WILSON GREASED PALMS OF KEY PUBLIC OFFICIALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100140110-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 110
• Publication Date: February 9, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100140110-7
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WASHINGTON POST
9 FEBRUARY 1983
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er movers a aunaar5 wo ne made constant payoffs to a
Palms of Ke knew Wilson, would figure that his variety of Washington undercover
host must be all right policemen, some of whom would
Public Of f ieials 11 1 two high-level officials in come directly to his office, others of
the Carter White House got to know whom we would encounter on late-
With ahabit he developed in the Wison that way. ? night visits to the city's watering
CIA, renegagade ex-agent Edwin P. them may have delayed holes.
able 'lubricate his i- the investigation of Wilson because The former employe said one or
Wilso6 n
was to
licit international business deals by of their fri iahip, of because fed- another of Wilson's people would,
greasing the palms of key officials tars were getting uncom- travel to Geneva and withdraw large
here and abroad. fortably close to Billy Carter's lab- amounts of cash from -Wilson's ac-.
. A former Wilson associate claims Yen shenanig counts there. -
he witnessed payoffs to several mem- June 25, 1981, I reported that Usually, he said, it was two female
bers of Congress. the Justice Department had evi- employes, but he pulled the courier
One was actually bold enough to Bence that Wilson and his parer, duty three times himeekf:
visit Wilson's corporate headquarters another ex-CIA man named Frank. `I flew directly from Geneva to
in Washington, D.C., and pick up TerPil, were "kirown to bribe US.' Montreal and - followed' Ed's careful
envelopes of cash. government oiidals to enhance their instructions. to go through the cub-
On one occasion, -a senator, jro toms line manned by someone wear-
longer in Congress now, accepted a I refereed 3r, a former Energy De- ing a multicolored ` >ribbon,' the
payoff in a Capitol Hill bathroom, ` Partment official who subsequently source recalled.
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relates the source. was convicted of takung illegal gra- `From Montreal -I flew to Dinka
Fearful of discovery, the senator tuities from Wilson. ;; .; - .c : Airport, where a special badge .4-
insisted that he and Wilson's courier Terpll? Leer. told Mike Wallace of naked the safe atoms agent. Ed
crowd into. a _ stall, where the swag the televiaim propsm '60 Minute s":= - seemed to ban the Aght peoplewell
was passed to the sound of a flush- that be and' Wilson lyad bribed mil-'` 'taken care or ~' '.
' ing toilet.' itary ofc , for inside .infa:matioar, . Some of Wison s - secret; rMicit
One thing is certain: that they ?lraad also paid off a State I lines of eommunrcatuoo into the fed-
Wilson knew at least half a dames Department official for help with erak, government, were almost isle-':
members of Congress he felt entitled false p~pceb.'. lievable.
to ask for favors. One former also- A former employe told my aaso- For 'example, without too much
crate said Wilson sometimes paid of - date _Dale Van Atta how Wilson's trouble he could get a full financial ,
his congressional pale by picking aP bribery worloed:` readout on justabout'any American
the salaries of various secretaries. "Ed always carried thot.ends of = taxpayer frcar at treat one contact in
In most cases, the initial contacts dollars in his pocket. He would often : the Internal Revenue Service, whose
were made at Wilson's sprawling' . drsg. me to the bathroom of what-.;:_ On an suppoeedly the most care-
;Vrr 'n-ra agitate. The , coo eseiooal--ever vestataant we were in and hand !till' guarded of any federal ages y.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03: CIA-RDP90-00965R000100140110-7