BIDEN ASKS PROBE OF EX-AGENT'S DEALS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2010
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• Publication Date: September 20, 1981
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20 September 19081
WASHINGTON Delaware-Sen Joseph
'R Biden Jr. is urging his colleagues on the`
Senate intelligence-Committee to look into
the activities?ofrenegade CIA agent Edwin
P. Wilson-and-- a- former. top- CIA? official
'associated with Wilson:
Biden said he, sent theletters to his Demo-
:cratic and Republican colleagues after,
.reading newspaper stories about Wilson's-
'cornpkicated arms and business dealings.-,
The chairman of the. House Intelligence
Committee, Rep. Edward P. Boland,- D-
Mass., has already announced that his com-
mittee will conduct an: investigation -into
'Wilson's activities. -
Biden's letter, sent to his committee col-
:Ieagues, contradicts Son- Barry Goldwater,
'R-Ariz., the committee chairman, who has"
told reporters that such'an examination by
the committee would be fruitless
A Sunday News Journal report- detailed
Wilson's involvement. in- bribing members
-of Congress to get contracts for his network
of companies, the misuse of a secret Naval
task force-to.destabilize the Australian gov-
ernment. in 1975 and an elaborate CIA-
approved' swindle of the-Iranian Treasury
masterminded by Wilson.
[Meanwhile, Wilson's lawyer, John A.
Keats; told the Boston Globe that Wilson.-
may soon open.a business in Washington:
Wilson-is under federal indictment for his
part in an alleged conspiracy to murder a
Libyan- critic of Libyan strongman Col.
Moammar Khadafy.
["I don't know=what the company would 1,
be called, but certainly there's a lot-of busi-
ness that can be- carried on with Libya,..,
Keats said in an interview.
["He's not doing this to spite the
:.government," Keats said. "If he
.-opens a place, itwill be purely for -~
.business reasons, and the business
:would have nothing to do with they
uresecution."} ..= ,
'Biden,-' a.. Democrat, - is being
backed in.hisr~:call for a probe by;
Sesiator WilIiamV. Roth Jr., R-Del.;.;
also a member of the intelligence
Committee: ,:i-'- -
I . am, certainly aware of .the
recent press reports concerning the
activities of Edwin P. Wilson," said
Roth. "I understand that. the -com-
eral years ago, and I would think i
would be appropriate-to-update tha
examination.'"
Biden saiiFone of-the-areas h
wants examined is the possibility
that Wilson and Theodore G. Shack-
ley are using,?graymaii"-to avoid.
possible criminal charges. Shack-
ley is former head of clandestine
operations for the CIA. " Graymai1'
is a . phrase-=lawyersIcoined- to.
describe how -government. officials]
with access-to secrets `might use
that knowledge to escape prosecu
ticn
Shackley'was a key figure in a--~
major graymaitcaseinvolving per-
jury before -.Congress concerning
the activities of the CIA-in Chile in-!
the early
Biden has developed national rep-
utation as an. expert on.."graymail."
Bidem'said that the Wilson case-i
had come lip before the committee
in 1977 wherran internal ClAprobe
ordered by then-Director Stanfield...
Turner ended in- the dismissal of
two employees- who had assisted
Wilson in-- transferring high-level;~
technology to the Khadafy govern--Z
went.
$iden said - that during the':1977'1
probe he was not- aware that some-
one on Shackley's- level at the CIA
would be taken up at the next regu- -
lar meeting this .weet_ -
Goldwater, was. unavailable- for i
comment onBiden's letter.
: [Boland told the Associated.-
that the committee may want to
consider legislation governing the -
business, activities of former. CIA -
employees and.how much involve-'
meet- -current-- agency employees
can have with people-who have left:
the agency.
[The, Washington-- Post - has;
-reported that: the CIA;is-already'
redrafting the rules governing
. ["I wouldn't.- call it a full-
investigation but we'll be lool
whatever -recomm endations
staff comes up with on whether
abuses over-the past- few'ye
Boland said.]
had such-a dose: relationship with.
Wilson. ~.--
Wilson, 54,:was indicted in April
1980 on federal charges for his part
in a , conspiracy to . murder: - the-
speaker of the Libyan parliamenL--
The-ndictment. alleges that Wil
son and an associate,. Frank E. Ter-
pil,.. met with , :.:,two ? Cuban .
nationalists; whom - Wilson. ' had
trained during his. CIA days and
offered them $1 million to kill the
Khadafy political foe.
Wilson - and - Terpil were - also
indicted for their Hart in- ex porting
oxolosivesinto Libya.; F 1
Biden said that he believes the
Wilson revelations also require the
committee to examine the need for
controls on what work intelligence
emAployees do after they leave th
CI.
Biden said that what he is asking
for from his colleagues is approval
for committee staffers:to lookinto
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