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...government in the world would tolerate such a massive arms buildup as the PLO engaged in Southern Lebanon. That these weapons might never have been used against Israel is irrelevant. The mere threat they posed, along with repeated PLO rocket attacks and terrorist incursions, caused a massive depopulation of northern Israeli border towns. Farouk Kaddowni of the PLO called this psychological warfare, one way (albeit in stages) to "liberate Palestine...
...evening of Dec. 17, 1981, Red Brigades terrorists kidnaped Brigadier General James Dozier, 50, the highest-ranking U.S. officer in NATO's southern Europe command, from his home in Verona. The abduction triggered the largest man hunt in Italy's history. Forty-two days later, Italian commandos stormed an apartment in Padua and freed the American general. It was a stunning piece of police work that won praise from around the world; it also marked the beginning of the end for the notorious terrorist group. But the full story of how the authorities found Dozier has never been...
...second of four trials that Wilson faced on charges that he ran an international web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities between 1976 and 1979. In November he was convicted by a federal jury in Alexandria, Va., of organizing the export of rifles and handguns to Libya. As he did in the first trial, Wilson's lawyer, Herald Price Fahringer, argued that the defendant was a "de facto CIA agent" working undercover to get secrets for his former employer from Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi...
There is circumstantial evidence linking the Soviet Union to West European terrorist groups such as the Red Brigades in Italy and the Baader-Meinhof gang in West Germany. When members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army went on a hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison in the spring of 1981, for example, British intelligence agents noticed that senior KGB officials held a number of meetings with Provo leaders in Dublin. Says a top Western intelligence expert: "The Soviets back groups and people who are certifiably terrorist, but they do it with their fingers crossed and with their hands...
...public show trials and confessions exacted through torture, the random arrests and midnight executions in the infamous Lubyanka prison. KGB "sleepers" penetrating to the heart of Western intelligence services are now a staple of espionage fiction, film?and reality. Reports that Bulgarian agents in Rome may have aided Turkish Terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca in his attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in May 1981 have only added to Western suspicions of the KGB. In the view of many Westerners, the KGB would surely have been behind any Bulgarian plot to murder the spiritual leader of the world...