TERRORISM REVIEW

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00844543
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2019
• Case Number: F-2017-01654
• Publication Date: January 26, 1989

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Jamaica
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Arms Seizure
Jamaican authorities in early 1989 reportedly seized a shipment of 1,000
automatic rifles, 250 machineguns, and 10 mortars after learning that the
Colombian end user certificate for the arms was forged. The weapons had arrived
from Portugal on the Copacabana�a Panamanian ship probably owned by a
British arms dealer�and were about to be flown to Colombia for the Revolution-
ary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
This incident suggests that the FARC�which earns large
sums of money through taxing or controlling illicit drug production in some parts
of Colombia�has realized that it can obtain far larger quantities of well-made
military ordnance on the international gray arms market than it can acquire
within Colombia.
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