"Magazine Says it Interviewed Top Terrorist"

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Alias Carlos the Jackal

Newspaper article

By: New York Times

Date: December 1, 1979

Source: New York Times

About the Author: The New York Times, a daily newspaper founded in 1851, has over one million subscribers and is distributed nationally.

INTRODUCTION

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (1949–) was a terrorist, mercenary, and revolutionary between the 1970s and the 1990s. Ramírez Sánchez was known by the pseudonym "Carlos the Jackal," because he had taken the name Carlos while training with Soviet fighters and, later, because police allegedly found the Frederick Forsyth novel The Day of the Jackal while raiding Sánchez's...

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