EX-C.I.A. AGENT EDWIN TALKS ABOUT HIS MYS ALLEGIANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606440001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 23, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PACE 3_____ 23 November 1981
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Wilson keeps two pat goats in his horne-
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To the CIA, he is a rogue, an agent for
no one but himself. To the. FBI, he is a
much-wanted fugitive from justice. But
to the fanatical; outlaw regime of Lib-
ya's Col. Muammar Caddafi, Edwin P.
Wilson, 53, Is a precious ally. By his
oven account, Wilson is nothing more
than a very successful middleman in '' .
Libya's import-export trade. Yet he has = -
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military adventure by supplying aboutMAr.Wilson andhisoperations,"ob-
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airplane mechanics and pilots for the
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Egypt. "I am innocent of all the ?
charges," says Wilson. but for the mo- "He's done nothing to hurt the U.S." don which belongs to Wilson. John
ment he is remaining in Libya, among The U.S. government disagrees, the Anthony Stubbs, a British pilot hired b
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