WILSON, TERPIL AND THE PENTAGON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605840008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: March 8, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEWSWEEK
8 MARCH 1982
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Wilson, Terpil and the Pentagon
The House intelligence committee has evidence indicating that
the Pentagon, not the CIA as has been suspected, might have
established ties with two former CIA men accused of providing
weapons and expertise to train terror teams in Libya in recent years.
The CIA has denied any formal connection with Edwin Wilson and
Frank Terpil during their Libyan operations. Thomas Clines, a
former CIA officer, has told the House investigators that upon
retiring in 1978 he was awarded a secret Defense Department
contract to find information on Soviet weapons sold to Libya and
that he hired as his agent Douglas Schlachter, who was then
working for Wilson in Libya. Clines said he received his contract
from Erich von Marbod, a senior official of the Defense Security
Assistance Agency-a Pentagon office that handles arms sales to
foreign countries but isn't supposed to be involved in intelligence ;
projects. Von Marbod retired last December; associates say that he
took a legitimate medical retirement and left under no cloud.
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