CIA RENEGADE, U.S. OFFICIALS MEET IN ROME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505250106-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 106
• Publication Date: September 28, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Ail TIOLE APPEARED
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THE 4tASH1;NGT0 POST
28 September 1981
the cooperation of Wilson or one of According to my sources, Barcella
CIA Renegade
his mercenaries in an assassination and at least four other U.S. officials
U.S. plotagainst Qaddafi, three intel i- huddled in London to plan their
Officials gents sources told my associates move
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ne of the officials was an
Dale Van Atta and Ron McRae
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stant to Barcella, another was an
One reliable source said the pe- : FBI
Meet I n Rome
agent and a third was an agent
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tiated by Wilson's at- and Firearms, Members of this~en-
A bizarre rendezvous occurred in ' i-,Y was
torney after visiting the fugitive in tourage . also. traveled - t6 Scotland
Rome last July. The top U.S. inteI- A' Tripoli.-. Barcella's emergency travel and Switzerland to check. leads in."
ligence official there met with a ran request was rushed through the Jus- the case before going egade ex-CIA,-agent : to discuss the,:,- tic..- -Department bureaucracy, ~ in When asked if he on
been "car- -
possible assassination of Libyan dic three daystator Muammar Qaddafi. t- ? Tying water" for the--CIA,: Barcella.
The formers * :'Meanwhile,. CIA officials had been = refused comment. In- fact, he de-
Py: was Edwin hatching a typically bizarre plan to clined even to acknowledge meeting
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on, a fugitive.. froin. American; )us- - eliminate Qaddafi. Their chosen in-- with Wilson.
tice.
after He Jumpecb.bad one, year ago ,r strument- was a lethal poison that At any rate, the mee
beges of was to- bet injected into,- uig indicted on c tings report
illegally furnishing explosih to dictator by means of a tinyldart dis-= second week of Ytwo days during the
Libya and conspiring to kill-a Qad- ?` July. My coerces say
gwsed as one of the black flies that the CIA -'5nonitored"...' the meet
daft political rival He sought refuge infest Libya
in Tripoli, and has- been living there r_.The two agencies' hopes of usin mgs-a spook word
buld mean
under Qaddaf's piotection.. f :1 . g Y$ from secretly y b aging the
Wilson. , culminated in the - Rome meetings to having a representative
Among the U.S. officials who met meetings. Barcella's role was. impor- with Wilson July 8-10 was E. Law. - tant:" He arranged for the interna- Present. It chief's job-not sBarcelWs--tmrai e
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rent. Barcella Jr., the assistant U.S. tonal arrest warrant against.Wilson the question of assassination. :!,
attorney who is prosecuting the Wily .to be lifted, temporarily and only for "There is at least a possibility that:
son case. Another was the CIA..'sta-Italy. If the fugitive had tried to go the government, despairing of snag-
tion chief ". in ' Rome, whose name I almost anywhere else, he would have ing Wilson any other way, was trying
,have agreed not-to disclose been pounced upon and extradited to get him either liquidated by Qad-.
The Justice-Department attorney ,to the United States..?;: ij'
and the CIA s daft or smoked out of his Libyan
Aymaster had different r .. After { ikon arrived, in Rome, his refuge by compromising him with an.
reasons for wanting to talk with Wil- `passport was taken from him and assassination discussion. Wilson was-
son. Barcella was hoping to persuade stamped with an expiration date of ; obviously aware of this
to return voluntarily to the Aug 1.: This meant he was- encour he put out a story that tpossibility.-
Wilson Ro United States to clean up the gov- aged to return"to the United States meetings were arranged to discuss
ernment's case against him and oth- by'- that -:time to face;:' federal his offer to blow the whistle on two"
ers, either through a plea bargain or "charges-but . he- boasted . he , would Cuban ~Wd
ves wanted ' the 1976
an agreement. to; tell=what he knew '"use one of& his dozen or more false. assassination o
f Chilean fexile Orlan-
The CIA apparently_hopedto,enlist
_ _i P"rts to go elsewhere ~ , ; a do I,etelier.
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