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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 Jack ANDERSON SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- 26 JUNE 1984 WASHINGTON POST 23 May 1984 Pg. 23E a e Violent Leftists e . e Aim to Terrorize - Olympic Games Intelligence reports. warn that the radical Puerto Rican revolutionary group known by the dread letters FALN has set up mobile camps across the Mexican border to train terrorists for attacks on the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angelés. Ominously, the reports also pre- dict that the FALN’s violent leader, William Morales, will soon be re- leased from a Mexican prison and delivered into the custody of leftist authorities in the Tijuana area. That’s as close to Los Angeles as he could get to set up terrorist head- quarters without crossing into US. jurisdiction. The Soviet grievances against the Los Angeles Olympics, meanwhile, will encourage the terrorists to strike all the: harder, U.S. intelligence sources fear. The FALN is led by hard-line Marxists who ape the Mos- cow line and tend, in the way of young revolutionaries, to__translate propaganda into violence. - This group is regarded by. the FBI as the No. 1 terrorist threat to the United States, and Morales is this. nation’s most. wanted terrotist. Ac- cording to an intelligence document, “the FALN has been responsible for over 150 terrorist bombings in the US. since its founding ‘in 1973 .... [It] has developed an-extensive terrorist. network stretchiig across the U.S. and into Mexico. Morales is also developing links with insurgent movements in Central America.” My associate Jon Lee Anderson spent most of a day with Morales in the: maximum security wing of Re- clusorio Norte, a malel prison on the outskirts of Mexico City. Morales is a determined revolu- tionary and Marxist zealot driven at once by idealism and hatred, a would-be usurper who justifies him- self as the avenger of terrible wrongs. Yet he’s the mete boss of a small .gang who seeks to stir up a mass following. “T am a member of a revolutionary ‘movement which is at war with the United States government,” he told my reporter. ; Morales, 34, a slim man with a coffee-colored complexion, is shock- ing to look at, His mouth, chin and both hands were blown off in a bomb explosion at an FALN bomb factory in New York in 1978. He has a single digit that passes for a finger on each stump. It’s all he needs, ap- parently, to feed himself and attend to his basic needs. With these stumps, he escaped from the fourth floor of a New York prison hospital. Morales’ dramatic escape occurred on May 21, 1979. He disappeared into the underground and, according to an intelligence report, “began op- erating between Mexico and the US.” Police located his wife, Dylcia Pagan Morales, in Chicago and traced her incoming calls from Mex- ico. The FBI tipped off the Mexican authorities that Morales was plotting to bomb a U.S.-Mexican legislative conference. This led to a shootout in the city of Puebla on May 28, 1983. Morales was captured after his com- panion fell dead in a hail of bullets. A police officer also died in the ex- change. Morales was sentenced to 89 years in prison, which would keep him out of circulation for a long time. But Anderson found Morales confident that he would soon be freed. Tele- graphed my reporter: “U.S. lawmen, who want Morales extradited, might do well to worry that he could slip from their clutches in Mexico.” — Not long after I received this re- port, my associate Donald Goldberg learned from intelligence reports that, indeed, Morales is expected to be handed over to leftist authorities in Tijuana. They are expected to give him free rein to direct the ter- rorist training in clandestine camps in northern Mexico. TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL 12 May 1984 Pg. 1 Terrorism common: Kaplan By JEFF SALLOT Globe and Mail Reporter OTTAWA — Every international terrorist group known is present in Canada, Solicitor-General Robert Kaplan said yesterday. “Tin not saying their targets are in Canada,” he said, “but they develop their activities and their support for what they’re doing in Canada.” . Those activities include procur- ing arms, recruiting members and raising money, Mr. Kaplan told reporters. The Irish Republican Army, the Palestinian Liberation Organiza- tion and the Red Brigades of Italy are among the international terror- ist groups that have operated in Canada, Mr. Kaplan said. _ A great increase in terrorist ac- tivity — both international and domestic — is responsible for the rise last year in the number of watrants issued under the Official Secrets Act for. national security wiretaps, buggings and other inter- ceptions: of private communica: tions, Mr. Kaplan said. In: a report ‘to Parliament on Thursday, Mr. Kaplan said that, he issued 525.warrants in 1983 for wire- taps, hidden cameras and electron- ic bugs in security cases.— an. 18 per cent increase from the previous year. ae — “In a few cases, advance intelli- gence gathered by electronic sur- veillance permitted us to head off some incidents in 1983," Mr. Kap- lan said yesterday. . He said he couldn’t recall the exact figures on terrorist incidents, but his office said later that there were 18 terrorist incidents in Cana-' da in 1982 and 1983. ; Among the incidents classified as terrorist acts were the bombing of. an electronics plant that manufac-- -tures missile-guidance systems, the bombing of a West Coast _ video. ‘pornography store.and the murder of a Turkish diplomat. 35 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5