WILSON OFFERED DEAL TO PLEAD GUILTY TO TERRORISM CHARGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09S00048R000100020021-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: August 27, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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~.'r THE WASHINGTON POST
27 August 1982
016
Wilson Off
ered Deal to Plead
Guilty to Terrorism Charges,
By Al Kamen
Washington Post stair writer
Federal prosecutors have offered
former CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson,
held in federal custody on charges of
shipping explosives and providing
terrorist training for Libyan ruler
Muammar Qaddafi, a maximum 15-
year prison term if Wilson pleads
guilty and agrees to cooperate with
the government.
Wilson, 54,.has not accepted that
offer, which apparently was made
shortly after his capture in June in
New York, according to a knowl-
edgeable source.
The details of the offer were un-.
clear, but one source said he under-
stood it involved Wilson's agreeing
to plead to several separate felony
counts that would total a maximum
of 15 years in prison. A 15-year sen-
tence, under federal guidelines,
would mean that Wilson, who faces
more than 50 year; in prison if con-
victed of all charges against him,
would be eligible for parole after
-about nine years.
If Wilson cooperated to the satis-
faction of prosecutors, however, some
.or all those felony sentences could?nin
concurrently, which would mean Wil-
son could be released possibly after-as
little as three years in prison.
Wilson's attorneys have said ;he
was working with the CIA while he
was in Libya, a claim the CIA has re-
peatedly denied. .,i
Prosecutors declined last night * to
confirm or deny that the plea offer
had been made. But one source said
,it was reasonable to assume that ne?
gotiations on a plea began virtually
from the moment Wilson was in-
dicted here in April 1980 on charges
of shipping explosives and timing
devices to Libya, providing trainin
for terrorists for the Libyan govern=
ment and conspiracy to assassinate
an exiled opponent of Qaddafi
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