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...world's most notorious supporter of international terrorism is Libya's mercurial strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. The Reagan Administration is so convinced of the Gaddafi connection with terrorism that last month it ordered Libya's diplomatic mission in Washington to close up shop and leave the U.S. But who is helping to train and arm Gaddafi's terrorists? The astonishing and embarrassing answer: former agents of the Central Intelligence Agency and private U.S. companies that have long supplied the CIA with such tricks of the trade as gun silencers, concealable explosives, delayed-triggering timers and electronic...
...which had long furnished the CIA with classified equipment, agreed to build prototypes for Gaddafi's order. The deal was set at a meeting in a Virginia bar attended by William Weisenburger, then on active duty with the CIA, and another agent working undercover at American Electronic. Libya eventually placed an order for 300,000 timers-far more than needed to blow up any possible number of imagined Israeli mines...
...promised to pay $35 million. They cost only $2.5 million to produce. Explosives to go with the timers were illegally supplied by J.S. Brower & Associates of Pomona, Calif, another CIA contractor. Some 40,000 Ibs. of the high explosive RDX-the largest nonmilitary shipment on record-were flown to Libya in 55-gal. drums marked "industrial solvent." This was a risky enterprise since the drums could have exploded in flight in turbulent weather...
...documents, according to Hersh, disclose that Wilson and Terpil had set up a training program in Libya in "espionage, sabotage and general psychological warfare." It included a laboratory near Tripoli for making assassination bombs disguised as ashtrays, lamps or teakettles. An active CIA agent, Pat Loomis, allegedly helped induce some Green Berets training at Fort Bragg, N.C., to leave the Special Forces and join the Libyan operation as instructors...
Welcome as it is to some oil-importing nations, the weakening price of crude means an abundance of troubles for many oil exporters. Nations like Nigeria, Iran and Libya have year after year pushed the price of crude to ever higher peaks in order to finance ambitious development programs. Now the sagging demand for petroleum is crimping export earnings, cutting into government revenues, and in some cases even beginning to threaten the continuation of many big industrialization projects...