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Accounting for the Explosives

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On 4 June 1984, approximately 815 kilograms (kg) of explosives--75 kg of Tolamite, 45 kg of Dynamite-3, 150 kg of Triamite, and 545 kg of Iremite—were stolen from a quarry near Ecaussines, Belgium. Two earlier attempts to break into the explosives storage area over the preceding four months had been unsuccessfUL, but police believe that two to five persons finally used electrical power tools and other equip_'(b)(3) cut through a reinforced armored door.

Since the theft, only about 165 kg of the explosives have been found intact. This is the amount French, Belgian, and West German authorities have confiscated in safehouses or taken from explosive devices placed by terrorists but which failed to explode. Analyses of residue from bombs that exploded during 1984 and 1985 in Belgium indicated some could have been made from the same type of dyn mitatolen from Ecaussines.

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we estimate that approximately 261 kg of the explosives-about one-third of the haUL-have been confiscated from or used by West European terrorists. We have no evidence that Middle Eastern terrorist groups have used any of the explosives in their attacks in Western Europe, including the series of bombings the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction carried out during September 1986 in Paris, (b)(3)

Analysis of the residue of bombs used in some successfUL attacks by the Red Army Faction and Action Directe indicated they did not contain explosives from Ecaussines[(b)(3)

RAF and AD. Our knowledge of FRAP's ties to the other groups is less detailed. The fingerprints of two AD leaders were found in a FRAP safehouse in 1985. On the other hand, the CCC claimed to know nothing Chart FRAP in a communique issued in April 1985. F(b)(3)

Through links among members of the four groups, a network existed by which they could have distributed the explosives. For example, Pierre Carette, one of the founders of the CCC, reportedly printed some documents for AD in 1982. Carette also had close ties to the RAF. He was a member of the Belgian Support Committee for the RAF prisoners and was suspected of playing a support role in the RAF's attack in 1979 on US Army Gen. Alexander Haig in Belgium. In addition, West German police found a map in July 1984 at an RAF safehouse that was marked with the same points on a NATO pipeline that CCC bombed the following December. Joint communiques issued during the Euroterrorist campaign in 1984-85 and documents seized by French police at an AD safehouse in February 1986 point to the ties between the

We have little information about the explosives confiscated in March 1987 from the Corsicans in Dues. seldorf, especially whether the dynamite came from Ecaussines and how the men acquired the explosives. The two reportedly have long French criminal records. If the explosives were from the quarry, the involvement of these men raises the possibility that

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