THIRD MAN IN LIBYA CASE INFORMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605840016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 8, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
8 January 1982
THIRD MAIN IN
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in h i ew York .?. =
FEDERAL investigations
into the activities on
behalf o?-Libya of Edwin
\Vilso Nand Frank -Terpil,
two fugitive former CIA
agents, - have been-- ad-
vanced significantly after a
third -man in the case
.decided to co-operate- with
the.F3L'. . I
In turn, this evidence from an
Ah Wili!
merican womson appon- ted as the "supervisor" of aI
-terrorist-training camp in Libya.
has implicated two other CIA
agents men - described as
middle-level employees' who
were * dismissed from the spy
agency in 1977 after an internal
inquiry.
'-The "third magi" is Douglas
M. Schlacater, ?.39, who' surren-
dered to Federal authorities last:
month. He had been indicted
last August by a Federal Grand
Jury, on charges of illegally
shipping explosives from the-!
has been questioning Miss
Roberta Barnes, a 33-year-old
Texan divorcee who for -the-past
two years has been directing the
operation, ofa number of com-
panies established in London-by
Wilson. .
-
When she flew - home to
Texas to spend Christmas with
her family and her 10-year-old
son, Miss Barnes was arrested.
and jailed- for four -days ? as a
material witness" in -`the
"Libyan Connection' investiga-
tion.. Her lawyer insisted, how-
ever, -that she is "no -Mata
Hari'
At a brief hearing '-n Federal
.court in?Washington, Schlashter?
agreed to plead guilty to two
charges of . criminal conduct
stemming from his work in
Libya 'for Wilson. Two further
charges were being dropped'in.
return,#o,his. co-operation.:.:.
i1ir -Alvin Askew, his lawyer,
hal portrayed Schlachter as yet
another ? indvidual who was
hoodwinked by Wilson into be-
lieving that what he was doing
in' Libya had been sanctioned
by the 'C I A..
:He said his client had told
Federal prosecutors that he
briefed two high-ranking CIA,
officials about Wilson's activities ~
on-behalf of the Gaddafi regime
in meetings in Washington in;
1976 and 1977. ? --
I
Jailed: in Texas .
Obtain arms
The two officials, according to
the lawyer, had told Schlachter
to carry out intelligence mis-
sions in Libya, among them try-
ing to obtain Russian military
equipment, electronic compo-
nents from Soviet-made radar.
and even a 'surface-to-air Soviet
missile.
Mr Askeiv identified the two
former CIA officials as Theo-
dore G. Shacklev, chief deputy
director of clandestine 'services
for the agency. Thomas G.
Clines, director of training:-
Clines tretired from the
agency in 1978. Shackley left in'
2979. Both have denied any
knowledge of the Libya project.
Schlachter is the first person
to provide investigations and
the Grand Jury-with detailed.
first-hand information on
Wilson's operations in Libya.
Mr Askew said he did not
know whether his client had
ever actually carried out the
espionage assignments men-
tioned in his CIA briefings.
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