THE TERPIL AND WILSON CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100160048-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: September 28, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM Good Morning America STATION WJLA TV
ABC Network
September 28, 1981 7:00 AM
SUBJECT The Terpil and Wilson Case
Washington, DC
JACK ANDERSON: The House Intelligence Committee finally
decided to look into the activities of two notorious former CIA
agents named Frank Terpil and Edwin Wilson. It's about time.
I've been reporting for a year on these two renegades. They were
indicted for smuggling explosives to Libya, but they jumped bail
and fled overseas. Wilson is hiding out in Libya. Terpil is be-
lieved to be in Lebanon.
Well, now I've learned that Terpil and Wilson may have
been involved in actual or attempted assassinations in this coun-
try. The Justice Department has evidence that links Wilson to an
attempt on the life of a Libyan student in Colorado last year.
The suspected assassin knew Wilson had met him not long before
the shooting.
As for Terpil, the government has his own words to ac-
cuse him. He was secretly taped by New York undercover agents
two. years ago. He undercover cops were posing as Latin American
terrorists. Terpil agreed to sell them machine guns, explosives,
and other deadly devices.
Well, then the renegade CIA man asked -- I'm quoting
from the secret tapes -- "You guys aren't knocking off Americans,
by any chance, are you?" Well, one of the undercover agents said,
"No. Come on. Would I go around knocking off Americans? Oh,
come on."
Terp i I s a i d -- t h i s I s his taped retort -- "We l l , we
have in the past."
That was an astonishing statement. The former CIA
agent was claiming to have killed American citizens.
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