GROUP HIT OTHER TARGETS, FBI BELIEVES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 9, 1983
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ARTICLE APPEARED WASHINGTON POST
ON PAGE 9 November 1983
Group Hit
other Targets,
FBI Believes
M By Ronald Ressler. . 7'
Washington Past 3t It writer
The FBI believes the group
that claimed responsibility for. an
explosion that :damaged the Cap-
itol Monday night has been in-
volved, either directly or through
affiliated groups, in a series of
bombings of federal or corporate
offices in New York and Washing.
ton over the last year, according
to informed sources.
A tape recorded message was.
telephoned to The Washington
Post moments before the explo-
sion at 11 p.m. and said that the
action was being taken by the
Armed Resistance Unit in support
of "all nations' struggle" against
.U.S. military aggression in Gre-
nada and Lebanon. A second call,
also recorded, warned the Capitol
switchboard that a bomb was
about to go off.
Moments later, an explosion
left piles of rubble just outside the
doors to the Senate chamber,
blowing out a wall partition and
windows, ripping through the Re-
publican Cloakroom, and damag-
ing several works of art on the
second floor. The bomb appeared
to have been placed on or under a
window well seat in a corridor
leading to the Senate chamber.
Congressional aides said the.
blast, while .it apparently, caused
.no structural damage, probably
will cost at least $1 million to re
pair. .
Security. was immediately tight.
ened at the Capitol and other gov-
ernment buildings yesterday. Sev-
eral federal o?fice buildings and
Metro's Capitol South subway
station were closed temporarily
after numerous bomb threats were
received during the day. The D.C.
police warned commanders that
terrorist groups could strike again
composed of guerrillas who,
r4oeiue
by tape recorded messages played Cuban aid and cooperate with both.'-
during telephone calls. The messages the Armed-. Resistance. Unit and -a,
referred to .US. imperialism,. Amer- Puerto Rican terrorist. group called
ican bases, and Guatemala. - . .- the FALN, according to the FBL
-Yesterday, National Public Radio In the. most' recent. 'bombing, the
received in the mail a typewritten United ' Freedom Front claimed re-
"communique" from the: Armed Re. sponsibility for two bombs that dam.,
sistance .Unit saying,. "Tonight we aged a Bronx Army Reserve Center
bombed the US. Capitol building." - Aug. 20. Kenneth Wilton, d uo
The letter continues: "We at. assistant FBI director in . charg
tacked the U.S. government to the New York office, said at the time
taliate against imperialist agffression that the group is also known as the
that that has sent the Marines ha ? Armed Resistance Unit and the Rev. j
CIA, and the Army to -invade olutionary Fighting Group. =
sovereign nations, to trample and lay On Aug. 18, a small explosive de-
wdste the lives and rights of the o- vice caused minor damage to- the
Ales of Grenada. Lebanon. El Sal. outside of a building housing a com=
vador, and Nicaragua to carry out puter operation at the Washington
imperials need to dominate. on, Navy Yard. The FMLN, in a tape
press. and exploit" recorded call, claimed responsibility.
Saying the group consciously On May 12, explosions rocked
aimed its attack at American insti- military reserve centers in Nassau
tutions as opposed to individuals, and Queens counties in New York.
the letter. refers approvingly to at. The FBI said the United Freedom'
tempts by nationalists to create an Front was believed responsible.-
independent Puerto Rican nation Last Jan. 28, a man identifying
and calls for "Victory to the FMLN/- himself as a member of the Revolu.
FDR" and support for the Palestine tionary Fighting Group called Unit.
Liberation Organization (PLO). ed Press International to claim re-
.. FMLN and FDR are two groups sponsibility for a bomb that explod-
among interrelated organizations ed near an FBI office in New York.
that have claimed responsibility for On New Year's Eve, four bombs
the bombings that have plagued in- exploded within 90 minutes of one
stitutions in Washington and New another, racking four government
York, the FBI believes. Several. re- buildings, including New York City.
ceive backing and money from the police headquarters and U.S. District
Cuban government, :according to in. Court in' Brooklyn. A caller claimed
formation received by the bureau at least- two of the bombings were
from U.S. intelligence done by the FALN, while another
The most visible organizations have Caller said the PLO was responsible.
n the.?FMLN, the Spanish acro- Washington Post staff writers
nym for Farabundo Marti Liberation Joseph E. Bouchard, Sandra R.
. Front, and its political arm, the Dena- Gregg, Alfred E. Lewis;-Eric pianin,
. ocratic Revolutionary Front, or FDR_ and Margaret Shapiro contributed
Based in El Salvador, the FMLN is to this story.
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