REPROT SAYS FIRED CIA AGENT NOW WORKS FOR TOP-SECURITY FIRM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200970016-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: October 5, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Report Says Fired CIA Agent Now Works for Top-Security Firm
DOES THE CIA HAVEAFOR-
b
i
giving heart for agents
who've gone wrong?
Four years ago, an elec-
tronics specialist named
William Weisenburger was
fired from the agency for-al.
legedly aiding a plan to sell
explosives to Libya.
An article being prepared
for the November issue of
The Progressive quotes a fed.
eral-intel ligence-agency
source as saying Weisen-
urger
s now.working for
Scientific Communications,
Inc., a top-security supplier
of CIA hardware. New York
was told by a lawyer for the
Dallas-based firm that a
"William Weisenburger"
has been employed as a
"paid consultant" since
1979. "Fundamentally, he is
an engineer," said the law-
yer.
Investigators say the
CIA's Weisenburger was
fired for his role in a scheme
.by ex-agents Edwin- Wilson
and Frank Terpil- to sell
weapons to Libyan strong.
man Muammar el-Qaddafi.
A recent article in the
New York Times magazine
claimed that Weisenburger,
while with the CIA,. had
agreed to help make ex-
plosives hardware that Qad-
dafi was ordering from
Wilson and Terpil. Weisen-
burger was also at a meeting
at which Scientific Com-
munications was asked to
produce the hardware, the
Times article said.
A congressional commit-
tee is probing how much the
CIA knew about Wilson and
Terpil's private dealings.
The Progressive'article will
suggest that federal in-
vestigators. wonder if Wei-
senburgers apparent new
job is a sign of CIA acquies-
cence in the Libyan scheme.,,
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