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international attacks, compared with 10 the previous made US military personnel less visible by issuing year. FP-25 detonated a car bomb at the US Embassy them ordinary license plates. The only two arson on 18 February—the only attack on US diplomatic attacks against US-owned vehicles last year occurred facilities in Western Europe last year. On 17 May the when the distinctive official license plates were still in group fired a mortar round at the Iberian Atlantic

(b)(3) Command facility Neither incident caused any casualties. (b)(3);

Turkey

The most serious new development in anti-Turkish FP-25 was more active on the domestic front,

terrorism last year was the escalating violence of the attacking Portugal's tourist industry during the separatist Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) after summer and fall by setting off bombs in the Algarve Ankara launched an airstrike against the group's resort area. The trials of FP-25's leader, who has camps in Irag in August. By October the PKK had become a national folk hero, and 56 of its members expanded its list of targets to include NATO when it continued throughout 1986. Late in the year, the attacked a radar site in the southeast with rockets and group reportedly spawned an offshoot called the automatic weapons. The group also carried its Armed Revolutionary Organization (ORA) that has campaign to other West European countries, where it yet to carry out any attacks because it is less v;": targeted Turkish officials:

(b)(3) organized and less capable than FP-25.

• A young PKK member was arrested in West

Germany in August as he opened a train station locker containing explosives, weapons, and ammunition. He apparently planned to attack the Turkish Consulate General in Hamburg.

(b)(1) (b)(3)

• Dutch officials apprehended in late August a PKK

activist who planned to attack a Turkish consulate in the Netherlands. He was carrying weapons and explosives at the time of his arrest.

We believe PKK violence will continue this year in Turkey and abroad as the group continues its struggle for an independent Kurdish state. Turkish authorities also continued to arrest members of other indigenous groups, which probably

accounted for their low level of activity

(b)(3) Greece Radical leftist terrorists expressed their growing Italy disapproval of the Papandreou government's domestic By all accounts, 1986 was the quietest year for and foreign policies with more attacks on government terrorism in Italy since 1969. The best-known group, targets in 1986. A bombing campaign against

the Red Brigades (BR), in decline since 1982, government buildings in October was claimed by both conducted only two attacks last year. The BR the Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA) and the murdered a former mayor of Florence but bungled an Revolutionary Organization 17 November. The 17 attempt on the life of a government adviser. Last year, November group typically commits assassinations- courts convicted hundreds of old-line BR members including that of a Greek businessman last April- including leaders like Barbara Balzarani and making these bombings a new tactic for the group. Greek terrorists attacked US citizens less often in 1986, perhaps in part because the Greek Government

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