LAWYERS FOR RENEGADE CIA AGENT EDWIN WILSON HAVE FILED A LAUNDRY LIST OF SUBPOENA REQUESTS SEEKING TESTIMONY AT WILSON`S FORTHCOMING TRIAL
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
2 NOVEMBER 1982
WASHINGTON
STAT
Lawyers for renegade CIA agent Edwin Wilson have filed a laundry list of
subpoena requests seeking testimony at Wilson's forthcoming trial from Egyptian
President Hosini Mubarak and Vice President George Bush as well as from a series
of top intelligence officers, AFL-CIO officials and a White House lawyer.
Wilson, accused of aiding Libya in the training of terrorists, is to stand
trial Nov. 15 in nearby Alexandria, Va., on charges involving the alleged
shipment to Libya of four revolvers and an ?-16. One of the handguns allegedly
was used in the assassination of a Libyan dissident living in Bonn.
Wilson and associate Frank Terpil face a variety of charges involving
training Libyan terrorists and shipping weapons and explosives to Libya in the
late 1970s. Wilson, 54, was lured back into the United States earlier this year.
Terpil remains at large and was last reported seen in Beirut.
Lawyers for Wilson also filed late Monday with U.S. District Court Judge Oren
Lewis a lerthy list of CIA and other documents. Lewis will rule on which
witnesses with flag-rank or Cabinet status will be called and what classified
documents will be allowed. The government's document list was filed in a sealed
envelope.
In adds cn to Mubarak and Bush, who once ran the CIA, those sought by
Wilson's 1=~: ers included Adm. Bobby Inman, former deputy CIA director and
former r. ar --f the super-secret National Security Agency; Maj. Gen. Richard
SEccrd, de uty assistant secretary of defense for Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs, h{_-CIO officials including President Lane Kirkland; several CIA
figures ar Eypt's assistant ,'military attache in Washington.
Also on t.'-he list are White House lawyer Fred Fielding, former presidential
national :verity adviser Richard Allen and his successor, William Clark.
The doc;:~,,,ei;ts defense lawyers Harold Fahringer and John Keats asked for
include all CIA documents dealing with Wilson's collection of intelligence
infor~matio^ in Libya, the Middle East and elsewhere, the ''book cable'' on
Wilson sent to all. CIA stations by Adm. Stansfield Turner, a CIA chief, in
1976 and 177, all`i'nformation on the Glomar Explorer, a vessel involved in an
attempt to salvage a sunken Soviet submarine.,in the Pa:cific..
The two a`tornays said they wanted the AFL-CIO to be asked to provide data on
labor prcblams and information on what was described as Wilson's cooperation ans
work with zhe labor group concerning CIA operations.
They also sought from various agencies any documents on Wilson's relationship
with an intelligence operation known as Task Force 157.
The Defense Department was asked for data on Wilson's collection of
intelligence data in Libya, the Middle East and elsewhere, documents on an arms
pact between the United States and Egupt, and all records on an enterprise
called EATSCO. STAT
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