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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL May 1984 Pg. 18 CLIPPINGS Diplomats & Terrorism “Letters sent top Italian news organiza- tions purporting to come from Red Bri- gades guerrillas today threatened the life of another U.S. diplomat in the aftermath of last week's killing of Leamon R Hunt....’The militarist wing of the Red Brigades claims the assassination of the ditty guarantor American general Leamon R. Hunt....The militarist wing has an- other American diplomat in its sights.’ " Reuters, February 20 “[U.S. Consul General Robert O. Homme] was shot and wounded yesterday in the city of Serasbourg, and a little known group calling itself the Armed Le- banese Revolutionary Faction claimed re- sponsibility. [He] was described as being in satisfactory condition... The group said Mr, Homme was ‘already well known for his activities as a member of the CIA." Baltimore Sun, March 27 “US. embassy officials said yesterday that they had run into a dead end in the kidnap- ing of diplomat William Buckley and now are considering moving the remaining per- sonnel to a Marine-guarded compound. A Western diplomatic source who asked not to be identified said, ‘Last night, several American civilian employees did, indeed, move into the compound.’...In Washing- ton, the Reagan administration said it contacted Lebanese officials and Syria for help in finding Buckley, who was abduct- ed at gunpoint Friday morning while leav- ing his West Beirut aparment. Three gun- men forced Buckly, 55, the first secretary of the embassy’s political section, into a car in front of his house, not far from the U.S. embassy, and sped off.” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18 “Secretary of State Shultz called in a panel of 23 experts and government officials yes- terday for a private briefing on a topic that has plagued the recent conduct of U.S. diplomacy: international terrorism." New York Daily News, March 25 “The U.S. embassy {in Beijing] has re- ceived information indicacing that Islamic terrorists have targeted the diplomatic SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- 26 JUNE 1984 mission here for a bombing attack like those against the American embassy and U.S. Marine billet in Beirut. The bomb- ing of the U.S. embassy in Kuwait Decem- ber 12 and a recent warning by che myste- rious Islamic Jihad organization has prompted tightened security measures at American diplomatic missions all over the world in the last week, including the Beij- ing embassy, which an American diplomat described as having ‘the worst security of any embassy in the world.’...,The informa- tion indicated terrorists have also targeted the U.S. embassy in Paris....Islamic Ji- had...claimed responsibility for the Octo- ber 23 suicide bombings in Beirut...and for the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut last April, which left 63 people dead... “One embassy source, noting the Brit- ish mission here has also taken security measures such as parking a truck around the clock behind che locked gates of their compound, was puzzled why the Ameri- cans maintain a truck blockade only at night.” Jonathan Broder in the Chicago Tribune January 3 “Western embassies in Ease Berlin tight- ened security yesterday after six East Ger- mans succeeded in leaving the country by staging a weekend sit-in at the U.S. em- bassy....The U.S. embassy, which nor- mally admits visitors to its library and con- sular section without identity checks, moved its receptionist into an outer lob- by.” Baltimore Sun January 24 “Secretary of State George Shultz said: “The cruel fact of the matter is that terror- ism works. We have to arrange things so that it is a tactic that we are able to frus- trate.’ Omaha World-Herald March 13 “Senior U.S. officials agree that the new anti-terrorism policy should have three ba- sic components: protective measures, such as incteased embassy security; better intel- ligence about terrorist groups and their operations; and more aggressive military and covert-action measures that can deter terrorists from attacking Americans.” David Ignatius in the Wall Street Journal March 12 “Ie is time for the U.S. government to move decisively to protect its embassy em- ployees in the world’s areas of turmoil. 37 Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 Security provisions should be realistically reviewed in these regions. Embassy staffs should be reasonably pared co those per- sons who are absolucely necessary. They should live under adequate protection of U.S. armed personnel... “Even in quiet areas U.S. diplomats and other Americans need to be vigilane...In areas of turmoil, such as Beirut, it is essen- tial not to be foolhardy. After the March 16 kidnaping, American diplomatic per- sonnel living in civilian apartments were moved to a secure area to be guarded by ‘American troops. They ought to have been there all along. As pointed out by Arthur Goldberg..., the State Department argu- ment that protection of U.S. diplomats is the duty of the host government breaks down in areas where there is no effective government.” Christian Science Monitor, March 28 “Some embassies remain vulnerable. Only a 10-foot high iron gate separates the steel- and-glass U.S. embassy in Madrid from the main street—a mere 10 yards from the building. Missions in London, Vienna, and the Hague are similarly vulnerable." Washington Post, December 13 “In the late 1960s, with the contemporary beginning of diplomatic kidnapping and attempted assassinations, the United States failed co establish a consistent policy for dealing with terrorism. For example, when our ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, was kidnapped in 1969, the U.S. put pressure on the Brazilian gov- ernment to accede to the terrorists’ de- mand. The Brazilians complied and the ambassador was released unharmed....In 1973, eight Palestinians of the Black Sep- tember Organization seized the Saudi Ara- bian embassy in Kharcoum, Sudan, and captured five U.S. citizens including our ambassador. Then President Richard Nix- on, in an answer toa press conference ques- tion, declared that the United States ‘will not pay blackmail.’ The immediate result was the slaughcer of the hostages.” The Bureaucrat, Winter 1983-84 “According to the information provided by antiterrorist specialists, we may expect stepped-up -atctacks on American diplo- mats and diplomatic facilities in the fu- ture. Even as the United States takes steps to safeguard its embassies, installing more sophisticated surveillance and communi- cations and tightening perimeter security, terrorism has made a career in the Foreign Service riskier than ever.” Jobn B. Wolf in Worldview