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• Publication Date: January 1, 1989
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To Unauthorized
Exports to Libya
W. Germany Sets New Control Measures
By Robert J. McCartney
Washington Post Foreign Service
BONN, Jan. 11-The West Ger-
man . government today acknowl-
edged for the first time that inves-
tigators have uncovered. "indica-
tions" that two West German firms
may have made unauthorized ex-
ports to Libya.
The statement appeared to rep-
resent a reversal by the Bonn gov-
ernment, which had insisted for
more than a week that it had seen
no indications or evidence' to sup-
port U.S. administration allegations
that five West German companies
helped Libya build a chemical weap-
ons factory.
Customs investigators and other
export-monitoring authorities have
obtained information indicating that
two of the five companies impli-
cated by Washington may have
been involved with a Belgian trans-
port company in making unautho-
rized exports to Libya, a govern-
ment spokesman said.
Yesterday the government an-
nounced a major package of control
measures for new arms shipments
abroad that commentators here said
was a clear admission that the Bonn
government had been lax in enforc-
ing its own ban on military exports
to regions of tension.
(In Washington, a State Depart-
ment spokesman "warmly wel-
comed" Bonn's move, adding that
the administration would have to
study the new restrictions careful-
ly.]
The two West German compa-
nies implicated are IBI Entering
of Fran furt, which has been linked
to an Iraqi businessman identified
as Ihsan Barbouti, and Imhausen-
Chemie Gmbb j off, say' d' h
go-nn government spokesman in a
telephone interview tonight. The
Belgian firm is Cross Link of Ant-
werp, the spokesman added.
Imhausen previously has denied
that it delivered chemical arms
equipment to Libya, while IBI En-
gineering has not publicly re=.
sponded to the allegations. Cross
Link refused comment when con-
tacted today, Reuter news agency
reported:
West German officials said that
customs investigators a week ago
confiscated 12 containers of docu-
ments belonging to IBI Engineering
as part of an inquiry into the U.S.
allegations. West German and Bel-
gian authorities were cooperating in
the inquiry, the Bonn officials said.-
It was too early to say whether
investigators have obtained "evi-
dence" of illegal exports to Libya;
the government spokesman, said
tonight.
Earlier in the day, Reuters
quoted Bonn government sources
as saying that West German author-
ities had evidence that West Ger-
man firms helped Libya build what
the United States says is a chemical
weapons plant.
"We are in possession of evidence
which shows that the American al-
legations are not groundless,"
Reuters quoted a source as saying:
"Imhausen will not be able to extri-
cate itself from the matter now,"
the agency quoted a government
source as saying.
But the government spokesman
said that the sources quoted by
Reuter went "too far," because "we
have no formal report with evi-
dence from the responsible author-
ities."
Chancellor Helmut Kohl's gov-
ernment reacted with a mixture of
deep embarrassment. and irritation,
after' U.S. officials leaked the name
of the Imhausen firm to U.S. media
late last month. U.S. officials main-
tain that Imhausen, a chemicals and
pharmaceuticals company belonging
to a group with 350 employees,
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Bonn concedes Libyan Plant
wiaon Punt Fore Servke
,ucal Weapons
information until October of last
VIENNA, Jan. 16-West Ger-
many's government, said today for
the first time that it believes that a
controversial factory . in Libya will
be able to make poison gas, but it
continued to insist that it only has
indications that West German com-
panies helped build the plant.
In comments to reporters in
'Bonn, Finance Minister Gerhard
Stoltenberg also disclosed - that
Bonn had obtained information as
early as August of last year that
raised suspicions . about possible
West German corporate involve-
ment in building the factory. Pre-
viously, West German officials had
said they were not aware of such
Stoltenberg's statements repre-
sented another step back from West
Germany's initial, irritated rebuff of
U.S. administration allegations that
five West German firms helped con-
struct a chemical arms factory at
Rabta, Libya.
The minister's remarks were
made in part to a news conference,
and in part, afterward to a corre-
spondent of the Reuter news agen-
cy in Bonn. His comments were
confirmed in a telephone interview
with his-.chief spokesman, Karl-
Heinz von den Driesch, in Bonn.
"We have to assume that at this
factory there is a section that will
be able to produce poison gas," Stol-
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