#Libya
3 entries tagged Libya.
People (2)
- 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.
Places (1)
- 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.