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After serving in the Army, Terpil joined the CIA in 1965, working in the
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to 53 years' imprisonment, with the judge describing his operations as "trade in death and destruction". He was also allegedly involved in a plot to assassinate anti-Gaddafi dissident
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for best investigative documentary. The pair travelled to Beirut to spend five days talking with Terpil, then returned with a film crew to shoot more than eight hours of interviews.
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in 1982, Terpil moved to Cuba, at that time in dispute with the U.S. and subject to an embargo. Terpil was code-named Curiel ("guinea pig" by the Cubans. Terpil worked for the
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at 18 and served for six years. His second assignment was at the Army
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for defrauding Cuba. It was reported that Vesco died in Havana in 2007, but Terpil maintained that Vesco had fled to
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was to make the first visit of a U.S. president to neighboring Cuba in 88 years; it has been suggested that he
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