REPORT LINKS 2 EX-CIA AGENTS TO THEFT OF MILITARY RADAR

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Report Links 2 Ex-CIA Agents
To The ft~ititary Radar
PHILADELP , June 21 (UPI)
- Two former CIA age being
sought on charges arms sales
to Libya have been linked to the theft
of radar equipment from a naval test
site in China Lake, Calif., The Phil-
adelphia Bulletin reported today.
The report named Frank E. Terpil
and Edwin P. Wilson as the subjects
of a federal investigation into the
theft of radar equipment from the
U.S. Naval Testing Center at China
Lake, a Southern California test cen-
ter for sophisticated weaponry and
electronics systems.
Both men are being sought on fed-
eral fugitive warrants on charges they
sold large quantities of weapons and
sensitive military equipment to
Muammar Qaddafi's government in
Libya.
The newspaper quoted an unnamed
Justice Department source as saying
Terpil and Wilson allegedly "stole a
ton of stuff from China Lake" over a
period of "several years."
The pair allegedly used CIA con-
tacts to obtain the radar equipment,
which, installed in an airplane, can
detect and classify approaching air-:
craft as friendly or enemy craft, ac-
cording to the newspaper.
Terpil, who jumped bail and is be-
lieved to be out of the country, was
convicted in absentia last month on
gun-running charges in New York.
Terpil and Wilson also have been
accused in indictments of hiring for.
mer Green Berets to work in Libya
training members of international ter-
rorist groups, including ' Italy's Red
Brigade, the Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization and the Irish Republican
Army, the newspaper reported.
Federal investigators are checking
the possibility that the two former
agents were involved with rive other
men, including two China Lake em-
ployes, who were indicted recently on
charges of stealing military night
scopes, a low-light television camera
and a remote control helicopter from
the naval center, the report said.
The Bulletin said federal investiga-.
tors estimate that Terpil and Wilson
allegedly sold the Libyan government
hundreds of night scopes, infrared de-
vices used to detect targets at night..
STAT
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