Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free december 1981 soldiers sell deadly skills former Green berets in demand As mercenaries for foreign Powers by Philip Taubman new York times Washington Many former Green men specially trained by the United states army to be masters of the lethal sell their skills to unfriendly governments and repress Ive according to Federal Law enforcement officials former Green these coat titrated in the Middle East and South Are said by these sources to have involved dozens of the of former army special forces Veter better known As Green these sources said that in Many cases men were recruited by fellow veterans who contended that their mis Sions had been sanctioned by the Cen trial intelligence in most such contentions were apparently but former Green accustomed to handling sensitive and often unconventional Covert tasks for the Cia while on Active assumed that the jobs had been approved by the the activities of former Green berets have recently been a subject of increased Federal scrutiny because of disclosures that More than a dozen special forces veterans worked in Libya training terrorists in an opera Tion organized by Edwin a former Cia Wilson has been indicted on charges of illegally ship Ping explosives to Libya for use in training terrorists and is believed to be living in one the sources former Green berets were recruited to assassinate opponents of the Somoza government in they trained chilean intelligence agents in martial additional Public attention has been focused on the Issue by the Case of Eugene a special forces Veteran who worked for Wilson in Tafoya was convicted last week of assault in the shooting of a libyan student in fort in As part of his he contended that he had been working for the not unique interviews with More than two dozen Federal officials and former Green berets suggest that the libyan opera Tion run by Wilson was not unique in its use of men who had once served in the special these sources provided details about two operations involving special forces one in Nicaragua and one they also without providing other overseas operations that employed former Green berets in Mexico and the sources said that some of these like Wilsons terrorist training project in were contrary to american foreign policy inter ests because they involved providing specialized military expertise to in Friendly governments or to repressive United states do not prohibit such activities unless the americans involved become Merce nary that formally enlist in a military service of a foreign Justice department officials Joseph reap a state depart ment press declined to com ment on the mercenary activities of former Green berets and referred a caller to the Justice a press officer John said we have investigated activities of former Green berets before and found some flaws in the mercenary we found we go ahead with if there is any Viola Tion of mercenary Well make every Effort to look into it and enforce no warning the according to a spokesman for the special makes no Effort to caution Active duty Green berets about becoming involved in question Able activities when they the Harold said that the Only caution they receive about applying their skills when they leave the military is a warning not to disclose classified material about unorthodox demolition we dont talk in terms of getting out of the said who is based at special forces Headquarters at fort we assume the men who make it through our training pro grand Are going to make a career in the special he added that the special while embarrassed by the activities of some former could do Noth ing to control How they apply their expertise in explosives and several veterans of the special forces criticized the army As having failed to prepare them to reenter civilian thus leaving them Vulner Able to recruiting appeals from groups offering to pay Large sums for skills that Are not in demand outside the in the special forces they train a Man to an almost uncontrollable said Roy a former Green Beret who now works As a police sergeant in near fort you make a Man some thing Between an animal and a human someone with the instincts of an attack then one without any youre Back in civil Ian theres no the largest concentrations of special forces according to Federal Law enforcement army intelligence officials and former Green live in Fayetteville and making areas centres for recruiting and if you want to know what kind of Covert operations Are going on around the the Best place to find out is in said Luke Thomp a former Green Beret while on Active worked for Wilson in Fayetteville is Headquarters for it makes Washington look like a finishing a Federal Law enforcement official familiar with the activities of special forces veterans said that Fayetteville and Honolulu were switchboards for in for according to the army and Green Beret a group of former Green berets and former Navy a convention a warfare specialists living in Fayetteville were recruited to work in Nicaragua for Anastasio Somoza who was then handling counter terrorist including assassinations of Somoza the four men were killed late in 1978 in a plane crash in Accord ing to former details of their were recorded in notes kept by who made these documents available and who agreed to be interviewed on the Condi Tion that they not be according to these the four were recruited by a top aide to Somoza to handle counter terrorist including the infiltration and sabotage of opposition the men also told their friends that they had selected for assassination a senior official in cuban intelligence who was working in Nicaragua and a mexican businessman supporting opponents of the friends of the four do not know whether the assassinations were actually and if whether they were in Early on a trip Back to the United one of the Chuck called Luke with whom he had worked in the special his friends reported that he had asked Thompson to notify the Cia that some americans were working in Nicaragua and to ask if the Agency wanted to use them for Clandestine operations of its these sources said that who was still on Active duty at the had apparently called the Agency be cause Sanders was visited by a Cia agent when he returned to Sanders told friends that the Agency had made arrangements to work with the four no comment in an interview last Thomp son declined to comment on the Dale a spokesman for the said that the As a matter of did not comment on allegations about its involvement in Clandes Tine special forces veterans said that confusion about the involvement of the Cia in overseas operations was com Mon because of the close relationship Between it and the special the special forces and the Agency work together All the said a senior official of the defence depart ment in the months before the american raid to Rescue american hostages in Iran in for a group of Green posing As euro Pean entered according to senior intelligence the officials they made preparations for the arrival of airborne forces that were supposed to free the Robert a former special forces officer who is now director of unconventional warfare for the United states readiness command based at Macdill air Force base in said in an interview that Green berets carried out All kinds of bizarre missions for the once retired from the special men have no Way of determining whether recruiters actually work for the according to Kes a former member of the special he said in an interview in Fayetteville last week that he had received Calls in 1980 from former colleagues asking him to join a group planning to Rescue the hostages in the according to said the operation was being run by the Kessinger said he had declined to become but remains persuaded that the operation was sponsored by the government As a possible alternative to the military operation that was eventually without if they had used us they would not have had to admit it was a government operation if it he asked about Kessinger the intelligence Agency refused to com ment on whether it had planned an alternative Rescue other former Green berets de scribed recruiting efforts in Fayette Vilie and in Hawaii that involved Covert operations in South the mid dle East and some of such As the recruitment of americans to serve As mercenaries in Angola and As Zimbabwe was then in the were publicized at the others were several veterans said they had been approached earlier this year by men who said they represented the chilean government who wanted to hire them to work on counter terrorist operations in Al they said they flew to the capital of where Green berets learn lethal skills that can be passed they met with chilean intelligence the who asked not to be Ridenti said they agreed to work for a to be paid in and were flown to a Remote Mountain training base in Chile where they trained Chil Ean intelligence agents in martial arts and communications the men refused to provide any other details of their or to say whether they travelled to Al Salvador them they said the chilean authorities told them that the work was supported by the United other former special forces Mem Bers said they had travelled to the Middle East recently to work on mine Clearing when he hired former Green berets to work in told them they would handle mine according to the Green berets according to Federal Law enforcement the recruits ended up training officials at the Federal Bureau of the Agency responsible for investigating potentially illegal conduct by military said that several questionable overseas operations in recent years involving former Green berets had used the term Clearing to cover Covert operations involving demolition and Many former Green berets resent the implication that All or even most of them become mercenaries after they leave the Bill a special forces Veter an who serves As president of the special forces said i dont think we deserve the bad 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