WILSON TRIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100760001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 29, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ASSOCIATE PRESS
29 JANUARY 1983
BY Al REW r' . W i 11 i ains
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Tne man who arranged to ship 21 tons of explosives to former CIA agent
~Cwin W11scn in Libya testified today Wilson told him he had made S6 million t0
million in his transactions in Libya during a seven-year stay.
Jerome S. Brower had said Friday he arranged for the 1977 shipment after
Wilson deposited e588,000 in a Swiss bank account. He said he had bought 54,000
pounds of the plastic explosive C-4 at Wilson's request and shipped 21 tons tG
Tripoli.
Brower testified he was repaid all but about $3,000 of the cost of shipping
the explosives to Wilson, after fronting him the money for the transportation.
he also testified that a government chemist successfully detonated about a month
ago a sample of C-4 plastic explosive from the same batch as was shipped to
Wilson.
Wilson, 54, faces four charges that he smuggled plastic explosives in October
1977.
Frcwer, an unindicted co-conspirator who owned the California-based J.S.
Brower & Associates, said he charged Wilson for the entire amount but pulled out
Even tons because the former agent "had not paid me for other supplies he had
bought.
Brower testified he bought the explosives from three plants in the United
States and Canada after meeting Wilson in Washington. The substance was
transferred from boxes into more than 800 five-gallon cans, then shipped to
Houston to be flown overseas, he said.
He said the explosive, a white powder, was covered with a layer of a dark
con.pound used in drilling wells and that the cans' labels said they contained
trilling muc.
Once the shipment was in Libya, Brower said, he complied with Wilson's
request by changing an invoice to show each can contained 60 pounds of
explosives, rather than the 50 they actually held.
"Mr. Wilson told me he had told the Libyans I had stolen this (shipment) fro"-
U.S. military installations," Brower said.
Wilson's chief counsel, Herald Fahringer, said in his opening statement that
his client was working for the ?CIA on a "deep cover assignment," posing as a
businessman, when he arranged the shipment.
Fahringer said that in the course of the alleged CIA assignment, Wilson
alerted officials of a plot to assassinate president Reagan and obtained
c:,cuments listing Soviet military equipment that was in Libya.
"Owe will attempt to prove that Mr. Wilson believed that it was legal to send
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