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'COO018217 -_ . . . * RASD has its own @kction cellsI'.in half a dozen European COW- tries and may already be seeking to establish them in the New World. . . European members of these cells have-been trained very often in Syria; their special d u e to RASD is their locat knowledge and the fact that they are not so easlly identifiable as Arabs. The action cells have been re- sponsible for the extensive stockpiliris of weapons, but their purchsse has been carried out by much more "respectablen elements of society. .Thus in Rome, which is becoming RAD'S mah centre fn Europe, contact is fostered through the Dfplomat8 Club, owned by RASD. Only at the end of August did the Itallan police learn of the liaison between Arab diplomats and Palestinian terrorists in Rome. There is one interesting d i f f e d e between RASD cooperation with indigenuous terrorist groups in West Germany and Italy. In West Germany, contact has been maintained exclusively with leftist grou6 of a radical kind, chief among them the so-called ''Eaader-Meinhoff gang. ". In Italy, RASD and other Palestinian organizations have Unks with the neo-fascist Right as well as the Left. The Irish Republic is another interesting case; there is close uaflsb'n in the field of propaganda between the Palesthians, the IRA and the embryonic Irish Communist Party, but entirely separate contact exists between Am6 offices and Anglo-Irish conservatives 0- appakently of a relatively harmless nature so far. The titular head of RASD is Abu Hasan, the son of a Palestinian sheikh Wed by the Israelis in 1948. Eut the real leaders of the organi- zation are members of the Husseini family, who produced Haj Amin, the last Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and a supporter of the Germans during . the war who advised the Nazis not to spare Jewish children in their plan to exterminate European Jewry. Three members of the Husseini family have high posts in RASD, in addition, several members of Fatah's political bureau are related by family or by marriage. . There is a further feudal connection between Fatah and the Husseini clan; many of the Palestinian terrorist commandos have been recruited as a result of having been labourers, and sons of labourers, on Husseini land. RASD, even more than Fatah, has been built up on the basis of a "family elite, '' which is in no way unusual in the Arab world but is common to other international organhations like the Mafia or Cosa Nostra. One member of the Husseini family is RASD's technical adviser, responsible for murder and sabotage operations; another is . . . - - 3 .