TERPIL A CIA AGENT FROM 1965 UNTIL 1971 WHEN HE WAS DISMISSED FOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP04-00312R001001800012-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 11, 2008
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 20, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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TERPIL3 A CIA AGENT FROM 09.5 UNTIL 19?L WHEN HE WAS DESPIISSED FOR
PISAPPROPRtRTIGN OF FUNDS AND MIS4t3NOUCTt WAS INDICTED LAST YEAR IN
RnSi IN ,TON s D. I:., ON R CHARGE THAT HE SE R ED ILLEGALLY AS AN AGENT
FOR THE LIE 1 AN GOVERNMENT OF COL. Mt3AMNRR KHRt'RF'I. PROSECUTORS CLAIM
HE SHIPPED EXPLOSIVES TO EIE USED IN TRAINING 1ERRORISTS.
IN 195Ii, TERPIL AND KORKOLA HERE CONVICTED -- IN ABSENTIA -- OF
; UNRLLHNU S TO RE4t3LUTIONRRI-ES. PROSECUTORS SAID THE TWO MEN
t ~ ';R'EIt WITH t'EiECTIVVES POSING AS LATIN R$ERIC;N REYOLIIT 111NSRIES
TO BUY Lh O BRITISH-MADE MACHINE GUNS RND it, MILLION ROUNDS OF
WM UNI { I13N
BOTH t1EN JUIPi t' BAILS HONEVERP ON THE EVE OF THEIR TRIAL IN NEW
VOR.K. THEY WERE CON'4ICTED AND SENTENCED TO 'lEAPS IN PRISON.
hi THCP I TI ES SUBSEQUENTLY TRACKED THEM TO Ut;iiNDH^ % LIBYA 9 NEST GERMANY
h D FINALLY LEBANON,
PROSECUTORS I N THE GUNR:UUNI NG CASE RL LEGED FiT ONE POINT THAT
T RP'IL AND FKORKOLA RAN A tLIt-MILLION-A-'IERR RING THAT SOLD WEAPONS
EN - BOSS TO KHRDRFY} RPIU AND THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION.
TERPIL WAS L11ING IN PCLEAHi YA.+ AND CONTROLLED OCEANIC
INTERNATIONAL CORP OF WASHINGTON WHEN HE FLED THE COUNTRY. KORKEILA
OPERATED AMSTECH INTERNATIONAL 00. $F NIJTLEYY N. J.
UPI 11-20-B1 $2:08 RES
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