Frank Turple person
also: Fred Turple, Turple, Turpel, Frank Turple
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Claims (8)
Mossad provided_bridge_financing_for
Frank Turple guest_asserted
“and use him as a protected witness against Wilson. Also in the briefcase was an autographed picture of Billy Carter sitting on a reviewing stand with Frank Turple. Turple had asked Billy Carter if he was interested in joining him in importi…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 49:26
Edwin Wilson framed
Frank Turple book_quoted
“to continue the work of his quote-unquote good friend, Ed Wilson's operation. In other words, they expended Ed Wilson out of the picture by blaming him for all of the incidences that was actually Frank Turple and Klein's responsibility and …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 41:55
Frank Turple supplied_arms_to
Libya guest_asserted
“and use him as a protected witness against Wilson. Also in the briefcase was an autographed picture of Billy Carter sitting on a reviewing stand with Frank Turple. Turple had asked Billy Carter if he was interested in joining him in importi…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 49:26
Frank Turple member_of
CIA book_quoted
“were needed to guard against bandits or Colombian armed forces, according to Cotolo. On a December day, Cotolo was introduced to two men that he was told was Frank Turple and Edwin Wilson, the guys we've been reading about this whole time. …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 6:26
Frank Turple ordered_assassination_of
Mahachi book_quoted
“Turple told the Cubans that they had to leave immediately for Egypt to do the killing. Quintero said he would not rush the hit. He would do it only after he had carefully worked out a plan. Quintero later told the FBI that Wilson agreed wit…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 35:31
Frank Turple ordered_assassination_of
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez book_quoted
“Turple said that the target was among these men and that Quintero and whoever he hired would be paid $1 million for the assassination. Quintero would later tell the FBI that he agreed to handle the hit because he trusted Wilson and assumed …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 33:31
Frank Turple trained
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“was cultivated by various CIA operatives, including Shackley, Climes, and Turpel, T-E-R-P-I-L, in the early 1970s when Turpel and Wilson, Edwin Wilson, first started their operations in Libya. Turpel set Wilson up with a Geneva lawyer by th…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 46:14
Frank Turple attempted_assassination_of
Muammar Gaddafi book_quoted
“Turple bragged if they wanted to make extra money, Gaddafi wanted a guy that was over in Egypt called Mahachi, M-A-H-A-S-H-I. He might even want him killed if Turple wanted the deal. I said, quote, listen, knock off all this crazy talk and …”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 37:01
Mentions (37)
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Colonel Senussi. On a trip to Brussels, Wilson arranged to tape record Flachter's bragging about how he was spying on the Libyans on behalf of the Egyptians. Wilson then played the tape for an enraged Senussi, who kicked Flachter out of the…
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The FBI was after Turple, and that's spelled T-E-R-P-I-L. And when they raided Turple's apartment in England and got Flachter's briefcase, I don't know all of the stuff that they got on me, but there was enough material there for Larry Barc…
▶ 49:26
and use him as a protected witness against Wilson. Also in the briefcase was an autographed picture of Billy Carter sitting on a reviewing stand with Frank Turple. Turple had asked Billy Carter if he was interested in joining him in importi…
▶ 49:56
and eventually found refuge in Cuba, where he lived up until the time this book was written. So what's interesting about that, obviously, is you have the CIA pulling off this entire deal. They muddy up Billy Carter, because if you guys reme…
▶ 50:22
brother, they implicated him in arms dealing with Libya, of which he had nothing to do with. And they used this picture as the evidence that he was dealing, because this Turple guy at CIA, and he was dealing weapons with Libya with Ed Wilso…
▶ 50:51
And Turple was still protected by the CIA because their buddies arranged for the Mossad to locate, move him to Lebanon and then forward him to Cuba for safe protection. Which, interestingly enough, makes you go back to, you know that we've …
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were needed to guard against bandits or Colombian armed forces, according to Cotolo. On a December day, Cotolo was introduced to two men that he was told was Frank Turple and Edwin Wilson, the guys we've been reading about this whole time. …
▶ 17:12
They asked the question, is it possible that Tom Klein used Turples and Wilson's name in order to set up Watchtower? Klein, in the future, anytime he was asked about it, refused to even have a conversation about his involvement in it. And W…
▶ 30:05
was that Scalopter and Harper's son, John Jr., were being held hostage by the Libyans at a summer residence in the Libyan countryside. Turple, this was later said by Wilson, Turple and I took Harper and went to Geneva and paid him off. We n…
▶ 31:32
keep the Cuban nationalist community from being implicated in the Latier case. Was Frank Turple really a fired CIA employee who met Wilson by chance at a Christmas party? Or was Turple on assignment for Shackley and Klein? Did Turple even s…
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In August of 1976, he had also called T.T. Quintero and asked him to come to Washington to meet with a friend concerning a business proposition. That friend was Frank Turple. The meeting took place in a parking lot near Washington National …
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for the assignment. Rafael and Raul were well-known CIA contract agents with long histories of working for the CIA. Quintero and Rafael Veliverde left for Geneva on September 12, 1976. Raul, the explosive expert, was to meet them there late…
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were waiting for the Cubans in a room at the Mediterranean Hotel. Wilson said almost nothing during the first meeting. Turple was angry when he found out that Rayol was not yet there. But Quintero assured him that he would be there. That ni…
▶ 35:31
