REPORTS CITES CIA NEGLIGENCE IN CONNECTION WITH SEAPONS SALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000202020003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 24, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
24 'larch 1982
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to South Africa. a FIou.ia pan!l, rapor ty,i Wednezday
Trl2 study , Yr -vared by the staff .o! Foreign Al rairJ ::u:~c~i+ :i}1 tt an
Africa, also criticized the State Dcomirtment's Office of Funition s Control for
at pattern of errors and ti r~1' w:isn, ls" in daaiing w? th thM pis a.
";Thile there h :-!s been an.-official l,i ?.7. policy of ir3; 2.'ar ~..7r} arms to South
Africa since 1963, the relevant U.S. t;t`?vernn-!nt agencies h v'e thus far railed
to adopt procedures to er fectivtly i a ;w;~: ent he embargo," the report cailcludech
In releasing the study, Rep. H taro E. Wolpe, D--inch., c,^a r,l~n of the
subco!iilttee, noted that the Reagan cif?srti}is ration has eased restrictions an
non--lethal exports to South Africa's r iiit try no police agenlc was and "has
bent praviou:3 policy by admitting thaw chief of South African nil it ary
intelligence to the United States."
"These moves underline the increasing need to indicate our disassociation
from, apartheid by strict enforcement of the U.S. and United Nations arms
embargoes against South Africa, " Wolpe said.
The staff investigation focu5cd on Space Research Corp. of North Troy, Vt.,
which, the report said, sold and shipped at least four 15Su4 guns, approximately
60,000 155mim extended-range shells and other military equipment to South
Africa during 1976-?8.
In March 1980, SRC President Gerald Cull and Vice President Rodgers Gregrlry
pleaded guilty to violating federal export regulations and were each sentenced
to one year in prison, of which six months were suspended. Bull served 4 months
and Gregory 4 1/2 months.
The company was fined $45,000, but it subsequently declared bankruptcy and
did not pay the fine.
According to the subcommittee study, "it is probable that a U.S. defense
consultant who was assisting the CIA's covert action program in Angola _ and
was under the supervision of a CIA officer _ planned with South African
government officials shipments of U.S.-origin arms to South Africa for use in
Angola."
It said the consultant, John J. Frost, "a]xo informed the South Africans
(representatives of ARMSCOR, the state defense production and procurement
agency) that they could obtain superior 155:mm artillery from SRC."
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