‘Jackal’ poised to hit again?

Press, 14 September 1976, Page 8

‘Jackal’ poised to hit again?

NZPA London Western intelligence agencies believe terrorist mastermind, llich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos, is in Belgrade with a commando squad and may be poised to strike again in Western Europe, sources have said. Sanchez, a 29-year-old Venezuelan also known as the “Jackal,” is believed to he accompanied by HansJoachim Klein, once linked to the West German Baader-Meinhof gang and now a Sanchez lieutenant, the informants said. The two flew to Belgrade last week from Algiers where they had been in hiding since last December. They went to Algeria after kidnapping 12 oil ministers at an Organisation of Petroleum exporting countries conference in Vienna. Three people were killed

in the raid led by Sanchez. Klein, who is 29, was wounded by gunfire. Sanchez had him carried on a stretcher to a plane commandeered to fly them to Algiers. The sources, close to British intelligence agencies, said Sanchez and Klein are believed to have » team of four Palestinians and a German with them in Belgrade.

The informants declined to speculate what the terrorists’ target might be. But they said the Western intelligence network has been alerted.

The “Daily Express,” however, claimed the “Jackal” is under orders to avenge Palestinian terrorists’ defeat at Entebbe Airport in Uganda last July when Israeli forces rescued hostages from a hijacked Air France airliner.