Turple told the Cubans that they had to leave immediately for Egypt to do the killing. Quintero said he would not rush the hit. He would do it only after he had carefully worked out a plan. Quintero later told the FBI that Wilson agreed wit…
▶ 36:00
who would be very tough. The meeting turned even nastier when he told Turple that unless the assassination was done his way, there would be no assassination. He also warned Turple that if he and the Veliverdes did not return safely to the U…
▶ 36:29
Turple was drunk at the lunch and bragged about he knew everyone in Libya and how Gaddafi would pay them. There was a lot of Russians down in Libya at the time and Chinese as well. He said all the wrong things and the Bella Verdes were very…
▶ 37:01
Turple bragged if they wanted to make extra money, Gaddafi wanted a guy that was over in Egypt called Mahachi, M-A-H-A-S-H-I. He might even want him killed if Turple wanted the deal. I said, quote, listen, knock off all this crazy talk and …
▶ 37:31
Unfortunately, Turple was with Wilson again. Later, when Raul Veliverde showed up, Turple explained to Raul that he wanted to bring him to Libya to do munitions and explosives training for the Libyan government. Turple then told the vehemen…
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Later that night, Quintero finally managed to get Wilson alone. Wilson told him that the CIA was not involved in either proposal, that it was all a matter of money. Quintero told Wilson that he would try to persuade the Veliverde brothers t…
▶ 38:28
He said that the Velaverde brothers had already gone back to the States and that they didn't want any part of Libya. Quintero went back to the United States as well to cover his rear because he already was a coward. He went to Clines to dis…
▶ 38:59
It was all turple. The piece of paper was given to Clines. Clines gave it to Shackley. Shackley put it in a record. CIA records indicate that on the day of the Latier bombing, September 21st, 1976, Clines wrote a memorandum about Wilson's a…
▶ 39:57
The version that the Veliverdes told prosecutors indicated that Wilson, not Turple, was the boss, which again was not true. That visit by the Veliverdes put Wilson straight in the sights of the prosecutors. To Larry Barcella and Eugene Prop…
▶ 41:55
to continue the work of his quote-unquote good friend, Ed Wilson's operation. In other words, they expended Ed Wilson out of the picture by blaming him for all of the incidences that was actually Frank Turple and Klein's responsibility and …
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was cultivated by various CIA operatives, including Shackley, Climes, and Turpel, T-E-R-P-I-L, in the early 1970s when Turpel and Wilson, Edwin Wilson, first started their operations in Libya. Turpel set Wilson up with a Geneva lawyer by th…
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imperialistic endeavors in Africa. And they are willingly operating to suppress everyone in Africa. So just keep that in mind. Normally, Israeli and Saudi interests were in conflict. In this case, they actually matched up perfectly. It was …
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when he returned home on leave from his position in Iran. Now, remember, Helms is over in Iran as the ambassador, and General Secord is stationed in Iran. And they all end up in the Iran-Contra deal. Big shocker. So Secord continued to be W…
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For all of his expertise as an arms dealer and front man, Wilson had been inexplicably obtuse in his personal dealings. Frank Turple was a classic example. Wilson would brag that he underplayed people to make someone like Jacqueline Klein b…
▶ 39:44
After the Velaverde brothers and Quintero refused to come to Libya, they had to find a way to get Douglas Slatter and John Harper Jr. released. The Libyans had already put up $300,000 for their explosive school, and they were keeping Slatte…
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Broward agreed to sell explosives and furnish four men for Turple's contract in Libya. I emphasized to him that the responsibility for the shipment was his and that he had to do it legally. Broward found four men. What I didn't know until a…
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Had Ed Wilson understood that Broward had connections not only to Turple, but also to Israeli and Iranian middleman Albert Hakim, then what happened next would have made much more sense to him. These highly trained Navy spies from China Lak…
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He turned out to be a pretty good worker. He stayed for about four years. When the first three men left, Broward continued to furnish more men, but Wilson later learned that Broward had tried to steal the explosive contract Wilson had inher…
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Wilson met with the top PLO leaders on a regular basis. His actions were making the Mossad and the Saudi intelligence nervous. Something would prove very important to Shackley and Klein. According to Sarkis, S-A-R-K-I-S, Solhanalian, the gu…
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Both wanted Qaddafi replaced should have been obvious to Wilson. Had he known that Turpel and Hakim were working for Israeli intelligence, he might have realized what was going on. So, again, you've got these factions, obviously, at this pe…
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I would have to go back and individually look at the sequence of events. But in doing research of other countries, it has become really apparent to me that Saudi Arabia, through Shackley and Turple and all of these other guys in the CIA,…
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They are also the ones that were writing about Edwin Wilson and Frank Turple. And Edwin Wilson is the guy we went over extensively for dealing in Libya that was set up by the CIA that they arrested him. He ended up in prison because they ba…
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But that didn't happen. Through the fighting with slacking off, the flow of opium continued unabated. But where was the money going? According to Frank Turple, a CIA agent, Frank Turple is an author. He's saying that CIA agent Edwin Wilson'…
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that I hired to terminate other people from the agency are there. They get involved in the biggest drugs going on. Who is the guy behind the scandal? Climes. Who is the boss of Climes? Shackley. Turple then addressed the flow of money. Wher…