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The terror network russia and international terrorism w claire sterling 1981
The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terrorism (ISBN 0030506611) is a 1981 book by Claire Sterling, published by Henry Holt & Company, which argued that the USSR was using terrorists as a proxy force.
In part because of the book, CIA director William J. Casey commissioned a Special National Intelligence Estimate on Soviet support for terrorism. That estimate had this to say about the book:
Michael Ledeen promoted the book's claims when it was published. National Review, a conservative magazine, later commented that "Almost everything Claire said was borne out" by Stasi files that emerged after the end of the Cold War.
According to Melvin Goodman, the Head of Office of Soviet Affairs at the CIA from 1976-1987, the claims of a terror network were in fact black propaganda created by the CIA.