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APPENDICES A - D
Appendix A - Known Terrorist Organizations
Appendix B - Individual Protective Measures for U.S. Military Personnel
Appendix C - Terrorism Specific Terminology
Appendix D - Acronyms and Abbreviations
Use the above publication extracts to take this subcourse. At the time this subcourse was written, these were the most current publications. In your own work situation, always refer to the latest publications.
APPENDIX A - KNOWN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS
NOTE TO THE STUDENT:
The organizations listed below have been identified as known terrorist organizations in the past. Many of these groups are still active and pose a threat. Additional information for each organization can be obtained through the Defense Intelligence Agency publication, Terrorist Groups Profiles.
Argentina:
AAA Alianza Anticommunista Argentina (Anti-Communist Alliance
DP Montoneros ERP Ejercito Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army) (August 22 Movement)
ERP Ejercito Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army) (Communist)
MANO Argentina National Organization Movement TC Tacuara (Fascist)
Bolivia:
EDM Death Squads
ELN Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation Army)
FSB Bolivian Socialist Phalange (Fascist)
MIR Revolutionary Movement of Bolivia
Brazil:
AAB Anti-Communist Alliance of Brazil
EDM Death Squads
ELN Action for National Liberation
MR-8 Revolutionary Movement of the 8th
VAR Vanguardia Armada Revolucionario (Armed Revolutionary Vanguard) Marighella)
VPR Popular Revolutionary Vanguard
Chile:
EDM Death Squads
LP Patria Libertad (Right Wing)
MIR Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Movement of the Left)
NASAC Chilean National Socialist Alliance (Neo-Nazi)
PAG Proletarian Action Group
Columbia:
ELN Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation Army)
EPL Ejercito Popular de Liberacion (Popular Liberation Army)
FARC Fuerzas Armadas Revoluaionarias de Columbia (Armed Revolutionary Forces of Columbia)
M-19 Movimiento 19 April (April 19 Movement)
MAS Vigilante Group (Organized Crime)
MLFC Military Liberation Front of Columbia
Costa Rica:
MRP People's Revolutionary Movement
RSC Revolutionary Solidarity Commands
RSRG Roberto Santucho Revolutionary Group
Dominican Republic:
LB La Banda (Vigilante)
MPD Movimiento Popular Dominico (Dominican Popular Movement)
El Salvador:
ERP Ejercito
Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army)
FAPU Frente de Accion Popular Unificado (United Popular Action Front)
FARN Fuerzas Armadas de Resistencia Nacional (Armed Forces of National Resistance)
FDER Democratic Revolutionary Front
FPL Fuerzas Populares de Liberacion Farabunda Marti (Farabundi Marti Popular Forces of Liberation)
UGB Union Guerrera Blanca (White Fighting Union) (Right Wing Extremist)
WWU White Warrior Union (Right Wing)
Guatemala:
EGP Ejercito Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guerrilla Army of the Poor)
FAA Armed Action Army (Right Wing)
MLN National Liberation Movement
MPR People's Revolutionary Movement
MR-13 Movimiento Revolucionario Alejandro de Leon 13 Noviembre (Revolutionary Movement Alejandro de Leon November 13)
NCG Guatemala National Commando
OPO WG Eye for Eye White Brotherhood (Right Wing)
Z Group Z (Fascist)
Haiti:
CNLB Coalition of national Liberation Brigades
Honduras:
MAR Armed Revolutionary Movement
MPL Movimiento de Liberacion Popular (Popular Liberation Movement)
MPLC Movimiento de Liberacio Popular Cinchonero (Cinchonero Popular Liberation Movement)
VEN Venceremos Organization (Terrorist Support)
Mexico:
ACNR Associacion Civica Nacional Revolucionaria (National Revolutionary Civic Association)
BB Brigade Blanca (Right Wing)
ELP People's Revolutionary Army
