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...West Germany, say. They sell the material to another exporter--perhaps it goes to Sweden instead--and they send it to the Soviet Union," explains Prime's Ganaghan. It was this kind of smuggling ring that made headlines earlier this fall when Swedish and U.S. Customs intercepted a shipment of Digital VAX computers bound originally for West Germany but headed instead to a destination in the Soviet Bloc. VAX computers have potential military applications, according to the Defense Department. As a result of the bust, a part of the Custom Service's counter-intelligence Operation EXODUS, Digital lost its general...
...plotters hoped to finance the operation with the proceeds from an illegal 763-lb. shipment of cocaine flown last week from Colombia to a remote landing strip in southern Florida. The FBI seized the cocaine (wholesale value: $10.3 million) four days before the arrests. According to bureau sources, two other recent Florida drug hauls were also related to the Suazo plot...
...ceramic tiles being shipped from a company located near Milan to an address in Buffalo. When they looked inside the hollowed-out beams of the wooden pallets that held the tiles, they found 40 Ibs. of heroin. Replacing the heroin with a look-alike substance, the FBI allowed the shipment to proceed and followed it to its destination with arrest warrants for eight people. When they raided the address to which the heroin was sent, they found an additional 20 Ibs., plus handguns, jewelry and $150,000 in cash...
...comes at an awkward time for South Korea. As the trucks were unloading, facilities for the 1988 Summer Olympics were being dedicated at a ceremony in Seoul. The North Koreans described their shipment as part of Leader Kim II Sung's new policy of promoting friendship, but a Japanese newspaper reported that North Korea had moved three new armored corps into position along the Demilitarized Zone. Said South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan: "North Korea's falsified peace offensives are always accompanied by sinister moves against the South...
...largest I.R.A. shipment to be intercepted since 1973. As with an estimated 80% of the terrorists' arms, the trawler's deadly cargo was apparently financed and supplied by nationalist sympathizers in the U.S. Irish authorities reportedly acted on a tip from U.S. intelligence sources...