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Approved For.Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100330001-5 May 1984 Soure: References: U.S. Department of State. SPECIAL EDITION -- TERRORISM -- 26 JUNE 1984 No .899-20 South Yemen. While the Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Ye- men has not participated directly in inter- national terrorist attacks, it has supported international terrorism since the late 1960s by providing camps and other training facilities for a number of leftist terrorist groups. In an effort to improve relations with neighboring moderate Arab states, South Yemen did reduce its support in late 1982 to North Yemeni and Omani insur- gent groups that had engaged in terrorist activities in the past. fran. Consistent with its radical, anti-West- ern policies, its zeal for Islamic fundamen- talism, and its widespread employment of terrorism within tran itself, the Khomeini regime supports terrorist groups such as the Iraqi Islamic Revolutionary Council, a Shiite oppositionist group responsible for numerous bombings in Iraq. In a Novem- ber 1982 press interview, Hojjat ol-Eslam Mohammad Baqer Hakim, spokesman of the lraqi islamic Revolutionary Supreme Assembly, named Iran as one of its prima- ry financial backers. Many anti-Khomeini expatriates have alleged that the govern- ment tries to silence them through the use of death threats and similar terrorist -lactics. Iraq. The Iraqi Government has reduced support to non-Palestinian terrorists and placed restrictions on many Palestinian groups, thereby moving closer to the poli- cies of its moderate Arab neighbors. How- ever, in 1982 Iraq continued to provide a base for Abu Nidal’s BJO, and there were strong allegations that it had rendered support to the Palestinian 15 May Organization. Nicaragua. Nicaragua continues to sup- port insurgent organizations in Central America that use acts of terrorism to em- barrass, intimidate, and destabilize govern- ments of neighboring countries. It pro- Patterns of International Terrorism, vides, for example, considerable financial, logistic, and materia! support and sanctu- ary to Salvadoran rebels of the FMLN. During a press conference in the spring of 1983, Efrain Duarte Salgado, leader of the Honduran FPR, in detailing the extent of foreign influence over his group, specifical- ly cited financial support by the Nicara- guan Government. in a staternent to Costa Rican authorities concerning the July 1982 bombing of the Sahsa Airlines office in San Jose, the arrestee implicated three Nicara- guan dipiomats in planning the bombing— perpetrated partiy in retaliation for Hondu- ran military assistance to El Salvador. Cuba. in its efforts to promote armed revolution by leftist forces in Latin Ameri- ca, Cuba supports organizations and groups that use terrorism to undermine existing regimes. In cooperation with the Soviets, the Cubans have facilitated the movement of people and weapons into Central arid South America and have di- rectly provided funding, training, arms, safehaven, and advice to a wide variety of guerrilla groups and individual terrorists. Manuel Pineiro Losada, head of the Ameri- ca Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, reaffirmed Cuban commitment to the revolutionary proc- ess— including support for groups that use terrorism —at the 1982 international theo- retical conference. Pineiro stressed the fundamental Marxist-Leninist principle of the need ‘to destroy the repressive ma- chinery of the state in order to achieve complete control and replace it with a new State-"' To this end he identified the timely use of arms as indispensable for the tri- umph of any liberating revolution. The con- flict in El Salvador was cited as an example of a “creative revolutionary formula... applied in the use of arms.”’ D&EWR, No.4657, WORLD O-8, July 1981; D&EWR, No.5156, WORLD OT1, 4 July 1983. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RBP96-00788R000100330001-5 WORLD: 0T2 Page 12