ERPM Mexican People's Revolutionary Army
FRAP Fuerzas Revolucionarias Armadas del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Armed Forces)
LCA Liga Comunista Armada (Armed Commnist League)
LCS-23 Liga Comunista 23 Septiembre (23rd September Communist League)
OLC Lucio Cabanas Organization
Nicaragua:
ARD Democratic Revolutionary Alliance
SC Sandinistas (Contras)
Panama:
IU Indio Uno
Paraguay:
Movement Popular Colorado Movement (Armed Faction)
DEP Military Political Organization (Right Wing)
Peru:
AAP Peruvian Anti-Communist Alliance
CO Condor
MANO Armed Nationalist Movement Organization
MIR Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria (Movement of the Revolutionary Left)
SL Sendero Luminosa (Shining Path)
Uruguay:
AMS Militant Socialist Group
GAU United Action Group
MLN Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (National Liberation Movement) (Tupamaros)
OPR-23 Popular Revolutionary Organization 23
Venezuela:
GAS American Silva Group
GL Red Flag Group
EUROPE
Belgium:
CCC Communist Combatant Cells
JLB Julian Lahout Brigade
Federal Republic of Germany:
RAF Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction) (Formerly known as the Bader/Meinhoff Group)
RZ Revolutionare Zallon (Revolutionary Cells)
Wehrspotgruppe Hoffman (Defense Sports Group Hoffman) (Neo-Nazi)
France:
AD Action Directe (Direct Action Group)
LARF Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction
NO New Order (Extreme Right Wing)
RSB Raul Sandic Brigade
Greece:
ELA Epanastatikos Laikos Agonas (People's Revolutionary Struggle)
RA Revolutionary Action
N-17 November 17th Revolutionary Organization (Left-wing)
DEV-SOL (Left-Wing)
Italy:
ACN Armed Communist Nuclei
AO Autonomous Workers
BR Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades)
NAR Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei) (Neo-Fascist)
ON Ordine Nero (Black Order) (Fascist)
Netherlands:
RH Rode Hulp (Red Help)
RMS South Moluccan Freedom Federation
Portugal:
CDEC Commando for the Defense of Civilians (Neo-Fascist)
ELP Exercito de Liberacao Portugues (Portuguese Liberation Army)
FP-25 Forcas Populares do 25 Abril (Popular Forces 25 April) (Trotskyite)
PACM Portuguese Anticommunist Movement (Counterterror)
Spain:
ETA Euskadi ta Askatasuna (Freedom for he Basque Homeland)
FN Fuerza Nueva (New Force) (Neo-Fascist)
FRAP Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriotico (Anti-Fascist and Patriotic Revolutionary Front)
GRAPO Grupo de Resistencia Anifascista de Primero de Octubre (lst of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group)
NIG Nationalist Intervention Group (Right Wing)
Switzerland:
JCAG Justice Commando of the Armenian Genocide LBJ Les Beliers De Jura (Marxist)
PKC Petra Klaus Commando (International)
Turkey:
BKT Bozkurtler (Grey Wolves) (Right Wing)
DEV GENC Revolutionary Youth Federation
DEV SOL Revolutionary Left
DEV YOL Revolutionary Army
MLAPU Marksist Leninist Propaganda Silahli Birligi (Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda unit)
TIC Turkish Idealist Club (Right Wing)
TLPA Turk Halk Kurtulus Ordusu (Turkish People's Liberation Army)
United Kingdom:
AB The Angry Brigade
AG Army of the Gael (Right Wing)
C88 Column 88 (Neo-Fascist)
INLA Irish National Liberation Army (Marxist)
IRA Irish Republican Army
IRA(P) Provisional Irish Republican Army
UDA Ulster Defense Association (Right Wing)
UDR Ulster Defense Regiment (Right Wing)
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Afghanistan:
AIS Afghan Islamic Society (Religious Fundamentalists)
ANLF Afghan National Liberation Front
IALA Islamic Allegiance for Liberation of Afghanistan
Algeria:
OPR Organization of Popular Resistance (Right Wing)
ULFNA United Liberation Front of the New Algeria
Angola:
NUTLA National Union for Total Liberation of Angola
