Abstract
This chapter explains how the FBI and Nixon administration responded to a deadly attack carried out by the Palestinian nationalist group Black September against Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany. W. Mark Felt and assistant director Edward Miller used the Munich attack as an opportunity to officially reauthorize break-ins for terrorism investigations, not only for the Weather Underground, but also for suspected Palestinian nationalist militants. Nixon, meanwhile, formed the Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism, the nation’s first federal institution explicitly dedicated to fighting terrorism, which gave the FBI jurisdiction over terrorist attacks in the United States. Seeking to prevent a Munich-style attack in the US, the FBI cast a wide net, launching an “Arab scare” that involved harassing Arabs and Arab Americans throughout the country, targeting this group as a racialized suspect community.
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