MISSING AMERICANS MAY GO ON 'TRIAL'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100200146-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 146
• Publication Date: January 15, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MISSING AMERICANS
MAY CO ON'TRIAC
THE NE6J YORK TIMES
15 January, 1985
time that it was holding the five and
would release them when all Amer- i The caller said of the French a,t
scans had left Lebanon.
That caller said the latest American
kidnapping victim, a 50-year-old
Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Law-
rence M. Jenco, had been taken after
what it called an indifferent response to
caught red-handed spying on ? our
Youths and positlons in the Islamic su>}
urb as part of their mission to monitor
c the group's ulitmatum that "no Amer- I i~can fore a Atlantic, Israeli and Amer
scans would remain on the soil of Leba- ~ "
faller in Lebanon Accuses 5 ~~~ cn~e 0B'~, ~ Ikfease
?` ~ The Grnup's Charges identified the soldiers as Warrtant~.
~.: flf Being Spies for C.I:A. - A state ~ ofri~ers Patrice Gr~Ecarrt and Heart .
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fried to.hel~ the Christian-ddminated~, a~~' ~''t~ ~signia to be officers
Governmem of President Amin Gema- ~ o elite units, pvear distinctive white-
yel, has been sharply cut back in the Painted-helmets .with their khaki uai-.
face of reverses,. including two-large forms aced drive ell-white jeeps, They.
suicide truck-bomb attacks oa Amer- are armed Only with pistols.
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napped
here in separate incidents over the last I i~ Embassy buildings and the simi- They are statiaoed primarily at ?tbe l
year would be put on trial as spies. lar attack on the United States Marine Some are the ~ Mountains
The caller also took responsibility for !headquarters..:.. east of the capital where Dane w.tir I
the deaths of two French peacekeeping
Moslem shantytown suburb of Burj al Preliminary to trying them as spies." ' ~ It was not immediately clear what
Bra josh near the airport. ~ ..These le r,..,~t;~ i~,,~~~~ the two French soldiers were doing is
Last week, the deputy commander of .education and tell on as a cover and the ~ al Bra josh area, which is not
the French troops. Lieut. Col. Claude ,are in act as~tts a .. 'fit a on .the Greece Line. It ~ i8 nest the airs
observers who were killed with ma- "We wish to inform Alan Romberg,"
chfae-gun t`ire this morning whey thefr the c~1er tonight said, that the-five
jeep was ambushed in the mostly Shiite Americans "are now th our custody
cage, believed to have contained `save activities and will et the h-
Franch and Lebanese currency, was meat they eserve...
ranch soldiers were ~ In addition to Father Jenco, the kid-
part of a i napped Americans are Jeremy Levin,
AB-member wlvateer contingent here ~ the fief bf the Cable News Networlt
0o help enforce a shaky truce between I bureau, William Buckley. poiftical offi-
feudiag militias. Under the truce, car at th
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Gc teen I Atha divid~the Chceristian ~ Rev. Benjamin Wier, a Prrsbyterian ~
sad Moslem sectors of this ca tai last minister, and Peter Kilburn, a librar-
~ fan at the American University of Bei-
Jnly.
Teosfoa m Ctty Increases .rut. ;,
The shooting came on a day of in-
creasing tension here alter a week of
bombings and kidnappings. The down-
town streets emptied before noon, aced
at nightfaII unusually heavy shelling
broke out between the Christian sub-
urbs in the east and Dntse positlons in
the mamtsias. ~ - .
The aaonvmous caller to two west-
ern news aQe:xies n
addition to vi a r~en~
sormers. the tenrn3s~""-';organ u'-fion
. to speak
for Islamic H~ War said for the first
~v eo 2LS rtew Yat nos
BIIRUT, Lebanon, ? Jan: 14 - An
anonymous caller claimirut to repre-
sent the group Islamic Ho y War said
toof~ht that five A
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kid
other nightly, and at other points on the
port, but the main roads do not.rva
through the district. ?. ..
salutation from the Koran,. ?:~ the
name of God, the merciful, the comps.
sionate," then, apparently referring m j
the French soldiers, the American hoe. i
rages or both, said, "Heil is the abode ,
of these people, and they will $nd m al-
ternative for it."
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