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1 - deaoribed oc the "unseen other half1' of the "FatahII movement led by Palestinian Arab terrorist groups. The RASD controls the "Black September" activist group, which has carried out numerous acts of . banditry, sabotage and murder. Black September has, in turn, links with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and other groups affiliated with Fatah. All of these groups, agafn, are linked with the ostensibly "respectable" Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). -A West German Secret service report has shown that Fabh, PF'LP and other activist delegates have sea& on the thirteen-man Executive Com- mittee of the PLO. * I Yassir Arafat and constituting by far the largest of the dozen or so RASD and Black September, between them, organized the hijack- ing of the Sabena airliner on May 8, 1972, the murder of the Jordanian Prime Muster, Wasfi Tal, in Cairo on November 28, lQn, and the blowing up of the Rotterdam oil refinery on March 16, 197l. They wsre almost certainly responsible for the attempted murder of the Jordanian . Ambassador in London, Mr. Zaid al Rifai, on December 15, 197l, for the attempted destruction of an El A1 airliner on the Rome-Tel Aviv run on August 16, 1972, and for the bloG6g up of part of the Trieste oil refinery later in the same month. It seems probable that RASD and . Black September collaborated with the PFLP in the hiring of the trained Japanese murderers who killed twenty-segen civilians and wounded . seventy-eight more in the Lod Airport nhassacre of May 36; 1972. RASD itself began operations in the early 1960's primarily as an intelligence organization, to gain information about Israel and screen recruits for the Fatah. Early RASD members were trained by the Egyptian Intelligence Service, which has drawn heavily in the past on ex-members of the Nazi SS for its expertise. In the last three years RASD has changed its character into something approaching an Arab Mafia. It has carried out killings and kidnappings for money, and has built up financial reserves in Italy, West Germany and Switzerland totalling an estimated $100 million. It has financed large-scale smug- gling operations, the most intriguing being that of hashish -- grown in Lebanon and dispatched in half-kilo packages, gaily decorated with the picture of an Arab commando holding his machinegun at the ready. It has recruited agents in Europe and supplied them with forged papers, and has established close working relations with "indigenous" terrorist gangs in European countries, particularly West Germany and Italy. * 2 .. - .