MASSIVE SECURITY MEASURES SET FOR OLYMPIC GAMES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200860021-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: April 15, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
15 April 1984
Massive Security
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By Jay Mathews - h .I a~enc checks the visitor's identification. No one en
Washington Foss statt writer A web of intelli a .,pt SPC~iricv ters the main portion of the building without a
LOS A_\GELES-Faced with Soviet coin- iac u ing the CIA and the Natio c &ggta special badge and an escort.
plaints about crime, demonstrations and po- A encv i` funnelinc mate.ia to Best, a former FBI agent in charge of the fits tential terrorist threats. Los Angeles Olvmnic tential threats from Arne R;ran and Los Angeles field office, said he hopes to avoid-
officials have completed plans to flood the rmesru"tu` ,?" - , to The using metal aetectors on spectators, a practice
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ernment has that created annoying delays at the Sarajevo
1984: Summer Games with security officers; otlig
electronic monitors and modern methods of ales Ti Winter Games.
dentified 50 major and 50 minor terro
i nst or . But he added that circumstances such as
rapid=fire arrest and processing. izations that mi ht my to affect the am
? Although most Olympic officials discount information on a terrorist plan to disrupt a 19 Soviet fears of danger from hostile demonstra- Main hnk fences .will surround the major certain event might force him to check eve.w-
Olympic villages at the University of Southern one going to some sites.
tors, they have arranged for about 16,000 se- .-- -- ; _ The Summer Games are billed as a private.
is officers-nearly two for every athlete- California and the University of California at enterprise Olympics. Although Best is relying
to patrol event sites, highways and three Los Angeles. Security officials are making dor- on many, local police and sheriffs offices, a
Olympic villages. mitory assignments based in part on the substantial contingent of FBI and. Secret Set
Demonstrations that grow out of control, threat posed -to each athletic4elegation. vice and about half the 7,000-member LAPD,
said University of California Assistant Vice Barber, a former detective, pointing to a the security force--.does not end there. -'he.
Chancellor John Barber, will be handled with UCLA dorm that hugged a hillside near _a: Olympic committee.. has. hired managers of
accelerated arrest procedures perfected during busy street, said, "They'll put people in there nine private security companies to put togeth-
anti-nuclear demonstrations in northern Cal- like the Norwegians or the Swedes. people er, a force of thousands of agents for game sites
ifornia last year. that everybody loves." and Olympic villages.
"They had a circus tent with three good- Olympic security officials here are haunted Best said many of the temporary employes
old-boy judges who wouldn't take any non- by the memory of the 1972 games in Munich, would be members of college ROTC units and
sense," said Barber, chief of security for all where 11 Israeli team members, one West part-time campus police and usually would be
University of California campuses, "and they. German policeman and five anti-Israeli terror- unarmed during their Olympic ran them through there like they were running ists died after the terrorists invaded the Olym. g duties.
The agreement between the LAPD?an-Cthe
through a cattle pen." pie village. But the officials also note that the FBI gives unusual power to-the city force in
lessons of Munich helped Olympic organizers
Despite the enormous problem of providing make preparations that helped prevent major its trai ting anof4ts d size and the sophistication of
security for three Olympic villages and 23 violence at the Montreal games in 1976. its training and equipment.
game sites separated by as much as 150 miles According to a statement released after the
of 'freeway, Olympic officials said the combi- Barber said he has studied the Munich February agreement, the FBI will have juris-
.
nation of a special federal task force, the large tragedy. He blames security lapses on an un- diction in "threats or extortions involving nu-
wieldy Olympic bureaucracy and on an initial clear, biological or chemical substances, sky.
Los. Angeles Police Department (LAPD), PO- German effort to keep police out of sight so as
lice in several neighboring cities and a huge not to reawaken memories of the Nazi era. jacking or air piracy, and crimes committed
civilian security force hired for the games will "The police wanted to keep a very low-profile exclusively on federal property. The LAPD
be enough to handle any problem. image," Barber said. will handle "all initial responses for tactical
There have been reports of disagreements Los Angeles Police Cmdr. William Booth and operonal purposes," except those on
said it was also significant that at the time of federal reaeseervations
between the FBI and the LAPD, but the two'
organizations signed a protocol in February the Munich attack, "we didn't think people Driving west on Snset Boulevard, which
laying out their separate responsibilities in. any could be that dastardly." Now, he said, secu-; skirts the northern edge of what will be the
terrorist outbreak. Olympic Village at UCLA, Barber said advice
rity officials feel the massive security force. to motorists during the Olympics is, 'Don't
Edgar Best, security director for the Los . being planned for, and publicity about it, will break down on Sunset, because it will be like
Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, said, discourage attempts to disrupt the 1984 breaking down on the San Francisco Bay
"From inception' the coordination has been - games. Bridge.. Your car will be surrounded and
d
excellent." The headquarters of the organizing commit- towed away long before you can even get to a
A special p0-member FBI hostage rescue tee provides an example of the attention paid telephone."
team, matched by the LAPD's special weap- to security. In the small lobby, a security of-
ons
and tactics team, have trained to kill ter- ficer runs a hand-held metal detector over a ?
rorists from long.distance without hurting hos- visitor's clothes and puts purses and bags
tages. through a fluoroscope while another officer
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