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Lianza spent about six weeks in Sicily and during this period of time was repeatedly visited by the same profes- sional man who pointed out that Libya exports 4 billion dollars' worth of oil yearly to the United States of America and that a good portion of the money from these exports could be re-invested in the United States of America. By the .: i end of April, l978, Mr. Lianza received a written invita-. tion to hand to Billy Carter along with a letter in which It was stated that if the President's brother were to take .a. trip to Libya all expenses would be paid by. Colonel Kaddafi's Government. As a result of this letter, Mr. Lianza together with another real estate agent from Atlanta, a Mr. Tom Jordan, and the Senator from Georgia, Floyd Hudgins, arranged a direct maeting between Libya's Ambassador to Italy and the President's brother. The points brought up during this meeting must have been extremely convincing, so much so that Billy Carter accepted the invitation. Of course, it was an altogether irregular, or rather, anomalous procedure, because invitations of this nature. are extended and accepted through diplomatic channels between the Department of State and the Embassy of Libya in.the U.S.A.. The American delegation headed by Biily Carter had a composition which was, to say the least, strange; there was no U.s. diplomatic representative in the company of. the U.s. President's brother. By contrast, there were two big real estate agents, Lianza and Jordan, two business friends of Lianza, two Senators from Georgia: Hudgins and Henry Russel, and one of Billy Carter's drinking friends: Randy Coleman. Another not less surprising circumstance was the fact that Billy Carter and his retinue (nine people in all) did not travel directly from Washington to Tripoli, but flew in via Rome, Italy.' Colonel Kaddafi paid not only for the trip, but also for the Rome stopover which included a stay in the best hotel of that capital. city and sundry dining and wining. In Tripoli, Kaddafi.