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Except for the outcome, the attack on Ray resembled an assault last November on another U.S. diplomat in Paris, Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Christian Chapman. But Chapman had been lucky enough to spot his Arab assailant in time and had escaped a fusillade of shots by ducking behind his car. Security for U.S. embassy personnel had been strengthened after the attempt on Chapman's life. But Ray, who was one of four assistant military attaches, did not have enough rank in the 400-member embassy hierarchy to rate the special protection of a French police car that...
...killed Ray? Not the assailant who shot at Chapman, apparently, since the descriptions of the two men do not match. In Beirut, a previously unknown group calling itself the Lebanese Army Revolutionary Faction claimed credit for "executing" the officer because of American "crimes" against the Lebanese people. Western intelligence officials did not know whether the group was an offshoot of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a hit squad from Libya or some other Arab country, or indeed whether the report was simply a hoax...
...embassies abroad have been specially fortified against mob assault, and stepped-up security measures are being used to protect officials living in diplomatic compounds. But U.S. officials admit that it is next to impossible to give 24-hour security to people living in private apartments, such as Ray, Chapman and Brigadier General James Dozier, who was abducted by the Red Brigades in Italy on Dec. 17. Officials in Rome said last week that they saw no link between the Ray murder and the Dozier kidnaping...
...September, Gaddafi dispatched an envoy, Ahmad Shahati, to Washington with a personal message of reconciliation to Reagan. But U.S. intelligence officials had begun to receive reports that Libyan hit teams were out to kill Reagan. By the time U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Chapman narrowly missed being assassinated in Paris in November, Washington had made up its mind about Gaddafi's true intentions. As Haig put it: "I think it underlines the urgency of dealing with the problem [Gaddafi] in an effective, prudent, unequivocal...
...alleged Gaddafi plot to kill Maxwell Rabb, U.S. Ambassador to Italy. Rabb was given special protection, and Rome police arrested a suspect. Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports were circulating in France that Gaddafi was planning assaults on other U.S. embassy personnel in Europe. U.S. officials thus grew especially concerned when Christian Chapman, chargé d'affaires at the American embassy in Paris, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in November. No suspects were arrested, but again Gaddafi was thought to be the mastermind...