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Judi Lynn

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Tue Apr 22, 2014, 03:18 AM Apr 2014

Former CIA agent, now in Havana, discusses Gadhafi’s ‘secret world’

Posted on Mon, Apr. 21, 2014

Former CIA agent, now in Havana, discusses Gadhafi’s ‘secret world’

By Juan O. Tamayo
jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com


U.S. fugitive and renegade CIA agent Frank Terpil is still living in Havana and easily recounting his days helping former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to murder his political enemies, according to a recently released British documentary.

Co-producer Michael Chrisman said Terpil, 74, was interviewed at his Havana home in December and gave the impression of leading a somewhat bored life, “with little to do (and) spending much time frequenting Havana watering holes nursing a drink.”

He has a much younger Cuban girlfriend, and asks friends and visitors to supply him with the occasional English language book, said Chrisman. The Showtime documentary is titled “Mad Dog: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi.”

The interview focused on Terpil’s relations with the Libyan dictator, killed in a 2011 revolt, and not on his links to his Cuban hosts because “he was no doubt taking a gamble upsetting them by doing the interview,” the co-producer added.

Terpil, a CIA operative who resigned from the agency in 1970, is one of more than 70 U.S. fugitives reported to have received safe haven in Cuba. Many are viewed by Havana as victims of U.S. political persecution, such as black-rights militant Joanne Chesimard.

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/21/v-print/4072447/former-cia-agent-now-in-havana.html#storylink=cpy

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Former CIA agent, now in Havana, discusses Gadhafi’s ‘secret world’ (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2014 OP
Storyville: Mad Dog - Gaddafi's Secret World dipsydoodle Apr 2014 #1

dipsydoodle

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1. Storyville: Mad Dog - Gaddafi's Secret World
Tue Apr 22, 2014, 04:27 AM
Apr 2014

I missed that. Was shown in the UK early February.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2014/05/storyville-gaddafi.html

If anyone is interested a lot of our UK documentaries show up here eventually : http://www.thedossier.info/ Good collection of videos form the past.

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