WALTER SCOTT'S PERSONALITY PARADE

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• Publication Date: September 20, 1981
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ARTICLE APPEARED IHE WASHINGTON POST
ON PAGE ;7-2_ PARADE MAGAZINE
20 September 1981
Waiter Scott's
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Q. It's been rumored that William Casey's days as
head of the CIA are numbered. Who appointed
him and why??i1/1.0., Wilmette; IlL
A. The appointment of William J. Casey, 68, was
a political payoff by President Reagan to the man
who took over his 1980 campaign -when it was-
foundering in New Hampshire. Despite his blatantly
incomplete finanical report and accusations of
possible stock fraud, Casey was blithely confirmed
by the U.S. Senate?whereupon he unwisely
appointed Max Hugel, an old Brooklyn friend, to
run the CIA's vital cloak-and-dagger operations.
The appointment of Hugel, a man with no visible
qualifications, to such an important post outraged
many career intelligence officers. Subsequently,
in the wake of allegations concerning stock market
manipulations in 1974, Hugel resigned. A day
later. Casey's own murky stock market history was
leaked supposedly by CIA "Ivy Leaguers" who
did not regard Casey, a graduate of Fordham Uni-
versity and St. John's Law School, as particularly,
quail fie-d either. This gave rise to a spate of stories
that Casey also would resign, but Reagan rescued
him by expressing 'continued confidence."
Casey's reputation, however, has been tarnished,
and he lacks the support of some key Senators on
the Intelligence Committee. No. 2 man at the CIA
is-Adm. Bobby R. Inman, a favorite of Sen. Barry
Goldwater. Should Casey be guilty of another ma-
jor goof, Inman will probably succeed him.
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PROGRAM Good Morning America
DATE
September 15, 1981 7:00 AM
SUBJECT Boris Korchak
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JACK ANDERSON: This morning I want to tell you the
story of a spy who tried to come in out of the cold, but the
Central Intelligence Agency left him to freeze. The man's name
is Boris Korchak. He was an escapee from a Communist prison
camp. For six years he worked for the CIA. He passed secret
information to our intelligence agents. Now, he took no money
for this dangerous work. He says he was motivated by ideology.
He simply preferred democracy to Communism.
Well, ultimately, Korchak got involved in an even more
dangerous game. He became a double agent and pretended to work
for the Soviet secret police, the KGB. ?
Well, a year and a half ago, Korchak's cover was bjogn.
He had to ?flee from Denmark. Luckily, he was able to get his
wife and children out. They came to the United States. Korchik
thought he would be welcomed for a job well done. But the CIA
gave Boris Korchak no help at all, nothing. The CIA at first
pretended it'd never heard of him.
Well, in desperation, Korchak looked elsewhere for help.
He finally found it in Iowa Senator Charles Grass ley. Well, o
course, the Senator had doubts about Korchak. But he talked to
the CIA's deputy chief, Admiral Bobby Inman. There's now no doubt
about it. Inman confirmed that Korchak had worked for the CIA.
Yet, incredibly, the CIA still won't help its former agent, but
has left him on his own. All he has is a visitor's visa that
expires on Wednesday. He can't get 'work legally on a visitor's
visa, even if It's extended. He may have to return to Europe.
In that case, he told me, "I am a dead man."
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17 beed indicted for plotting 'a political arsassination
." for Libya's Col..MOarnmar Khadafy,!i"i:?- ? ? :?,:. .: and Kissinger's "shuttl
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,pingstone'that Wilson needed to 'it't,.'ric- Judge Jr., 34, both ex-intele:
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i 01 Sources, he Used his position and ir?1es in the payoffs to congressmen'
-global scale, According to confiden- ;News Journal that they had played
45 CIA payaffS to Egyptian President -Anl,yar. ,cOntacts to establish.-- and profit
iron') '-e scores of businesses front- !41.id in the scheme to remove thei
,Sadat, who stashed inillions'OflAmeiican doll r?-s.'iti'.;-:/
.si,ng for 'variotis intelligence agen- ;, $hila ho 'tshmjoundegy
and Mulcahy have
'a Swiss bankeaccaunt arid Used:the'itinds tofuyth,er'''
his dOrdeStic politieal aSpirations..?", ".-,ei.:,.e.i;T_rf. '4c i ei.. Ile. started ' out a s a :fieen questioned by 1-;'111 agents' and'
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from the Iraniari'national. treasury and.givuelt to::
, kce.ording to Judge and l',Iulcahyss,
the late Shah of Iran ::. '' ? . t; 'it'.';',',";;';,??. "?:' t'-`;':-.;--';A';
ilson made the payoffs through
idouble-dealing and extortion from,
,Bribes? Wilson' made to'-16,rdiribers' of ,Con-,;,. 1 merehants doing business with gov-::
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for his freey'Wheeling te.ii7,.: ;4nment agencies. It ---
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a eons piracy to ninrder ceie of Kli-irlafY's politi4 ,.$5irnillion:horse.farm $
1);:ost!tutes.apd lavish entertaining
cal onniments. .:4,-,:e.:.. t ;:,-.? ;;;-.:'.-'!::?-e:',-- ..'-: :.?'.-.....,.. iWashington to the Middle East, all,
rginia estate. .- "?-?
