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1. SQ SOURCE, A RELIABLE REPORTER WITH DIRECT ACCESS TO THIS TYPE
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OF INFORMATION SAID THE BRITISH TERRORIST ALERT SYSTEM HAD BEEN
BASED
UPGRADED ONE PLACE
ON A MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, U.K. AIR
(MODUKAIR). SOURCE DID NOT DIVULGE THE CONTENTS OF THE MESSAGE BUT
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. 1O DEC S3 EARLY MORNING BOMBING OF A LONDON HEADQUARTERED ROYAL.
ARTILLERY REGIMENT.
(DP0A: 831210, L0ND0N; D0I: 831210; EVAL; B-2;
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(U) SOURCE, A BRITISH NATIONAL NEUSPAPER, PRINTED AN ARTICLE IN
ITS DEC 83 EDITION ENTITLED "WARNING ON IRA ATTACKS." THE ARTICLE
SAID, QUOTE: COMMANDER WILLIAM HUCKLESBY, HEAD OF SCOTLAND
YARD'S ANTI-TERRORIST SQUAD, LAST NIGHT ISSUED A NATIONAL
ALERT AGAINST AN IRA CHRISTMAS TERROR COMPAIGN FOLLOWING
A BOMB ATTACK ON THE· 17TH TRAINING REGIMENT OF THE ROYAL
ARTILLERY BASED IN WO0LuICH. -SOME 15-20 LBS OF EXPLOSIVES :
UERE PLANTED OUTSIDE THE REGIMENT'S GUARDROOM AND RIPPED