U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1990s
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1995
Only a brief mention of Colombian FARC activity is mentioned in the declassified part of the 1995 Terrorism Review.[1]
March 1995 actions by the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo demonstrated that the use of WMD is no longer restricted to the battlefield. Japanese authorities have determined that the Aum was working on developing the chemical nerve agents sarin and VX; they produced and used sarin. [2]The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, which attacked Japanese civilians with deadly gas just one year ago (March 20, 1995) also tried to mine its own uranium in Australia and to buy Russian nuclear warheads.
- ↑ DCI Counterterrorism Center, 1995 Terrorism Review, Central Intelligence Agency
- ↑ Oehler, Gordon C. (March 27, 1996), Continuing Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction: Statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Nonproliferation Center