Edwin P. Wilson#Arms for Libya controversy

Edwin P. Wilson was born to a poor farming family in Nampa, Idaho, in 1928. He first worked as a merchant seaman. In 1953, Wilson earned a psychology degree from the University of Portland.{{cite news |date= June 22, 2004 |page=C01 |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59212-2004Jun21.html|title = International Man of Mystery|newspaper = Washington Post| accessdate = June 9, 2018 | first=Peter | last=Carlson}}{{cite magazine |date= June 15, 1987 |url = http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964688,00.html|title = The Spectator in Solitary|magazine = Time| accessdate = February 3, 2014 | first=Frank | last=Trippett}} That same year, Wilson joined the Marines and fought in the last days of the Korean War. He was said to have been impressive during his military service and, when he was discharged in 1956 for a knee injury, went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency.{{cite news |date=April 27, 1986 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/27/books/easy-money-at-the-cia.html?pagewanted=1|title = Easy Money at the CIA |newspaper =The New York Times| accessdate = February 5, 2014 | last=Powers | first=Thomas}}

Wilson's first assignments were for the Office of Security; this included a stint in 1956 guarding U-2 spy planes in Turkey. In 1960, the Agency sent him to Cornell University for graduate studies in labor relations. He put this and his knowledge of psychology to use in the Agency's International Organizations Division (IOD) tackling communism in trade unions around the world. Wilson was involved in attempts to destabilize European labor unions, for example, by using methods as diverse as involving Corsican mobsters and using plagues of cockroaches.{{cite news |date=September 29, 2012 |page=98 |url = http://www.economist.com/node/21563687 |title =Obituary: Edwin P. Wilson |newspaper=The Economist|volume=404|number=8804}}{{cite news |date= October 8, 2012 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edwin-wilson-cia-officer-who-made-millions-from-spying-8200980.html|title = Edwin Wilson: CIA officer who made millions from spying |newspaper =The Independent | accessdate = February 5, 2014 | last=Childs | first=Martin}}

"Wilson was on the CIA's payroll, and doing the agency's bidding, all the time he was employed by one of the largest labor unions in the United States as its international representative in Europe. He served as an advance man for Hubert H. Humphrey in the 1964 campaign, thus playing an active role in partisan politics, while still working for the CIA."{{cite news |title=Edwin Wilson Has Ace in the Hole: Testimony |url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-00965r000100150082-8 |newspaper=WASHINGTON POST |date=28 June 1982 |quote=via CIA FOIA (foia.cia.gov)}}

However, Wilson's most valuable time for the CIA was in Special Operations Division (SOD) setting up front companies like Maritime Consulting Associates (1964) and Consultants International (1965), which were used to covertly ship supplies around the world. For example, cargoes included disassembled boats sent to central Africa where they were welded together on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and used to intercept Soviet arms being ferried across the lake to rebels in the Congo; arms to Angola; crowd-control gear to Chile, Brazil and Venezuela; all kinds of equipment for intelligence-gathering facilities in Iran; supplies for a group of dissident army officers planning a coup in Indonesia; and barges sent to Vietnam. As director of these firms, which were conducted as legitimate businesses, Wilson began to amass a lot of money, but as a contractor, not an employee. He invested in property around the world. In 1971, after 15 years with the CIA, events that have been disputed ended Wilson's official career there. He nevertheless received a year's pay and acquired ownership of some of his front companies.

In 1971, with the CIA's knowledge and approval, Wilson moved to the Office of Naval Intelligence, where he worked full-time for a secret intelligence unit called the Naval Field Operations Support Group (NFOSG) or Task Force 157. Between its inception in 1966 and its termination in 1977, the focus was on acquiring intelligence on Soviet naval activity. However, the unit's remit was wider and later described as “the U.S. military's only network of undercover agents and spies operating abroad using commercial and business 'cover' for their espionage."{{cite web |date= October 27, 2003 |page=2 |url = https://fas.org/sgp/jud/wilson102703.pdf|title = United States of America vs. Edwin Paul Wilson, Criminal Case H-82-139, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Opinion on Conviction in Ancillary Civil Action H- 97-831 |publisher = fas.org| accessdate = February 5, 2014 | last=Hughes | first=Lynn}}{{cite web |year=2001 |url = http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB46/|title = The Pentagon's Spies, Documents Detail Histories of Once Secret Spy Units, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 46 |publisher = National Security Archive| accessdate = February 5, 2014 | last=Richelson |first=Jeffrey}} At this time, Wilson set up another front company—World Marine, Inc.—to assist with his logistics work. Wilson then retired from the ONI in 1976 after events that have been disputed. After a change in commanders, Wilson reportedly appealed to Admiral Bobby Inman, the Director of Naval Intelligence, offering his influence in Congress to the ONI's budget troubles if he, Wilson, could be made chief of Task Force 157. Allegedly outraged, Inman shut down Task Force 157 altogether and reported Wilson to the FBI. However, other calculations may have been in play.

