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Exaggerated though such claims may be, the Mujahedin have eclipsed all other groups in Iran's fragmented opposition. Last month's hijacking of a French-built, Iran-bound missile boat off the coast of Spain demonstrated that the small royalist faction led by former General Bahram Aryana remains alive, but it proves little else: the ship was surrendered to France and ultimately sent to the Iranian government, after bobbing around off the port of Cadiz for a week. Shahpour Bahktiar, the French-educated politician who was jailed by the Shah but then served as his last Prime Minister...
Vienna, Aug. 29. Two Arab terrorists, wielding automatic weapons and hand grenades, assaulted worshipers outside the city's main synagogue. Two people were killed, 18 injured. The Palestine Liberation Organization denied responsibility and blamed the assault on a dissident faction based in Baghdad...
Within the agency, philosophical fights were brewing too. One faction, including Casey's top deputy, Admiral Bobby Inman (who had been Goldwater's choice to head the agency), advocates more emphasis on "pure" intelligence gathering and analysis-calling the world as the agency sees it, whatever the conflicts with Administration policy. Other officials feel that the agency should tailor its reports to the decision-making needs of the President. Casey was seen by some as reflecting this view. When a CIA report failed to detect the degree of Soviet influence over worldwide terrorism that the White House...
...anti-Hugel faction at the CIA, sometimes using members of an "old boy" network of former agents, pushed for a quick Casey kill. It fed Goldwater the dubious information that Casey had emerged from Multiponics' bankruptcy in 1971 with a profit of some $750,000; he insisted he had lost almost his entire $145,000 investment. The same CIA sources apparently spread a false report that Casey and Hugel had planned a covert operation aimed at the "ultimate" removal of Libya's Strongman Muammar Gadaffi from power. Misinformation was leaked to Newsweek that the House Intelligence Committee...
...vicious little war had ended, at least for the moment, although one radical Palestinian faction refused to observe the ceasefire. But even if the shelling and bombing had been halted, for the most part, the issues remained that could cause fighting again and again until Israel and the Palestinians come to terms. The most alarming aspect of the hostilities was the way the Israelis had plunged ahead with the fighting, heedlessly bombing targets in densely populated areas in Beirut. Throughout the Western world, some of Israel's staunchest friends and supporters -in European governments, in the U.S. Congress...