EX-CIA AGENT AND INFORMER MULCAHY IS FOUND DEAD AT VA. MOUNTAIN CABIN

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• Publication Date: October 27, 1982
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ART 7 r..^r..:..:D THE BALTItfi,;?E SUN
27 rOctcber 1962
Ex-CIA
agent and informer Mulcahy
is found ? -
dead at
Va._mountain cabin
By Vernon Guidrv
Washington Bureau of The Sun
Washington - Kevin Mulcahy, the ex-
CIA agent who turned in Edwin Wilson and
other former U.S. spies for allegedly help.
ing Libyan terrorists, was found dead yes-
terday morning on the porch of a tourist
cabin he' had rented in the Shenandoah
Mountains of Virginia.
The body was discovered' slumped
against the front door of the cabin by an-
other resident of the Mountain View Court
Motel at Bowman's Crossing, about 7
miles south of Woodstock off U.S. 11 in
Shenandoah county.
Local authorities said there were no
sigma of injury or foul play. The body was
taken to Fairfax county in the Washington
suburbs for an autopsy, which is expected
today. Federal officials said early reports
did not indicate foul play but that they
were waiting for the medical examiner's
report.
In Washington, the FBI said it was
watching the case to determine if a feder.
al investigation would be necessary. Mr.
Wilson is awaiting trial on a number of
federal charges stemming from his work
for Libya. He was indicted in 1980 along
with another former spy, -Frank Terpil,
who remains at large.
Earlier this year, Rafael Villaverde, a
Cuban who allegedly met with Mr. Wilson
to discuss an assassination plot, was killed
in a boat explosion near Miami. Bahamian
authorities ruled that no foul play was in-
volved.
Mr. Mulcahy, 39, was found minutes af-
ter 8 a.m. and had apparently been dead
for hours, according to Gary Dalton, a
county deputy sheriff. The body was found
between the cabin's screen door and the
locked front door.
Deputy Dalton told the Associated
Press that the FBI had sealed off Mr. Mul-
caby's room. FBI spokesman Roger Young
Sun Graphs
said in Washington that the step was taken
"as a precaution in the event this was in
any way related to the government's in-
vestigations of Wilson and TerpiL"
According to the account given local re-
porters -by other residents of the tourist
court, Mr. Mulcahy's last days appeared to
be filled with bouts of drinking and dis-
turbances. The grim, nighttime finale
came at the cabin's locked door where Mr.
Mulcahy slumped, his wool suit trousers at
his ankles, while rain fell and overnight
temperatures dropped to 34 degrees.
As reporters Tim Justice and Jean
MacCracken of the Northern Virginia
Daily at Strasburg reconstructed events,
Mr. Mulcahy checked into the motel Octo-
ber 20 and by Monday, October 25, motel
operator David Stalker had asked him to
leave because of his drinking.
In one episode, Mr. Mulcahy was said to
have fired a shotgun through a glass door.
In another, be attempted to drive his pick
up truck but repeatedly slumped over on
the steering wheel, sounding the horn and
calling out "David," in a possible refer-
ence to the motel operator.
The body was found by Della Morris, a
permanent resident at the motel.
Last Saturday, Mr. Mulcahy left 'the
motel and returned with a case of what
witnesses said appeared to be bottles of
liquor. -
Mrs. Morris told reporters that Mr.
Mulcahy had a confrontation with the mo=
tel operator and appeared to be "real stag-
gery"
Mr. Mulcahy had a history of problem
drinking. In fact, it was when be appeared
to have overcome the problem in 1976 that
be went to work at $50,000 a year in an ex.
port business run by -Mr. Wilson and Mr.
Terpil.
Mr. Mulcahy discovered their dealings
with the radical regime of Libya's -Col.
Unammar el Kadafi and finally went to
U.S. authorities after becoming convinced
that their actions were not sanctioned by
the CIA that once employed them all.
The dead man was the son of a career
CIA agent. His own CIA career lasted five
years in the mid-60s, when be was an ex-
pert in computers and communications.
An intelligence official who remembers
the younger Mr. Mulcahy says be was good
at technical aspects of his job, but was'too
naive and not good at "agentry." He-re-
signed in 1968 to enter a private electron-
ics business.
Mr. Wilson is being held in lieu Of '460
million bail. He is charged with illegally
shipping explosives to Libya and with oth-
er crimes. Federal prosecutors say be-
de-veloped a terrorist training program -in
Libya, where be lived from 1980 to 1982. -
This summer, the Justice Department
set an international trap that lured Mr.
Wilson to the United States. He was appre-
hended at Kennedy Airport after arriving
in New York via the Dominican Republic.
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