WILSON TRIAL EVIDENCE WILL 'SHAKE' CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09S00048R000100020030-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: July 22, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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22 JULY 1982
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. A d e f a m e attorney said y e s te y former
CIA agent Edwin Wilson s. trial on charges
of aiding Libyan terrorists will reveal. sew.
tive. biforrsation that "will shake the CIA to.
its faundations and perhaps even the gov-
ernment? itself:'
After a federal fudge refused to alter the
Sm million bail on which Wilson is being
held. &M MW Herald Price Fahringer told
reporters the "explosive" information
conies from Wilson's "ex officio wort with
the CIA overseas" after he left the govern.
meat -
"Our defense will of necessity require us
to divulge, sensitive information that will
shake the CIA to its. foundations, and per.
haps the government itself" Fahringer said.
He declined to describe the information but
said, "It reaches up into some very- high
plate?..
Earlier. Fahringer warned US. District
Judge John Lewis Smith that Wilson's
defense will raise "graymail." a tactic of
threatening to expose secrets so grave that
the government would prefer to drop the;
case. The case would be the first test of a
new federal law designed ? to reduce gray.
'mail-- by' allowing judges to ? examine and
screen such material in dosed sessions.
Fahringer told reporters Wilson had
obtained the information after he left the
CIA in 1970 and after he was fired from a
Navy intelligence task force L-1 the
Mid-1970& The CIA has denied having offi-
cial contact with Wilson after he left
After leaving federal employment. the
government says, Wilson organized 16 con.
suiting businesses in Washington before
moving to Libya just months before he was
indicted here in April 1980. Federal grand
juries are investigating whether Wilson cor-
rupted then-active CIA officersg shipped
C-130 airplane parts to Libya and had any
links to the shooting of a Libyan dissident in
Colorado in 1980.
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Fatuinger pledged to appeal Smith's
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Fahringer told Soaps tfiar Wil had.
Provided se hive intethgenos. information,
to the government while he was in Libya and
had offered to provide more in an effort to
resolve the charges agate hint.
But Assistant-U.1 Attorney Carat Brace
told the judge the government considered
the information which ? Wilson supplied
"worthless, untruthful in Large part and
useless in demonstrating that he would ever
bargain in good faith."
Mss. Bruce said that- if released "Wilson
may attempt to make good on his rather
serious threats against [Assistant . U.S.
Attorney E. Lawrence] Barceila:' chief
prosecutor in the case,
a b
rief, t
In a brief, the government said Wilson;
unaware he was being luredeo his arrest;
plotted Last month in front of an undercover
US. marshal to kill Barceil&-
Fahringer said he would challenge the
legality of the scheme, apparently master.
minded by businessman Ernest R. Keiseia
Securityto ben consultant fbr the National
Dominican Republic, here he Wilson to the
was denied
entry and put on a piano to New York..
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