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Subject: CIA arms dealer framed by Justice Department ?
From: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ">[EMAIL PROTECTED] </A> (E Right)
Date: Wed, 19 January 2000 11:05 AM EST
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CIA arms dealer framed by Justice Department
"I'm not surprised that a federal prosecutor introduces false evidence,
and anyone who is surprised just has no understanding of what the criminal
justice system is like," David Adler, Wilson lawyer and a former CIA
officer, said Tuesday. "What is surprising is how well the Justice
Department and the CIA documented their efforts to conceal the lie." - AP
ARTICLE:
HOUSTON (AP 1/18/00) - The Justice Department acknowledged in a court
filing made public Tuesday that the lead prosecutor in the 1983
arms-dealing case against former CIA officer Edwin P. Wilson introduced
testimony about Wilson's post-agency activities he knew was not correct,
despite warnings from CIA lawyers about its accuracy.
The revelation comes in the government's response to Wilson's Sept. 8
appeal of that conviction, which was for shipping 20 tons of C-4 plastic
explosives from Houston's Intercontinental Airport to Libya.
Wilson's defense was that the CIA had authorized him to ingratiate himself
with the Libyan government for intelligence-gathering purposes.
The testimony in question concerns an affidavit in court records from CIA
executive director Charles Briggs, then the No. 3 agency official, which
swore "Wilson was not asked or requested, directly or indirectly, to
perform or provide any services, directly or indirectly, for CIA," after
his 1971 retirement.
That affidavit was re-read to jurors at their request; an hour later, they
returned a guilty verdict.
However, Wilson's appeal included dozens of once-classified documents
showing CIA lawyers argued with prosecutors against using the affidavit as
then written.
According to the documents, Wilson had some 80 contacts with the CIA from
his retirement through 1978 and provided a variety of services at the
government's request, including arranging gun sales to a Saudi Arabian ...
Then the CIA's top lawyer, Sporkin called Greenberg, the lead Wilson
prosecutor, and told him "it was a bad idea to use the declaration. Mr.
Greenberg responded that the use of the declaration was vital to his case
and he intended to use it," according to a March 15, 1983, memo in the
government's filing.
Another memo from Wilson's appeal shows that Sporkin argued that "at
minimum, the word 'indirectly' should be removed."
After the conversation on Feb. 3, Greenberg introduced the testimony in
the courtroom.
The Justice Department argues that Wilson failed to offer any evidence of
CIA authorization specific to the charge against him, and is therefore is
not entitled to a new trial.
ER> Why, because THEY withheld evidence? Is this a FRAME?
"I'm not surprised that a federal prosecutor introduces false evidence,
and anyone who is surprised just has no understanding of what the criminal
justice system is like," David Adler, Wilson lawyer and a former CIA
officer, said Tuesday. "What is surprising is how well the Justice
Department and the CIA documented their efforts to conceal the lie." -- By
C. BRYSON HULL
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ww.express-news.net/auth/ennews/ap/texas/d0684.html</A> re: Government
acknowledges Wilson was working for CIA
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