Manhuntibooks, 2002 - 301 sidor The incredible pursuit of a CIA agent turned terrorist by New York Times best-selling author Peter Maas. Edwin P. Wilson was the Great Gatsby of the spook world, the rogue CIA agent who had already begun to amass a fortune while still in U.S intelligence. His lavish estate outside Washington, D.C. was a favoured gathering place for senators and congressmen, admirals and generals, for key intelligence officers. In addition, Wilson was also raking in millions in the service of the godfather of world-wide terrorism - Libya's Colonel Muamar el-Qaddafi. Wilson seemed above the law. Then, US attorney Larry Barcella discovered Wilson's sinister machinations, and in a chase that would go on for nearly four years and over three continents, Barcella began a manhunt that would not end until Wilson was brought to justice. In MANHUNT, Peter Maas went behind the headlines, gaining access to the secret documentation of Wilson's intelligence career, classified federal investigative reports and sealed court records. And in the course of his exhaustive research into the murky bypaths of espionage and deception, he turned over rocks that official Washington would have much preferred remained in place |
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... included instruction manuals , were four Smith & Wesson nine - millimeter pistols . All told , the load weighed in at eleven hundred pounds . When Smith reached the airport , he drove straight to the Lufthansa cargo facility . He spoke ...
... included instruction manuals , were four Smith & Wesson nine - millimeter pistols . All told , the load weighed in at eleven hundred pounds . When Smith reached the airport , he drove straight to the Lufthansa cargo facility . He spoke ...
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... included interviews with Rafael Quintero and the Villaverde brothers about the assassination Wilson and Terpil wanted carried out . Barcella thought about the obscure statute he had invoked in order to prosecute Herbert Springer for ...
... included interviews with Rafael Quintero and the Villaverde brothers about the assassination Wilson and Terpil wanted carried out . Barcella thought about the obscure statute he had invoked in order to prosecute Herbert Springer for ...
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... included what went into them . But it turned out that the uranium lacked purity and the papers , so impressive to the untrained eye , were incomplete . Wilson couldn't believe it . What did these Arabs know ? Then Heath told him that ...
... included what went into them . But it turned out that the uranium lacked purity and the papers , so impressive to the untrained eye , were incomplete . Wilson couldn't believe it . What did these Arabs know ? Then Heath told him that ...
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