ARAB TERRORIST SITUATION REPORT DATED 9 NOVEMEBER 1973 FILE: 650.0

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-187-7-30-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: November 9, 1973
• Content Type: CABLE

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S E C R E T NOFORN CONTROLLED DISSEM CITE USSS 4904 09NOV73 1935EST
SUBJECT: ARAB TERRORIST SITUATION REPORT DATED 9 NOVEMBER 1973.
FILE: 650.0
1, REFERENCE IS MADE TO PREVIOUS SITUATION REPORTS ON CAPTIONED SUBJECT.
THESE REPORTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE DISSEMINATED, BUT CURRENT EVENTS AND
NEED WILL DETERMINE THE REGULARITY OF SUCH REPORTS.
2. THE MATERIAL IN THIS REPORT IS TAKEN FROM A VARIETY OF CLASSIFIED
DOCUMENTS RECEIVED AND KEPT ON FILE IN THE INTELLIGENCE DIVISION. THE
INFORMATION COMES FROM A MULTITUDE OF SOURCES, SOME EXTREMEIY,SENSITIVE
AN EFFORT IS"
AND IN MANY INSTANCES MAY BE RAW UNEVALUATED MATERIAL.
MADE TO PRESENT ACTS AND PROPOSED ACTS WHICH HAVE IMPLICATIONS VIS A VIS
OUR PROTECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES BASED ON THESE INTELLIGENCE REPORTS AND
CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION,, AS WELL AS CONSULTATION WITH REPRESENTAT-
IVES IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY.
3. DURING THE LATEST MIDDLE EAST WAR, OCTOBER 1973, AND THE SUBSEQUENT
UNSTEADY CEASEFIRE, THE FEOAYEEN (PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS) HAVE PLAYED ..A
LIMITED ROLE. SURPRISINGLY, THERE HAS BEEN A COMPLETE'ABSENCE CIF TERR..,,
ORIST ACTIVITY AGAINST U.S. PERSONNEL AND/OR PROPERTY. THERF HAVE; BEEN
REPEATED REPORTS OF CONTINGENCY PLANS, ESPECIALLY AGAINST U.S. DIPLO-
MATIC AND BUSINESS TARGETS IN LEBANON, BUT THE TERRORISTS HAVE NOT
EXECUTED ANY PLANS THUS FAR. (THE ATTACK ON THE BANK OF AMERICA IN
BEIRUT IN OCTOBER WAS APPARENTLY CARRIED OUT BY CRIMINALS RATHER THAN
PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS.
4. THE DISUNITY WITHIN THE MOVEMENT AND THEIR LACK OF DEFINITE IDEAS
TOWARDS THE WAR HAVE TENDED TO INHIBIT THE TERRORIST ACTIVITY. THE
MORE EXTREMEIST ELEMENTS Do REJECT THE IDEA OF NEGOTIATING WITH, ISRAEL
(THE U.S. IS DIRECTLY TIED TO ISRAEL AND HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS
ABILITY TO FIGHT THE ARABS).
THE ROAD THESE TERRORISTS WILL TAKE IS DIRECTLY TIED TO THE MOVEMENTS
NOW TAKING PLACE IN THE MIDEAST. F THE PROBLEM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
IS NOT SETTLED SATISFACTORILY, MORE ACTS CAN BE ANTICIPATED,SOME MO -
DHS, FBI Reviews
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ERATE ELEMENTS HAVE EXPRESSED WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE IN.A POSSIBLE
"PEACE" CONFERENCE BUT THERE IS INCREASING FEDAYEEN OPPOSITION TO ANY
SUCH CONFERENCE, ESPECIALLY SINCE THERE IS LITTLE EVIDENCE THAT ANY REAL
ATTENTION WILL BE AFFORDED TO THE PALESTININAN PLIGHT.
5, RECENT INTELLIGENCE REFLECTS A NUMBER OF PLANS BEING FORMULATED
TO TARGET SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL' INCLUDING OPERATIONS IN THE
NETHERLANDS' GREECE, ITALY' UNITED KINGDOMS CYPRUSs-AND TURKEY, AS WELL
AS AMERICAN INSTALLATIONS AND INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
(ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE JOSEPH SISCO
ARRIVES IN. BEIRUT ON 10 NOVEMBER IN CONNECTION WITH U.S ATTEMPTS TO
BRING ABOUT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE MIDEAST COMBATTANTS)\
7. SECRETARY OF STATE KISSINGER'S TRIP TO VARIOUS MIDEAST CAPITALS
PASSED WITHOUT INCIDENT. THERE WERE NO REPORTED OPERATIONS TARGETTING
HIM DURING THAT VISIT.
8. THE PALESTINIAN GUERILLAS HAVE APPARENTLY TAKEN A WAIT-AND-SEE
STANDS BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE CAPABLE OF
MOUNTING TERRORIST ACTS' EVEN WITHIN THIS COUNTRY, AND THEY CONTINUE
TO RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM LEGAL ARAB GOVERNMENTS.
90 7 NOVEMBER 1973 NEW SCOTLAND YARD ADVISED THE FBI THAT INFORMATION
FROM A FRIENDLY FOREIGN POWER INDICATED THAT PALAEST.TNIANS WERE
INITIATING A NEW WAVE OF LETTER BnMBS TO BE DIRECTED TO U.S.
PERSONNEL AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LONDON. UPI REPORTED THAT SCOTLAND
YARD HAD RECEIVED INFORMATION INDICATING THAT ARAB GUERRILLA ORGANIZ-
ATIDNS ARE PREPARING A NEW WAVE OF LETTER BOMB ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAELI
SUPPORTERS IN WESTERN EUROPE, TO PROBABLY INCLUDE PERSONS OF NON-JEWISH
ORIGIN AND BUSINESS HOUSES WHO MAY HAVE SUPPORTED ISRAEL DURING THE
RECENT CONFLICT.
FURTHER INQUIRIES BY THE FBI REFLECT THAT THE INFORMATION IS "VAGUE".
THE FRIENDLY FOREIGN POWE=R INDICATED AS THE SOURCE BELIEVES.. THAT THE
LETTER BOMBS WILL POSSIBLY BE POSTED IN EUROPE AND IDENTITIES OF
POSSIBLE VICTIMS WERE NOT SPECIFIED. REPORTEDLY A NEW LETTER BOMB WAVE
WAS TO HAVE BEGUN IN OCTOBER' BUT WAS DELAYED BY THE OUTBREAK OF WAR.
1D. THE INFORMATION IN THIS REPORT IS CLASSIFIED SECRET/NO FOREIGN
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DISSEMINATION/CONTROLLED DISSEMINATION. NO FURTHER DISSEMINATION
OR DISCUSSION OF CONTENTS SHOULD BE MADE BY RECIPIENTS TO PERSONS:
OUTSIDE THIS SERVICE WITHOUT PRIOR CONSULTATION WITH THE
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BRANCH OF THE INTELLIGENCE DIVISION.
THE FOLLOWING LOG NUMBER HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO THIS DOCUMENT:
127073.7414.
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