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...claims a two-part story in The New York Times Magazine by Seymour Hersh, a former Times reporter and current freelance journalist. His account of Americans putting their pursuit of personal wealth above the national interest has been confirmed in its essential details by TIME correspondents. Hersh's tale of intrigue also raised questions about the Government's attitude toward the export of expertise in terrorism. The Justice Department and the FBI investigated the case seemingly with less than full enthusiasm. The State Department and the CIA. appear unable to stop this peculiar kind of profiteering...
...main source for Hersh's story is Kevin Mulcahy, 38, a former computer and communications expert for the CIA. He left the agency in 1968, worked in electronics and computers, overcame a struggle with alcoholism, and in 1976 was coaxed into the business of exporting high-speed communications and computer gear. His scheming partners in InterTechnology, Inc., were two former CIA undercover agents: Edwin P. Wilson, 52, who had helped to organize the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, and Frank E. Terpil, 41, who had worked overseas for the agency as a communications technician. Wilson, known...
Korry says he refused as a matter of principle. Hersh heatedly denies that he tried to make such a deal, but concedes that he should have re-examined the Korry case sooner. Says he: "I thought he had withheld information from me when I needed it. I probably punished Korry - unconsciously anyway -for not telling me more...
...Hersh called Korry again last November. Says the ex-diplomat: "He asked me to help him with his book. I blew up and asked, 'Why should I?' He mentioned that he now knew everything I had told him was true. I said, 'Put it in writing...
Tell Abe Rosenthal.' I thought that a responsible editor of a responsible paper would want to correct the record." Rosenthal readily authorized the corrective story. Korry, in turn, says that he then provided the information for the Kissinger project that Hersh wanted. Says Korry: "I've always believed in justice...