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A sting for Beijing.(Chinese arms smuggling case)
THE STING WENT LIKE CLOCKWORK, according to the federal complaint: trying out a new accomplice, a Taiwanese importer was able to have a suitcase full of embargoed Chinese rifle accessories pigeoned in and stashed in a storage locker at San Francisco International Airport. The importer picked it up and left $500 under a potted tree at the airport to pay his new fixer. The accomplice, actually a customs agent, knew a mobbed-up Miami trader--also a federal agent. Miami wanted AK-47s for the street trade. The three agreed on code: "apples" or "tools" for automatic weapons, "poppers" for grenades. Eighteen months of haggling later, the two agents exchanged $700,000 for a container …
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News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
June 24, 2008
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News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire
July 11, 2003
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Magazine article from: Cuba News
June 1, 2001
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News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire
January 24, 2005
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Magazine article from: Arms Control Today
Boese, Wade
March 1, 2003
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Newspaper article from: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
July 12, 2001
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...to five years in prison. The State Department first confirms then backs away from a newspaper account of alleged Chinese arms sales to Cuba. A witness at...reported the following day that State Department official James ...
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Magazine article from: Foreign Policy in Focus
Stohl, Rachel
December 4, 2006
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...stands to benefit from opening the Chinese arms market and giving their defense...Russia for primary access to the Chinese arms market. The EU embargo on China...2) According to the U.S. State Department, EU data reveals ...
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Magazine article from: Investor's Business Daily
June 13, 2001
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...of the U.S., is on the State Department's list of nationsthat sponsor...carried the arms. A "known Chinese arms dealer" was involved. One...s weapons sales generally. State Department spokesman Philip Reeker, however...
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- India kicked obliquely.
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Newspaper article from: Statesman (India)
September 24, 2001
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...Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told the Post that state department officials have held preliminary talks with Capitol Hill...Washington the Bush administration imposed sanctions on a major Chinese arms manufacturer, China Metallurgical Equipment ...
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Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Morrow, Jason
August 2, 1999
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...Clinton transferred the authority over such launches from the State Department to the Commerce Department. The authority thus transferred...Clinton also ignored intelligence information regarding Chinese arms sales. In 1993, a CIA report concluded that China ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A sting for Beijing.(Chinese arms smuggling case)
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