident, but the priests are being clo!ely guarded by police and parish- ioners. 50X1-HUM oom SECRET 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1-HUM Nue' SECRET 27 July 1977 No significant terrorist threats were reported during the period 21-27 July 1977 for the following areas: III. Middle East IV. Africa V. Far East 50X1 -HUM SECRFT Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 TAR C?PntPritinl Tprrnrict Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 50X1 -HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001- Distribution: *Department of State Director of Office for Combatting Terrorism (M/CT) Deputy Assistant Secretary Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional Problems Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security Bureau of Intelligence and Research Bureau of European Affairs *United States Mission to the United Nations,Legal Adviser U.S. Information Agency, Office of Security U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency ?Agency for International Development, AG/Sec *Department of Defense Deputy Director for International Negotiations and Arms Control International Security Affairs Office of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (AE) Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, SAGA/PMD Defense Intelligence Agency RCI-I DIN 2D2 Defense Nuclear Agency, OATA/PAAD/3 Department of the Army, IOSD Commandant, USAIMA, CTD Data Bank Air Force, Office of Special Investigations USAF Special Operations School (TAC) Naval Investigative Service Commandant of the Marine Corps *Department of justice Office of the Deputy Attorney General Emergency Programs Center Criminal? Division *Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Investigative Division Immigration and Naturalization Service *Department of the Treasury Office of Intelligence Support Office of Law Enforcement U.S. Secret Service, Office of Protective Forces U.S. Customs Service, Office of Enforcement Support *Department of Transportation Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Consumer Affairs, DOT/TES-2 Federal Aviation Administration SECRET 50X1 -HUM 50X1 -HUM 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 SECRET *National Security Council National Security Council Staff *Office of ManageMent and Budget, International Affairs Branch Department of CoMmerce Office of Investigations and Security Office of Administrative Support, DIBA National Security Agency, C54-CDB U.S. Energy Research Development Administration Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Division of Security *Central Intelligence Agency DDO *Cabinet Committe7 to Combat Terrorism Member SECRET 50X1 -HUM ANN 50X1 -HUM 50X1-HUM 50X1-HUM Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0 Secret Secret -?4005 IRECORD COPY I Declassified in Part - Sanitized_Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/29: CIA-RDP79-01209A000800100001-0