Pan Am Flight 103 CIA Files.pdf - Paperless Archives

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In a series of attacks in Paris on the Rieht of I J-14 April. a branch of Israel's Bank
Lcumi. the French Natio,(.1 Immieration office. and the offices of Miffilir. a
conservative: French weekly newspaper. werc cJI;tensivcly darri3ecd. There were no
casualties. Individuals purportine t~c:prcscnt Action Dircete cI iA'1 d
. responsibility. but there arei:loubts about their cI.ims~
It appears these bombinls may be: the ",·ork of dislruntled North African
immilrants rather than Action Dirccte. For example. the communique. wrillen in
very poor French. probably was the work of a nonnative French speaker. Except
for some anti-Zionist phrases. the communique lacked the usual Action Dirccte
rhetoric and made no mention of NATO. Instead. it allaeked French treatment of
North African immilrants and alleled anti-Alaenan actions by President
Miuerrand."" . .b ~
Arraced Tatisla Terrorist Uak~ Co Adioll Directc:
On 24 April Muzaffer Kac:ar. a Turkish national. was arrested at a Paris radio
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Ten'CKkC Uakc:d to Carlos Apparat EJI;pdied to West Germaay
In kc:c:pine with the French policy of returning "undesirables" to their country of
oriain. urban euerriUa Maldalena KoPl' was escorted to the West German border
on 4 May. She had just completed servine a thrce-y~ sentence for transportine
arms and explosives_ Kopp was jailed with another sus~c:d terrorist. Swiss
national Bruno Breeuet. whom the French arc: still holdine on the same charee.
Prior to their sentencine in 1982. the international terrorist Carlos claimed that
the two be:lonac:d to his orlanization and warned he would strike in France: if they
were not released. A car bomb killed a woman and wounded more than 60 others
on the day the two were impri~'tcd.'"
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