EX-GI BRAGGED HE WAS ASSASSIN FOR FOREIGNERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP04-00312R001001820019-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2009
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 5, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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5 August 1981
Ex-GI Bragged' f y snowleuge (H, wit 4U VU WI. w. ...4r r -w' ---- - -
includes the name of my associate t^ Wilson's Virginia uorporatiotis, ac-
'r-1,'= Dale Van, Atta, who has been inves- cording to statements he made later
He Was Assassin=-;, tigating the Terpil-Wilson operation. to undercover operatives `in New
for almost a year now. York.
? episode in the summer of 1979 ',:The only time ; Dutcher'g `,name
An both the equivocal nature {:surfaced in print- was in The New
For Fore 1 ners
and deadly potential of Dutcher 's York Times of. Dec. 24, 19'lA, In- a
John Dutcher is a member of theist activities; He and another man were story on the arrest.of Terpil and an-
notorious Terpil-Wilson gang =hired to bring two Ecuadorians , back other associate; the-Times. reporter: 'Jw ternationak~, gunrunners and; A scut-'` Co -.United States, dead or alive. "A third man,:Jobn;Dutcher,,whom
throats, an, aggregation ..ot tformers; .The bit' men a employer was a bail [the district attorneyj called `self.
CIA and. military men who havesold'?,bondsman. According . to a reliable proclaimed _assassir ': was
' -the two:.,. Ecuadorians had _~ rested . at the..Hilt on and held, as. a
their "services- to -some ce. the ar-
oP'tIie world sue. sour
sleaziestidictatora So far, Dutcher been:, arrested -for- heroin smuggling material
has" escaped`4.the spotlight; buts: it's and' bad jumped bail f ' $100,000 Though Terpil and tt~e gtl er man
were Svhargedtnd eventually con
time Li ed w .expgpe-& to lub, 1 `s + . apiece, p - 4
tiny. . } Dutcher and his associate spent victed, Dutcher, was _ieleased,- Terpil
Dutcher-is- a rugged,-,6-footr40--two months in Ecuador'and_report=- fled from the country: '
yea:-old- ex-Marine who has been. edly came back with two death cer-
described by associates as a danger= tificates attesting.,to.,the fugitives'
OUT Oman. He once bragged to New ? demise, as well as news articles in-
York undercover detectivesthat he ;}dicating the pair may. have been
had been a hired assassin for foreign blown up in a car. But there is rea-
f,overnments.:: son to, believe that then two Ecuador-:
How.- muclr of this;wasc frne> and, inn. "bail-jumpers are-et li alive and,:
how much-siliply. braggadocio trek _that Dutcher succeeded in conning
certain. Iahany case: an. ` ~NY.
tinted confession of:`cnmes? !e Dutcher's'aseocsatton with Frank
is not enough- to.hang a man is this. Terpiland Ed Wilson' apparently
country, and Dutcher ur fact is not- dates `to early 1978, when ha , was
wanted for any violationiof Amer- recr3ited as parts' of Ia- team . that
ican laws. ? would teach the dark arts to Libyan
What little is known about Dutch? dictator Muamme ; Qaddafi's per-
er comes from. law- enforcement, o sonal- guards -and terrorist&-Accord- -
ficials, - secret Justice ..- Department-- ing, to secret: government. files,
files and" interviews , with. his former ?: Dutcher and four other- American
associates. I have a pers9nal interes '? mercenaries flew to Libya in Febru-
in him-.sA w inside -* source- told: me Vary, 1978.
Dutcher map have-soma 1nilr=to;?or' : Dutcher returnecd if!rom Libya in j
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