U.S. SAID TO PLAN SEIZURE AMERICAN LINKED

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• Publication Date: October 10, 1981
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ARTICLE APPEARED
ON PACE__ lp_
THE WASHINGTON POST
10 October 1981
Although Schlacter's name ap-?
By Patrick E. Tyler and Al Kamen peared in the original indictment, he,:
wasn,,,qWn posesratc wr's tuns not: charged by the grand jury:;
motion a plan for an extraorauiary.J 'however, that the grand jury )sanded t'
ican manager of a pajor =terrorist ; _r - --- - -
tlarging Schlacter.with serving, as=
training operation set URIMJ976 for: "eountry manager"--in Libya under:;
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the radical Libyan dictat
the Wilson-Terpil contract.; ,
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Muammar Qaddafi, n; r i e
> :.It= aIIeges that Schlacter's rspon
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Douglas M. ~Schl2~cte%::'a .:former.: duetion- of -explosive devices dis
Washington-area resident, was se gam
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, cretly indicted : by a =federal :grand other household items in a makeshift
jury last Duly for his role in.coordi- laboratory constructed in the winter=
Hating many of the Libyan activities palace' of :Libya's former monarchs
of ex-CIA' agents Edwin P ,.Wilson. 'King Idris:..'
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On Sept. 11,. the. Snafu Depart cruited aril supervised the activities;
ment, at the initiative, of ? the; I.UZ. of currentand former-American- mil'
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attorney's office Here, sent ca
e icy and Special Forces soldiers who
instructions to the US - ambassador. were enlisted- to train L i b y a n corn-
to the central African nation of .Bu
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rundi, Francis D. Cook . ,L'; andos`in terrorism. In addition,-it
The federal prosecutors asked Bu . : isalleged, he='arranged for martial
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for Qaddafi's body-
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Schlacter unto u.a. marsr yr r ".L..
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Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, and Carol E: Bruce, said they had
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network all ;wily erected by;
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use he'` Wilson to ship arms, explosives, and
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Schlacter today remains ! the
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ing and sup
visor for terrorist train 'sole stockholder of record of Around-
ply operations in Ltbya_ uzider ari . - Inc
world Shipping and Chartering
Apn,,W 1.916, contract involving. Qad the Houston-based concern:, set up,
daft, Wilson and TerpiL::4~ by. Wilson in 1976 as an internation-
Wilson. and Terpily both fugitives,
al freight; .forwarding company..In
were indicted in April;' 1980, by a federal grand jury:here on charges of. large measure a-Aroundworld shipped-
equipment, pipe and
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exporting explosives, delayed-action , construction materials to legitimate
electronic timers.?and sensitive night costumers abroad.`
vision.equipment to-Libya. Wilson is But in 1976 and 1977;- according,
living in Tripoli, andTerpil bas been- to investigative sources, the company.
seen in Lebanon and Sync.
Wilson and Terpil also have been also . mobilized men and jet cargo
night loading
craft foc late=
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indicted..by the .federal grand jury
for attempting' to ezecute a il.,mil ations' of =C4' plastique_ expl
': and;-electronic delayed-action timers
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where he tact been stationed: as an-
active-duty CIA agent.
. To..lend legitimacy tar the air
-freight company,.. -*called- Adco Air-
lines, Terpil apparently incorporated
the company using.'the name of an
ex-CLk official and that'd Richard
Ashcroft, an, executive of Stanford
Technology Corp. in Campbell, Calif:
Ashcroft, reached in--. Sunnyvale;
Calif., where he is now president of a
Stanford Technology subsidiary, said
last week that he had never agreed
to serve on the board of the airline
and had never attended a meeting of
the board.
Ashcroft, whose firm ` manufac-
tures "digital imaging system? like*
those aboard the.Voyager II satellite
that sent back photographs from.
Saturn, said that he. W employed
Terpil for about six months in 1976
to secure export licenses in .Wash-
ington for the firm's- products." I
said Terpil was laid off for unsatis
factory performance-and; never sue
cessfully obtained a--license for the
firm
Fedeial investigators have 'deter-
.mined; . however,-that. some , of - th
sophisticated Stanfoi&:- ethnology:
equipment purchased in later-trans-
actions through former- Stanford em-
i ployes may have' been:- adapted. for
rh`ilitary. applications s and. brokered'
'by former Stanford employes with -,-
out tout the company's knowledge. ,
From his job as manager of Wi'1
' son's farming operations in Fauquier
::County, Va.,. Schlactee rose in the'
ranks of the terrorist training oigan-;'
ization?towhat:one'sodrcedescribed
as "Wilson's righthand.'mael and ;
...
=~"~Y17son s,than in.T.ibva. ?~tiv.. ~,. r~~`
ROM assassmatwo oonttac
. aboard chartered .DC8 jets for ? shcp-
Egypfagainst ea ezpatrtate Qaddsfi _,,-wette IMno=~ ;- :' ` ":! _ .t 7 IP-. """
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AR iCJT APPEARED NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
OTI PAGE 14 June 1981
By Seymour IL H.rsh -*.,,,. " and iohave involved
two- former Information about the Qaddaft
ive years age
,
operatives of - the United ' action has been known by the Gov
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oreu since the fail of 1978. It was
States Central Intellipp e
n
and Frank H. Terpil - made of Wilson and Terpil,
a business - deal with Col. i praached the C.I.A. and the Fed
-- -- ..--
ruler doubts about. the legality and eth
ruler of Libya
In essence
.
. .his: company's business dealings ulcahy. come partners In-. an. export-import I .Libya.- Mhn a former C.I.A.
-- ~- -- ---------spend hundreds of hours, over the
intdllge agency contacts
expert
,
few years. Providing the Governor
ence and ex expertise. Theirs was a prod
uct that could not be purchased on the with firsthand knowledge..
open market. The colonel, who boasts; ,Kevin Mulcahy has now decid
of supporting terrorism in the Middle- tell his story publicly for the first ti
East, Europe and Africa and who has He's tired of waiting for this segmen
been attempting to set up his own new his life to end. He wants to be ]is
federation of Arab and Moslem states, again *the telephone directory, to h
vast oil wealth--to paydearly. vote, to own property,. to stop living
As a result, the two Americans, ac- if be-and not Wilson and Terpil-
cording to Federal investigators. have been indicted for wrongdoing. He f
made millions of dollars aiding Qaddafi ' he is forced now. in effect, to give
in his drive to export terrorism and. testimony In the pages of The New Y
build his own- Middle Eastern power. - Times.. The essentials of his' aceo
Under cover of their export-import'. have. been verified where- possi
business, Wilson and Terpil are said to through secret documents and in int
have helped Libya setup a manufactur-' ' views with key members of the S
trig plant for the production of assassi- Department, the Justice Departm
helped Qaddafi plan political assassi..; office in Washington. as well as.
nations; to have recruited dozens of for- Stansfield Turner, the former head
mer Green Berets to teach Libyan sol Central Intelligence, and other
diers and Arab terrorists how to handle C.I.A. officials.
volatile explosives--how. for example, a
to turn ashtrays Into weapons of terror;
to have illegally shipped arms explo. The Wilson-Terpil case Is a story
fraudulent State' Department export' ' board rooms to arrange the illegal sal
electronlaspyingequipment and term
Seymour M. Hersh, a former New York weapo s. and of Americans who train
Times reporter, is now at work on a sassim abroad. It is a story of an old
book about Henry Kissinger to be pub- network of former C.I.A. operatives
lished by Summit Books. _ military men. an4 a story of present
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