RECORDS SHOW WILSON MADE MILLIONS ON C.I.A. EXPERIENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09S00048R000100020099-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 99
• Publication Date: November 8, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Mr. Wilxq applied the tecimique of I Middle East cosmtries Australia, New
ford Tedmology Corporation, a Califor .
nia electronics company that manufac-
hired sensitive surveillance equipment
In his capacity as an tonal mar-
representative. Mr. Wilson used
Stanford Technology facilities, letter-
heads and equipment in attempting to
transfer technology to the Soviet Union;
Iran and Libya without the knowledge of
company officials. according. to Stan.'
ford Teclmobgyeaecutives.
? Also in 1976; according tin Federal in-
vestigators, Mr. Wilson hied' three
Cuban exiles: who had corked for the
C.I.A. and were known to -Mr. Wilson
from his covert operations- against:
Cuba. He reportedly tried to get the mess
to assassinate a Libyan living in Egypt'
who was a critic of CoL Mnammsr:el-
Qaddafi, the Libyan leader. The murder
was never carried out, but W. Wilson
has been indicted in the case forcoospir..
acyto murder. ' ..:
In the middle 1 80's,after his involve-
ment with the seafarers union, Mr. Wil
son set. up a maritime consulting con-
cern in Washington, Maritime Consult-
ing Associates Inc., to serve as cover for
his intelligence operations, according to
company doc umeats.
Consultants Intceaetlooal Inn: .
A few years later, while. still em=
ployed by the C.IA, Mr. Wilson ex-
panded his corporate activities by tak-
ing control of Consultants International
Inc., another Washington.-based cam-
panydesigned to be a cover.
In 1971; according to official records,
Mr. Wilson left the C.I.A. and became
part of a secret Navy intelligence unit
that, among other tasks, monitored and
collected information on Soviet ship-
meat of military goods.. .
In his tour with Navy intelligence,.
which ended in 1976, Mr. Wilson ran an-
other undercover corporation, World
Marine Inc., according to intelligence
officials. Corporate records show that
the various intelligence companies op-
erated by Mr. Wilson were usually.
based in the same set of offices.
Earls Company provided Mr Wilson'
with an explanation for his .travels on
C.I.A. business. He weal to Libya, other
Wilson with valuable commercial ex
perieace Por example, as early as 1370,
one of Mr. Wilson s intelligence compa.
panim..in Libya, according to company.
:; `'t Using His old Contact
Ihaddition, he used : in his' private;
b i"ess various contacts he had made
..in. his Government. career with- Con.
Tense Department. employees and for
sign officials. After leaving the Govern-
ment. Mr. Wilson used several C.I.A. of:
The Federal.prosecutors are invests;
gating allegations that Consultants In-
ternational bribed. various Government
officials- to win Defense Department
business from 1976 to 1979. Part of the
scheme included- a ' plan to, eavesdrop
electmaically an meetings of the Army
Matfiriel Command, according to-a for-
mer Wilson. associate and Federal in.
1n running undercover' corporations
.for the United States, Mr. Wilson also
gained experience in the freight for-
warding business. Soon after leaving the
Government, Mr. Wilson set up a freight
forwarding company. called. Around-
worldShipping and Chartering Inc. This
company, for sometime, used the same
office as Consultants. International and
served as the vehicle for some of the ille.
gal shipments of explosives to Libya, ac-
cording to former officials of Around
world...
'Some Other Techniques ',..
Other business techniques similar to
those he practiced in the Government,
according to former colleagues, Govern,
melt officials and company records, in;
dude these:
P_11 *. Wilstm_set uP an Amer3
JAir Force also relies on Swba comps.:
Mr. Wilson's re eat'of Western:
are amarg- Switzerland's largest, de.-
dined to talk about Mr " Wilson's: ac.:
Spokesmen forrttiei two banks; which.
and Swiss Bank Corporation, according'.
urology abroad::This company.bad a:
name aa'd corporate . symbol almost
lega""timate company; ? In _te1continental
Techn logy, which served as the inter- I
national markeiing :arm .far Stanford
Inter of tk
T9
ogy held the stock of
an English financial holding company.
used by Mr. Wilson to sell explosive
timers to Libya. An English business-
- ..shell'. and that he aid "some o--f'-my
"
friends
acted as "straw men" for W.
Wilson. ti;
qMr. Wilson :operated two corpor a-
doas ed Delex,"one called Delea+Iis
tional and another called. Deiea
Incllir. Wilsaaals
up in 1977 a comma
o
,T,, called Aroundworld Servi ,
sHghtvariation on,the freight forward=
hed~'~"~tab'us a 11a'
. earner.
W meted'several
nanonas,.was cased in Virginia
ins WiISOn associatE?c: An~ntha~r l1Qi
S:A~`-staadiozt= for op ratiosoitaiS stems
a niitatt,~n,anra mss
i G
uase
en
according to records- on me with the
' Registre du Commerce of Geneva. Mr.
Geneva Office and Apartment. -
sintained an office in Geneva, under
the name of .O. S14 a small d
~ own,
town aparOmgat building that faces
soclates. and fihe building superintend.
ent Mr. Wilson often stayed there ov
nigh accardingtto.the superinteadeat.
M?'Wil on al
s
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1
so u
ed
a
27acre fa
-rm
south of London, and hid out there from
Scotland Yard- in 1980 while surrepti_
tiously returning to Libya from ta,?
meats et mobs w~ '6pera
0-4h__ a Geneva post office boa, ao_ I
carding to associates ofrlsl"son____~'
aate can ulegat transfer of seasitive7 actions ace handled in cash or through
r+. rans~+ i . Swiss bank accounts, according to par-
ticipants. Two Swiss banks used by Mr.
Wilson are Union Bank of Switzerland.
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Wilson-is a principal -in the eom.
y, these sources say, and there are
also Middle Eastern investors;.::......
Services Commerciaua was used
veltide io pai3-ts ofdtfieSGi eenOBe N
red by Mr. Wilson in l978rand 1971
to help traiaiIaDyaas..accocdingjto p r
ticpants and federal inyestirtators.
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