( NEWS
GRAND ILLUSIONS
Four Airlines Paid
For Protection
Washington (JTA) — A U.S.
airline and three West Euro-
pean carriers paid millions of
dollars to Palestinian ter-
rorists in the 1970s not to hi-
jack or attack their planes, an
expert on terrorism said last
week.
Neil Livingstone, a pro-
fessor of national security
studies at Georgetown
University and president of
the private Institute on Ter-
rorism and Subnational Con-
flicts, would not reveal the
names • of the airliners that
paid the "protection money"
to an arm of the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
A former advisor to congres-
sional committees and
airlines, Livingstone would
not confirm whether any of
the airlines flew to Israel, but
he said the extortion money
was no longer being paid:
A spokesman for the
Federal Aviation Administra-
tion denied any knowledge of
protection money being paid,
but Livingstone said his in-
formation was corroborated
by a half-dozen intelligence
agencies in the United States,
Europe, Israel and Arab coun-
tries. He said the countries in
which the airlines were bas-
O• ed knew of the extortion.
Livingstone was interview-
ed by phone at the institute's
office, where he had just
returned from Israel. He first
revealed the existence of the
extortion during a three-day
01' international seminar in Tel
Aviv on aviation security.
Livingstone said he would
reveal the names of the
airlines and other informa-
tion in a book he has just corn-
0•1` pleted on the covert opera-
tions of the PLO.
The book's central theme,
Livingstone said, is that "ir-
respective of Israel," the PLO
should be a "serious concern
of the United States" since it
has attacked and
. - killed
including
Americans,
•
diplomats.
In his talk in Israel, Liv-
ingstone said most of the pro-
tection money was made to
the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, head-
ed by George Habash. "Most
of it happened in the 1970s
and most of the money was
paid to the PFLP," he said.
Livingstone said that while
Habash resigned from the ex-
ecutive committee of the PLO
in a dispute with Yassir
Arafat in 1974, Arafat
benefited from the extortion
through a "secret fund" and
"knew very well what was go-
ing on."
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