ACRONYMS, LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONSANO - Abu Nidal Organization, a terrorist group headed by Abu Nidal; ANO’s campaign against Western targets in the mid-1980s included massacres in Vienna and Rome airports and the LaBelle Disco bombing in West Berlin. The collapse of the Berlin Wall at the end of the decade deprived ANO of “safe” territories from which it could launch its attacks in Europe. Now based in Libya, ANO has concentrated its violent assaults on targets in Israel and moderate Palestinian organizations
CIA - US Central Intelligence Agency
DIA - US Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency
DDIS - Danish Defense Intelligence Service
EUR - State Department’s Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs
GDR - German Democratic Republic, former East Germany
GSG-9, Grenz Schut
