RENEGADE AGENT MAY HAVE BUGGED ARMY MEETINGS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100100039-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: October 14, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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May- have Bugged.'. Kincannon insists that the Wilson worked in the contracts section' of
contract was "to sell obsolete eic ui -
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THE WASHINGTON POST
14 October 1981
month in consultant fees, peanuts to The key participant,'though; a~a
ieje e a $7, billion-a-year. company like a Pentag
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1 meat to Third World'countries" and some discussion, he-aa eed to?carty'i.;
y 8 nothing else. But Mulcahy has told
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iny transmitter into his office and
investigators that the
point of, the . meetings. He insisted: that tlte"?liig'I
A federal-'grand jury is looking contract was. to' get inside informs must be hidden. either, in his brief-"!
into allegations that renegade CIA .. tion on the `Army's bidding; and pro case or in his glasses;
agent Edwin Wilson may have- curement plans. This was .to be :ac= After the meeting, Wilson' `sid" I
bugged meetings of the Army Ma- complished with-bugging devices kick: and'. .fellow' fugitive,`.:'-'6'x'-CIA!!
teriel.Command to get information The "consulting agreement" itself,
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or Control Data Corp., one of the obtained by my associate Dale Van': agent rank Terpil, arranged for t1
world's biggest computer firms. V Atta, describes Wilson's job in a sin- purchase of custom-made trarisrriit=~
ter crystals through aYugoslav c n-!
A corporate executive admits hav- gle sentence;. "Performance of work
in London named Iva:. The twos
ing met with Wilson and hired him ` -shall include consultin services .:n tact
g -?.,. of them had ? done some electronli+'
as a consultant, but denies the com-t r the area of Department 'of Defense
pany.requested or knew about an eavesdropping .for the Playboy. Cliib
y programs." No mention of dumping there to make sure dealers. in:'the7
bugging of the Army's procurement: old computers -on Third World na- casino weren't skimming e, d th
arm. Control Data's vice president' tions. ? : e house'a
ing, (Terpil also.. discussed 'with
for government and military market-?- ' In= raid-July, Mulcahy: says, Wil-
ing, L. Taylor Kincannon, said the; son ordered him to bill-Control Data.. Playboy officials a plan to:construdi
purpose of hiring Wilson was to use = When Mulcahy observed that they a floating casino off Bahrain. -Rich
his "great contacts". to unload some- .:'hadn't done 'anything to' sell the Arabs would . be transported to the;
outdated computers on Third World company's computers, Wilson said emporium in speedboats.)
countries. they had indeed, they were about to ' Control Data's contract with _Will
Wilson and Kincannon were bug the Materiel Command for:the' son was finally terminated"in'April;
brought together at lunch on May company He sent Mulcahy to a 1979, after the company had .paid.,
.12, 1976, by Paul Cyr, a former meeting where the bugging wvas to be him at least $43,000 but closer toa
Army Materiel Command official. arranged. - .:. $100,000. Kincannon acknowledges} i
Also present was Wilson's assistant, The meeting took place- in'=thethat." Wilson "never generated .any:.
Kevin Mulcahy, who has become a Texaco station at Bailey's Cross- V business" for the:: company, which
witness for the prosecution.' . roads, a few miles' from Washington "never sold any .equipment through
~?
According to notes of the .fun in suburban Virginia, at .7:30 a.m. --him" Wilson was "very ciose.to.sell-__,i
`? cheon meeting, -.Kincannon agreed V The gas station proprietor's .brother,' `ing one terminal that we had,'' said
"to secure and forward inventory of Douglas. Schlachter,. was, in:=charges Kincannon, who blames himself only.
surplus Control Data hardware avail- . (He. has since been. secretly indicted =for, keeping such""an. urproductiverl
able for immediate sale." Wilson was in another Wilson caper. and is hid- consultant on the paroll for_three?
to be. paid a minimum of $1,200 a ing out in Burundi.) years.
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