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...another onetime spook, Frank Terpil, and he is now charged with spinning his contacts and skills into a worldwide web of illegal arms deals and terrorist activities, chiefly for the regime of Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sought by Washington since 1980, Wilson took refuge in a seaside villa in Tripoli, beyond the reach of frustrated U.S. authorities. But last week he got careless, and federal agents managed to ensnare him in an ingenious trap set on three continents...
Wilson passed his time in Tripoli reading history books and watching videotaped adventure films, but he was growing bored. He also was afraid that his life might be in danger, and some of his associates, cooperating with the U.S. Marshals Service, began feeding that fear. Bit by bit, Wilson was persuaded that he would be welcome in the Dominican Republic, where, his associates assured him, the government would grant him asylum...
Convinced that he had another safe haven, Wilson left Tripoli a week ago last Monday for Switzerland, carrying a fake Irish passport in the name of Philip McCormick. What Wilson did not know was that U.S. officials had helped arrange his phony papers and that as soon as he stepped off the plane at Zurich he was being shadowed by a pair of federal marshals. He then flew directly to Madrid, where he boarded Iberia International Airlines flight 945 for Santo Domingo...
...Washington for supplying explosives to Libya, recruiting military personnel to run a training camp for Libyan terrorists and conspiring to kill a Gaddafi opponent living in exile in Egypt. Wilson allegedly hired former American military pilots to fly Libyan planes and helicopters, with some of them taking part in Tripoli's intervention in neighboring Chad in 1980. He is also suspected of peddling sophisticated American electronic equipment to Middle East countries and attempting to sell U.S. computer technology to the Soviet Union. Investigators in Colorado have linked him to a former Green Beret who shot a Libyan student...
...preparation for his June-July vacation period, President Reagan announces he will take the month of May off "to practice." Citing "security reasons," Reagan advisers say the chief executive will spend the vacation in Tripoli. "All their gunmen are fomenting troubles overseas," Edwin Meese says...