BANG BANG YOU'RE DEAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400070007-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 1, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

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hat once Hasp erred
s dusk settled on Fogey Bottom
one evening last November, an
automobile bore down on two
pedestrians walking, with the
fight, across an intersection. There was
no squeal of brakes. In fact, the auto
seemed to aim, it was said later.
One of the pedestrians, noticeable
even in the gathering darkness by a
priest's white collar, was struck and
dragged thirty feet. The car sped off,
]caving its victim a mass of cuts and
bruises.
The injured man was Ugandan Bishop
lesto Kivengere, a prominent figure in
the coalition that helped bring down Idi
Amin. Eight months ago he was in politi-
cal exile here, having fled Uganda after
seeing his superior, Anglican Arch-
bishop Janani Luwum, led off to be mur-
dered by Amin's henchmen. Although
Kivengere spent a day recuperating in
George Washington University Hospital,
he refused to report the hit-and-run to
police. He also declined in an interview
even to acknowledge the incident, which
was related to us by fellow churchmen.
Apparently, he feared reps' :ils against
The truth of the incid''~-f-whether
K.ivengere was simply the ictim of a
scared or callous ;oiver, ?vhether he
was being hunted -,tt th, streets of
Washington as OrluntoLetriierhad once
been hunted here by Chile's DINA, and
if so whether his iniriries were meant asp
warning or were in tact a botched assas-
sination attempt-lies buried with
Amin's State Research Bureau; but the
tact remains that what once was largely
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political refugees and dissidents, and
with the foreign intelligence agencies as-
signed to keep watch over and occasion-
ally silence their governments' critics,
the murder of Orlando Letelier at Sheri-
dan Circle almost three years ago was
neither an isolated nor necessarily a re-
markable act. Nor were the bombs that
exploded in recent years at the Soviet and
unthinkable in }Vashin2tqr~ is brow ?
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In a city swelling with emigres. with
Yugoslav embassies. Nor was the letter
bomb sent by the Irish Republican Army
that tore a hand off an employee at the
British Embassy in 1973. Nor was the
hail of bullets that killed Yosef Alon. an
Israeli military attache, as he stood in
front of his Bethesda home. They were,
instead, attacks stayed in a war that re-
spects few national boundaries.
Michael Townley, who pleaded guilty
to murdering Letelier for Chile's secret
police, said matter of factly at his trial
that he considered himself and Letelierto
be soldiers who met on a battlefield. All
the evidence suggests that the soldier; in
Washington are growing in numbers on
both sides.
It wasn't always thus. Exiles used to
head mainly for Geneva and Paris- Em-
bassy Row used to be open to anyone
outfitted with the right clothes. National
Day celebrations brought out the profes-
sional freeloaders whose only credential
was an appetite for hors d'oeuvres and
champagne- Not anymore.
Now embassy partygoers must pass
first the sentinels of the US Executive
Protection Service and then the security
men of the foreign host-the inevitable
signs of reaction to a wave of terrorism
that has swept the globe.
Perhaps because it has been involved
so often in the past in international vio-
lence, the Israeli government has been
among the most aggressive in protecting
its diplomats. For several years after
Alon's death, embassy staff hem were
required to live in apartment buildings
with attended lobbies; rules stipulated
that they choose apartments on the third
floor or higher but not on the top floor,
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Some of the most Draconian of those
measures have now been relaxed, but the