AMERICANS TRAINED QADDAFI TERRORISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP04-00312R001001810006-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 21, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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JACK ANDERSON
:MASHY 1GTON POST
21 October 1980
tjeaILc'Trained Q~ddafiTerroi{sts
American - cloak-and-dagger opera- - United States firms of sophisticated ? Witnesses quoted Libyan ?ieu-
tives, skilled in the dark arts, have timing devices, radio control devices.'. tenant as explaining that the devices
trained and equipped terrorist squads and sensitive surveillance-and commu- "were-to be used to eliminate certain,
for MuammarQaddafi, the dictator of nications equipment-to unauthorized people" because- Qaddafi "would feel=
Libya and promoter of world terror-, representatives." more comfortable if they were not..
ism. .:' : My aseoeiats, .Dale Van Atta,. bas re? around." - .,
Dozens of victims have reportedly .-viewed the classified 'Justice- e-Depart- : ?In i July,..- 1977; ;'the Americans de-;
been hunted down and executed, . ment files, which read.like `a James livered some lethal-. "flashlights, at-.
probably -with the cold efficiency, . Bond yarn. Here are just a few star- tache - cases, transistor radios, hand. ? i
American know-how has brought to tling excerpts from the files: held calculators- and. refrigerators" -'i
the murder profession. -:One. death ? Terpil agreed- to train Libyan all transformed" into bombs - to a.
squad was discovered in the. United agents in'`"espionage, sabotage. and _ Libyan. colonel is Tobruk. The. files re-
States and -expelled before- it could. general psychologicaf warfare" as well late that "one of the Libyan military, complete its grisly mission. . . .. as: "the design, manufacture, . imple- ' officers picked up_ one pf the devices..
According to: secret Justice Depart mentation.anddetonation of explosive - As 'a result,.the device-'along with the.
ment files, the' "American experts have ? . devices." The undercover training was - rest of the explosives. on '? the truck
taught Qaddafi's? killers how to con- disguised ass mine-clearing operation. detonated and killed three Libyan sot-:
struct sophisticated boobytraps. -that Terpil closed- the deal in ' London diets." - Three- American instructors
can turn such; innocent objects, as a : with Qaddafi's brother.:' -were wounded.:
book, telephone,.. or -toothpaste tubes' . ? Beginning in mid-1976; the furtive- -' '..Veterans of the. U.S. special forces `
into murder weapons. ? ...;' ' r _ Terpil, an ex-CIA agent, recruited a taught the Libyans'"American tactics
The American ringleader, Frank team oil-American clandesine opera- and techniques," including classified
Terpil, even offered to smuggle into tives, paramilitary-specialists; 'profes -methods and maneuvers developed by
Libya a U.S: Redeye missile, a shout-? sional killers and explosives experts the United States. One of ' the Amer-
der-launched,. heat-weeking. weapon trained by CIA and U.S. special forces. icans complained that some of his Stu.
that can bring down an airliner. -. .. By August, 1976, the Americans were dents "were barbarians in that they.;
Qaddafi, a crucible-of anger without esconced grandly in the former winter were stealing paintings and using silver ,;
focus, supports terrorist groups around ? palace of former Libyan King Idris tableware as darts."
the world from' Ireland to Malaysia.. a luxurious hideaway that they as. ? One informant, -slipped into the l
Declares one federal investigator's re- - signed the curious code name palace basement arsenal and invento-
port:. "Libya publicly admits that. it: "Swanee." Tied an enormous-.cache of sophisti
gives training; weaponry. and. funding ? A palace room was turned into a cated gadgets from various American
to- terrorist organizations throughout workshop filled with diabolical devices. companies. "The invoices contained in i
the world, specifically admitting sup- The Libyan intelligence chief liked to the boxes listed.thousands of timers at
port of the Palestine Liberation Or. take trusted' friends on tours of the se- a price of millions of dollars," the re-
ganization;: - Irish.: Republican : Army, cret room and .show-off the deadly port stated. Terit sold the
Red. Brigade---and P equipment Japanese- ''Red - wares and' his -American mercenaries.' for grossly inflated prices; one order of I
Army." _ - = The visitors.were most impressed?with 100,000 timers, purchased for $4.50 to
The report,adds: "Also: revealed' in the book that detonated.. when it was $6. per unit; was sold. to the Libyans for
the investigation was: the supply, by opened. ' . - -' . ,
. _ T ~r up to $250 apiece
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