EX-AGENT TERPIL INDICTED IN ARMS DELIVERY TO AMIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400160003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 20, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE WASHINGTON POST
20 November 1981
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Indic ed in Arms.
Delivery to Amin
By John Kennedy
Special to The Washington Pact
NEW YORK, Nov. 19 - Former
CIA agent.Trank Terpil and. a one-
time business associate were indicted
by a federal grand jury here today
on charges.of conspiring in 1979 to
deliver guns, de66diing devices and
instruments. of torture to Idi Amin,
who then was dictator of Uganda.
The six-count indictment alleges
that Terpil and George Gregory Kor- ..
kala" ill'egallyR-delivel ed to the U.N.
mission of the former Ugandan gov-
ernment.-, quantities of semi-
automatic-- shotguns, handguns, si-
'fencers; '. high-velocity, : hollow-point
magnum ammunition,,. voice enci-
pherment systems and torture items
known as "Exercise Twisters."
The indictment further charges
that Terpil and Korkala delivered
lead-lined X-ray-proof packing
sheets to the mission's staff to facil-
itate the air, shipment of the weap-
oiis'under diplomatic seal or in com-
mercial Ugandan aircraft to Uganda.
-.. The indictment says that Terpil
formerly controlled the Oceanic In-
ternational Corp.; of Washington,
D.C, and that Korkala controlled
the ' operations of Amstech Interna-
tional Ltd. of Nutley, N.J.
Korkala is additionally charged
with three counts of engaging in the
sale of firearms without a federal
dealer's license and transporting the
weapons in foreign commerce.
- The two. defendants and Terpil's
wife, Marilyn, are charged in a sep-
arate conspiracy to secure false pass-
ports and foreign travel documents
for Amir Farhang.Momtaz, a senior
official in the former royal govern-
ment of the shah of, Iran.
The indictment chargers that for a-
55,000 payment the defendants al-
tered the photo on a legitimate U.S.
passport, provided a false Lebanese
passport, and that Marilyn Terpil
accompanied Momtaz to the pass-
port agency in New York where she
posed as his daughter and a'-silted
him in submitting a false birth cer-
tificate and driver's license in order i
to secure a valid U.S. passport..
The two conspiracy counts and 4
the substantive passport fraud count
with which Marilyn Terpil is
charged all carry maximum terms of
five years with fines tip to 510,000.
The, three separate- counts, in-
which Korkala is charged carry a
five-year prison term for conviction
of each count.
. On May 16, 1981, Terpil and Kor-
kala were convicted in absentia in
New York of selling arms to two un-
dercover agents posing as terrorists.
They were sentenced to 17 to 53
years in prison. All three defendants
are fugitives.
Terpil and Korkala are both be
lieved to be living in Beirut.
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