Ex-CIA officer seeks vindication

Ex-CIA officer seeks vindication
By Eric Lichtblau The New York Times

TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2005


WASHINGTON Edwin Wilson, a disgraced former CIA officer freed from prison last year after serving 22 years in connection with the sale of arms and explosives to Libya in the 1970s, is going back to court, and this time he says he hopes to clear his name once and for all.

In a motion filed last month in U.S. court in Richmond, Virginia, Wilson asked a judge to throw out his 1982 conviction on seven felony counts involving the illegal exports of an M-16 rifle and four handguns to Libya, and he presented what his lawyer described as new evidence in his defense.

Wilson now says that his former employers at the CIA not only knew of his clandestine international arms trafficking but directed much of his activity.

Some of Wilson's claims have already been validated by a U.S. judge in Houston, who ruled in 2003 in a related case involving the sale of explosives to Libya that Justice Department prosecutors and CIA officials had fabricated evidence against him two decades earlier in denying that the agency had any knowledge of his arms dealings.
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