In the 1970s , he became involved in dealings with Libya . Wilson claims that a high-ranking CIA official Theodore " Blond Ghost " Shackley asked him to go to Libya to keep an eye on Carlos the Jackal , the infamous terrorist , who was living there . At the time , a strict sanctions regime was in place against Libya and the country was willing to pay a great deal for weapons and material . Wilson began conducting elaborate dealings , and guns and military uniforms were smuggled into the country . Wilson also recruited a group of retired Green Berets — decorated Vietnam veteran Billy Waugh among them — to go to Libya and train its military and intelligence officers . The Libyans used Wilson 's provisions to advance their interests around the world , including training terrorist cells to build explosive devices inside radios . One cell trained by Wilson 's operatives was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command ( PFLF-GC ) under the command of Ahmad Jibril . Jibril was suspected of being behind the bombing of Pan Am 103 in Lockerbie , Scotland in 1988 . In 1979 , a gun that Wilson had arranged to be delivered to the Libyan embassy in Bonn was used to assassinate a prominent dissident . The next year , one of the Green Berets attempted to assassinate another dissident in Colorado . Wilson states that he regrets these incidents and had no prior knowledge of them . He states that he was still working for the CIA and his supplying of weapon to the Libyans was an attempt to get close to them and gain valuable intelligence . This included attempts at gathering information on the Libyan nuclear program
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