MPLA Movimento Popular para a L'bertacao de Angola (Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola)
Egypt:
AJ-AJ AI Jiahd-AI Jiahd (Radical Islamic)
ATWH Altakfir Waal Hijra (Moslem Brotherhood Faction)
Ethiopia:
ELF Eritrean Liberation Front (Separatist)
KLF Kurdish Liberation Front
MEK Mujahdin El Khalk (People's Strugglers)
OLF Oromo Liberation Front (Somali backed)
PLF Popular Liberation Forces (Monarchist)
TPLF Tigre People's Liberation Front Iraq
Iraq:
IMIA Iraqi Movement for Islamic Action
KRP Kirdish Revolutionary Organization
ALF Arab Liberation Front
Israel:
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization (Arab)
WOG Wrath of God (Counterterrorist terrorist)
Jordan:
JNLM Jordanian National Liberation Movement
Lebanon:
AJM Al Jihad Mugadis AMAL Shiite Movement
PH Phalange
Libya:
NFSL National Front for the Salvation of Libya
PCLS People's Committee for Libyan Students
Mozambique:
COREMO Comite Revolucionario de Mocambique (Revolutionary Commitee of Mozambique)
FRELIMO Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique (Mozambique Liberation Front)
Palestinians:
AF Al Fatah (Palestinian National Liberation Movement)
AS Al Sa'iga (Syrian Sponsored)
BSO Black September Organization
EPR Eagles of Palestinian Revolution
MBC Muhammed Boudia Commando (AKA Carlos Group)
OANY Organization of Arab Nationalist Youth
PFPL Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (Jabhat al-Shaabiya li Tahrir Falistin)
PFLP-GC Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine General Command (Jabhat al-Shaabiya li Tahrir Falistin al-Quiyadat al-Ama)
PDFLP Popular Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine
PLA Palestine Liberation Army
PLO Palestine Liberation Organization
RCF Revolutionary Council of Fatah (Abu Nidal Faction)
Somalia:
SDSF Somali Democratic Salvation Front
SLF Somali Liberation Front
South Africa:
ANC African National Congress (Marxist)
PAC Pan African Congress (Marxist)
SWAPO Southwest African People's Organization
Sudan:
NFS National Front of Sudan (Right Wing)
SPF Sudanese Progressive Front
SSLF Southern Sudan Liberation Front
Tunisia:
TARF Tunsian Armed Resistance Front
Yemen (North):
ENU Eagles of National Unity
FLOSY Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen (Jabhat al-tahrir al-Janubu al-Yemen)
ASIA
Bangladesh:
JSD Jatyo Samajtantrik Dal (Nationalist Socialist Party) (Right Wing)
KIO Kachin Independence Organization
NUP National Unity Party Burma
NDF National Democratic Front (Right Wing)
Campuchea (Cambodia)
KPNLF Khmer People's National Liberation Front
India:
AM Anand Marg (Path of Bliss)
KLF Kasmirir Liberation Front
UPRF Universal Proutist Liberation Front
Indonesia:
DIHWC Darul Islam Holy War Command
PKI Partal Komunis Indonesia (Communist Party of Indonesia) (Maoist)
RMS Free Molucan Movement
Japan:
CH Nucleous Faction
Chukaku-Ha - (Extreme Left-Wing)
Middle Core
Nucleous Faction
Zenchin (Group's Periodical)
GT
Gijin To (Martyr's Party)
JRA/UJRA Japanese Red Army, Untied JRA
MAR Maruseido (Marxist Youth)
MCRA Middle Core Revolutionary Army
SGK Sokagakkai
URLG Unified Revolutionary Liberty Group (New Left)
Zengakuren (National Union of Autonomous Committees of Japanese Students)
Korea (ROK):
MD Masked Dance (Marxist Youth)
RPRK Revolutionary Party for Reunification of Korea
Malaysia:
MNLA Malaysian National Liberation Army
PGRS Sarawak People's Guerrilla Force
SK Communist Party Organization
Pakistan:
AZ Al Zulfikar
NAP National Awami Party (Maoist)
PPP Pakistani People's Party
Phillipines:
BMA Bangsa Moro Army ILF Islamic Liberation Front (PLO connected)
MNLF Moro National Liberation Front
NPA New People's Army
PRF People's Revolutionary Front
TNPLA The New People's Liberation Army
TPLA The Phillipines Liberation Army
Sri Lanka:
JVP People's Liberation Front
Taiwan:
PLF People's Liberation Front
Thailand:
