The World - News from June 12, 1988
Retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North in April, 1986, wanted to use Anglican Church envoy and hostage negotiator Terry Waite to lure Col. Moammar Kadafi to the Libyan leader’s Tripoli compound to increase chances that he would be killed in the U.S. air raids on Libya, according to book excerpts published in U.S. News & World Report. The plan was considered and rejected. The book, “Best Laid Plans, the Inside Story of America’s War Against Terrorism,” written by CBS reporter David Martin and Wall Street Journal reporter John Walcott, said North, then a National Security Council aide, planned to ask Waite to go to Tripoli the day before the raid to ask Kadafi to help free hostages in Lebanon, and then depart.
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