336:, where he worked full-time for a secret intelligence unit called the Naval Field Operations Support Group (NFOSG) or Task Force 157. Between its inception in 1966 and its termination in 1977, the focus was on acquiring intelligence on Soviet naval activity. However, the unit's remit was wider and later described as “the U.S. military's only network of undercover agents and spies operating abroad using commercial and business 'cover' for their espionage." At this time, Wilson set up another front company—World Marine, Inc.—to assist with his logistics work. Wilson then retired from the ONI in 1976 after events that have been disputed. After a change in commanders, Wilson reportedly appealed to Admiral
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Soviet arms being ferried across the lake to rebels in the Congo; arms to Angola; crowd-control gear to Chile, Brazil and
Venezuela; all kinds of equipment for intelligence-gathering facilities in Iran; supplies for a group of dissident army officers planning a coup in Indonesia; and barges sent to Vietnam. As director of these firms, which were conducted as legitimate businesses, Wilson began to amass a lot of money, but as a contractor, not an employee. He invested in property around the world. In 1971, after 15 years with the CIA, events that have been disputed ended Wilson's official career there. He nevertheless received a year's pay and acquired ownership of some of his front companies.
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trial, he allegedly approached a fellow prisoner and attempted to hire him to kill the federal prosecutors. This prisoner was never questioned by anyone outside the CIA. The prisoner instead went to the authorities and they set Wilson up with an undercover agent. The agent taped Wilson hiring him to kill the prosecutors, six witnesses and his ex-wife. In a subsequent trial, he was sentenced to an added 24 years in jail for conspiracy to murder.
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360:, the infamous terrorist, who was living there. At the time, a strict sanctions regime was in place against Libya and the country was willing to pay a great deal for weapons and material. Wilson stated he began conducting elaborate dealings, and guns and military uniforms were smuggled into the country. Wilson also recruited a group of retired
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He was put on trial four separate times. Before he stood trial, several prosecution witnesses died under suspicious circumstances, including Cuban exile Rafael
Villaverde, who disappeared in a boating accident near the Bahamas after an explosion on his boat, and former CIA agent Kevin P. Mulcahy, who
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plastic explosives. This was a massive quantity that was equal to the entire U.S. domestic stockpile. Most of Wilson's connections were still under the impression that he was working for the CIA and a wide network in the United States supported his actions. The explosives were presumed assembled by a
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requests with the government. Eventually, he found information linked to the memo and hired a new lawyer, David Adler, a former CIA officer who had clearance to view classified documents. Adler spent long hours poring through thousands of files and eventually found 80 incidents where Wilson met on a
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never stood trial as he was a fugitive the rest of his life and died in Cuba in 2016). He was found guilty of exporting guns, including the one used in the Bonn assassination and of shipping the explosives and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the former and 17 years for the latter. While awaiting
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Wilson's defense to the Libyan charges was that he was working at the behest of the CIA. The CIA gave the DOJ an affidavit stating that, after his retirement, he had not been employed directly or indirectly by the agency. The CIA later informed the DOJ that it should not use the affidavit at trial,
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like
Maritime Consulting Associates (1964) and Consultants International (1965), which were used to covertly ship supplies around the world. For example, cargoes included disassembled boats sent to central Africa where they were welded together on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and used to intercept
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Wilson continued to run the businesses he had built under the guidance of the CIA, the largest of which was
Consultants International. He reportedly amassed a fortune of over $ 20 million through these businesses, and continued to offer covert shipping services at the request of the CIA after his
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Another scandal broke out around Wilson when a company he had formed to ship United States military aid to Egypt was convicted of overcharging the United States
Department of Defense by $ 8 million. A partner with Edwin P. Wilson in this company was another former CIA officer, Thomas G. Clines.
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among them—to go to Libya and train its military and intelligence officers. The
Libyans used Wilson's provisions to advance their interests around the world, including training terrorist cells to build explosive devices inside radios. One cell trained by Wilson's operatives was the
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In particular, Barcella, the former
Assistant U.S. Attorney who tracked down Wilson and put him behind bars, pondered the 40,000 pounds of C-4 plastic explosive that Wilson, well schooled by the agency in intrigue and arms dealing, sold to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in
307:(IOD) tackling communism in trade unions around the world. Wilson was involved in attempts to destabilize European labor unions, for example, by using methods as diverse as involving Corsican mobsters and using plagues of cockroaches.
311:"Wilson was on the CIA's payroll, and doing the agency's bidding, all the time he was employed by one of the largest labor unions in the United States as its international representative in Europe. He served as an advance man for
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was also a "silent partner" in this company, though Secord denied this allegation. Nonetheless, Wilson, Clines and
Theodore Shackley (another former CIA officer) were all working together with Secord in the summer of 1984 when
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906:"United States of America vs. Edwin Paul Wilson, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Criminal Case H-82-139, Opinion on Conviction in Ancillary Civil Action H- 97-831"
854:"United States of America vs. Edwin Paul Wilson, Criminal Case H-82-139, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Opinion on Conviction in Ancillary Civil Action H- 97-831"
664:"United States of America vs. Edwin Paul Wilson, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Criminal Case H-82-139, Opinion on Conviction in Ancillary Civil Action H- 97-831"
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On 10 September 2012, Wilson died of complications from heart valve replacement surgery, survived by his sons Karl and Erik, sister Leora
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1459:"Ex-CIA Agent Seeks to Sue Secord, Egyptian President, Others With AM-US-Iran-Contra Rdp"
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Taubman, Philip; Times, Special To the New York (November 1, 1982).
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Manhunt: The Incredible Pursuit of a CIA Agent Turned Terrorist
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command
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1108:"Former CIA agent denies Green Berets train Libyan terrorists"
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The death merchant : the rise and fall of Edwin P. Wilson
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1697:"Former CIA spy branded a traitor wants to clear his name"
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1750:"Edwin Wilson: CIA officer who made millions from spying"
1608:"Black-Edged Legend Is Ended In a Vulgar Miami Bar Brawl"
1241:"Medical Examiner: No foul play in federal witness death"
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1506:"No link seen in death of ex-CIA agent, arms case"
1445:"Ex-CIA Agent Said Working for Cuban Intelligence"
1879:"American Arms Dealer Who Sold To Libya Has Died"
243:(May 3, 1928 – September 10, 2012) was a former
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1361:"Man Of International Intrigue Disappears"
636:"Edwin P. Wilson CIA Operative Dies at 84"
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1574:"FOR KEVIN, A WAY OF LIFE, AND DEATH"
986:Gordon, Michael (February 25, 1987).
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275:. That same year, Wilson joined the
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1995:United States Marine Corps officers
1941:Judge dismisses Wilson's civil case
1695:JOHNSON, TRACY (October 23, 2006).
1375:"Ex-CIA Officer Appeals Conviction"
1078:Eric Margolis (November 10, 2003).
939:. HarperCollins. pp. 133–154.
279:and fought in the last days of the
257:United States Department of Justice
805:Childs, Martin (October 8, 2012).
596:. London: Sidgwick & Jackson.
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1975:CIA agents convicted of crimes
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2005:University of Portland alumni
988:"Libya's A-Bomb Effort Cited"
1012:Keith Plocek (May 3, 2007).
442:Investigation and conviction
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881:Richelson, Jeffrey (2001).
840:via CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)
785:"Obituary: Edwin P. Wilson"
722:"The Spectator in Solitary"
592:Goulden, Joseph C. (1985).
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1985:People from Nampa, Idaho
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755:"Easy Money at the CIA"
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