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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- 26 JUNE 1984 LOS ANGELES TIMES U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT 2 June 1984 Pg. B-1 11 May 1984 Pg. 21 INS Cites Terrorism Fear in Probeof Yugoslav Smuggling By LAURIE BECKLUND, Times Staff Writer USS. immigration officials said Friday that they inaugurated a major undercover inves- tigation into a Yugoslav alien-smuggling one undercover officer. ring last year partly because they were e 4 concerned that the organization could have « ..““But we found absolutely no informa- been importing terrorists to the United tion—and at no time did anybody in the States for. the Olympic Games in Los ting indicate to our undercover peo- Angeles. ‘ple—that they were bringing these peo- They said they are now satisfied that ome in for political reasons,” Perryman those fears were unfounded. But they are 54 . still puzzled over the complicated ethnic “ Most of the aliens brought into the strife in Yugoslavia that may have helped ,guntry appeared to be coming for spur the illegal immigration. economic and personal reasons, accord- “The up-front concern was that this ing to another immigration service offi- organization was to be used as a pipeline for sfinl, based in New Jersey, who asked not muggling in aliens from the Eastern Blocin {tobe ident aes emabers for terrorist purposes. or” He sald many of those smuggled in had Rerhaps for political embarrassment during been working in West Germany but the Olympics,” said Mark Reed, assistant .teturned to Yugoslavia when they lost regional U.S. Immigration and Naturaliza- their work permits during a German Most Wanted Jobs : tion Service commissioner for anti-smug- -Taoession. sytney” sought jobs Mn he “If you wanted anything in the Yugo- : 8 Bat our worst fears did not pan out. We United States. Se so pareey based immigration service ‘ have no reason to believe any of these -p-Almost all the dliens smuggled intothe ficial said. He sald most of the aliens people is a direct threat to our security. We ‘United States were ethnic Albanian Mus- who took advantage of the travel service fo feel we shut off a very significant lims who came from a part of Albania’ = “are just hard-working people who pipeline of illegal alien smuggling.” that was added to Yugoslavia about 1913 = wanted jobs here.” Investigators said | ‘Twenty-nine suspects hevebeen indicted 98.8 result.of the First Balkan War. they are still uncertain whether Terzios- | in connection with the smuggling of Yugo- 2fbanians living in that part of Yugosla- kan ethnic Serbo-Croatian, was direct- | slav nationals into the United States’ Via have ben prog sien by the ly'involved with the Chicago group. through Mexico, officials announced in: -Yugoslav government. Riots in the Alba- None of the defendants nor their i press conferences in Chicago, San Diego and; nt region in 1981 left nine dead and 600 attorneys could be reached for comment led. Whether foreign nations like it or not, the FBI is making clear that offi- cial bodyguards sent to protect ath- letes at the Olympic Games will have to sit on their hands. FBI chief Wil- liam Webster says local or federal au- thorities will handle any incidents. tke WALL STREET JOURNAL 8 June 1984 Pg. 1 FEAR OF TERRORISM at the Summer Olympics persists despite the Eastern-bloc boycott. The FBI claims it is worried that Moscow's KGB may somehow inspire vio- Jence during the games. G-men suspect that the Russians may believe that would justify their explanation for the boycott: that the us couldn’t protect athletes against at- jack. Los Angeles on Thursday. . Friday. . . They estimated that the ring brought in. me of the strife has boiled over into Terzioski’s wife, a former actress, | up to 175 aliens a month over the last 1%. ethnic neighborhoods in the United denied in a brief telephone interview that | years through two pipelines, one leading to: States, particularly in the Chicago area, her husband had been involved in any | | Chicago and the other leading to New: ‘where one of the suspected smuggling ‘wrongdoing and charged that the immi- Jersey. | “tihgleaders was located, immigration station service had misconstrued the | At a._press conference on Thursday,; service officials said. immigration of the Yugoslavs. She said | Harold Ezell, the Western regional commis-: ~*'Oloman Selmani, 53, 4 restaurant own- community members and family are | sioner for the immigration service, indicated; er identified by officials as an Albanian making contributions to pay his $1-mil- that there were ulterior political motives’ “Muslim and the ringleader of the Chicago lion bond. | behind the smuggling operation. Ezell: ‘operation, had three loaded firearms with “My husband never did anything to charged that some of the smuggled aliens! “him when arrested, Perryman said. Sev- anybody,” she said. “If he did some were “promoting communism in our own’ eral were armed. mistake, if he did something to help, it’s country.”:He declined to elaborate or offer: * The New v Jersey operation allegedly because of his crazy good heart, not | . . + was spearh a Yugoslav emigre because he’s criminal. . . . The relatives | Brian Perryman, the immigration service: ¥ ie hea | criminal 1 ~* named Dragisa Terzioski, 45, a natural- come here, we sell the tickets to them. | Ee ae aides time the, ized citizen who once had his own That all’ ! ‘concern about Communist ties, television show and frequently arranged! Asked about any political motives for iginet ; U.S. tours for Yugoslav cultural and the United States, sh stemmed from’ the fact that four of the! U.S. tours lor Coe immigration to the Unite , she aliens smuggled into nited States were: athletic groups. Officials claim that he said in broken English, “People come “avowed Marxists.” the U States were; booked most of the illegal aliens’ arrivals’ ‘because have one brother there, one ’ through his travel agency in Paterson, sister here, and they want, they desper- yearlong investigation into the smuggling NJ. ate, to have families together. ‘operation, which included the use of at least 25 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5