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When the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked in October of 1985, the repercussions were wide, but reactions of individual governments varied. The hijacking, in which an American vacationer was murdered, an Italian crew held hostage and whose perpetrators found their way on to an Egyptian airliner, at first divided the US intelligence community and later divided the Italian and US governments. This case examines both the intelligence and legal ramifications of the Achille Lauro incident.