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Terrorism: The Low Frontier
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BOOK WORLD
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4 / 1986 |
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L. Francis Bouchey
Francis Bouchey is president of the Council for Inter-American
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TERRORISM AS STATE-SPONSORED COVERT WARFARE
Ray S. Cline and Yonah Alexander
Hero Books,
118 pp.
FIGHTING BACK WINNING THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
Neil Livingstone and Terrell E. Arnold
Lexington Books
268 pp., $12.95
HYDRA OF CARNAGE
Uri Ra'anan, Robert Pfaltzgraff, Jr., Richard Schultz, Ernst Halperin, Igor Lukes
Lexington Books
638 pp. $22.95
Politically motivated violence of a non-military character has a long and ignoble history reaching at least from Brutus murdering Julius Caesar in Rome to Lee Harvey Oswald killing President John F. Kennedy in Dallas twenty-three years ago. Indeed, these were acts of political terrorism: they altered the course of politics and they terrorized the political community causing widespread disorientation and anxiety. But they were of a different species than the variety of terrorism dealt with in these books because they were not sponsored by a foreign state that was pursuing a covert war against Rome or against the United States. At least not to the best of our knowledge.
State-Sponsored Terrorism
CIA Chief William Casey sums up the issue in the opening chapters of Hydra of Carnage:
Clearly, the Soviet Union and its allies all have
grasped the potential of terrorist movements for
disrupting societies, particularly in the so-called
Third World. Clearly, they have recognized that
throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America there
are weak governments with low levels of legitimacy and
high levels of instability. To a degree far greater
than is generally realized, these governments are
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