The Search For An Appropriate United States Response

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A. Countermeasures - Is Force Effective?

Moderator:
Mr. Eric Liebler, Student Coordinator, the Tufts Colloquium on Terrorism

FBI Efforts to Confront Terrorism
Mr. Oliver Revell
Executive Assistant Director for Investigations, Former chief of Criminal Investigations, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Embassy Hostage Crisis in Iran - Military Options and Constraints.
Dr. Gary Sick
The Ford Foundation; former staff member on Iran in the National Security Council during the American embassy crisis; author of All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter With Iran

Special Forces - American Readiness to Combat International Terrorism.
Colonel Rod Paschall
Former Commander of the DELTA Force from 1980-82, Director of Military History Institute at The Army War College, Carlisle, PA; Served in the Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff in Special Operations Forces.

The Inability of U.S. Special Forces to Confront Terrorism.
Professor Richard Gabriel
Department of Politics, St. Anselm College; former army intelligence officer, works include Military Incompetence: Why the American Military Doesn't Win; Crisis in Command; Operation Peace for Galilee

B. U.S. Foreign Policy-Intelligence and Counterterrorism

Moderator:
Professor Martin Sherwin
Department of History, Tufts University

The Condoning of State Terror: From Gestapo terrorism to Latin America Death Squads--A Declassified Look at U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Mr. John Loftus
Former Special Prosecutor, The United States Department of Justice. Author of The Belarus Secret

Meeting Terror With Terror: A U.S. Policy of Failure in Latin America
Mr. Michael McClintock
International Human Rights Researcher Author of two-volume study, The American Connection: State Terror and Popular Resistance in Guatemala

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Law School, Program on Human Rights and Department of Politics, Wesleyan University

Terrorism, Intelligence and Democracy
Mr. William Colby
Former Director of the CIA or Admiral Stansfield Turner, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1977-1981; former Chief of the Far East Division of Clandestine Services of the CIA; author, Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA

Strategic Deja Vu-Counterterrorism as the Counterinsurgency of the 1980s
Professor Michael Klare
Hampshire College, defense correspondent Nation Magazine; works include American Arms Supermarket; Supplying Repression: U.S. Support for Authoritarian Regimes Abroad; Five-College Consortium Professor of Peace and World Security Studies; (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.)

The Terrorism Steering Committee
Professor Robert Kupperman
Executive Director in Scientific and Technical Affairs, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Georgetown University, co-chair(with Zbigniew Brezinski)