'PATRONS' OF THE DEALERS IN DEATH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600070046-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: July 7, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
THE WASHINGTON POST
Jack Anderson
`Patrons' of the Dealers in Death
Secret Central Intelligence Agency
papers have identified foreign govern-
ments that deliberately foster the
spread of terrorism.
The documents report that terror-
ism increasingly is running amok, tak-
ing scores of lives and creating anar-
chy. The world seems unable to cope
with the mushrooming malignancy.
Even worse, governments which sit
in the United Nations and profess be-
lief in civilized concepts have become
"patrons of terrorism," according to
the CIA.
In a Rhodesian jungle, 12 missionar-
ies and children are found butchered
by guerrilla nationalists. In Rome, the
Red Brigade plays cat-and-mouse with
the fate of kidnaped Prime Minister
Aldo Moro, then dumps his bullet-ridd-
led body downtown. In North Yemen,
President Ahmed Hussein Ghashmi is
blown up by a bomb, the second chief
of state assassinated in that desert
countryin eight months.
The Meinhof-Baader gang runs
rampant in Germany. Death squads
operate in Latin America. An esti-
mated 1,800 people have died in the
violence that has beset Northern Ire-
land these past nine years. Even in the
United states, politically inspired bom-
bings by underground groups have
brought death and destruction.
The perpetrators of these crimes are
motivated by zealotry for a political
cause. Even more sinister is that at
least a dozen governments around the
world have been conspiring with the
assassins.
The CIA documents graphically
show the number of terrorist incidents
rising from near zero in 1965 to nearly
250 in 1977.
This and other intelligence docu-
ments pinpoint a number of foreign
governments which are considered
"patrons" on the dealers in death.
Here is the secret CIA listing:
? Libya, South Yemen and Iraq sup-
port the Palestinian terrorists with
arms, money and supplies. Libya is
also accused of supporting insurrectio-
nists in Chad.
? Red China supplies secret arms to
terrorists who operate in numerous
troublespots. South African terrorists,
for example, have close ties to the Chi-
nese.
North Korea ships arms to various
terrorist operations and conducts a
training center for guerrillas.
? Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique
and Botswana serve as arsenals and
bases for black nationalist operations
trying to take over Rhodesia and Na-
mibia.
? The CIA includes the Liberation
Office of the Organization for African
Unity (OAU) as a terrorist patron. This
means that money contributed to the
OAU by Liberia, Nigeria and other
pro-Western governments is being
funneled to left-wing revolutionaries.
? Algeria is linked to subversive
groups which obtain arms, support
and training.
? Cuba's inroads into Africa are well-
known in Angola and Ethiopia. More
surreptitiously, Fidel Castro's agents
are working with covert African ter-
rorist groups.
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? Argentina and Paraguay tacitly tol-
erate right-wing terrorism in Latin
America. In. previous columns we have
reported the same tactics encouraged
by Chile, Guatemala, El Salvador and
Uruguay.
? Intelligence sources say Mexico
and Costa Rica may be dealing secretly
with terrorist outfits. But the details
are sketchy.
There is quiet sentiment inside
Washington policy councils, mean-
while, to declare that any terrorist at-
tack fomented by another nation upon
the United States will be considered an
act of war.
Message From Ankara: Turkish
Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit has dis-
patched a personal message to us prot-
esting a couple of lines in a recent
column.
We had reported that American Am-
bassador Ronald Spiers, in a cable-
gram to Washington, had character-
ized an Ecevit speech as "mindless na-
tionalism." Upon reading our story, we
reported, Ecevit "raised an almighty
howl," whereupon Spiers was ordered
to fly to Brussels "to soothe the ruffled
Ecevit, who was in Belgium at the
time."
In his message to us, Ecevit, said he
"did not personally react to the report
attributed to Ambassador Spiers. I
would have reacted if my country
were unfairly treated or criticized, but
I prefer to be tolerant when personally
criticized." This should please and sur-
prise the State Department.