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...Underground system and the three bombed train stations circled. A British official confirmed that a Pakistani had been arrested but said there was no known connection between the event at Stansted and the bombings. A source close to the interrogation of Abu-Faraj al-Libbi, a Libyan arrested in Pakistan who has been in U.S. custody for six weeks and is suspected of being Osama bin Laden's third in command, says al-Libbi told interrogators about the possibility of attacks in London and had in his possession city and Underground maps of London. U.S. authorities said there...
When the Reagan Administration was reported to have organized a "disinformation" campaign to mislead both Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi and the U.S. press, Secretary of State George Shultz declared, "Frankly, I don't have any problems with a little psychological warfare against Gaddafi." But if Shultz was not at all disturbed, his press spokesman was--so much so that he quit last week as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs...
...quit in 1974 when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any Watergate wrongdoings. More often, Washington officeholders struggle for compromise between their integrity and the demands of their employers. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, grilled by an angry press corps earlier this month about his nuanced evasions on the Libyan disinformation effort, articulated this ethical fence-straddling last week when he told the New York Times, "I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest." Bernard Kalb chose a different route. --By John S. DeMott. Reported by David Beckwith and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...ready to tell the "truth" about whom he was working for. Gloated Alejandro Bendaņa, a Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry official: "This is obviously a CIA operation with CIA operatives." Whether or not the accusations prove true, the Administration, which is already facing charges that it disseminated "disinformation" about Libyan terrorist activities, found itself confronted by another challenge to the credibility of its foreign policy...
...called Lavon scandal. [A reference to Israeli attacks on Western targets in Egypt. The strikes were made to appear as Egyptian terrorism in order to sour Egyptian-Western relations during sensitive negotiations on the withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal.] In 1973 Israel shot down a Libyan Boeing 727, causing the deaths of more than 100 civilian passengers . . . Last February, Israel hijacked a Libyan plane carrying a Syrian political delegation. These are some of the acts of terrorism committed by Israel.[*] Did the U.S. place Israel on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism...