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Approved For Rel ase 2003/10/15: CIA-RDP79T00975A 5900020001-2 FEDAYEEN: The hijacking of the Lufthansa air- craft from Rome airport was apparently masterminded by a dissident Fatah - Black September sofficial resi- dent in Tripoli, Libya. The official, Ahmad Abd al-Ghaffur, is a Fatah member but a critic of Fatah chief Yasir Arafat. Abd al-Ghaffur reportedly has some connection with Libyan intelligence, although there is no evidence of Libyan complicity in this operation...
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President Nixon and the Role of Intelligence in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War

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