In the early 1980's… Frank Terpil rogue CIA agent, nicknamed "The Merchant Of Death"

Comment by Jim Campbell

December 8th, 2019

CIA and heart failure should set bells off and sirens blaring for those who have studied the various methods of killing used by the CIA.

The Miami Herald

By Juan Tomayo

April 21, 2014

U.S. fugitive and renegade CIA agent Frank Terpil died in Havana on March 7th, 2016 of heart failure.

It has been suggested that he faked his own death with the help of other members of the CIA.

Michael Chrisman said Terpil, 74, was interviewed at his Havana home in December and gave the impression of leading a somewhat boring 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.

His plan was to kill Gadaffi.

For whatever reason he was unsuccessful.

Frank Terpil, rogue CIA agent.

A man described as a “maniac” by the undercover US policeman who helped convict him in New York in 1981 on charges of seeking to sell 10,000 machine-guns and 20 tonnes of plastic explosives to Libya.

A coldly intelligent, no-scruples dealmaker, and confidant of the later 20th century’s most brutal dictators, from the Shah of Iran to Idi Amin.

After a few shots of rum, he would let his guard down.

Inside his hilltop Cuban home, shaded by tropical trees, Frank (he reverted to his real name in private, in his last months) took pleasure in recounting, with not the slightest indication of remorse, chilling tales of how he helped “facilitate” the world’s maverick regimes.

Whether the requirement was poison, weapons or mercenaries, he was the man to call. “It was commercial.

And neutral,” he always said.

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