SEE U.S. PROSECUTOR IN ROME - FUGITIVE EX-AGENT OFFERS DEAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09S00048R000100020115-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 115
• Publication Date: July 26, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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former'. CIA operative wanted cussion with Wilson, informed
to Libya and conspiring to kill a po- The meeting was held about July
.htical'rival :of.:Col Muammar-:;Qad 1,0 and was. made possible by a U.S.
dafi..metsecretly with a -U.S. pros request to the Italian 'government to'
ecutor:in-Rome earlier. thisi month suspend ~ the warrant that Interpol
and offered to arrange: the. kidnaping': has issued, for the arrest of Wilson,--
of other fugitives abroad in-return ,: who registered at the Hilton Hotel in
,for his own freedom. & 'Rome on July, 8,. Washington Post
proposal ryas made. by Edwin P.. Wil- reported` from Rome. That warrant
son, who is .under a federal indict.'..;'was reactivated after Wilson re-'.
ment for. activities that allegedly in. -_-turned to his exile . home in Libya
eluded. supplying Qaddafi's govern the following week, according to Ital.
ment with explosives and recruiting , ran police sources.
former.Green Berets to run terrorist,. . According to one version. of the
schools- in Libya. 'Assistant' U.S. at- .; ..y' See WILSON, A19, Col. 2 .
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terrorist training to repressive regimes abroad. tared into with a defendent by his office are only
Both men'fledthe United States after the in. for, the purpose of "moving a case along" from a
rovidingexplosives and timers for bombs and Barcella also stressed that any conversations en-
the international arms business,' specializing in merit that resulted in an illegal act like kidnaping,'
speared : to have manipulated their "CIA back- In additiop to emphasizing, as a general ' prop-
.,McLean, were indicted in April 1980 after1a pro- - ipation of being able to work out a deal with the
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;Wilson, 52, of Upperville, Va:;. and Terpil, 41, of . `. hsh a legitimate business establishment in antic-
out. speculate that the fugitive may be trying to estab-
ilea to murder Omar Abdullah Meheishi at Qad. export firm he says he runs in Libya into Euro-
dafi's request, although the plan was never carried: , pear markets, according to informed sources who
import-
cy operative, Frank E. Terpil, recruited Cuban ex ..tigate the . possibilities of expanding-the import-
of the charges outstanding against Wilson is that gering Wilson:;
,of
another former Central Intelligence Agen Wilson also. used his stop Europe to roves
training for the 1961 Bay of Pigs operation. One promptly stamped with a "canceled" notice, an-
.schemes from the same reservoir of Cuban exiles ficial was able to persuade Wilson to let his pass-
'parently recruited would-be terrorists for separate the session. According to one account, a U.S. of-
bans in return for a reduced prison sentence. ' ' not known, although . it does appear that some
who pleaded guilty and testified against the Cu- meeting in Rome and the exact meeting place is
mour Glanzer, also represented one. of the main. , for Wilson.
Barcella is'the principal prosector in both the ,ceived a telex on Jnly 3 suspending the arrest
Letelier and Wilson cases. Wilson's lawyer, Sey-` warrant that border police were routinely,holding
a deal based on kidnaping. mercnandlsmg of covert operation skills to foreign
Positive identification of the potential'kidnap governments and individuals has become in. the
ing targets could not be made solely from the . ac- wake , of extensive reforms = inside the U.S. intel
countt available to The Washington Post, but the ligence community.
.circumstances' of the conversations with Barcella Barcella and the other principal prosecutor in
strongly suggested that the fugitives mentioned by ' the Wilson case, Carol E. Bruce, acknowledged
Wilson were two Cuban exiles accused of having; that they had been out of Washington at the. time
carried, out the 1976 car-bombing assassination that Wilson was in Rome, but said that they could
here of former Chilean ambassador-Orlando Le- ' provide no information on a pending case.
telier, informed sources said. The whereabouts of Interior, Ministry sources in Rome confirm,
the two Cubans, Juse' Dionisio Suarez and Virgilio hov.ever, that Crimiralpol, the Italian police unit
Pablo Paz, are unknown. that works on international criminal matters, re-
WILSON, From Al nalist in Beirut three weeks ago and is presumed.
meeting that Wilson lias circulated,.U.S. officials to be ' living in ;the- Lebanese capital, although
initiated' the discussion of his kidnaping ' one or there are reliable reports that he also. visited Eu-
more Latin Americans wanted by the U.S. gov- rope this-month.
ernment in another crime. Barcella refused to con- - Federal officials appear determined- to seek the
firm or deny that he had met with.. Wilson, ,but , return and iprosecution of Wilson and Terpil as
.heatedly denied .that he would ever' offer to make paint of an effort to determine how extensive the
dictments were returned, and Wilson is known to': 'stalled position.
be living in a large villa near the Libyan capital of
Tripoli. Terpil was interviewed by a British jour-
Special correspondent Sari Gilberts in Rome'
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