Wilson continued to run the businesses he had built under the guidance of the CIA, the largest of which was Consultants International. He reportedly amassed a fortune of over $20 million through these businesses, and continued to offer covert shipping services at the request of the CIA after his official retirement.{{cite web |date= October 27, 2003|page=17 |url = https://fas.org/sgp/jud/wilson102703.pdf|title = United States of America vs. Edwin Paul Wilson, United States District Court, Southern District of Texas, Criminal Case H-82-139, Opinion on Conviction in Ancillary Civil Action H- 97-831|publisher = fas.org| accessdate = February 5, 2014 | last=Hughes | first=Lynn}}

In the 1970s, he became involved in dealings with Libya. Wilson claimed that a high-ranking CIA official Theodore "Blond Ghost" Shackley asked him to go to Libya to keep an eye on Carlos the Jackal, the infamous terrorist, who was living there. At the time, a strict sanctions regime was in place against Libya and the country was willing to pay a great deal for weapons and material. Wilson stated he began conducting elaborate dealings, and guns and military uniforms were smuggled into the country. Wilson also recruited a group of retired Green Berets—decorated Vietnam veteran Billy Waugh among them{{Cite book |last1=Waugh |first1=Billy |authorlink1=Billy Waugh|author2=Tim Keown |title =Hunting the Jackal | publisher =HarperCollins | year =2005 | pages =133–154|isbn=978-0-06-056410-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ec61KzqOkQ8C}}—to go to Libya and train its military and intelligence officers. The Libyans used Wilson's provisions to advance their interests around the world, including training terrorist cells to build explosive devices inside radios.{{cn|date=February 2023}} One cell trained by Wilson's operatives was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC) under the command of Ahmad Jibril.{{cn|date=February 2023}} Jibril was suspected of being behind the bombing of Pan Am 103 in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. In 1979, a gun that Wilson had arranged to be delivered to the Libyan embassy in Bonn was used to assassinate a prominent dissident.{{cn|date=February 2023}} The next year, one of the Green Berets attempted to assassinate another dissident in Colorado.{{cn|date=February 2023}} Wilson states that he regrets these incidents and had no prior knowledge of them. He claimed that he was still working for the CIA despite the government's continued denials, and that his supplying of weapon to the Libyans was an attempt to get close to them and gain valuable intelligence.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/9574988/Edwin-Wilson.html |title=Edwin Wilson |newspaper=Telegraph| date=September 28, 2012 |accessdate=October 15, 2012}} This included attempts at gathering information on the Libyan nuclear program.{{cite news |date=February 25, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/25/obituaries/libya-s-a-bomb-effort-cited.html |title=Libya's A-Bomb Effort Cited |newspaper=The New York Times|last=Gordon |first=Michael |accessdate=February 5, 2014}}

The most dramatic deal, and the one that brought Wilson to the attention of the U.S. government, was for some twenty tons of military-grade C-4 plastic explosives.{{cite web |date=May 3, 2007|url = http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-05-03/news/spy-stories/full|title = Spy Stories|publisher = houstonpress| accessdate = June 8, 2008 | last=Keith Plocek |quote=In particular, Barcella, the former Assistant U.S. Attorney who tracked down Wilson and put him behind bars, pondered the 40,000 pounds of C-4 plastic explosive that Wilson, well schooled by the agency in intrigue and arms dealing, sold to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 1977}} This was a massive quantity that was equal to the entire U.S. domestic stockpile.{{Failed verification|date=June 2018}} Most of Wilson's connections were still under the impression that he was working for the CIA and a wide network in the United States supported his actions. The explosives were presumed assembled by a California company and hidden in barrels of oil drilling mud. They were presumed flown to Libya aboard a chartered jet.{{By whom?|date=February 2023}}{{cn|date=February 2023}}

