WORLD TERRORISM SEEN GETTING BLOODIER

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2011
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• Publication Date: May 14, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE A PEARED
OK PAS;.
that responsibility for counter-
terrorism is too widely dispersed
among different agencies in the U.S.
government, with everybody grab-
bing for a piece of the bureaucratic
pie.
"We simply have got to get rid of
this 'terrorist chic' in this country
... where every bureaucrat sees it as
an empire;' said Nathan Adams, a
senior editor at The Readers Digest.
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Several witnesses comp ape :-client states
" f orism and "a sys-
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use force when necessary to head off ntinngl 'd' t old the nanP1 He said Lebanese terrorists f rom
terSenist violence. that violence supported by eovetn the Be'kaa Valley area were taken to
Sen. Jeremiah Denton, RAla ., menu such as Iran and Libva is a meeting in Bulgaria in September
criticized the news media several most common kind of terrorism, 1983 that was coordinated by the
times during the hearing, saying it today Bulgarians and East German advis-
"steps in with lots of criticism" He called Iranian leader Avatol- ers.
11vers
about U.S. setbacks in combating lah Ruhollalt Khomeini "a wild card "I don't know whether that counts
terrorism and, as a result, "minor as Soviet support," he said. "But the
losses or temporary battle losses in the terrorist deck," and said Lib- as Soviet
was certainly Bulg the meetin in ,
turn into defeat" yan leader Muammar Qaddafi is which is a Soviet vassal"
He said the terrorists who blew up "another wild card player ... playing
the Marine barracks in Lebanon with Soviet weapons" Another witness, Martin Sicker,
"should have worried about what the. Mr. Cline emphasized the "far- director of the Center for Interna-
United States would do in retali ranging strategic consequences" of tional Security in Washington, said it
ation;' but charged that "the media state-sponsored terrorism. It would is "almost impossible to draw an
and the Congress" in effect sent a be "foolish" to blame the Soviet actual connection" between the
signal to the terrorists and "told Union for all of the terrorism in the Soviet Union and terrorist activity,
them we would withdraw" if con- world, he said. But, he added, he but "the coincidence is over-
fronted with violence. would blame the Soviets and their whelming"
' an "infra-
d
WASHINGTON TIMES
14 May 1985
World terrorism seen
By Tom Diaz bloodier
THE W-.SHINGiONIIMES getting
-
International terrorism has Mr. Adams has investigated state-
moved into a new and bloody stage hearings - repeatedly pressed Mr.-
of govern ment -supported violence, sponsored terrorism for the map- Cline for a "specific example" of
experts told a rare joint session of azine over the last several years. Be, "direct evidence linking the Soviet
the Senate Foreign Relations and said he realized some journalists Union to a specific case" of terror-'
Judiciary committees yesterday. would disapprove of his appearing ism within the last year. The senator
Terrorism is "becoming bloodier" as a witness before a congressional expressed dissatisfaction with Mr.
with a "growing number of large- committee. Cline's reference to "circumstancial
scale indiscriminate acts;' said But, he said, "I'm a human being evidence" linking Soviet arms and
and I'm very concerned about it. I other support to groups that have
Lion an M. Jenkins, a RAND Corpora-
can't simply wash my hands of it"
eye acted against U.S. interests in the
ion analyst. The hearings disclosed several
But the witnesses charged that Middle East.
negative reporting of U.S. counter- -opening incidents, one of which
"You're being like the [news]'
wri-orist activities by the news was a claim by Sen. Denton that he media, looking for a smoking gun,"-
media, government ineptitude and was approached last month in Tai-. said Mr. Cline.
congressional indifference are ham wan by a man who offered him sev
pering an effective U.S. response to "I am;' agreed Sen. Pell.
eral hundred thousand dollars to "You want someone who is killed
the problem. "promote" Libyan strongman
"Americans have been spoon-fed Muammar Qaddafi in the United. by a terrorist with a Soviet order in'.
the idea of an instant solution using States. hand;' continued Mr. Cline., "But
the Marquis of elms, Queensbury rules;' Another when an assassination team is sent ?r.
was a witness' claim that out, it does not get written orders,-
said Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., on the the United States "effectively had a 1
first of three days of joint hearings. Mt: Pell." But instead of such "instant solu protection racket going" in Beirut,
lions;' the experts testified, the relying on the Palestine Liberation - ' Later in the hearing, Mr. Adams
Organization to protect its embassy told Sen. Pell that he could cite a
United States needs to develop more
"specific example" of Soviet
understanding among its citizens of there.
Form CIA deputy directorRa
the threat that international terror- , me ate ow at ieoreetown U>i involvement in terrorism during
ism poses and a "national will" to 1983.
t,'s Center for 5trateerr dnd
e
structure or
tem of exporting terrorism," based
on "finding grievances in parts of
the world where it benefits the
Soviet Union."
Mr. Cline's charge of Soviet sup-
port for terrorism against Western
interests sparked a sharp exchange
with Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-Rl.
Sen. Pell - one of two Democrats
who made brief appearances at the
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