In addition, Wilson 'V.raS indicted for offering tWo. 3
termer Cuban CIA-Contract men million to kill a'i! , protected by the senators and rep,
,o,Acorcling to Judge and l?fulaii. ,
1:ny7yendor who wanted to se 1!
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tesentatives and intelligence offi-j.
political opponentiof i4o.a!-nrnarKha . a y.. .e . 4
.. 4)1 'dais on his payroll.
1 , Wilson has repeatedly evaded ?it.-NrnP. to the CIA, Office of Naval.;
subordinate:were also: iddicted for illeally $iiip.J.:4; .!, ,
!:,Iqtelligence, Defense Intelligence!
-ping high explosiveS to Libya.:?! ; t,!,......- .:,..
TOD CIA, eile ,' Army Intelligence; and
e :.!?'.-1:,';'.'1 arrest, on one occasion by Produc-
officials, Wilson's 'colleaguesearg! .fot-!.? .
... ing a new passport and travel docu-4
o.t, ers had to use Wilson's on's firm.
'tiler ernployers, have told the Snnday Nf.-,,ws Jour-',merits after his were confiscated. =
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,al that Wilson has threatened officials at t E. hg . According to Lawrenee Barcella:', '"It ophla-
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mail, a term coined by lawyers, mns ea a threat by :s6ri has even traveled in the United:0 businessmen wh
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a :"government official with access to secrets:: to _States stride his Indic trnen t, ' and Avg; Ongressrneo were told to deal
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;reveal some of those secrets to avoid prosectitiarl,! ,cScaped capture, ?
f :WilsOn, who ip 53, joined the ci4 in the 1954; in
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wiison:',e1"Eil Wilson treoted these senators ?
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I who recently met with him,
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'attempts to overthrow Cuban rreznier' yiqei ps:.
the next decade be Ivas.invOlved in severLI
(possesses proof of payoffs by the
,CIA:to Sadat frbm the earliest days;iqrne businessman wanted to sell to
that when
. tro: lie trained anti-Castro forces for qtedisaStrOils
they were
:Bay of Pigs invasion. In an operation code nained ::Of his political career. Wilson also:0e Pentagon or the CIA
was responsitne tor paying baaars Mids,atitomatically that Consultants
"JM WAVE he was responsible for additional
. , amily and aides millions of dollars qftterriation_a_LvoLthe Jinn that
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, fie spenr Winch or title 1 6 s. in vjetnara an wp,re sold to Egypt and other Mid- 1\rilSon had also arranged for
-Cambodia. After his return to Washington in ipn ?:iillt,astern na4ori, the official :tr4cicbacks.to procurernept officials
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ARTICLE APPEARED
ON PAGE
THE WASHINGTON POST
12 September 1981
Firearms Bureau Investigation
Justice
By Patrick B. Tyler and Al Kamen
Via3hingtofs Poet Staff Writers
Federal investigators pursuing a "terrorism. for
hire" case against two former CIA agents-have re-
ferred at least two cases-of 'alleged bribery to the Jus--
tice Department for possible prosecution. = .
One case involves a former congressional iaison
for the Army Materiel Command and later the Fed-
eral Energy Administration. f
The bribery allegations, still under investigation,
are contained in investigative case summaries- com-
piled over the past two years by agents of the Treas-
ury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms (BATE). The agents are part of a team of
federal investigators that has- constructed a broad
criminal conspiracy case ;against ex-CIA agents
Edwin P. Wilson and Francis B. Terpil.
