Frank Terpil

Frank Terpil worked for the CIA and was a close friend of Ted Shackley. He officially left the agency in 1970, and was charged in absentia in the Arms for Libya and another arms deal, but fled the USA and as of 2014 was one of more than 70 U.S. fugitives reported to have received safe haven in Cuba.[1]

He worked with Ted Shackley and Edwin Wilson. The New York Times reported that Terpil "was dismissed by the C.I.A. in 1971 after a six-year career as a low-level operative",[3] though others report that he was forced to resign in 1970 "after the agency learned that when he was posted in India he ran a hard-currency scam through Afghanistan, for his personal profit".[1]

In 1980, Frank Terpil was charged in absentia in the Arms for Libya case, together with Edwin Wilson for conspiring to training Libyan terrorists in making bombs out of lamps, ashtrays and alarm clocks, and in shipping tons of C-4 from USA.[3]

A New York State court sentenced him in 1981 to 53 years in prison after trying him in absentia on charges of conspiring to smuggle 10,000 submachine guns (either to Africa or South America).[3]

Terpil left USA and appeared in Lebanon in 1980, shortly before he was sentenced in the Arms for Libya case.[2] In 1981 Terpil defected to Libya. There assisted Muammar Gaddafi by training his forces in "terrorism" and “eliminating” his opponents — most of them Libyan exiles living abroad.[2]

In 1995 he was stopped by the Cuban authorities. It was initially unclear whether they would extradite him to USA< but they did not.[3]

It is believed that Cuba’s General Intelligence Directorate hired him as an operative under the operational alias "Curiel".[2]

Terpil admitted to working for dictators such as Uganda’s Idi Amin, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, as well as the governments of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt.[1]

In December 2013 he gave an interview for “Mad Dog: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi”, a British documentary film. He had been living in Cuba, and gave "the impression of leading a somewhat bored life". He recounted hiring two Cuban exiles from Miami, telling them they were to assassinate Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (Carlos the Jackal). The Cubans backed out when they realized the real target was a foe of Ghaddafi.[1]

• https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Frank_Terpil

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Merchants of death

Merchants of death was an epithet used in the U.S. in the 1930s to attack industries and banks that supplied and funded World War I (then called the Great War).

The term originated in 1932 as the title of an article about a nefarious merchant dealer named Basil Zaharoff "Zaharoff, Merchant of Death" [1] It was then borrowed for the title of the book Merchants of Death (1934), an exposé by H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen,.[2]

The term was popular in antiwar circles of both the left and the right, and was used extensively regarding the Senate hearings in 1936 by the Nye Committee. The Senate hearing examined how much influence the manufacturers of armaments had in the American decision to enter World War I. 93 hearings were held, over 200 witnesses were called, and little hard evidence was found. The Nye Committee came to an end when Chairman Nye accused President Woodrow Wilson of withholding information from Congress when he chose to enter World War I. The failure of the committee to find a conspiracy did not change public prejudice against the manufactures of armaments, thus the popular name "Merchants of death". See the United States Senate, Senate History page.[3]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_death

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