LIBYA SPEEDS PLANNING FOR TERRORISM, U.S. AIDE SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000403350001-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 20, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
20 March 1987
FlLE 0~8LY
ibya Speeds Plannin
g for
~'errorism, U,S, Aide
,.
Says
.T ~Y NORMAN KEMPSTE~t, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON-Libya has Benghazi, last April, Bremer said.
stepped up the pace of planning for Several European nations fur-
terroriat actions within the last six ther damaged Libya's terrorist ca-
to eight weeks, possibly setting the pabilities last year by expelling a
stage for a new escalation of at- long list of Libyan diplomats who
tiacks, the State Department's had been linked to such activities,
Qounterterroriam chief said Thurs- he said, adding that Libya was
~y' especially quiet last May, June and
L. Paul Bremer said that his July.
sisaeeament of increased Libyan "About the begin inQ of A ,~,,,,+
~~ phmning is based on Intel- we be an to pick up intelligence
~rovide details. ' He declined to tnai ins yens were beginning to
' 1'he Libyan8 are becoming ac- ~----- ~ e e
t>fve again-I would say in the last ~~ ~ e
six to eight weeks-in planning, ~'o of role in th Karachi bljark_
artd I would stress planning," Bre_ _ ~ ?f a Pan Am airlinerl on Sept.
mbr said in a speech to the Over- 5. ,
seT~ Wrlterb organization. Bremer s comments added a new
In a coulntry-by-country ran_ twist to the debate over an Admin-
d~wn of the five nations on the istration deception and disinforma-
Seate Department's list of states tion campaign against Libyan lead-
that support'terrorlstactivity. Bre- er Moammar Kadafi.
mer said the gravest offenders are Administration officials con-
Libya, Syria and Iran. He said that firmed last October that Vice Adm.
fife other two countries, Cuba and John M. Poindexter, then White
Squth Yemen, have done very little House national security adviser,
racenuY? had signed a memo last August
?"We have seen no signs the ou~8 a Program intended to
$Jtrians have changed their policy k~P Kadafi off balance. in part by
on terrorism," Bremer said. He suggesting that the United States
~~ded that Iran continues to sup- might take additional military ac-
~ m, although moat of it lion against Libya.
against Iranian dissident Published accounts of increased
pups or neighboring nations. Libyan terrorist planning that ap-
~~ibyan-backed terrorism de- peered in some newspapers in
ed sharply after the U.S. bomb- mid-August were described as part
ing of two Libyan cities, Tripoli and of the deception campaign,
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