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Home-Grown Terrorists

July 29, 1996
By: Jack Dolan
State Capital Bureau

Western Missouri Congressman Ike Skelton warns there could be a link between international and home grown terrorists. Jack Dolan has the story from Jefferson City.

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Congressman Ike Skelton has called for better coordination between the C.I.A., F.B.I., as well as state and local police to help stem the rising tide of terrorism.

Skelton's comments were made in the aftermath of the TWA crash and Olympic bombing:

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Contents: All the intelligence agencies have to work far more closely to gether...hiring local crazies to do their work for them.

Skelton says he thinks the Missouri Highway patrol already does an adequate job of monitoring Missouri's para-military organizations/

Skelton's comments were made while he was in Jefferson City to help raise money for a new aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Harry Truman. From Jefferson CIty, I'm Jack Dolan.