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e Justice Commandos for the Armenian Genocide (JCAG). This rightist Arme- nian ultranationalist group targets only Turkish interests. Its goals are similar to those of ASALA. Apparently responsible for the deaths of more than a dozen Turkish officials in recent years, JCAG claimed responsibility for the assassina- tion in January 1982 of the Turkish Con- sul General in Los Angeles. ¢ Black June Organization (BJO). Also known as the Fatah Revolutionary Coun- cil or the Abu Nidal Group (from the war name of its leader), this radical Palestin- ian group is opposed to a negotiated settlement with Israel and to the policies espoused by Yasir Arafat and the moder- ate Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The BJO receives support from both Iraq and Syria. in addition to Israelis and Jews, its targets have included ene- mies of its patron governments as well as moderate Palestinians and others who have espoused diplomacy as a means toward a Middle East settlement. The BJO has been linked to the assassination in September 1982 of the first secretary of the Kuwaiti Embassy in Madrid, alieg- edly in retaliation for the lack of active support by Kuwait of Palestinian inter- ests in Lebanon. The BJO was also responsible for the June 1982 assassina- tion attempt against Israel’s Ambassador to Great Britain, e 15 May Organization. This rejectionist Palestinian group, supported by Iraq, conducts attacks mainly against israeli targets. It claimed responsibility for the bombing of an Israeli-owned restaurant in West Berlin in January 1982 that killed one and wounded 24 others. Regional Patterns Internationa! terrorism has increasingly be- come a global probiem. Figures for 1982 confirm the trend toward a greater geo- graphic spread: In 1973, 71 countries ex- perienced terrorism; in 1982, 87 countries were affected. Notwithstanding this trend,. some countries— especially totalitarian states like the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba—have remained relatively free of terrorism, international and domestic. Con- SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- 26 JUNE 1984 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 versely. in the Western democracies inter- national terrorism is more widespread. More than one-third of international terror- ist incidents recorded in 1982 occurred in four democratic countries: West Germany (15 percent), Italy (7 percent) , France (7 percent), and the United States (6 percent). Not surprisingly, Western Europe accounted for almost half (43 percent) of the international terrorist incidents record- ed. Latin America followed with 22 percent and the Middle East with 15 percent. Western Europe. The 343 international terrorist incidents in Western Europe re- corded in 1982 were far more than in any previous year. A number of these incidents were related to the spring 1982 visit of President Reagan to several Western Euro- pean nations. For example, a bomb plant- ed by the ultraleftist French group Action Directe exploded at the American School in suburban Paris in early June, highlight- ing its call for mass demonstrations against the US Presidential visit. Several attacks on US-owned commercial facilities in italy were also claimed by leftist groups protest- ing the presidential visit. The largest number of international terror- ist attacks in Western Europe during 1982 occurred in West Germany, reflecting in- creased militance on the part of both left- wing and rightwing extremists. Major is- sues exercising the West German terrorists included West German participation in NATO, NATO policies in the region (par- ticularly nuclear policies) , and US support of Israel. The RZ, a leftist group responsi- bie for many of the attacks, deliberately avoided causing casualties. By contrast, the right-extremist Kexel-Hepp Group targeted US servicemen and their depen- dents; the group's bombs seriously injured two US servicemen in December. During 1982, as in past years, several terrorist groups mounted attacks in France. Some involved exceptional vio- fence resulting in numerous deaths and injuries. Two bomb explosions—one aboard the Paris-Toulouse express train in March and the other in a car on a Paris Street in April—together killed six people and injured 87. A number of anti-Semitic attacks occurred in Paris, including the assassination in April of Yacov Barsiman- tov, an Israeli diplomat, claimed by the Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RJ9P96-00788R000100330001-5 WORLD: 0T2 Page 6