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WASHINGTON POST
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1989
WASHINGTON POST A1

CIA CONFIDENT IRAN BEHIND JET BOMBING
AMERICAN STUDENT POSSIBLY DUPED
By David B Ottaway
and Laura Parker
Washington Post Staff Writers

"A Central Intelligence Agency assessment of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing has concluded that Iran hired a Damascus-based radical Palestinian faction to carry out the operation.

"They're fairly confident of their information," said one U.S. official familiar with the interagency deliberations over the bombing.


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