INDICTMENT DROPPED IN CASE RELATED TO EX-CIA AGENT'S CONVICTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404070002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 3, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
3 DECEMBER 1982
Indictment Dropped in Case Related to Ex-CIA Agent's Conviction
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
fECIEra_ Fr:dcy dISmi55ed an indictment ',st former Canadian
c5 a i Robert A. Manin2 after 2 prosecutor Said the charges, related to the
agent Edwin P. wilson were techn.Clly a f,.Lawed.
U.S. District judge Richard L. Williams granted a request by prosecutor
Theodore S. Greenberg that the Aug. 2 indictment against Marina be dropped.
Greenberg said 2 new indictment W111 be sought.
Manina, a former Ontario business executive, had been accused of violating
11.x. r egUiation5 iti the Sale of Sensitive, American-madE night vision
E: Arent to Libya via Canada in 1977.
ifl an affidavit filed here. Manin2 said Wilson and two prospective Libyan
Customers visited Marina's office in August 1977. The ni;;ht vision
was shiNpec to Libya as part of a $900,000 lon ra gysr later
g- o,lge surveillance system.
Wilson was convicted last month in Alexandria on federal firearms and export
Charges involving the Shipment of four handguns and an M-16 rifle to Libya.
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