LIBYAN PLOT TO BLOW UP NEW YORK-MAYBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100260059-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: March 6, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK POST
6 March 1985
Libyan plot to blowup New Fork
maybe
A NEW book that details a Libyan plot to de. under police investigation for several undis.
stroy a large section of midtown Manhattan has closed reasons."
been dismissed as "comic book stuff" and a The article goes on to dispute several stories
"complete fantasy" just as 50,000 copies are in the book, being published in Britain this
about to hit bookstore shelves
.
The book, The Specialist, written under the
pseudonym of Gayle Rivers, purports to be
one man's story of his personal crusade
against international terrorism.
The author claims to have worked for vari-
ous Intelli ence a encies an s ec a orces,
Including r to n s crac pec a r erv ces
souad. He states n an opening note:
7ad, ery incident in this book is true and the
people are all real."
But the Sunday Times of London reported
this week that the author Is actually Raymond
Brooks, "who failed to make the grade as an
SAS territorial reservist.
"He is now an arms dealer
of the Atlantic next month by Stein and Day. S&D, budgeting $60,000 for promotion
has al.
,
ready taken out ads for the $16.95 hardcover
carrying the headline: "Does the United States
hire assassins? This book is by one.".
The London paper disputes that assertion as
well as the yarn about a Libyan plan in 1982
"to collect together a massive quantity of ex-
plosives on a subway train in New York City.
"The explosives were to be assembled by
several different terrorist organizations, each
of which believed it was working alone and for
Its own purposes."
The groups, according to the book, included
Puerto Rican Rastafarians ("a splinter group
from the Jamaican 'Rastas,' "), the Jewish De=
tense League, the Black Liberation Arm
d
y an
the Islamic League.
"Each -group was to infiltrate a relatively
small quantity of explosives into the New
York subway system. The concentration was
to be assembled finally on one train and deto
hated at a point in midtown Manhattan where
there is a land fault."
"Poiice and the security specialists lived
through some very nasty moments until the-,
plot was unravelled," the author notes.
Sol Stein, of Stein, and Day, stands behind the
book, never mind the Sunday Times. "I spent
7% hours with the author in London putting
questions to him that our lawyers prepared."
Of the two reporters, John Witherow and
James Adams, who exposed the author's identity,
Stein said, "They're very good fiction writers. I'd
be happy to sign them up [for a novel]."
By RICHARD JOHNSON
STAT
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