Another scandal broke out around Wilson when a company he had formed to ship United States military aid to Egypt was convicted of overcharging the United States Department of Defense by $8 million.{{cite book|author1=Jane Mayer|authorlink1=Jane Mayer|author2=Doyle McManus|authorlink2=Doyle McManus|title=Landslide: the unmaking of the President, 1984-1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wn2uAAAAIAAJ&q=overcharging|year=1988|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|location=Boston|isbn=978-0-395-45185-4|page=142}} A partner with Edwin P. Wilson in this company was another former CIA officer, Thomas G. Clines. Wilson also maintained that Major General Richard V. Secord was also a "silent partner" in this company, though Secord denied this allegation. Nonetheless, Wilson, Clines and Theodore Shackley (another former CIA officer) were all working together with Secord in the summer of 1984 when Oliver North approached Secord to ask for help in buying arms for the Contras, a group of armed rebels then trying to overturn the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

After a lengthy investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (then part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury), Wilson was indicted by the U.S. Justice Department for firearms and explosives violations. However, he was in Libya, which would not extradite him. Wilson was very unhappy in Libya, the Libyans were suspicious of him, and he feared for his safety. The prosecutors, led by Lawrence Barcella, knew this and they sent a con-person with links to the CIA named Ernest Keiser to convince Wilson that he would be safe in the Dominican Republic.{{cite web|title=Edwin Wilson: America's Man in the Iron Mask|date=November 10, 2003|url=http://www.bigeye.com/111003.htm|publisher=ericmargolis|accessdate=September 29, 2011|author=Eric Margolis|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305005547/http://www.bigeye.com/111003.htm|archive-date=March 5, 2016|url-status=dead}}{{Failed verification|date=February 2023}} Wilson flew to the Caribbean, but upon arrival was arrested and flown to New York.

He was put on trial four separate times.

• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/08/27/Former-CIA-agent-denies-Green-Berets-train-Libyan-terrorists/8336367732800/|title=Former CIA agent denies Green Berets train Libyan terrorists|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/10/12/Pa-man-key-witness-in-CIA-Libyan-case-report-says/5740371707200/|title=Pa. man key witness in CIA-Libyan case, report says|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/11/09/The-CIA-said-Monday-it-categorically-denies-allegations-that/3119374130000/|title=The CIA said Monday it 'categorically denies' allegations that...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/11/25/Tafoya-claims-he-worked-for-CIA-under-Edwin-Wilson/2135375512400/|title=Tafoya claims he worked for CIA under Edwin Wilson|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/01/07/A-former-aide-to-ex-CIA-agent-Edwin-Wilson-has/8056379227600/|title=A former aide to ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson has...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/02/12/A-former-employee-of-fugitive-ex-CIA-agent-Edwin-Wilson/1562382338000/|title=A former employee of fugitive ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/22/A-federal-judge-heeding-warnings-that-Edwin-Wilson-might/2878396158400/|title=A federal judge, heeding warnings that Edwin Wilson might...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/11/02/Lawyers-for-renegade-CIA-agent-Edwin-Wilson-have-filed/4764405061200/|title=Lawyers for renegade CIA agent Edwin Wilson have filed...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/11/13/The-first-trial-of-ex-CIA-agent-Edwin-Wilson-accused/5941406011600/|title=The first trial of ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson, accused...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/11/15/CIA-renegade-Edwin-Wilson-went-on-trial-Monday-with/8865406184400/|title=CIA renegade Edwin Wilson went on trial Monday, with...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/11/19/Medical-Examiner-No-foul-play-in-federal-witness-death/2900406530000/|title=Medical Examiner: No foul play in federal witness death|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/01/29/A-former-employee-of-ex-CIA-agent-Edwin-Wilson-testified/1490412664400/|title=A former employee of ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson testified...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/02/05/UPI-NEWS-AT-A-GLANCE/1475413269200/|title=UPI NEWS AT A GLANCE|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/02/16/Former-CIA-agent-Edwin-Wilson-and-his-son-Erik/1833414219600/|title=Former CIA agent Edwin Wilson and his son, Erik,...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/04/21/In-a-story-carried-by-UPI-Wednesday-the-Justice/8424419749200/|title=In a story carried by UPI Wednesday, the Justice...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/03/Edwin-Wilson-the-former-CIA-agent-twice-convicted-of/1385434001600/|title=Edwin Wilson, the former CIA agent twice convicted of...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/02/09/CIA-agent-or-con-man/7440476773200/|title=CIA agent or con man?|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/04/16/A-convicted-swindler-who-lured-CIA-agent-Edwin-Wilson/1977482475600/|title=A convicted swindler who lured CIA agent Edwin Wilson...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/08/12/Edwin-Wilson-an-ex-CIA-agent-serving-time-for-arms/5896555739200/|title=Edwin Wilson, an ex-CIA agent serving time for arms...|website=United Press International}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/dedef750ce434b3ec7360d33a446ee59|title=Man Of International Intrigue Disappears|website=Associated Press}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/a85009de2823473183f131073f189f24|title=Ex-CIA Officer Appeals Conviction|website=Associated Press}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/1bd94e3c65c5b1ddda172bdb0759c8f9|title=Former CIA Employee Says He Worked for Secord, Arranged North Security|website=Associated Press}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/2cc0287b56641d3a0bdfcf32a0855efc|title=TODAY'S TOPIC: Man of Intrigue Disappears|website=Associated Press}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/549ca7187e894fc4acff0878c38bb066|title=Conference in Santa Fe offers glimpse inside America's covert history|date=2018-10-14|website=Associated Press}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/88579aba3f8209f4234868be7a0f554f|title=Judge Talked of Government Link in Civil Lawsuit of Ex-CIA Agent Clines|website=Associated Press}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/320ddbf15b44c16d7bb4b6396a24f539|title=Ex-CIA Agent Said Working for Cuban Intelligence|website=Associated Press}}
• {{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/f0738f545222aecb07d1249008d9eeeb|title=Ex-CIA Agent Seeks to Sue Secord, Egyptian President, Others With AM-US-Iran-Contra Rdp|website=Associated Press}}

