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Frenchmen were still being_(b)(3) hostages by

Other separatist movements—Iparretarak, the New France experienced 25 incidents related to Basque Caledonian Kanak Socialist National Liberation separatism in 1985. The lethal Antiterrorist Front, the Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance, and the Liberation Group (GAL) carried out 11 attacks Breton Revolutionary Army-were responsible for 24 against ETA exiles in France, killing 10 persons and incidents in 1985. Most of these were property

wounding eight others. The ETA attacked 14 French bombings; they caused only one fatality and no

targets in Spain in retaliation for the GAL attacks reported injuries.(b)(3)

and in protest against France'

(b)(3)"

dition of four

ETA members to Spain. Action Directe Action Directe probably poses the greatest problem French targets in Lebanon were attacked 10 times for French authorities. What makes this group

last year, resulting in five fatalities and six particularly troublesome is its possible links to other kidnapings. Hizballah was responsible for eight of European terrorist groups. Action Directe was

these incidents, and the Armenian Secret Army for responsible for 17 attacks in France in 1985, including the Liberation of Armenia and the LARF each the assassination of Gen. Rene Audran-a Ministry carried out one attack. At the end of the year, four of Defense official responsible for foreign arms sales—and the attempted assassination of a second elements of Hizballah. general officer. Action Directe also issued a joint communique with the West German Red Army In addition to the assassination and attempted Faction (RAF) in January 1985 in which the two assassination of the two military officers by Action groups announced they were forming an “anti- Directe, there were three anti-NATO incidents imperialist front" in Western Europe. The French involving the French. A French-owned computer terrorists were apparently involved in town onerations company in Cologne, West Germany, and the Central as part of this international movementsb)(3)

European Operating Agency (the NATO pipeline

management office) in Versailles were bombed, and We believe that Action Directe now has two factions. Action Directe took credit-along with the RAF-for One of them—the "internationalists"—is made up of the car bombing of the US Air Form bare at Rheina few of the original AD leadership, and probably was Main, West Germany.

"(b)(1) active with both West German and Belgian terrorists

(b)(3) in 1985. We suspect the second faction, the "domestic," is larger and did not approve of the alliance with the RAF. Analysis of recent activity Four serious bombings were carried out by unknown suggests that the members of the second faction- perpetrators in France in 1985. We suspect that whose identities are unknown to the police-prefer to Middle Eastern terrorists were responsible. Three of continue traditional AD operations; that is, bombing these attacks were against department stores, killing property targets in the middle of the night. These one person and wounding 59 others. The other attacks usually do not cause casualties and are related incident—the bombing of a cinema featuring a Jewish to various domestic political issues, such as French film festival-resulted in the wounding of some 18 involvement in South Africa and the resurgence of persons.

(b)(3)] rightist political parties.[(b)(3)

Outlook International Terrorism

Terrorist activity in France is likely to continue in The French must contend with international terrorism 1986, although we suspect the patterns are changing: in three dimensions—that growing out of the Spanish Basque movement, the anti-NATO campaign by the • There probably will be more terrorist incidents in anti-imperialist front, and attacks upon French

France carried out by Middle Eastern groups. In interests in Lebanon. (b)(3)]

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