9-27-96. NYP: "Unnoticed but Deadly, the I.R.A.'s Secret 'Sleeper' " Members of a counterterrorism force stormed the building where Mr. O'Neill lived, threw tear-gas canisters into his second-floor back apartment and shot him six times as he stood in the doorway. The police said Mr. O'Neill made a threatening gesture at them, but he was later found to have been unarmed. An intelligence officer said, "The sleeper is totally committed, aware of all the surveillance techniques and our ability to penetrate the organization. He knows when to keep his mouth shut. He stays as anonymous as possible." "South African Links Top Spy To the Slaying Of Olof Palme" The commander of a police hit squad testified today that the assassination, by a lone gunman who shot Mr. Palme in the back of the head, had been the work of Operation Long Reach, a secret apartheid-era program intended to harass, silence and gather information about opponents of South Africa's white-led Government abroad. "It was one of Craig Williamson's Operation Long Reach projects," he said. Officially, Mr. Williamson left the police department in 1985, ostensibly to go into business with an Italian millionaire operating from the Seychelles. In reality, he then started Long Reach, a company that did some legitimate international security work, but which was largely created to give him the cover to do whatever he pleased around the world. ----- http://jya.hboped.txt HBO_ped