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...simply acting on his own. Thus Tafoya went on trial last week not only for attempted murder but also for conspiracy, although the prosecution is not yet sure who his co-conspirators were. Was he employed by Edwin Wilson, the former CIA agent who is now a fugitive in Tripoli arranging mercenary support for the Libyan armed forces? Was the murder attempt ordered directly by the Libyan government? Did Tafoya have any real connection to the CIA, as he claims, or only with renegade ex-CIA agent Wilson? As these questions are explored at Fort Collins, Colo., during Tafoya...
Zagallai, 35, the son of a former mayor of Tripoli, originally came to the U.S. on a scholarship provided by the Gaddafi regime. But he soon soured on the dictator's repressive policies and became a leader of the anti-Gaddafi dissidents in the U.S., and had been warned by the FBI that he was a prime assassination target. Fortunately for him, the man who called at his apartment pretending to be a corporate recruiter bungled the job. Tafoya, 47, a 23-year veteran of the Army and the Marines, who fought in Viet Nam, fired at Zagallai...
...connection with Wilson is another matter. After the shooting, Tafoya lived for three weeks at a 17th century farm estate in southern England owned by Wilson. His personal papers include the private telephone and telex numbers for Wilson in Tripoli, as well as notes from what appear to be conversations with him. Prosecutors also think that Tafoya is involved in the fire-bombing of a car belonging to one of Wilson's former business associates. In a tape recording seized at Tafoya's house, a man believed to be Tafoya tells a phone caller that he was responsible...
...Inman. Wilson tried to persuade Inman to save Task Force 157 by offering what Inman took to be a bribe; the admiral, offended, immediately decided to abolish the operation. In 1980 Wilson was indicted on charges of illegally shipping explosives to Libya. He has been a fugitive, mainly in Tripoli, since then. In a series of articles over the past five months, the New York Times has described how Wilson and former CIA Colleague Frank Terpil have supplied sophisticated technology and trained personnel to the Libyan armed forces. Much of their business has been aided by former associates...
...crew members on, Libya's Hercules troop transport planes and Chinook military helicopters. Said a State Department spokesman of the activities promoted by the former CIA agents: "We find it reprehensible and against the interest of peace and security." Wilson, operating out of his posh villa in Tripoli, is still actively engaged in providing support for the Libyan military, and the Times quotes some of those involved as saying that Americans have been sustaining Gaddafi's yearlong intervention into neighboring Chad...