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Handout: Relative size and budgets of terrorist organizations





Number of Terrorists in Organizations

* figures in italics may include support non-terrorist personnel

Organization # Active Clandestine Members
EOKA 300
IRA (provisional) 200 - 700
ETA 50-100
FLNC 100 - 600
Viet Cong Commando F- 100 (Saigon) 50
FLN in Algiers ( 1957) 1,400
PFLP 800
PLF (Abu Abbas) 100 - 200
Hamas 750 - 1,200 (40 spec. operatives)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad 30e
Abu Nidal Organization 500 - 800
PFLP-GC (Jibril) 500 - 800
Shining Path 100 - 200
Tupac Amaru >100




Terrorist Budgets

*figures drawn from W. Laqueur (100) ; all figures (except 1980s Hezbollah) given in constant 1976 dollars
Year Organization Budget
1975 Fateh $150-240 million
1980s Hezbollah $100 million est. per year
1974 Montoneros (Argentina) $50-100 million
1975 PFLP, PDFLP, Saika $20-30 million
1970 ALN (Brazil) $5-10 million
1970 Tupamaros (Uruguay) $5-10 million
1906 Russian revolutionaries $5-10 million
1932 IMRO (Bulgaria) $2-3 million
1975 IRA (provisional) $1-3 million
1947 Irgun + Stern (Zionist) $1-2 million
1880 Irish dynamiters $50,000
1880 Narodnaya Volya virtually zero



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