F-6 Roanoke Times World-News, Sunday, March 27, 1983 Wilson From Page F-1 Wickham says he attended part of Wilson's trial last fall in Alexandria as a show of support for his old friend. "Hi, buddy," said Wilson, John style, as he was led down a corridor in handcuffs. Wilson has spoken out in public only once in the 10 months since his arrest in an angry, contemptuous, six-page statement released by his lawyer the day after Wilson's conviction on explosives-smuggling charges in Houston. broadside began. It lashed out at the Justice have been silent, much too long," the Department and the CIA for what Wilson called leaks to the news media "orchestrated with perfect timing" to influence the judge and the public against him.
"It is interesting to note that one of the functions of the CIA is to influence and sway public opinion throughout the world. They are experts in this field," Wilson wrote. I have been cut off from people and held in solitary, treated like an animal he added. Prosecutors acknowledge Wilson lost his visitor and telephone privileges and was placed in isolation after he was taped allegedly trying to arrange the murders of Assistant U.S. Attorneys E.
Lawrence Barcella Jr. and Carol Bruce from his New York jail cell last fall. "He's a mover, a guy who sleeps four or five hours a night, a guy who doesn't sit around for a month or two waiting to see what's going to happen," says one federal agent familiar with the government's five-year investigation of Wilson's alleged dealings abroad. It was typical of Wilson, the same agent says, to become so embroiled in his business deals maneuverings that he would throw caution while talking on an open telephone line. "He'd start out cautious on a phone line he suspected was tapped (by the Libyans)," says the agent, describing way Wilson would issue orders to employees (many of whom had code names) from his villa in Tripoli.
"Then he'd wind up saying, 'I want this stuff delivered right and pounding the desk." The image of Wilson as a wheeler-dealer by greed," as one prosecutor put it was bolstered by a former employee, the late Kevin P. Mulcahy, in recently released testimony before a Washington federal grand jury investigating Wilson and his onetime business partner, Francis E. Terpil. "Frank is more he's an excitement, adventure-oriented guy," said Mulcahy. "Ed is a very cold, down-to-earth, bread and butter he's a money man.
He lives, breathes and he dies a dollar. Frank can't ask for a buck; Ed can. Ed does it regularly and he's good at "He was hard-nosed, always on his toes, and not afraid to talk to anybody, from a longshoreman to the minister of education of France. He worked hard," says Wickham, who met Wilson when both men were young Marine officers in the early 1950s at Quantico. Wilson was raised on a farm in Nampa, Idaho, near Boise, according to Wickham a and court documents filed in the Wilson case.
A defense lawyer has said the family was poor. Wilson was 14 when his father died and he became the family's main provider. "He worked for the Seafarers (Union) for a year to raise money for college," says Wickham. "He prospected. He drove a cattle truck.
For a while, he and his two brothers had a combine and worked their way through the West. Then in September he'd go back to college." Stationed in Korea, Wilson was recruited out the Marines into the CIA in 1955 at the height of the Cold War. One of his earliest assignments, according to court papers and a former CIA official, as a security officer in the U-2 spy plane project. He was married in the late '50s in New Jersey, with Wickham at his side. Soon afterward he was posted to Brussels where, Wickham says, Wilson was involved as a covert operative with the international trade union movement in Europe.
A few years later, he surfaced in both North and South America. A former friend, Ernest Keiser who later would play a critical role in Wilson's arrest says he met Wilson in either Argentina or Chile in about 1960. "We had a few drinks," says Keiser, who describes himself as a former CIA contract agent. He depicts Wilson then as a "tremendous agent" and a "good man" who had grown up "very, very poor." Keiser next saw Wilson, he says, in Miami, around the time of the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Although he left the agency in 1971, Wilson signed on almost immediately with a then-secret naval intelligence group, Task Force 157.
A source familiar with the organization says Wil- New telescope studies stars By CHARLES HILLINGER LA Times- Washington Post Service CLARK DRY LAKE, Calif. The eerielooking giant on the barren desert floor beneath towering mountains is giving man a window to the farthest reaches of the universe. The giant an array of 720 antennas each 26 feet tall and forming two mile-long arms and a mile-long leg, is the University of Maryland's radio telescope called TPT. It is called that because each of the 720 elements is supported by slender guy wires that form a conical shape like an Indian tepee. "'In astronomy," explained astronomer Mike Mahoney, 37, "there are a variety of different instruments used to explore the heavens.
This happens to be the most sophisticated low-frequency radio telescope on Earth. It has been 15 years in the University of Maryland astronomers have been studying the universe with radio telescopes on Clark Dry Lake, in the desert near Borrego Springs, since 1961. Clark Lake Radio Observatory has been supported with several million dollars in grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. NASA, in cooperation with the university, kept a constant watch at the observatory during the flight of Apollo 12 to ensure that radiation from bursts of energy from the sun did not endanger the astronauts. TPT is providing scientists with clues to the mechanics of the birth, life and death of stars.
It detects signals from the solar corona, pulsars, flare stars, galaxies and quasars. To learn more about the sun's corona, scientists here monitor solar flares in space and time with the radio telescope. Pulsars tiny neutron stars giving out strong radio signals are recorded by TPT, including one six miles in diameter rotating 642 times a second, 20 times faster than any known pulsar. "It is an incredible object in the late state in the evolution of a star, having a billion billion times the density of water," Mahoney said. The TPT radio telescope, the most recent developed on the site, has been fully operational less than a year.
It cost $1 million to design and build the array on the desert floor near the observatory lab jammed with computers and complex astronomical equipment. "This site was selected because the dry lake bed surrounded by mountains is one of few interference-free locations in America," Mahoney said. The five or six astronomers based at the site in the shadow of the Santa Rosa Mountains are aided by students who come from Maryland and elsewhere for on-the-job experience. Although the asronomers sometimes stay in a mobile home based at the observatory, they more often commute 12 miles to Borrego Springs. The antenna is located about 100 miles northeast of San Diego and is in a remote area reached by an unmarked dirt road.
GLOSS SUCH ADAR EGGED LOPAT ASHE VIRGO AGAMA THEN BALL ELOIN POLOR DER SINAL NISSE DAO PATS EVEN AMA ORDERLY AREAL ENGAGES ZODI SCORPIO ASSERT EMERY BARN SORA TANGO NARE SOCES ENIGMA TER SMITH ENERO HUE OSTEND PANEL RARA ARMOR EMIA ISTS ST MON GEMOND STRASSE ADELINA SINCE CHANNEL ROTE NINA NINE CHAR GRE AGATES ESTRANGE HEADS ARDES OAR ARROW ALLOT RAFT LONG LIBRA ETTE ELKE ESSEN LASER SESS DESE Crossword on Page F-8 son was hired without the usual background security checks that might have raised questions about some of Wilson's business dealings while he was employed by the CIA. Wilson subsequently was fired in 1976 by Adm. Bobby Inman, then the head of naval intelligence, who has said he was troubled by business activities Wilson was engaged in while on the government payroll. The same year, Wilson is accused of starting his relationship with Khadafy. The mixing of business and government service was nothing new.
Wickham says he was contacted by Wilson sometime in the mid-1960s about setting up a CIA "proprietary," a legitimate business to serve as a cover for spy activities. The two men established Maritime Consulting Associates, with offices in the District of Columbia. Years later, Ernest Keiser, secretly working with U.S. authorities, visited Libya in 1981 to talk to Wilson about coming home to surrender. Keiser says that after he learned more about the terrorist training camp Wilson was running for the Libyans, "I knew what I had to do" trick Wilson into leaving Libya to be arrested by U.S.
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