BOMBING OPERATIONS IN BEIRUT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404440049-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: May 13, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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First Line Report
STATION WTOP Radio
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DATE May 13, 1985 5:40 PM CITY Washington, DC
Bombing Operations in Beirut
JUDY MULLER: "First Line Report," news and commentary.
This is Judy Muller, CBS News.
October 1983, some 240 American servicemen were killed
as they slept in their barracks at the Beirut Airport. The
American response, outrage.
In the months that followed, the Administration warned
repeatedly that it would take serious measures to prevent
terrorist attacks against Americans. It now appears that one of
those serious measures has-seriously backfired.
According to congressional and Administration sources, a
car bombing on March 8th that killed more than 80 people in a
Moslem sector of Beirut was carried out by a Lebanese counter-
terrorists group that had been working with the CIA. The sources
say the CIA did not authorize the bombing, but even an indirect
connection raises the same old troubling question. How do you
fight people who fight dirty without becoming soiled yourself?
More, after this.
MULLER: Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who
was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee last year,
says he was informed that President Reagan had ordered the CIA to
develop a small.anti-terrorist effort in the Mideast.
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