PLF Pattani Liberation Front TPLF Thai People's Liberation Front
ANTI-CASTRO CUBAN ORGANIZATIONS:
ABDALA April 17th Movement
Anti-Castro Commando B2506 Brigade
Bay of Pigs Veteran's Association
CAC Cuban Action Commando
CORU Coordination of the United Revolutionary Organization
CRD Cuban Revolutionary Directoate
EC El Condor
EPC El Poder Cubano (Cuban Power 76)
F-14 Organization
FIN National Integration Front/AKA Cuban National Front
FLNC Cuban National Liberation Front
ISRUC International Secret Revolutionary United Cells
JCN Joint Cuban Coordination Group M-7
Movement of the 7th
Omega 7
PLBC Pedro Luis Boitel Commando
PR Pragmatistas
SCG Secret Cuban Government
SFE Second Front of Escambray
SHO Secret Hand Organization (Crime connected)
JFACC United Front of Anti-Castro Cubans
YOS Youth of the Star
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rican Separatist Terrorist Organization
CAL Armed Liberation Commandos
COPAAN Anti-Annexation Patriotic Committee
CRIA Independent Armed Revolutionary Commandos
CRP People's Revolutionary Commandos
FALN Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion (Armed Forces of National Liberation)
FARP Armed Forces of Popular Resistance
MAR Movimiento de Accion Revolucionaria (Revolutionary Action Movement)
MIRA Armed Revolutionary Independence Movement
NLN National Liberation Movement (Puerto Rican and Chicano)
MPR People's Revolutionary Movement--Machateros
OVPR Organization of Volunteers of the Puerto Rican Revolution
SSDAC Student Self-Defense Armed Commando (Cuban connections)
TRANSNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS:
APRM Armenian Popular Revolutionary Movement
ARF Armenian Revolutionary Federation
ASLA Armenian Secret Liberation Army
AYF Armenian Youth Federation
CGIB Che Guevera International Brigade
CIS Croation Intelligence Service
EANJAF East Asia NATO-Japanese Armed Front
HRB Croation revolutionary Brotherhood
IASF Iranian and Arab Student Federation
IIG Islamic International Guerrillas
ILO Islamic Liberation Organizations (Shiite)
IRF International Revolutionary Front
JCAG Justice Commando of the Armenian Genocide
JDL Jewish Defense League
JRA/UJRA Japanese Red Army/United Japanese Red Army
MB Moslem Brotherhood
MRC Mohammed Boudia Commando (Carlos)
CANADA/UNITED STATES
CANADA:
FLQ- Front de Liberation du Canada
United States:
AIM - American Indian Movement
Alpha 66
A.M.E.R.I.C.A.N. Army
Army of God
Aryan Nations
Black Guerrilla Family
BLA - Black Liberation Army
Black Panthers
Croation Revolutionary Army
Cuban Nationalist Movement
FALN - Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion (Armed Forces of National Liberation)
JDL - Jewish Defense League
JDA - Jewish Direct Action
KKK - Ku Klux Klan
Armed Resistance Unit
Guerrilla Resistance Movement
Red Guerrilla Resistance
Revolutionary Armed Task Force
United Freedom Front
Macheteros
NIRCA - Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
NORIAD - Irish Northern Aid Committee (Money collected goes to IRA)
Republic of New Africa
Revolutionary Communist Party
SLA - Symbionese Liberation Army
TT - Tribal Thumb/Wells Spring Commune
Wolverines
WUO - Weather Underground Organization
PFOC - Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (Front Organization for WUO).
EZU - Emiliano Zapata Unit
INTERNATIONAL GROUPS OPERATING IN THE UNITED STATES
ASALA - Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
FMLN - El Salvador Intelligence and Support Cells
FSLN - Nicaraguan Intelligence and Support Cells
IRA - Intelligence and Logistics Cells
Iranian bombing/Assassination Teams
JCAG - Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
Libyan Assassination Teams
M-19 - Columbia Support Cells
PFLP - Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Intelligence Cells
PLO - Popular Liberation Front Support Groups
