SENATORS DURENBERGER AND LEAHY LAUD CAPTURE OF SHIP TERRORISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP87M01152R000901130004-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 11, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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news release
Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence
FOR IMMEDIAfE RELEASE
OCTOBER 11, 1985
CONTACT: DAVE HOLLIDAY
(202) 224-1718
SENATORS DURENBERGER AND LEAHY LAUD CAPTURE
Senators Dave Durenberger (R-MN) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT),
Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, said today that the United States Intelligence Community
is to be congratulated on its role in identifying and locating the
aircraft carrying the terrorists of the Italian cruise ship,
Achille Lauro. "The skillful handling of the situation without
further loss of life by our intelligence organizations and the military
demonstrates the professionalism of these elements of the government,"
Durenberger and Leahy said.
Durenberger and Leahy went on to say that our disagreements with
Egypt over how to solve the problem should now be placed behind us.
"Both the United States and Egypt should turn to a review of the
lessons learned about how to handle future acts of terrorism. This
is a common problem. The sooner we cooperate, the more we can expect
similar success in countering future terrorists."
"While countries are getting better in combatting terrorism,"
they said, "we shouldn't overstate the one success. Egypt, Italy,
Tunisia and other countries are all to be commended for trying to
end the crisis quickly and peacefully without further loss of life.
They are our friends and we want to keep it that way. This is not
the end of the terrorism problem."
DAVE DURENBERGER, MINNESOTA, CHAIRMAN
PATRICK LEAHY, VERMONT, VICE CHAIRMAN
WILLIAM V. ROTH JR., DELAWARE LLOYD BENTSEN. TEXAS
WILLIAM S. COHEN, MAINE SAM NUNN, GEORGIA
ORRIN HATCH, UTAH THOMAS F EAGLETON, MISSOURI
FRANK MURKOWSKI, ALASKA ERNEST F HOLLINGS, SOUTH CAROLINA
ARLEN SPECTER, PENNSYLVANIA DAVID L BOREN, OKLAHOMA
CHIC HECHT, NEVADA BILL BRADLEY, NEW JERSEY
MITCH MCCONNELL, KENTUCKY
ROBERT DOLE KANSAS, EX OFFICIO
ROBERT C BYRD, WEST VIRGINIA, EX OFFICIO
BERNARD P. McMAHON, STAFF DIRECTOR
ERIC D. NEWSOM, MINORITY STAFF DIRECTOR
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