EDWIN WILSON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100230022-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2007
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: June 17, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DATE June 17, 1982 2:00 A.M. CITY Baltimore, Md.
NEWSMAN: A former CIA agent will be transferred to
Washington this week to be arraigned on charges he trained Libyan
terrorists. Edwin Wilson waived a hearing Wednesday in New York
on whether he could be removed.
Jeanie Most has a report.
JEANIE MOST: In court Wednesday morning, Edwin Wilson
looked more like a chairman of a board than a criminal defendant.
Nevertheless, he faces a maximum of life imprisonment on charges
of transporting arms, and even conspiring to assassinate a Libyan
dissident.
Wilson was arrested Tuesday at Kennedy Airport.
According to published reports, he had grown tired of living in
Libya, and was assured by those he trusted that he might find a
new safe haven in the Dominican Republic. But those he trusted
were reportedly cooperating with the Justice Department. And
when Wilson arrived in the Dominican Republic, he was put on a
plane for New York.
Wilson waived his right to a removal hearing, which gave
officials the green light to transfer him to Washington. Wilson,
hiding behind his New York Times, is being held on $20 million
bail, bail set so high because Wilson is both wealthy and wily.
Not a good bail risk, as they say.
Wilson's defense attorney, John Keats, was asked about
the possibility of plea bargaining to reduce charges for his
client in exchange for Wilson's cooperation with investigators.
But the defense attorney was noncommittal, characterizing the
case this way:
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JOHN KEATS: Oh, I'd say we're on the start of a great
adventure.
REPORTER: Why do you say that?
KEATS: It's going to be a long and tedious trial, if it
goes to trial.
REPORTER: But it will be an adventure?
KEATS: Any case like this is an adventure.
REPORTER: Why would you think it wouldn't go to trial?
KEATS: [Inaudible]... what can happen.
REPORTER: Pardon me?
KEATS: You never know what can happen.
REPORTER: It sounds like something of a deal is in
MOST: The speculation is that Edwin Wilson knows a lot
that could be embarrassing to the CIA, a lot that could come out
in open court.
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