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US interests in Greece. (b)(3) pose high threats to

1985. Luxembourg officials believe tł(b)(3) ks were

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group, the leftist First of October Antifascist

Latin America Resistance, spent much of the year attempting to Some 130 international terrorist incidents occurred in recover from a police sweep in January

Latin America, nearly two-thirds of which were

directed against US interests. The majority of the The level of terrorist activity in Greece remained high. incidents were bombings, followed by armed attacks One-third of the incidents that occurred there last and kidnapings. The use of terrorist tactics by a year were directed against US targets, many in the form of arson and bombing attacks against vehicles

. belonging to US military personnel in Athens. The Revolutionary People's Struggle and the virulently The threat to US facilities, personnel, and interests anti-US 17 November Revolutionary Organization, from terrorist groups is particularly high in the which in years past had murdered two Americans and Andean countries of South America, where a number wounded another-cont;

of the anti-US incidents occurred. The breakdown of the Colombian Government's efforts to achieve peace

with various guerrilla movements and domestic In Luxembourg, unknown persons carried out some problems in Peru and Ecuador have provided fertile 14 bombings against domestic targets since April ground for terrorist activities. Increasing evidence of

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cooperation among groups in this region heightens our intended to discredit the government.

concern. We expect that US interests in South

America will continue to be one of their primary West European authorities are particularly concerned targets in 1986. Elsewhere in the region, Chile was about indications of coordination among several West the locale of more terrorist incidents (most of them European groups—the German RAF, the French domestic) than any other country in the world. Action Directe, and the Belgian CCC, including the following:

In Colombia, leftist guerrilla groups such as the 19th

of April Movement (M-19), the Ricardo Franco • Since the middle of 1984, these groups have

Front, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, conducted, more or less simultaneously, a number of and the National Liberation Army continued to attacks against NATO and defense-related targets. target US interests. Despite the M-19's defeat at the Some of these operations required a great deal of hands of the Colombian military during the group's planning.

ill-fated takeover of the Palace of Justice in November, the M-19

still retains the ability to stage • The terrorists have stated publicly that they acted in terrorist operations.

concert: Action Directe and the RAF, for example, issued a joint communique in January 1985

In Ecuador, the threat came from the Alfaro Vive, declaring war on the “imperialist" system. Both Carajo! (AVC) terrorist group. The small, urbangroups also claimed responsibility for the car

based organization is strongly anti-US and maintains bombing in August at Rhein-Main Airbase.

links to Colombia's M-19. Government officials are

concerned that such ties to the larger, more • French, West German, and Belgian terrorists used, experienced M-19 will smiforntly enhance the

(b)(3) in separate operations, explosives that belonged to a AVC's capabilities. lot stolen from a Belgian quarry in June 1984.

In Peru, the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement • Points on the NATO pipeline in Belgium bombed (MRTA) and the Sendero Luminoso (SL) posed

by the Belgian terrorists in December 1984 had serious problems for the Garcia government. There been marked on a NATO document confiscated were more than a dozen international terrorist attacks from Red Army Faction members arrested in West Germany that summer. (b)(3)

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