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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- May 1984 26 JUNE 1984 No.899-20 Figure 3 Type of Victim of international Terrorist Incidents, 1973-82 Prominent opinion leaders 221 (3.4%)—, Government officials 239 (3.7%)-—___ Military 591 (9.1%)— Private parties 1,162 (18.0%)—- Terrorist Groups. The number of groups responsible for international terrorist inci- dents has increased markedly since the beginning of the 1970s. For example, only 61 groups claimed credit in 1970, as com- pared with 125 in 1982.* Although the number of groups claiming credit for inci- dents represent 75 different nationalities, West Germans, Central Americans, Arme- nians, and Palestinians were responsible for the majority of incidents. The following Six groups perpetrated approximately. 70 (roughly 18 percent) of the terrorist at- tacks recorded in 1982, including numer- ous bombings, assassinations (as well as attempts) , arson attacks, and other events of high consequence: * Revolutionary Cells (RZ). The largest number of attacks in West Germany were claimed by the RZ, an indigenous leftist group composed of small semiau- tonomous cells that links its terrorist ac- tivities to both local and national issues, such as the US and NATO presence in > These numbers should be viewed with the foltawing in mind: some terrorist groups develop cover names {0 avoid blame for particular ac- tions, others use them to create the illusion of a troader base of support: still others use special names to commemorate an anniversary or hon- or a fallen comrade. Occasionally, nongroup members use special names to mislead authori- ties. Not infrequently, several groups (or individ- uals pretending to represent subnational groups) claim credit for the same operation. Others 275 (4.2%) Total Incidents: 6,473 —-——— Diplomats 2,551 (39.4%) Corporate officials 1,434 (22.2%) West Germany and the increasing anti- nuclear sentiment evident there. In a letter acknowledging its responsibility for an explosive attack on the American Memorial Library in West Berlin in Apri! 1982, the RZ called tor, among other things, an end to US imperialism, a halt in the construction of a new runway at the Frankfurt airport, and nonintervention in El Salvador. ¢ The Popular Revolutionary Forces— Lorenzo Zelaya (FPR). The Marxist- Leninist, ‘‘anti-imperialist'’’ FPR is the most active terrorist group in Honduras. Its principal targets are foreign dipiomat- ic tacilitiés and commercial interests. The FPR claimed responsibility, for example, for several-bombings in August 1982, which resulted in damage to US, UK, and Salvadoran facilities in Honduras. The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA). This pro-Soviet nationalist organization car- tied out more international terrorist inci- dents in 1982 than any other terrorist group. ASALA claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt in April 1982 on the commercial officer of the Turkish Embassy in Ottawa. This attack was typical of ASALA targeting, although the group also attacks non-Turkish. interests . in retaliation for the arrest of its members. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : cia®RDP96-00788R000100330001-5