RECRUITING AMERICANS TO AID QADDAFI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100760011-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 29, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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he supplied high explosives for terror- Wilson's attorney and employed: at
Aid ? `~ ~ ist. use at an inflated price and ille- least one of Wilson's associates. "
Perhaps the rnodt disturbing feature gay shipped those explosives to. According to secret government
of the Edwin Wilson-Frank.-Terpil"-: Libya and Uganda." files, Cappucci told investigators'that
arms-dealing.- and terrorist-training Brower also supplied the experts `Wilson had lent him the money .to
story is the ease with which,tlmencan who taught his customers how to use start his business..
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their deadly merchandise, the- memo ' In May, 1978, investigators for the:
businessmen, former-.CIA. agents and _
military specialists were recruited, to said. After initially lying about his in- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire
work for the likes of Libyan dictator, evolvement, Brower finally copped a arms were told by an informant-that
Muammar Qaddafi plea. He was fined $5,000 and ordered one of Cappuccfs employes was"twine
Dozens of American experts _in the: to serve. four months -of a - five-year to obtain a large quantity of' rms' for'
dark arts s Ilingly went to work for prison term. export to Libya
the power-mad Libyan w h e --has - In addition, to the patriotic and the Cappucci denied that'the man
turned his country into :a refuge. and--'., greedy,. there were some who were question had ever worked for hii*-:He?
.training camp for assassins, hijackers,.- used by Wilson and Terpil for the denied involvement in any.: forei
and other scum of the earth. How prestige they added` to their opera- arms shipments,' and,- in particular
could they do it? tione. One of these was -retired Air denied the informant's clauni_..that
has Force Brig. Gen. Joseph Cappucci, a Cappucci himself had discussed arms
My associate Dale Vfan Aft*
been chasing the Wilson Terpi! story decorated veteran of World War R for Libya with a munitions maker in
for 10 months and has learned that _y and an acknowledged expert in coup- Springfield, Mass.
surprising as it seems, some Amen- cterintelligence and security. He served The federal investigators could find'
caps joined- up for patriotic motives: as head of the Air Force Office of "no ... evidence of criminal. activity.
They honestly believed they were part Special Investigations and as director by Cappucci," and finally dropped the
of a super-secret CIA operation. In
of the Defense Investigative Service. case. They zeroed in 'on Wilson an
fact, CIA involvement cannot be ruled.
" [Wilson] specialized in recruit- eventually got the indictments a ainst
out, though hard evidence is on-Tee ing senior military officers for their the Wilson-Terpil gang.
But for most of the simple Te greedrpil..
gang, the motive was simple :. corm ,";explained Kevin Mulcahy, a Cappucci says his experience with
One such was Jerome S. Brower of_ onetime associate turned government Wilson has taught him a Iessoit
Pomona, Calif. Here's what a classi- witness. He pointed out that Wilson Check out thoroughly anyone ? ? with
fled Treasury Department memoran-' "had dozens of companies, and "about whom he has business dealings:: H
dum had to say about'Brower, whom. 90 deals out of 100 were perfectly le- said he wised up when he "sfiarted
it recommended be indicted: timate,.while the others were sleazy." hearing incredible stories about.[ % -
"[He] is licensed as a manufacturei? After meeting Wilson, Cappucci had son] - so I stayed the hell away front
of explosives.. ..,He is president o?,,_ shim checked out with some; intelli- : - him." . r - t -
THE WASHINGTON POST
29 June 1981
the International Society of Explosives gence contacts, Unfortunately,:"the
and he has an extensive word came back that Wilson %va's OK:
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of support and assistance to So Cappucci headquartered his pri-
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federal, state and local law enforce- -vate security business in a Washing-
ton townhouse owned by Wilson, used
with knowledge and intent
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