The alleged conspiracy, spelled out in an April,
1980, grand jury indictment naming both men, in-
volved the shipment of high explosives, electronic
timers, prohibited night vision equipment and com-
mando training for the regime of radical Libyan dic-
tator Cot Muammar Qaddafi. It included an alleged
$1 million aseassination attempt on behalf of Qaddafi
against a dissident Libyan expatriate.
Prosecutors assigned to the caseehl. Lawrence Bar-
cella and Carol E. Bruce, said they had "absolutely
no comment' on the report
In their summary, BA,TE agents state that Wilson
and Terpirs- activities" in., Libya have demonstrated
"that the United States; in-effect, has become a major
supplier of hardware and technology in support of
worldwide terrorism."
In part to further these alleged efforts, the confi-
dential report continues, "They ['Wilson and Terpil]
are also known to bribe U.S. government officiate to
enhance their businesses as evidenced by the Paul
Cyr referral and the William-Weisenburger referral:.
Referral means that the cases are sent to the Justice
Department for further investigation and possible
prosecution.
Cyr, 60, a longtime Capitol Hill fixture in lobbying
circles, was the chief congressional liaison for the
Army Materiel Command during much of the 1960s
and early 1970e. In the mid-19709,-;he became the
chief congresssional advocate for the Federal Energy_
Administration (FEA) and when the FEA was suc-
ceeded by the Department of Energy, Cyr became
the deputy director for congreesional relation. He
was not available for comment. ? -
Weisenburger, a longtime CIA engineer, was fired
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from his post in 1973 by then-C
Director Stansfield Turner for ass
ing INVilson in conetructing 10 p
tetype delayed-action timers for
in bombs in Libyan terrorist c
grams. Weisenburger also was
available for comment, but a sou
close to the family said that he
not .aware of the bribery allegat
against him. The source said t
Weisenburger felt he had b
'taped" by Wilson into assist
with the electronic timer const
tion while on 'active duty with
an avid sportsman wi
billeting partners have included
eral congressmen, distinguished
self for behind-the-lines commando
experience in World War II where hel
served in the Office of Strategic Ser- ;
vices (OSS), a predecessor of the
CIA.
el-The investigative report does not
go' into detail about the bribery al-
legations, but several sources famil-
iar' With the investigation said that 1
they concerned alleged payments to;
Cyr to protect and promote Wilson's:
interests at a time when Wilson was t
tiiYing to maintain his influence on
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classified intelligence projects and I
other ventures involving the string of
companies he ran out of offices at
1425 K Street NW. There is no in-
dication in the report that Cyr knewl
anything about Wilson's Libyan ac-,
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tivities.
Also. included in the dozens of!
pages of investigative summaries are
,
how to build bombs and other ter-
rorist devices. The desert resort pro-
Capitol Hill in suppoft of highly
i
poaal never materializA. ,
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? Prosecutors have ?)btained secret I
tape recordings of W,Ison converse-
tions with his onetime secretary,;
Hula Harpet, who is cooperating.
with the grand jury investigation;
under a grant of immunity. Harper,
is the wife of John elenry Harper,i
one of the first explosives' experts!?
recruited by Wilson from the ranks
of his former CIA coheagues to help
the Libyans build exploding lamps, ;
ashtrays, coat hangers, teapots and !
other terrorist instruments. -
The purpose of these exploding
devices, which were assembled in a
hideaway desert laboratory at the]
Winter Palace of Libya's deposed ,
monarch, King Idris. according to
the investigative summary, was de-
scribed by Wilson: "You know, the
colonel [Qaddafi] may sometimes !
new and revealing details about the, have some young colonels or some
Wilson-Terpil operation: ! officers or something dud are getting
? Wilson and Terpil allegedly out of line- that he wants to send a
lured three Cuban CIA- contract' present to." "
agents to Geneva in September, The federal investigators, pursu-
1976, by implying that their mission ing Wilson's worldwide business net-
would he to assassinate, for the CIA, work and his effective use of former
notorious international terrorist 11- military and intelligence personnel,
concluded: "Former Central Intelli-
litch RamirezanSdanwchhe:,isbebtteeirievkendowntoi
as "Carlos," gence Agency personnel, military
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ioslotite:tmesgbtrist -Mblicitio06 iasalnionnel and U.S.
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- -product-4.1nd _expertise to ?whoever .
can pay. the Drica.": ; ;- ? 4.- ?-