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发帖数: 16484 | 1 前CIA高级职员，离职之后利用当年的关系成了军火商，赚成了千万富翁，估计身价有
2300万美元。被指控向利比亚卖武器被判了30多年。据说他从来都没跟CIA断过关系，
被指控是因为上司想抢他的生意。前不久刚死了，估计没法翻案了。
Former CIA Operative Edwin Wilson Dies At 84
by The Associated Press
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SEATTLE September 22, 2012, 09:20 pm ET
SEATTLE (AP) — Edwin Wilson set up front companies abroad for the CIA, made
millions in the arms trade and entertained generals and congressmen at his
sprawling Virginia farm.
His high-powered, jet-setting life in the 1970s and early 1980s followed a
career in the CIA. But it came crashing down when he was branded a traitor
and convicted in 1983 for shipping 20 tons of C-4 plastic explosives to
Libya.
After two decades in prison, Wilson finally got the conviction overturned,
convincing a judge that he had continued to work informally for the agency.
The man who once posed as a rich American businessman abroad spent his final
years living with his brother near Seattle.
Wilson died Sept. 10 from complications from a heart valve replacement
surgery, said Craig Emmick, a director at Columbia Funeral Home in Seattle.
He was 84.
"Our family always supported him and believed in him," his nephew, Scott
Wilson, said Saturday, adding that the biggest part of his uncle's
vindication was "that the label of being a traitor would be taken off."
"He never considered himself a traitor, of course," Wilson added.
Wilson was born May 3, 1928, to a farming family in Nampa, Idaho. He worked
as a merchant seaman, and earned a psychology degree from the University of
Portland in 1953.
He joined the Marines and fought in the last days of the Korean War,
according to his death notice. He went to work for the Central Intelligence
Agency in 1955 after being discharged from the Marines.
Wilson entered the arms trade after leaving the CIA in 1971, according to a
2004 Washington Post article.
"I had a couple of villas that were very, very nice," he told the newspaper
at the time. "I had Pakistani houseboys and I had Libyans working for me,
typing up proposals in Arabic."
In 1982, he was lured out of hiding in Libya and brought to New York for
arrest.
A federal court in Virginia convicted him of exporting firearms to Libya
without permission and sentenced him to 10 years. He was convicted in Texas
in 1983, receiving a 17-year sentence for similar crimes.
A New York court also sentenced him to 25 years, to run consecutively with
the Texas and Virginia sentences, for attempted murder, criminal
solicitation and other charges involving claims that Wilson conspired behind
bars to have witnesses and prosecutors killed.
At trial, Wilson said he made the sales to ingratiate himself with the
Libyan government at the CIA's request. While in prison, Wilson sought to
prove his innocence by using the Freedom of Information Act to request
government documents.
A federal judge threw out the conviction in 2003, saying the government had
failed to correct information about Wilson's service to the CIA that it
admitted internally was false.
Wilson was released in 2004. He filed a civil lawsuit against seven former
federal prosecutors and a former executive director of the CIA, but a judge
in Houston dismissed the case in 2007, according to Seattlepi.com.
"He wanted to try to hold the people accountable that helped put him into
prison," his nephew said. "But he was never bitter." |
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