Left-Wing Extremism: The Current Threat

[摘要] Left-wing extremism is ''alive and well'' both in the US and internationally. Although the current domestic terrorist threat within the U. S. is focused on right-wing extremists, left-wing extremists are also active and have several objectives. Leftist extremists also pose an espionage threat to U.S. interests. While the threat to the U.S. government from leftist extremists has decreased in the past decade, it has not disappeared. There are individuals and organizations within the U.S. who maintain the same ideology that resulted in the growth of left-wing terrorism in this country in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the leaders from that era are still communicating from Cuba with their followers in the U.S., and new leaders and groups are emerging.

[发布日期] 2001-04-30 [发布机构] Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

[关键词] 98 Nuclear Disarmament, Safeguards, And Physical Protection;National Security;Terror Network;Leftist Agendas;International Threat