[1]https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Arms_for_Libya
   The Arms for Libya case ensued when a gang of CIA deep state operatives
   were caught shipping a huge amount of weapons and explosives to Libya.
   Edwin Wilson was hung out to dry by Ted Shackley and the rest of the
   cabal. After a FOIA request revealed the CIA knew perfectly well what
   he was doing, he was released after about 17 years in jail. He was
   never given compensation and those responsible for the cover up were
   never brought to justice.
   Before his 1980 retirement, the CIA Inspector General John H. Waller
   produced an internal investigation which exonerated Theodore Shackley
   and his "career-long deputy and sidekick" Thomas Clines. This was the
   CIA's official story for about 20 years, endorsed by Waller's
   successor, the #3 man in the CIA, Charles A. Briggs who was called on
   to testify in Edwin Wilson's court case. The CIA had blocked the
   defense from gaining access to any contradictory paperwork, so the jury
   apparently believed the (perjured) 'Briggs Declaration' which said that
   Edwin Wilson has independently collected almost the entire US stockpile
   of C-4 (plastic explosive) and arranged to fly it to Libya, all without
   CIA knowledge, following up by sending US troops to train of Muammar
   Gaddafi's military in bomb making, and sold them a bunch of other
   weapons. This official narrative fell apart about 20 years later when
   an internal document surfaced which proved that the CIA Inspector
   Generals had been lying.
   Frank Terpil was tried and found guilty in absentia. Douglas Schlachter
   plead guilty to two charges in a plea deal, after providing testimony
   directly linking Wilson to "senior Central Intelligence officials"
   (presumably Ted Shackley and his sidekick Thomas Clines, who in 1981
   both admitted that they had kept in touch with Wilson, though they
   denied knowing anything about the arms deals). Edwin Wilson was hung
   out to dry and charged as the main culprit.
   CIA officer, Edwin Wilson, brokered a number of weapons deals to Libya.
   Michael Ruppert wrote that Wilson lived in Libya "for extended periods
   between 1977 and 1981". The most extraordinary of these deals was in
   1977, when a 42,000 pound load of C-4 plastic explosive (an amount
   which represented almost the entire US domestic supply) was flown out
   of Houston International Airport to Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, followed
   by training in bomb making by US Green Berets. Subsequent deals
   involved handguns and other weapons. A scheme to ship more than a
   thousand M16 rifles to Gaddafi put the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
   Firearms onto Edwin Wilson back in late 1977.
   After about 17 years in jail, FOIA requests by Edwin Wilson came across
   some internal paperwork which proved that those involved in the case
   knew that the "Briggs Affidavit" was a lie. These sufficed to allow
   Wilson to successfully appeal his conviction. In October 2003, his
   conviction on the explosives charge was overturned and Wilson was
   released from prison on September 14, 2004. He launched a legal claim
   for compensation against those who perjured evidence against him, and
   those who knowingly stayed silent on the matter, but they were granted
   legal immunity and he never received compensation.
   Copyright [2]https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikispooks:Licensing
   The CIA did a lot of dirty things. If Snowden was a Russian agent, not
   a CIA agent, why was he insistent on protecting the CIA? The CIA did a
   lot of dirty things. All the Russians have to do is expose them. What
   the CIA did would bring down the American government ten times over. I
   have no doubt hundreds of US government employees spent innumerable
   man-years dealing with the aftermath of Snowden, but it served no real
   point.
   I personally find it mysterious that the Russians would invent the idea
   that AIDs was the product of the CIA when there are just so many
   horrible...
   [3]https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/02/citizen-four-the-making-of-a
   n-american-myth/
   To quote:
    You will see it only as a blow against surveillance state, and not as
   a propaganda film that, on the one hand, protects the CIA at Snowden’s
   behest while, on the other hand, exploiting him and turning him into
   the celebrity he did not want to be.

References

   1. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Arms_for_Libya
   2. https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikispooks:Licensing
   3. https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/02/citizen-four-the-making-of-an-american-myth/