THE QAD CONNECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200970018-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: June 14, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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A,~TIC>;E APPEARED NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
ON P4GE 14 June 1981
ive years ago, two- former
operatives of - the United
States Central. Intelligence
Agency Edwin P. Wilson'and Frank E. Terpii - made
a business - deal with Col. 'I
Muammar el-Qaddafi, , the>I
~ ruler of Libya. In essence,1
the. former C.I.A.: men,. who had be-
come partners in. an export-import
business, agreedxo.sell-Colonel.Qaddafi
their accumulated year; of American
intelligence-agency contacts, experi-
ence and expertise. Theirs was a prod-
uct that could not be purchased on the
open market. The colonel, who boasts.
of supporting terrorism in the Middle-
East, Europe and Africa and who has
been attempting to set up his own new
federation of Arab and Moslem states,
was willing - and able, because of his.
vast oil wealth- to paydearly.
As a result,'the two- Americans, ac-
cording to Federal investigators, have
made millions of dollars aiding Qaddafi
in his drive to export terrorism and.
build his own- Middle Eastern power. -
Under cover of their export-importbusiness, Wilson and Terpil are said to!
have helped Libya setup a manufactur-
ing plant for the production of assassi-
nation weapons; to have themselves
helped Qaddafi plan political assassi
nations; to have recruited dozens of for-
mer Green Berets to teach Libyan sol-
diers and Arab terrorists how to handle
volatile explosives -how, for example,
to turn ashtrays into weapons of terror;
to have illegally shipped arms explo-
sives to Libya with the aid of forged and
fraudulent State Department export
Seymour M. Hersh, a former New York
Times reporter, is now at work on a
book about Henry Kissinger to be pub-
lished by Summit Books. .
pro3ecm
Information about the Qaddaft
nection has been known by the Gove
meet since the fall of 1976. It was th
that-Kevin P. Mulcahy, at the time
partner -of' Wilson and Terpil,
proached the C.I.A- and the Fede
Bureau. of- Investigation with gra
doubts about-the legality and ethics
`his company's business dealings
Libya. Mulcahy, a former C.I.A. e
ployee who had spent six months insi
the ' Wilson-Terpil operation, w
spend hundreds of hours, over the n
few years, providing the Governor
with firsthand knowledge.
Kevin Mulcahy has now decided
tell his story publicly for the first ti
He's tired of waiting for this segment
his, life to end. He wants to be list
again inthe telephone directory, to h
a driver's license In his own name,
vote, to own property, to stop living
if he-and not Wilson and Terpil -
been indicted for wrongdoing. He.
he is forced now, in effect, to give
testimony in the pages of The New Yo
Times.. The essentials of his' acco
have. been verified where possi
views with key members of the S
Department, the Justice Departme
the F.B.I., the United States Attorn
office in Washington; as well as.
Stansfield Turner, the former head
Central Intelligence, and other hi
C.I.A. officials.
- 0
The Wilson-Terpil case Is a story
board rooms to arrange the illegal sale
electronic-spying equipment and terro
weapons, and of Americans who train
sassins abroad. It is a story of an of
network of former C.I.A. operatives
military men, an4 a story of present
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