More on the on again/off again falling out among thieves>>> Some say Wilson recruited Qaddafi in 1973 and others say he started working with MI6 in 1967 CIA, Edwin Wilson, Gaddafi http://newstalgia.crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/19564,439,7189
----------------------- It would be useful to read pages 322 - 324 Libya: The Struggle for Survival - Geoff Simons - Hardcover (ISBN *...*<http://www.borders.com/online/store/TitleDetail?sku=031208997X> http://books.google.com/books?id=bepGPEkbL34C&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=Libya:+The+Struggle+for+Survival+and+CIA+support+of+Gaddafi&source=bl&ots=nYtnvgkM_A&sig=9cOHVA-FjpnqC0TaWqPrpwb6adg&hl=en&ei=JJabTfy8JNCftweC0PDLBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false The Politics of Heroin: Nugan Hand « Chasing Nugan Hand<http://nuganhand.wordpress.com/the-politics-of-heroin-nugan-hand/> <http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/nuganhand.wordpress.com?pip=false&premium=true&client_uid=3207531162&client_ver=3.3.1.129&client_type=IEPlugin&suite=true&aff_id=0&locale=en_us&os_ver=6.1.0.0&ref=safesearch> - 1:53pm Jan 27, 1980 *...* Taken from pages 461-472 in *Alfred W*. *McCoy's*bombshell book, *The Politics of Heroin*: CIA Complicity In The Drug Trade, (published by * ...* nuganhand.wordpress.com/*the-politics-of-heroin*-nugan-hand/ - Cached<http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:H5yxzN618NQJ:nuganhand.wordpress.com/the-politics-of-heroin-nugan-hand/+%22The+Politics+of+Heroin%22+by+Alfred+W.+McCoy+and+Qaddafi&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&source=www.google.com> Working through Houghton, moreover, the Nugan Hand Bank deepened its contacts with the network of ex-CIA officials surrounding Edwin Wilson. After helping Hand informally with the banks operations for the previous five years, Houghton finally joined Nugan Hands staff in late 1978 and opened a branch in Saudi Arabia to collect deposits from American contract employees. Under Houghtons management, the Saudi branch ran the banks biggest and simplest fraud. With introductionsfrom Beck Arabia of Dallas, a leading engineering firm with major Middle East contracts, Houghton flew into Saudi Arabia in January 1979 and rented a villa at Al-Khobar to serve as both office and residence for the bank. Over the next twelve months, Houghton and his aides circulated through the U.S. construction camps along the Persian Gulf, issuing bank receipts for cash deposits from American contract workers. Paid in cash and unable to make deposits in Saudi Arabias backward banking system, American expatriate workers needed the deposit-taking service that Nugan Hand pretended to provide. Houghton then bought bundles of Thomas Cook travelers checks and sent them off in commercial courier parcels to Michael Hands new office in Singapoer. Through this simple system, Houghton and Hand collected collected at least $5 million from their fellow Americansall of which simply disappeared when the bank collapsed a year later. Houghtons presence in Arabia brought Nugan Hand Bank into closer contact with Wilsons network of former CIA officials, now moving its base of operations to nearby Libya. When Houghton opened his Saudi office in 1979, Wilsons network seemed a step away from unprecedented power, and Houghton apparently decided to join their rise. Within months, however, both Wilsons group and Nugan Hand were plunging precipitously toward a collapse. After decades inside the CIA, Wilson and his closest associates were finally forced out in the late 1970s, losing the mantle of CIA protection that had long masked their operations. In February 1976, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, the new head of the Office of Naval Intelligence, ran into Ed Wilson by chance and learned to his surprise that this wheeler-dealer was one of his own operatives in Task Force 157. When Wilsons contract came up for renewal a few months later, ONI canceled it on Inmans orders, pushing the ex-CIA man into the private sector. There he prospered. Between June and September 1976 Wilson supplied Libya with thousands of CIA-designed bomb timers and more than 21 tons of Composition C-4, the most powerful nonnuclear explosive in Americas arsenalthereby providing Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi with a potent weapon for his terrorist campaign in Europe and the Middle East. Over the next four years, Wilson recruited U.S. Green Berets to train Libyan commandos, delivered weapons for Qaddafis terrorists, and even arranged assassinations for the Libyan dictator. One of Wilsons employees, former CIA officer Kevin Mulcahy, became concerned by these shipments and reported them to the CIA. But Wilsons old friend Theodore Shackley, now deputy director for Clandestine Services [at CIA], blocked any internal investigation. In April 1977 The Washington Post published an article on Wilsons activities stating that he may have had contact with one or more current CIA employees, and the agencys new director, Admiral Stansfield Turner, started asking questions. He soon learned about Wilsons close friendship with his former CIA colleagues Clines and Shackley, then high in the Langley hierarchy. Over the opposition of senior CIA bureaucrats, Turner transferred the two to secondary jobs. A year later Thomas Clines resigned from the CIA after thirty years service, borrowed $500,000 from Wilson to set up his own company, and soon won a $71 million contract for arms delivery to Egypt. No longer heir-apparent to the post of CIA director, Theodore Shackley resigned in Septermber 1979 and followed Clines into the consulting business. 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