Vanderbilt Television News Archive

(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings

(NYC) International terrorist network examined; Japanese Red Army attack on Tel Aviv, Israel, Lode airport in 1972 cited as example Details of that terrorist assault recalled; role of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Red Brigades noted. [Center for Strategic Studies spokesperson Robert KUPPERMAN - says Lode massacre was in part payoff to Palestinians for giving them paramilitary training.] Infamy of Palestinian training camps noted; similar camps in Syria, South Yemen, Libya, East Germany, Czechoslovakia as well as Cuba discussed. All said suspected of recing. support from USSR ; importance of that allegation to Reagan administration foreign policy cited. Question of USSR support for terrorists examined. [KUPPERMAN - lists types of support provided by USSR .] [Courtesy "Nightline", former Israeli intelligence director Chaim HERZOG - comments on terrorist training camps in the Crimea and near Moscow.] Estimated amts. spent annually by Libya's Muammar el-Kadhafi, Fidel Castro in training terrorists outlined. [Terrorist expert Yonah ALEXANDER, Ambassador Anthony QUAINTON - note lack of obvious connection between groups.] Alleged Cuban involvement in El Salvador examined; similar United States support for terrorist mvts., illustrated by CIA's terrorist activities in unseating Chile's Salvador Allende and anti-Castro terrorists training in United States (part of Bay of Pigs legacy), noted. [New York City police spokesperson Captain Don MOSS - notes competence of CIA-trained terrorists.]
REPORTER: John McWethy Artist: Freda Reiter (WPLG film/tape)