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Judge Overturns Conviction of CIA Operative Edwin Wilson

HeadlineOct 30, 2003

A federal judge has thrown the 1983 conviction of an former CIA operative Edwin Wilson. He was sentenced to 52 years in prison for selling 20 tons of explosives to Libya. In her decision, the judge described one affidavit from a former top CIA official that was used to secure the conviction as “nothing but a lie.”

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