KOOKY TERRORIST THREATS MADE AGAINST L.A. GAMES, OFFICIAL SAYS

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• Publication Date: February 19, 1984
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
19 February 1984
LOS ANGELES
"Kooky" terrorist threats made against L.A. Games, official says
Law enforcement agencies have already received terrorist threats against the
Summer Olympics, but none that are considered credible, the chairman of the U.S.
Senate subcommittee on terrorism disclosed.
"They're kookie threats,'' said U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Denton, who announced
plans Saturday to hold a closed door subcommitee hearing in Los Angeles April
13. The session will be a follow-up to similar hearings in Washington in
September.
Denton refused to discuss the threats in detail.
"The fact is, just about anyone in a public position, including movie stars,
receive threats," he said.
Denton said the closed-door meetings last September, which included
representatives of the White House, C_ IA, Pentagon, FBI and Los Angeles-area
police departments, were "chaotic."
''People were at each others' throats," he said.
Denton said, however, he expects the FBI and Los Angeles police to resolve
within a month their long-simmering dispute over which agency will have
Jurisdiction in the event of a terrorist attack at the Games.
Denton said he believes the FBI should be the lead agency, "but if something
horrible is-about to take place, even If the FBI has jurisdiction, the person
there should handle It."
An LAPD spokesman said Friday he expects the department will resolve the
dispute at a Washington meeting Tuesday between Police Chief Daryl Gates and f B1.
Director William Webster.
Denton said other law enforcement agencies appear to have resolved their
differences over the coordination and dissemination of intelligence infaraation.
An integrated threat analysis group has been established "and seems to have
an excellent handle on what they are trying to do,'' he said.
Los Angeles police officials said they will mount "the largest police
presence" in the city's history during the July 28-Aug. 12 Games. Thousands of
officers, deputies and private security officers will be involved. In addition to local police, there will be a federal security force assembled
at an estimated cast of $55 million, including agents of the FBI, CIa A
National Security Agency and a dozen other agencies. Another $17 million is
being held in reserve and would be spent if the military were called in to cope
with a major outbreak of violence.
More than 700 FBI agents will be stationed in the area -andmore than 600
Secret Service agents and support personnel will assist in guarding President
Reagan and as many as 30 heads of state.
''It's safe to say that nobody would be watching the budget too closely if
major trouble did arise," Joe Wright, an OMB official, said.
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