Frank Terpil

Frank Edward Terpil (1939 – March 1, 2016) was a

He joined the United States Army at 18 and served for six years. His second assignment was at the Army Security Branch in Arlington, Virginia where he repaired cryptographic equipment.

After serving in Army, Terpil joined the CIA in 1965, working in the Technical Services division, which adapted technology and weaponry for covert work. After departing from the CIA, he supplied

In 1982, journalist

When

In the mid-1990s, there was a slight improvement in relations between the U.S. and Cuba; Terpil and Vesco were put under house arrest for defrauding Cuba. It was reported that Vesco died in Havana in 2007, but Terpil maintained that Vesco had fled to Sierra Leone.

In later years, Terpil posed as Robert Hunter, an Australian retiree, living with a young Cuban wife at the

In 2015, his health was bad; one leg and part of the other foot were amputated following complications from diabetes. He is reported to have died of heart failure on 1 March 2016 at the age of 76,^[5] three weeks before U.S. president Barack Obama was to make the first visit of a U.S. president to neighboring Cuba in 88 years; it has been suggested that he faked his own death.^[1]

See also

• Theodore Shackley

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