TWO QUEENS TERRORISTS HUNTED IN SKY BOMBINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605300051-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: June 25, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605300051-5
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NEW YORK POST
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HUNI IN SKY A WORLDWIDE dragnet tightened last night for dians. baud bt., the traBOMBINGS
two New York-based Sikh terrorists suspected of Police in Tokyo grown cold for FBI
planting killer bombs aboard two jets in Canada. speculated that the agents.
Ammand Singh, 33, luggage bomb may The pair - last seen
and Lai Singh, 25, had B IiOSEN$OHN have been intended for here May 16 -
been on the run from a SAM
and PAUL THAR.P one of Canadian Pa- emerged as shadowy
FBI agents who cracked cific's domestic figures known to have
their gang's assassina- flights, but mistakenly frequent, late-night
tions plots and pl$ns to tors said both bombings was put aboard. the visitors, but who kept
overthrow India's gov- were terrorist acts. Tokyo flight. to themselves.
ernment. Last night, they were The bomb aboard the Neighbors said the
But the pair managed attempting to trace the doomed Air-India two suspects worked
to slip out of New York steps of the two suspects
Flight 182 apparently in "construction jobs."
and enter Canada with after they entered Cana- was put aboard in To- "The FBI was all
false passports. da. ronto, where the. flight around here looking
In Canada, they re- Investigators fanned originated and where for them, but no one
portedly smuggled bag- out through Canada's Ammand Singh was has seen them `tor
gage bombs onto the two large Sikh communities spotted hours before weeks," said one
flights. One resulted in In Toronto, where the flight departed, the neighbor who asked to
one of the worst discs- 100,000 live, and in Van- Globe and Mail said. remain anonymous.
ters In aviation history. couver, where 5000 live. But after the plane Ammand and Lai
Lai Singh's task re- In Montreal Canadian was aloft, authorities lived next door. to one
portedly was to sabo- Intelligence a en s M, discovered that some another in second-
tage a Canadian Pacific toolt two young Sikh ex- luggage put aboard in floor apartmeiits for
Airlines flight from tremists into custod . Toronto may have es- the last two years,
Vancouver. The airline T*Hey were being ques- caged detection due to sharing the quarters
Is favored by Indian tioned in connection a malfunctioning with several other
travelers. with the bombings, ac- X-ray machine. Sikh roommates,
That bomb exploded in cording to Indian gov- When Flight 182 neighbors said.
luggage - not on the ernment sources. made its scheduled All Sikhs use the sur-
plane, which had landed Authorities declined to stop in Montreal, a se- name Singh. It was not
safely 15 minutes early discuss the extremists curity search turned known if the pair is re-
in Toyko. Two baggage- or whether they would un? three pieces of lug- lated.
handlers were killed in be charged, but indi- gage-suspected of con- Both- always, paid
the blast. cated they were not the taining bombs, and the their $460 rent in cash,
Ammand Singh's mis- two fugitives suspected flight went on toward neighbors said..
sion reportedly was the of the plane bombings. London and the trag- Their roommates re-
destruction of the Air- The Toronto Globe and edy. main, but the FBI said
India flight to London, Mail said that Lai Singh. Meanwhile, in the they are not believed
which was blown out of flew into Vancouver and Flushing section of to be connected with
the air off Ireland's checked luggage onto Queens, where the two Ammand and Lai's al-
coast, killing all 329 the Toyko-bound flight Sikh terrorists lived in leged activities.
aboard, carrying 380 people, a middle-class apart- At least five others
Canadian investiga- only two of them In- ment building at 42-04 in the local terror
gang have been ar?
rested by the FBI, in-
cluding suspected ring
leader Gurpartap S
Birk, 33.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000605300051-5