#Libya

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Edwin Wilson Edwin P. Wilson was a CIA and DIA officer who supplied weapons, explosives, and training to Libya's Qaddafi, was convicted in 1983 and sentenced to 52 years, and had his conviction overturned in 2003 after the government acknowledged falsely representing his CIA status at trial.
Frank Terpil Frank Terpil was a former CIA Technical Operations officer who partnered with Edwin Wilson to supply arms, explosives, and paramilitary training to Libya's Qaddafi, fled the U.S. rather than face a 1980 federal indictment, and reportedly died in exile in Cuba in 2016.
Ihsan Barbouti Iraqi-born London architect who designed Libya's chemical weapons plant at Rabta, sought nerve gas precursors through an Oklahoma company, held real estate in Texas, and was reported dead on his 63rd birthday in July 1990.
Nelson Bunker Hunt Dallas oilman who lost the Sarir field to Libya, was indicted for wiretapping his father's aides, was found liable for conspiring to corner silver in 1980, and gave 475,000 dollars to Oliver North's Contra fundraisers.

Libya Libya under Muammar Gaddafi was a CIA target for covert destabilization operations throughout the 1980s, a state that financed and trained international terrorist networks, the perpetrator of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, and a node in illicit arms procurement networks that intersect with Iran-Contra and PROMIS subjects in this vault.