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...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...
Beyond that, TIME has learned the CIA has solid evidence that Libyan agents were staking out U.S. embassies in Athens and Ankara. During the past few weeks, the Libyans rented rooms in sight of each embassy and were clocking the movements of senior U.S. officials there. Security has been tightened considerably at both missions, as well as at certain other embassies around the world. In Ankara, where Haig planned to visit this week, an Administration official described the security as being in "as high a state of alert as we've ever...
...addition, TIME has learned that U.S. intelligence agencies have reason to believe that five Libyan-trained terrorists?four Arabs and an East German?flew to Paris two weeks ago, apparently en route to Boston. The information was given to the FBI, which has refused to elaborate...
...agents now living in Libya, Edwin Wilson and Frank Terpil (both wanted in the U.S. on charges of conspiring to sell explosives and to commit murder), are known to have supplied military and terrorist technology to Libya. More than a dozen onetime Green Berets, recruited by Wilson, have trained Libyan troops. Federal investigators are in the process of tracking down for further questioning numbers of CIA agents and Green Berets who have worked in Libya...
...skeptical view in Washington is that the CIA might have wanted much of the story to become public. The motive: by portraying Gaddafi as the madman behind a presidential assassination attempt, they could justify covert action aimed at toppling the Libyan leader. Even if that theory were true, however, it did not in itself undermine the credibility of the evidence...