Before he stood trial, several prosecution witnesses died under suspicious circumstances, including Cuban exile Rafael Villaverde, who disappeared in a boating accident near the Bahamas after an explosion on his boat, and former CIA agent Kevin P. Mulcahy, who had worked for Wilson and blown the whistle to the government.{{Cite web |title=Medical Examiner: No foul play in federal witness death - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/11/19/Medical-Examiner-No-foul-play-in-federal-witness-death/2900406530000/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=UPI |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=No link seen in death of ex-CIA agent, arms case |work=Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/1028/102814.html |access-date=2023-02-01 |issn=0882-7729}}{{Cite news |last1=Taubman |first1=Philip |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=1982-10-27 |title=KEY WITNESS IN TRIAL OF FORMER SPY IS FOUND DEAD |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/27/us/key-witness-in-trial-of-former-spy-is-found-dead.html |access-date=2023-02-01 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last1=Taubman |first1=Philip |last2=Times |first2=Special To the New York |date=1982-11-01 |title=FOR KEVIN, A WAY OF LIFE, AND DEATH |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/01/us/for-kevin-a-way-of-life-and-death.html |access-date=2023-02-01 |issn=0362-4331}} Wilson's friend Ricardo Morales, a longtime nemesis of Villaverde in the Cuban exile community, would die in a bar fight in December 1983.{{Cite news |last=Cody |first=Edward |date=1983-02-06 |title=Black-Edged Legend Is Ended In a Vulgar Miami Bar Brawl |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/02/06/black-edged-legend-is-ended-in-a-vulgar-miami-bar-brawl/c68a6bc5-c37a-449d-91da-ad023b6e1168/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |issn=0190-8286}}

Wilson was found not guilty of trying to hire a group of Cuban exiles to kill Libyan dissident Umar Muhayshi (his co-defendant Frank Terpil never stood trial as he was a fugitive the rest of his life and died in Cuba in 2016).{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Philip |date=1983-03-05 |title=Jury Acquits Wilson of Plot To Kill Libyan |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/03/05/jury-acquits-wilson-of-plot-to-kill-libyan/1886fd8e-5519-4ef8-a299-f314de929778/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |issn=0190-8286}} He was found guilty of exporting guns, including the one used in the Bonn assassination and of shipping the explosives and sentenced to 15 years in prison for the former and 17 years for the latter. While awaiting trial, he allegedly approached a fellow prisoner and attempted to hire him to kill the federal prosecutors. This prisoner was never questioned by anyone outside the CIA.{{cn|date=February 2023}} The prisoner instead went to the authorities and they set Wilson up with an undercover agent. The agent taped Wilson hiring him to kill the prosecutors, six witnesses and his ex-wife. In a subsequent trial, he was sentenced to an added 24 years in jail for conspiracy to murder.

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Wilson's defense to the Libyan charges was that he was working at the behest of the CIA. The CIA gave the DOJ an affidavit stating that, after his retirement, he had not been employed directly or indirectly by the agency. The CIA later informed the DOJ that it should not use the affidavit at trial, but the prosecutor Ted Greenberg decided to use it anyway.

While in prison, Wilson campaigned vigorously for his innocence and repeatedly filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the government. Eventually, he found information linked to the memo and hired a new lawyer, David Adler, a former CIA officer who had clearance to view classified documents. Adler spent long hours poring through thousands of files and eventually found 80 incidents where Wilson met on a professional basis with the CIA and proof that the CIA had indirectly used Wilson after his retirement.

