WASHINGTON: Almost three decades before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, a high-level government panel urged measures to protect the nation against terrorist acts ranging from radiological "dirty bombs" to airline missile attacks, according to declassified documents. "Unless governments take basic precautions, we will continue to stand at the edge of an awful abyss," Arms Control and Disarmament Agency scientist Robert Kupperman wrote in a 1977 report.
That report, and other documents and memos obtained from government archives under the Freedom of Information Act, were the result of five years of work by the Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism.
The group was formed in September 1972 by then president Richard Nixon after Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
It involved people as diverse as Henry Kissinger and a young Rudolph Giuliani. ---
quite the little p.n.a.c. cocktail.
That report, and other documents and memos obtained from government archives under the Freedom of Information Act, were the result of five years of work by the Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism.
The group was formed in September 1972 by then president Richard Nixon after Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games.
It involved people as diverse as Henry Kissinger and a young Rudolph Giuliani. ---
quite the little p.n.a.c. cocktail.
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