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...circuitous route before it "jumps the wall," in Customs agents' parlance, to the East bloc. Last month U.S. marshals arrested Marino Pradetto, 46, the Italian operator of a West German electronics firm who was in California for a trade fair, and charged him with illegal diversion of a powerful VAX II/780 mainframe computer to Czechoslovakia through San Jose, Haiti and Switzerland...
...machines themselves. A favorite Soviet tactic is to set up bogus companies in Western Europe to buy computers and then smuggle them to Moscow. In recent years, the U.S. Government has seized several powerful machines that were being illegally shipped to the Soviet Union, including Digital Equipment's VAX and PDP 11/44 minicomputers...
...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 export license...
West German Businessman Richard Mueller has been helping the Soviet Union to obtain modern electronic gear for more than a decade. In 1981 he was placed on a Government list of forbidden high-technology customers. But that did not stop Mueller from buying two brand-new VAX 11-780 minicomputers and other equipment made by Digital Equipment Corp. of Maynard, Mass., between 1981 and 1983. The purchases were made from DEC'S West German subsidiary through a firm Mueller controlled called Deutsche Integrated Time...
...officials assume but cannot prove that the missing VAX computers, which can be used to track missiles, reached the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, DEC was fined $1.5 million last week for violating the Export Administration Act. The Government said that the company should have known that Mueller, whose name appeared on his company's documents, was behind the deals. DEC denied any wrongdoing and said it had been victimized by a "notorious computer smuggler." The fine will be reduced by $400,000 if DEC's West German subsidiary does not commit any additional export violations in the next three...