NAME: Revolutionary Nuclei (RN) a.k.a. Revolutionary Cells
DATE STARTED/FIRST ACTIVE: 1995.
GOALS: Believed to be the successor group to the Revolutionary People’s Struggle (ELA), RN is a leftist group with an anti-establishment, anti-U.S., anti-NATO and anti-EU agenda. The ELA, which sought to oppose “imperialist domination, exploitation, and oppression,” has not been active since 1995.
MAIN ANTI-U.S. ACTIVITIES TO DATE: In November 2000, RN bombed the Citigroup offices in Athens and the studio of a Greek/American sculptor. In December 1999, the group detonated explosives outside the Athens offices of Texaco.
STRENGTH: Unknown.
OPERATIONAL LOCATIONS: Mainly the Athens metropolitan area in Greece.
AFFILIATIONS: Unknown.
COMMENTS: RN was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on March 27, 2002.
DATE STARTED/FIRST ACTIVE: 1995.
GOALS: Believed to be the successor group to the Revolutionary People’s Struggle (ELA), RN is a leftist group with an anti-establishment, anti-U.S., anti-NATO and anti-EU agenda. The ELA, which sought to oppose “imperialist domination, exploitation, and oppression,” has not been active since 1995.
MAIN ANTI-U.S. ACTIVITIES TO DATE: In November 2000, RN bombed the Citigroup offices in Athens and the studio of a Greek/American sculptor. In December 1999, the group detonated explosives outside the Athens offices of Texaco.
STRENGTH: Unknown.
OPERATIONAL LOCATIONS: Mainly the Athens metropolitan area in Greece.
AFFILIATIONS: Unknown.
COMMENTS: RN was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on March 27, 2002.