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Terrorism follows the zeitgeist. Left-wing European terrorism in the 1970s—the Red Army Faction and the Revolutionary Cells—rose as the Marxist critique of Western capitalism and “American imperialism” gained strength. Behind the scenes, the Soviet empire’s intelligence services also helped.
Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, is a resident scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
