The New York Times · 9 November 1985

CP-1985-040

F.B.I. Says Jewish Defense League May Have Planted Fatal Bombs

By JUDITH CUMMINGS

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that it had concluded the Jewish Defense League was “the possible responsible group” in recent bomb attacks against an Arab leader in California and two East Coast men with purported Nazi ties. Two of the attacks resulted in deaths.

The national leader of the Jewish Defense League, Irv Rubin of Los Angeles, said today that his group had nothing to do with the bombings. The most recent bombing, in Santa Ana, Calif., last month, killed Alex M. Odeh, the 41-year-old leader of an Arab-American organization, and injured seven people. Bombing Death in Jersey The other fatal bombing occurred Aug.

15 at the Paterson, N.J., home of Tscherim Soobzokov, who was a member of the German Nazi Waffen SS. Mr. Soobzokov died of injuries suffered in the bombing. His wife, daughter, a 4-year-old grandson and a neighbor were injured. On Sept. 6, a bomb injured a passerby at the Brentwood, L.I., home of Elmars Sprogis, a former Latvian police officer once acused of Nazi war crimes.

For the first time the bureau officially classified the Santa Ana bombing as a terrorist act. Such designation is given when a group claims responsibility for an attack or when a bureau investigation establishes that it was an act of terrorism.

An investigation by the bureau's anti-terrorist squad identified the militant Jewish Defense League as “the possible responsible group,” said Lane Bonner, a spokesman for the bureau in Washington. Law-enforcement agencies on the East and West Coasts have been participating in the investigations. No arrests have been made, and bureau offi—

How this transcription was made

The masthead itself is not in frame, but the credit line under the byline reads "Special to The New York Times", so the paper names itself on the page. Note the definite article: The New York Times, not New York Times. — No printed date in frame. The dateline reads "LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8" and the body says the FBI "said today", which puts publication on 9 November, consistent with Maria's label. The year is not printed anywhere on the clipping; 1985 rests on Maria's label and on the Odeh bombing having occurred "last month". — "acused" is as printed — a one-l misspelling of "accused" set by the paper. The excerpt ends where the column breaks to "Continued on Page 32, Column 3"; the jump page is not in this batch. — No deck. "Bombing Death in Jersey" is a subhead inside the body column.

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