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Word: watchlists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1975-1975
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...watch lists covered four basic areas. One was international drug traffic. Another was keeping track of potential presidential assassins. The other two areas were terrorism and possible foreign support for civil disturbances. Cryptically, Allen told the Senators that the watchlist monitoring had prevented "a major terrorist act" in an American city. The episode apparently involved a plan by Arab terrorists to hide explosives in a car parked on a New York City street and detonate them when Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who was visiting the city, passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTELLIGENCE: NSA: Inside the Puzzle Palace | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

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