WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for renegade CIA agent Edwin Wilson have filed a laundry list of subpoena requests seeking testimony at Wilson's forthcoming trial from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Vice President George Bush as well as from a series of top intelligence officers, AFL-CIO officials and a White House lawyer.
Wilson, accused of aiding Libya in the training of terrorists, is to stand trial Nov. 15 in nearby Alexandria, Va., on charges involving the alleged shipment to Libya of four revolvers and an M-16. One of the handguns allegedly was used in the assassination of a Libyan dissident living in Bonn.
Wilson and associate Frank Terpil face a variety of charges involving training Libyan terrorists and shipping weaponsand explosives to Libya in the late 1970s. Wilson, 54, was lured back into the United States earlier this year. Terpil remains at large and was last reported seen in Beirut.
Lawyers for Wilson also filed late Monday with U.S. District Court Judge Oren Lewis a lengthy list of CIA and other documents. Lewis will rule on which witnesses with flag-rank or Cabinet status will be called and what classified documents will be allowed. The government's document list was filed in a sealed envelope.
In addition to Mubarak and Bush, who once ran the CIA, those sought by Wilson's lawyers included Adm. Bobby Inman, former deputy CIA director and former head of the super-secret National Security Agency; Maj. Gen. Richard Secord, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, AFL-CIO officials including President Lane Kirkland; several CIA figures and Egypt's assistant military attache in Washington.
Also on the list are White House lawyer Fred Fielding, former presidential national security adviser Richard Allen and his successor, William Clark.
The documents defense lawyers Harold Fahringer and John Keats asked for include all CIA documents dealing with Wilson's collection of intelligence information in Libya, the Middle East and elsewhere, the 'book cable' on Wilson sent to all CIA stations by Adm. Stansfield Turner, a CIA chief, in 1976 and 1977, all information on the Glomar Explorer, a vessel involved in an attempt to salvage a sunken Soviet submarine in the Pacific.
The two attorneys said they wanted the AFL-CIO to be asked to provide data on labor problems and information on what was described as Wilson's cooperation and work with the labor group concerning CIA operations.
They also sought from various agencies any documents on Wilson's relationship with an intelligence operation known as Task Force 157.
The Defense Department was asked for data on Wilson's collection of intelligence data in Libya, the Middle East and elsewhere, documents on an arms pact between the United States and Egupt, and all records on an enterprise called EATSCO.
Wilson became a full-time CIA employee in 1955 and ended his CIA connection in 1971. He was reported to have joined a secret Navy unit, believed to be Task Force 157, that monitored Soviet shipping and helped get Taiwanese agents into China. That operation was ended after Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to Peking.
Wilson left government service in 1976 and joined Terpil, allegedly to supply Libya with arms, explosives, intelligents and trained personnel, including former servicement and ex-CIA agents.
A former CIA employee who was to have testified at Wilson's trial, Kevin Mulcahy, was found dead last week in western Virginia. Although a cause of death has not been determined, authorities indicate they believe he died of natural causes.
