WILSON SAYS HE WORKED FOR CIA IN LIBYA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 11, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
11 August 1982
Wilson. Says He Worked. for
By Al Kamen Wilson's lawyers, asking the appeals
..,Former CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson,.. Wilson, who- now : isT in federal custody,
charged with exporting explosives and said "a crucial ;fact. this court should take
gaining terrorists for Libyan ruler Muam- .::?into, _consideration .~.`is.. that Wilson's
far Qaddafi, said yesterday that be was . defense. that -he-was working with the
-working with the CIA and supplying it
information while he was in Libya. .
Several Wilson associates have claimed
;\Vilson's operation in Libya was CIA-
:sponsored. The agency consistently has
denied that claim, and a spokesman yes-
;terday again denied that Wilson worked
for the CIA while in Libya.
Wilson's statements filed in U.S. Court
.of Appeals here yesterday are the first
time that he has said publicly that he
.was working with the CIA. While he was
still in Libya, he told news reporters that
he did not work for the CIA.
CIA while in Libya" would bar his return
there.
His lawyers,. Herald ;Price" Fahringer
and John-,A-Keats, argued that "the saf-
est place for Edwin Wilson to remain is
in the United States."
Wilson did not come back to the Unit-
ed States -after his 'indictment, his law-
yers said in their brief, *bemuse he was
"in a key position to gain information for
the government and that remaining in
place would be useful in supplying them
that vital information."
The lawyers wrote that - Wilson "was
CIA in Libya
gathering the kind -of information they
[government officials] were interested in
and that is why no efforts were immedi-
ately made to return him to the United
States. The government was content with
the arrangements that were extant."
Sources said Wilson has claimed that :
after his indictment ben in April 1980,
he gave information to the CIA regarding'
Libyan efforts to acquire a nuclear bomb.
He has also argued that he gave informa-
tion to prosecutors at a meeting in Rome
in July 1981, regarding illegal aircraft
parts shipments to Libya and the where-
abouts of two fugitives wanted in connec-' `,
tion with the 1976 assassination of
Chilean Orlando Letelier.
Prosecutors have categorized Wilson's
information as worthless or simply de-
signed to harm business competitors.
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