PANEL LINKS C.I.A. TO ARMS SHIPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200970078-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: March 25, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES
ARTICLE A.,:- : iTL 25 MARCH 1982
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The subcommittee report quoted th
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8a agency 'did not
direct1yor indirectly give, sell, or other.
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SHIPMENT Africa any arch equipment, did not en-
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courage or facilitate others to do so and
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ay advance knowledge of
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Sale to South Africa pleteimvestigetion."
Mw report said that John J. Frost, a
Said to Have He! ed Plan `-LA-'ac"e"ged" that the intelli-
genre agency has not made a "core-.
WASBL~tGTON, March 24 = The [ and Taswan as 1975 to be forwarded to
staff of a He subcommittee asserted moo-Communist forces in Angola, which
in a report today that an individual't tbeUnited States covertly assisted until
working under the supervision of a Can- forced to desist by Caogresesslcaal leis
tral Inteili gwace Agency- officer had l latioan.
helped plan an illicit shipment of arms Soom9oeArras and AmmueItion
to South Africa between 1976 and 1978, Tae report added that Mr. Frost, who
The 46-page report by the staff of the was with a C.I.A. official now
Subcommitee on Africa of the House stationed d, "strongly recom-
Foreign Affairs Committee recom- mended" to officials of the South Afri-
mended several measures aimed at im- can Government arms procurement
proving and tightening enforcement of agamey that the Space Research Corpo.
a policy adopted In 1963 that forbids the ration of North Troy. Vt., would be best
expoR of letbal military equipment to. source for 15-milllraeter artillery
the white-minority Government of weapons and ammunition sought by the
SouthA rica. _ :.. . South Africans for their own armed
The report also recommended that.: forces, which had penetrated deep Into
the Select Intelligence Committees of Angola. The C.I.A. officer was not idea-
the House and the Senate investigate titled in today's Congressional report
?'thepossibleroles of employees, agents butwasgivea false initials of "A.B."
and contacts of the C.I.A. In efforts to Tbecase investigated over a t 9m year
evade the U.S. embargo against South - period by the subcommittee staff in-
Africaduing the Angolan civil war of volred the sale and shipment to South
197376" and in the development of con- Africa by Space Reesrc2t Coe-,ration
,facts between the South African Gov- of approximately 60,000155-millimeter
eminent and a now defunct American extended-range artillery shells, and at
cp don that supplied the shells and 'least four 155-millimeter gum, includ-
,~ Ig. three advanced prototypes and
t3car onArmsEmbargo ;'. enfant the subcommittee asserts was
The suboazymittae said it would bold technology and technical - assistance
hearings on the, effectiveness of the that permitted South Africa to establish
South African arms ? embargo next its own facilities for manufacturing and
Tuesday and that it nad invited officials testing such equipmeetS
of the State Department to testify. Corpo 'D"O~~ of the Space Research
gone out
spokesman for the State Department A r` ass. de has since
had noeomz ttoday.:;g--:. .pleaded guilty t t? a single count of ? egally exporting such eq U
meat and served prison terms of four
amdf0atrandahalimceiths.
By CRAItLES MOHR the C.I.A. enlisted him to try to procure
sp.waozn.t+..:o.ltsm. surplus Aaxxican aroapons in Thailand
4' Belgium and the United Stales, had said
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