VIRGINIA TOWN PREPARES TO BATTLE A PROPOSED ANTI-TERRORIST SCHOOL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404030052-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: January 2, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
ARTICLE APPEqL 2 January 1985
ON PAGE
Virginia town prepares to bad
a proposed anti-terrorist school
STAFFORD, Va. (TJPI) - Residents of this :. available for 'weapon demonstrations. Mr.
pastoral community are readying their Minogue said there would be no weapons
defenses to fight a proposed anti-terrorist heavier than a Uzi submachine gun, which
school that would teach government officials fires .38-caliber pistol ammunition.
and businessmen how to combat kidnappers "We're not communists," said Mr.
and assassins. - n. Minogue, who has engaged in the counter-
The counterterrorism training center is terrorism business for six years. "We're not
the brainchild of J. Peter Minogue, a 34-year- soldier-of-fortune types.
old entrepreneur who is -trying to dispel "There won't be tanks. There won't be any
images of night bombing raids and soldier- night bombing runs. We won't be training
of-fortune types roaming through the Staf- . Libyans. Oh, and we won't be using nerve
t-,~?. gas.
ford County countryside..,'
But Mr. Minogue has hit civilian battle,::,,_ ,Neighbor Don Macleay is not so sure.
lines that threaten to halt his attempts to gain.; "Like I heard somebody say, folks around
a special zoning permit that would allow the,,, here -don't know the difference between a
school, on 100 acres along Potomac Creek...'',. - terrorist and a counterterrorist," said Mr.
N. He:- contends the school would serve Macleay, a computer salesman. "And they
executives in the public and private sector _ really don't want to find out"
and typically involve one-day driving semi Mr. Macleay and others marshaled 150
nars and four-day seminars that would cover,;;,; Stafford residents to protest the zoning mat-
such items as,"ambush scenarios [and] ran- ter during a public hearing in December.
dom attacks."= The county Board of Supervisors postponed
Mr. Minogue said his school would encom- the decision until January, hoping the two
:pass a classroom building, a vehicle; sides could resolve their differences.,
maintenance shop and facilities for outfit-,, Ironically, Stafford officials earlier
ting armor-plated limousines. There would approved an $800,000 industrial revenue
be a one-mile auto course for teaching defen-; bond issue for Mr. Minogues business, JPM
sive -driving, particularly to chauffeurs and.. "Inc., to help him to borrow'funds to start the
,guards of the rich and powerful. school.
The most controversial element of the. Mr. Macleay does not believe the two sides
school is a firing :range that would be -` will reconcile.
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