REPORT OF BRIBE TO THURMOND BEING PROBED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100140114-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2012
• Sequence Number: 114
• Publication Date: February 2, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PACE - / /
In fact, a source close "to Wilson
said that during the ex-CIA agent's
plea. bargaining Justice Department
Libya.
He acknowledged that he knew
the purported middleman.
-But he said no bribe offer was
even so much as discussed.
Wilson also denied through his
lawyer that he ever bribed any mem-
ber of Congress.
He is now-in federal custody.
He was' brought to trial and con-
victed -on charges of conspiring to
slip 20 tons of plastic explosives to
eon. associate Dale Van Atta that he had that on .at lest two ooaeiooe
In a personal meeting with . me, been with the middleman and Terpil middleman took $10,000 cash W.
the senator vehemently; denied the ?- in .1976 when the possibility of a envelope to .a with
allegation. ` ' t. j ,, babe to Thurmond was discussed.. 'mood, and that the.
esuvsbpe' ynr ~
To Th urn?IlU _ that things might go easier-on Wil When . we asked ---about-: ,these
son if he agreed to testifyht such a . charges in September;. 198 the
case... ...~~.. _: - -? -
- -middleman denied
B' ing Pr bed "'If ?he had ]mown anything, that part:irt
was the time for. hiin to say-," the any such diet oitir,:
The man did aclamba!lge that he
The Justice Department is con t.BOnrce p?Wted out... :But, Filson -:-had %een ducting an extremelysensigve moves 'stack o;his demaL ~c'P'
(first learned in Se -three or four diSa t oo* .m
ligation of Sen. Strom Thurmond hataus~moe ws? i981, hose C130s.' ,.vladgrs -- In
the IR-S.C.), the chairman of the ? oA t
Judiciary Committee. "A"~~ _ed motion ghat one `roan bad of- semi-reL~ed,ciee ~;~io+v
' under investigation, time neuv + ,
The investigation centers on state- fared Thurmond s servkea- for ?a in a sworn statement;'-says
meats -price--to Frank TeipiJ,-: Nilson: mualdl~
by a man who claims he saw associate who is so a fi ve, man "would m6ularly.`ome,#p;
office Dekx' ja?
Thurmond accept at least -$20,000 That investigation hinged on tee-`terna(~Mtig+m, In .
handed over by a middleman acting timony of Kevin Mulcah a govern,
asm al - .:.;~ ; WOson:
for renegade CIA y' sponsored Company;' ...,;
ega agent and con- meat witness who died last October. victed arms smuggler Edwin P: - Wil-. .Before he died, Mulcahv told my 'He has told gOVernment ti
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THE WASHINGTON POST
2 February 1983
The purpow of the turned over to the aerator,'tiv& I
Mulcahy said,wen to out a know by ~? ...
figure -
way to get Libyan dictator Muam- The witness added that he dili:ot
m .p elands Libya eight, C130 trans. know what the payment was for.
rt
b y a had purchased. particubar middleman I 1
They were embargoed -by the Van Atta be, vitas a social, but. 1
St
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D
a
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epartment because :of the business scquamtancof Da7sOn k'R
dictator's support of international But a letter be.
arot ~Ay
TerPil had been offered erect a $1 mil- investigator -'a' oaei
lion commission for each plane de- .. -tionship to Wilson tbanie'adaiited;
livered. In the letter, -whit -Mmmond
Mulcahy said the middleman sug. immediately turned over U:thi-FBI,
gested getting -Thu mond's help, at the middleman wrote of Wilson._ t
which Terpil offered the man a aim -. . -1 consider him- p-5ris d what
mission of $250,000 per plane-.end have ]mown for aboirt
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/04/13: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100140114-3