POLICE GROUPS PREPARE TO FIGHT TERRORISM IN '84

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100130130-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 130
• Publication Date: January 31, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Police Groups
Prepare to _Fight
Terrorism in 784-
A number of intelligence reports
warn that 1984 could be the year of.
the terrorists. Thousands of relent-
less assassins-professional terrorists
trained and indoctrinated behind the
Iron Curtain, fierce fanatics sworn 'to
die for Ayatollah Ruhollah' Kho-
meini, right-wing killers belonging to
death squads-will be stirring up
bedlam around the world.
The United States won't be
2 red, intelligence sources say. She.
19b4 election and the Los Angeles
Olympic Games, it is feared. will
draw terrorists to this country. Pres-
idential candidates and Olympic ath-
letes could be in danger.
But there is some.good news:-U.S.
lawmen will be ready and waiting. I
asked my associate Tony ?Capaccio
to check into the preparations. He
found .-that the Secret-Service -and
local law enforcement authorities are
prepared for the worst.-
Tomorrow, the Secret Service will
officially -start protecting all the
presidential candidates. Because of
threats. against Jesse L. Jackson, he
has been receiving protection since
November. One of -the supervisors
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assigned to his campaign is the man
who set up the command center at
George Washington University Hos-
pital when President Reagan was
shot in 1981.
The Secret Service will provide
far more than a "human shield". to
accompany each candidate. Hotels
will be swept, electronically, security
arrangements at local -hospitals=will
be checked; motorcade routes, in-
cluding the quickest way to hospi-
tals, will ?be scouted in advance; the
whereabouts of potentially danger-
ous persons will be sought.
Planning for the February -and
March primaries began back in Au-
gust, 1982, with .the formation of a
permanent Candidate-Nominee Pro-
tective Division. The cost: the Secret
Service has asked Congress for $27
million.
Security experts give some of the
reasons they believe the -candidates
will be safe:
? The long, unofficial presidential
campaigning has given state and
local police substantial time to refine
their security techniques. One 20-
year veteran of the political wars,
now -working for one of the Demo-
cratic candidates; expressed amaze-
ment at the improved quality of
local protection: "I find it all the way
down to -the sheriffs department,"
he said. -
-? Since.the"1980 campaign, about
8,950 state and local police officers
have taken one-week courses to fa-
miliarize themselves with the Secret
Service's protective methods.
? The Secret Service learned a
lesson from the near-assassination of
Reagan in March, 1981. According
to Dr. Richard W. Kobetz, a top se-
curity expert, the lesson was: "Never
take anything for granted., Expect
the unexpected. Nothing is routine."
?. Since last April, the FBI has
notified the Secret Service whenever
someone who is considered a poten-
tial -threat to the president or a can-
didate is picked up. Most of these
persons-are in prisons or mental in-
stitutions, but about 125 are at lib-
erty. Their names have been put in
the National Crime Information
Center computer; if one of these peo-
ple is arrested on any charge, the
Secret Service will be notified of his
whereabouts. Within two hours of its
activation, ' the computer system
flagged one of the names.
? Recommendations by the House
assassinations committee have been
enacted into law by Congress. One
important change expanded the use
of "zones of protection" to include
political candidates. Entire hotel
floors, for example, can be closed off
and intruders can be arrested, even
though there may be no obvious
physical threat to a protectee: Pre-
.viously, the use of "zones of protec-
tion" had been limited to presidents,
vice presidents and their families.
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