In October 2003, by U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes, overturning his conviction on the explosives charge, found that U.S. Justice Department prosecutors knew Wilson had worked for the CIA. Wilson was released from prison on September 14, 2004, after being incarcerated for 22 years. Over 12 of those years were in solitary confinement.

Wilson filed a civil suit against seven former federal prosecutors, two of whom are now federal judges, and a past executive director of the CIA.{{cite news |last1=JOHNSON |first1=TRACY |title=Former CIA spy branded a traitor wants to clear his name |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Former-CIA-spy-branded-a-traitor-wants-to-clear-1217855.php |work=seattlepi.com |date=23 October 2006}} On March 29, 2007, U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal dismissed his case on the ground that all eight had immunity covering their actions.

After his 2004 release from prison, Wilson moved north of Seattle to live with his brother.{{cite web |title=Edwin P. Wilson, former CIA spy, dies at 84 |url=https://theworld.org/stories/2012-09-22/edwin-p-wilson-former-cia-spy-dies-84 |website=The World |publisher=PRX |language=en |date=September 22, 2012}}

On 10 September 2012, Wilson died of complications from heart valve replacement surgery, survived by his sons Karl and Erik,{{cite news |title=Former CIA agent Edwin Wilson and his son, Erik,... |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/02/16/Former-CIA-agent-Edwin-Wilson-and-his-son-Erik/1833414219600/ |work=UPI |language=en}} sister Leora Pinkston and girlfriend Cate Callahan.{{cite news |title=Ex-CIA man Edwin Wilson, jailed for selling arms to Libya, dies |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-edwinwilson/ex-cia-man-edwin-wilson-jailed-for-selling-arms-to-libya-dies-idUSBRE88M00R20120923 |work=Reuters |date=23 September 2012 |language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edwin-wilson-cia-officer-who-made-millions-from-spying-8200980.html|title=Edwin Wilson: CIA officer who made millions from spying|date=2012-10-07|website=The Independent}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/edwin-p-wilson-disgraced-ex-cia-operative-dies-at-84/|title=Edwin P. Wilson, disgraced ex-CIA operative, dies at 84|first=Douglas|last=Martin|date=2012-09-22|website=The Seattle Times}}{{cite news |last1=Langer |first1=Emily |last2=Weil |first2=Martin |title=Edwin P. Wilson dies; former CIA operative and arms dealer was 84 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edwin-p-wilson-dies-former-cia-operative-and-arms-dealer-was-84/2012/09/23/4c26e8fc-0519-11e2-8102-ebee9c66e190_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |date=23 September 2012}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/us/edwin-p-wilson-cia-operative-with-cloak-and-dagger-life-dies-at-84.html|title=Edwin P. Wilson, the Spy Who Lived It Up, Dies at 84|first=Douglas|last=Martin|newspaper=The New York Times |date=2012-09-22}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/sep/22/former-cia-operative-edwin-wilson-dies-at-84/|title=Former CIA operative Edwin Wilson dies at 84 |website=The Spokesman-Revie}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3452|title=Edwin Wilson |website=National Registry of Exonerations}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2012-sep-23-la-me-edwin-wilson-20120923-story.html|title=Edwin Wilson dies at 84; former CIA operative|date=2012-09-23|website=Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/09/24/161706694/american-arms-dealer-who-sold-to-libya-has-died|title=American Arms Dealer Who Sold To Libya Has Died|website=NPR.org }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2012/09/29/edwin-p-wilson|title=Edwin P. Wilson|newspaper=The Economist}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/edwin.htm|title=Edwin Wilson, CIA|website=edward jay epstein}}

• {{Cite book | last = Peter Maas| authorlink = Peter Maas| title = Manhunt: The Incredible Pursuit of a CIA Agent Turned Terrorist| year = 2002 | publisher = I Books| isbn= 0743452682|page= 320}}
• {{cite book |last1=Goulden |first1=Joseph C. |title=The death merchant : the rise and fall of Edwin P. Wilson |date=1985 |publisher=Sidgwick & Jackson |location=London |isbn=978-0283992131}}
• Danny Casolaro's research at the Missouri State Historical Society

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• [https://fas.org/sgp/jud/wilson102703.pdf Opinion on Conviction (PDF) US District Judges opinion on the Wilson Conviction]
• [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/309675_spy30.html Judge dismisses Wilson's civil case]
• [http://justicedenied.org/issue/issue_24/jd_issue_24.pdf justice denied article]

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