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While student sources pinpointed the initiation of the drug sting to a student health emergency during a party in Currier G404, the room of Shameel Arafin '97, who may also be facing administrative board action, Harvard Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley said in an interview that the investigation had actually begun much earlier...
China's energetic traders send much more to the U.S. than toys and clothes--and not all the commerce flows through legitimate channels. In California last week federal agents swept up seven suspects, including a representative of a state-owned Chinese arms company, in a sting operation that involved smuggling 2,000 fully automatic AK-47 assault rifles into the U.S. A plot that would have earned $4 million and contributed to the illegal firepower already menacing American streets is, as Justice Department officials said, a very serious matter. But the diplomatic questions hovering over it may be still more...
Last week the charade ended with an explosion of headlines, as Customs and ATF agents arrested seven people for illegal gunrunning. U.S. Attorney Michael Yamaguchi described the sting operation as the largest seizure of fully operational automatic weapons in U.S. history. The diplomatically sensitive source of the guns: two state-owned arms manufacturers in China, Poly Technologies and Norinco. The president of Poly Technologies, a defense corporation controlled by the People's Liberation Army, is He Ping, the son-in-law of Deng Xiaoping...
With that, the sting was on. According to the 34-page criminal complaint filed in San Francisco's U.S. District Court last week, Hipple helped Ku smuggle in 20,000 machine-gun stands. Ku then told the agent to fax his weapons wish list to Ku's secretary, using code words: "apples" for automatic weapons; "Alpha Kings" for AK-47s; "poppers" for grenades. Later a Florida ATF agent was introduced to Ku as an arms dealer interested in machine guns. Eventually the undercover team negotiated an order for 2,000 AK-47s. They paid Ku and his associates...
...spend but delayed making arrests. "We were trying to lure the large business figures [in China] to the States," says Rollin Klink, head of Customs in San Francisco. Officials finally sprung the trap after learning that the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times were on to the sting. Still, one important figure, Ma, is at large and may have escaped to China. Ku and Chen are under arrest, along with several Chinese and American collaborators. And those amateur actors at Customs and ATF are still laughing at their successful masquerade...