GEORGIANS LURED BY LIBYA'S OILBUCKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100170061-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: July 23, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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state Cyrus R. Vance:: power to tell Carter to signal to with
took along, an - entourage . of Geor About e hold or not act upon Vance's recbm-
gians who were eager, I was told, toy `. the time, Carter was
wheeling and dealing in Libya; fugi- mendation to stop the sale [of the
relieve Qaddafi of some petrobuckaw' rive financier Robert Vesco was also' planes]."
So I. flew to Libya. to. find out what' Da ; Yes.
the president's. brother had been-up trying to secure the release of the y
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Qaddafi wanted out.of the Carter ad- tee investigators this month-that the accurate.. But both. Day and White
ministration.. Hey,-was furious over ,Libyan:. government credited- him denied there was any substance.-to
Washington's refusal to deliver some with the release of the two 727's and the'. statements. "When. you are deal-
airliners and transport planes which ?, paid him "a substantial sum of ng with, people,". explained Day,
he had purchased; from the United money.. He also let 'the investigators "sometimes you tell them what they
States ~0; listen to partof'a startling,conversa- ,want to hear"
Qaddafi positively' fumed when he tion he had secretly recorded."' Vesco ? also told Senate investiga
spoke to - me about. its "The United A Texas lobbyist, James Day"- had tors that half of the incriminating
States. is behaving as a thief,"' he bris .'contacted Vesco allegedly in behalf tape was mysteriously erased "but
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They didn't give us even our money, John White and White House staff Footnote: Sens. -Dennis: DeCon.cini
back " .chief Hamilton Jordan. Here are ex(D-Ariz.)and :Orrin, Hatch .(R-Utah)
I-., saw t classified" diplomatic dis cerpts: are conducting an: investigation -of
patches "and . spoke ;to confidential ,Vesco: "Yeah but'at the time you the Vesco-Libyan-Carter, connec-
sources Afterward, I,replorted that -. told me' [that] Hamilton Jordan, you tions.
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