EDWIN WILSON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100220006-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 15, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM CBS Evening News
DATE June 15, 1982 7:00 P.M.
STATION W D V M- T V
CBS Network
Washington, D.C.
DAN RATHER: A strange story. Edwin Wilson, former
American spy, indicted in 1980 for a host of crimes ranging
from illegal arms sales to organizing a school for terrorists for
Libyans. Until now, working above the law and beyond the law in
Libya. Part of a group of former CIA men doing the same.
Tonight he is in custody in an American jail in New York.
Robert Schakne has the intriguing story of a fugitive
ex-spy duped into coming in from the cold to face the heat.
ROBERT SCHAKNE: The U.S. Government wants bail of $20
million for Edwin Wilson now that the ex-CIA agent is in custody
after a two-year international chase. He was lured out of Libya
into a trap set by U.S. marshals.
Wilson had been persuaded he could buy land in the
Dominican Republic and be safe from extradition, and he traveled
there with a false Irish passport under the name Philip
McCormick. He did not know that U.S. authorities had asked
Dominican officials to refuse him admittance and instead put him
on a plane to New York.
JEFFREY HARRIS: He was informed that his documents were
insufficient for entry to the Dominican Republic, that he was
being returned to New York. He reportedly told the Dominican
authorities that he did not have a visa for New York, the United
States. And they told him that he didn't have to worry about
that, and was put on the plane.
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SCHAKNE: Wilson is under indictment for illegally
shipping arms and explosives to Libya, for using CIA associates
to help him, for organizing a terrorist training school for the
Libyans, and for trying to arrange the assassination of a Libyan
exile.
Wilson's arrest climaxes an investigtion that dates back
to 1976, and there is more to come. CBS News has been told that
federal prosecutors are now actively investigating the help that
Wilson allegedly got from two former senior CIA officers, one of
them the ex-Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations. There could
be additonal indictments.
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