The MEK today claim that a "Marxist splinter group" killed four U.S. officers and three civilian contractors working for Rockwell International in the 1970s, and that the MEK never committed terrorist acts against Americans. But this official newspaper published by the group after the 1979 revolution, when Rajavi was out of jail and in full command of the group, prove the contrary. In the June 4, 1980 edition of "Mojahid," the group reveal that it assassinated the deputy chief of the U.S. military mission in Iran, Col. Lewis Hawkins, on June 5, 1973, calling him "one of the criminal agents of U.S. Imperialism in Iran."
People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
روزنامه مجاهد، پنج شنبه، ۱۴ خرداد ۱۳۶۰، شماره ۱۲۳، صفحه ۲۹