NEW YORK -- Former CIA agent Edwin Wilson and his son, Erik, were indicted Wednesday on charges they ploted to kill two federal prosecutors in Washington and four potential witnesses at the senior Wilson's trial.
A federal grand jury in Manhattan alleged the plot to murder prosecutors, witnesses and others was hatched during November and December 1982 when Edwin Wilson was locked up in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.
The Wilsons, the indictment said, plotted to hire hit-men to murder assistant U.S. attorneys E. Lawrence Barcella and Carol Bruce in Washington, D.C.
It also involved a scheme to kill potential witnesses against the senior Wilson -- Jerome Brower, an explosives dealer, Howard Coughlin, a lawyer, Rafael Quintero, a Cuban involved in a Libyan assassination scheme, and Reginald Slocombe, who handled Wilson's shipping operations.
The senior Wilson is in federal custody awaiting sentencing Friday in Houston on charges he conspired to ship tons of plastic explosives to Libya. He was sentenced in December in Alexandria, Va., to 18 years in prison for smuggling firearms to Bonn, West Germany.
Wilson also is awaiting trial in Washington, D.C., beginning March 1 for illegally acting as an agent for Libya and exporting to Libya for profit various explosives and military hardware.
His son, Erik, 22, of Washington, surrendered to federal prosecutors in Manhattan Wednesday and was awaiting arraignment later in the day.
Two other alleged targets, the indictment said, were Ernest Kaiser and Francis Heydt, who were picked out 'in retaliation and revenge for their prior testimony against Wilson.'
Prosecutor Eugene Kaplan said the Wilsons 'sought out hit-men who were to receive fees ranging from $50,000 to a half-million dollars for the murders of each of the witnesses, prosecutors and others.'
