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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... Once the hook was set , the money kept Dubberstein on the line . For the next two years - until a mob stormed and sacked the American embassy in Tripoli in December 1979 - he peri- odically provided highly classified data that included ...
... Once the hook was set , the money kept Dubberstein on the line . For the next two years - until a mob stormed and sacked the American embassy in Tripoli in December 1979 - he peri- odically provided highly classified data that included ...
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... once or twice . Mulcahy would go to the man and say he had run across this hot deal , but he and Wilson were temporarily on the outs . Once the deal went through , they'd split the finder's fee , everything would be cool with Wilson and ...
... once or twice . Mulcahy would go to the man and say he had run across this hot deal , but he and Wilson were temporarily on the outs . Once the deal went through , they'd split the finder's fee , everything would be cool with Wilson and ...
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... once accom- panied him on a two - week trip to Taiwan and served on the board of his old CIA front , Consultants International . Larger interests reasserted themselves in other parts of the world . Umar Abdullah Muhayshi , whom Qaddafi ...
... once accom- panied him on a two - week trip to Taiwan and served on the board of his old CIA front , Consultants International . Larger interests reasserted themselves in other parts of the world . Umar Abdullah Muhayshi , whom Qaddafi ...
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