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...capital have been refurbished. About 100,000 Korean volunteers have signed up to serve as guides, translators and stadium workers. As this week's disturbances have painfully illustrated, the government is anxious about security. That concern will be heavily on display at the Games. Uniformed policemen and military counterterrorist squads will be deployed at Olympic sites...
Meese told the board North claimed that such a diversion had first been suggested by Israeli Counterterrorist Expert Amiram Nir in January 1986. Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian middleman on the arms deals, contends that in February North asked him if the Iranians would pay $10,000 per TOW missile, instead of $6,500. When Ghorbanifar said yes, North "was a changed...
...French were not so sure. Their counterterrorist agency had discounted information about him received from Israeli intelligence. In late 1984, however, French police arrested Abdallah for possessing false passports. But before he could be convicted of that crime, the F.A.R.L. in Lebanon captured a hostage, Gilles Peyroles, director of the French Cultural Center. The French reportedly entered into secret negotiations to swap Abdallah for Peyroles. Then, just a day after Peyroles was released, police found in an apartment Abdallah had rented the pistol that killed Ray and Barsimantov...
Casting a lengthening shadow over all the frenzied activity was the crippling embarrassment of U.S. arms sales to Iran. Since last November, when the secret deals first became known, counterterrorist experts have been worried that the transactions could spur more hostage taking. They reasoned % that the weapons sales, aimed partly at securing Iran's help in winning freedom for kidnaped Americans in Lebanon, would be seen as capitulation to terrorist demands...
After receiving military training in Israel in the late 1970s, Hall traveled to Lebanon, El Salvador, southern Africa and Nicaragua. Hall, however, does not view himself as a mercenary. "He calls himself a volunteer counterterrorist," says Hussman. "He would consider it an insult to take money for himself." There have been personal battles as well. Hall has spent time in the mental health unit of a hospital, fought a drug problem and been through three divorces. He has apparently been a lone operator since his expulsion from C.M.A...