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Libya's immediate reaction to the air clash was relatively mild. The Tripoli government claimed that eight U.S. F-14s had attacked its planes and that one F-14 had been shot down, and at first did not acknowledge the loss of any Libyan aircraft. Colonel Gaddafi, in Aden to sign a political and economic cooperation agreement with the radical regimes of South Yemen and Ethiopia, called for Arab mobilization against the U.S. But his government said that it would take no action against Libya's 2,000 American residents, most of whom are oil-company employees...
...exasperation with Gaddafi had been building for a long time. Using Libya's vast oil wealth, he has fomented unrest throughout the Middle East and black Africa. In December 1979, at the time of the Iranian hostage crisis, a Libyan mob attacked and burned the U.S. embassy in Tripoli. The Carter Administration quarreled sporadically with Gaddafi; it was also embarrassed by Gaddafi's bizarre efforts to cultivate influence in the U.S. through Jimmy Carter's wayward brother Billy...
Thus Mulcahy was not alarmed when his two partners told him that they planned to visit Gaddafi in Tripoli. One reason: Wilson, in Mulcahy's presence, had told Theodore G. Shackley, then an assistant to the CIA's highest clandestine operations official, about the trip. Gaddafi wanted to buy thousands of tuners that could set off explosives at a specified hour, ostensibly to clear Israeli mines left from the October War of 1973-even though there is no evidence that any such mines were in Libyan waters or territory...
...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...
...into hiding under assumed names. It took until April 1980, nearly four years after Mulcahy talked, for Wilson and Terpil to be finally charged with conspiring to sell explosives to Libya and to commit murder. Both are fugitives overseas and federal investigators believe they are still training terrorists in Tripoli. Their work pays well. They have bought more than $5 million worth of real estate in the U.S. and England...