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“Chavez was trained on radar in Louisiana by Edwin Wilson, who, following an illustrious career, became an infamous rogue CIA operative. Convicted in 1983 of illegally selling weapons to Libya, Wilson spent twenty-two years in prison, most of that time in solitary confinement. Wilson’s conviction was overturned and he was released from prison in 2004 when the US District Court Judge for the Southern District of Texas wrote a scathing opinion finding that the US Department of Justice and the CIA had covered up and withheld evidence in the case. In their zeal to prosecute, they effectively framed a guilty man.”
― James M. Hawes, Cold War Navy SEAL: My Story of Che Guevara, War in the Congo, and the Communist Threat in Africa