BRITAIN/EMBASSY SHOOTING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP95B00890R000700190015-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 18, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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18 April 1964
EiRITAIN/Et;3ASSY JENIJINGS: in Madrid toda}', an official at the Libyan
SHOOTING Embassy there said Libyan nationals may be in Europe to
louidate enemies of the Libyan Republic. The Libyan
people, he said, decide who gets liquidated, and it is
done before the entire world. Well, it Was
anti-government Libyan demonstrators who were in the line
of fire yesterday in London, and as our Pentagon
correspondent, John HcWethy, reports, the gunman who
opened fire on them may have had some official
encouragement..
HCWETHY: In the hours just before gunfire erupted, a U.S.
spy satellite intercepted a radio message from Libya to
its embassy in London. U.S. intelligence sources tell ABC
News that the radio message, in essence was ordering the
embassy not to sit by passively while anti Khadafy
demonstrators marched outside but to use force in
responding to their taunts. The U.S. government warned
British authorities, but by the time Britain could
respond, shots had already been fired. Today in
Washington officials warned that the U.S. will now
consider military actions against countries like Libya if
there is hard information about an impending terrorist
threat. GEORGE SHULTZ (Secretary of, State): It is
essential for us to take all of the defensive measures
that we can, but I don't think that purely defensive
posture is adequate.,,
MCWETHY: 'While Shultz was speaking, the aircraft carrier
U.S.S. Saratoga, was steaming toward Libya from the
western Mediterranean. Pentagon sources say though no
decision. has yet been made, there is a good chance the
Saratoga will conduct flight operations near the disputed
waters of the Gulf of Sidra, where two and a half years
ago American carrier-based planes shot down two Libyan
fighters who challenged them. John McWethy, ABC News, the
Pentagon.
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