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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:17:44 -0800
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: C-NEWS: Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Arms and Bribery
  at White House (fwd)

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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Max Kennedy <mkennedy@iglou.com>
>Subject: Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Arms and Bribery at White House
>
>Unbelievable.  Payed off to ship HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars
>of arms into the US.  Fugitives running from smuggling cases.   
>Bribery at the White House.   And this came out last Friday, and
>no news story on network TV!!!
>
>  It was a huge shipment of arms, about 100 containers, said Robert
>  Sanders, a Washington lawyer who was representing China Jiang An in
>  negotiations with the Customs Service, the Bureau of Alcohol
>  Tobacco and Firearms and the State Department over the weapons. It
>  was mostly ammunition, but there was about 100,000 automatic
>  weapons. Altogether it was a couple hundred-million dollar deal,
>  he said.
>
>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/KARL STOLLEIS
>March 14, 1997
>BY MICHAEL HEDGES
>SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
>WASHINGTON 
>
>A massive shipment of Chinese guns and ammunition, which had been
>banned by order of President Clinton, was approved for delivery into
>the United States four days before the head of a major Chinese gun
>company met Clinton in the White House.
>
>On Feb. 2, 1996, the federal government issued importation permits
>for a multimillion dollar shipment of more than 100,000
>semiautomatic weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition. The
>permits were for a company called China Jiang An to deliver arms
>made by Chinese government owned arms manufacturers Norinco and Poly
>Technologies.
>
>Four days later at the White House, President Clinton met Wang Jun,
>chairman of the government owned conglomerate that runs Poly
>Technologies.
>
>Wang was taken to the White House by Charlie Trie, a Little Rock
>restaurant owner who tried to donate $644,000 to the Clinton legal
>defense fund and had helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars
>for the Democratic National Committee. President Clinton has said he
>didnt know Wang Jun until the White House meeting and didnt
>discuss business with him.
>
>The guns never made it into the country because Chinese government
>officials involved in their import were, at about the same time, the
>target of a massive federal sting operation. While the Chinese
>companies were trying to bring guns in legally, there was a backdoor
>operation to smuggle in other weapons involving executives of
>Norinco and Poly Technologies, federal indictments charged.
>
>State Department and Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
>officials said the issuing of permits after the ban was appropriate.
>A bureau spokesman said the permits were issued under a 1994
>amendment that said Chinese guns in the pipeline for delivery before
>the presidential ban would be allowed. But some experts found that
>explanation unconvincing.
>
>It was a huge shipment of arms, about 100 containers, said Robert
>Sanders, a Washington lawyer who was representing China Jiang An in
>negotiations with the Customs Service, the Bureau of Alcohol
>Tobacco and Firearms and the State Department over the weapons. "It
>was mostly ammunition, but there was about 100,000 automatic
>weapons. Altogether it was a couple hundred-million dollar deal,
>he said.
>
>Sanders said he had been negotiating with U.S. officials for months
>seeking clearance for the weapons to enter the country.
>
>All of a sudden there was a breakthrough, he said. I can't
>account for it.
>
>Officials at China Jiang An, who listed an address in Michigan on
>import permits, couldn't be reached for comment.
>
>Others were equally surprised. Another attorney said the government
>was tying other arms importers in knots to keep guns out of the
>country because the Clinton administration was opposed.
>
>All of a sudden the Chinese can bring in the largest shipment
>anyone ever heard of, said the attorney, who asked not to be
>identified. I was highly suspicious.
>
>As representatives of the Chinese gun companies worked to get the
>guns approved, they were planning to sneak in other guns, according
>to a federal indictment issued in May.
>
>Lu Yi Lun, identified as an assistant president of Norinco, was in
>Washington in late 1995 and early 1996 working to secure import
>permits, said American lawyers who met with him.
>
>Lu told associates that he was under pressure to get Chinese weapons
>past the Clinton embargo and that he couldnt go home until the arms
>shipment was approved. Just weeks later, Lu was named a central
>figure in the indictment issued in the San Francisco gun smuggling
>case. He is now a fugitive.
>
>A federal law enforcement official involved in a huge sting of
>Chinese gun pushers said, I don't think it is farfetched to assume
>these people (Chinese arms officials) were doing anything and
>everything to get legal shipments approved. It was a major source of
>hard currency for them. I can't explain why the government would
>allow it to happen, especially with the president on record as
>adamantly opposed to it.
>
>After the 1996 indictments, efforts to import the approved guns
>stopped, according to attorneys. The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and
>Firearms said no weapons ever arrived under those permits, and they
>expired last month.
>
>The smuggling case continues to cause alarm, however, and is being
>discussed in the debate over whether to lease a closed Navy base in
>Long Beach, Calif., to a Chinese government owned company.
>
>Wednesday, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., questioned the port deal and
>raised the issue of Chinese gun smuggling. Are we allowing this
>adjunct to the Chinese military to penetrate our country or
>influence us? To me it's quite astounding there was no national
>security review of this.
>
>The San Francisco indictments say Lu and others conspired to smuggle
>2,000 machine guns and other munitions into the United States.
>
>William Schaefer, an assistant U.S. attorney in San Francisco, said
>Lu is an indicted defendant who is a fugitive so I am obviously
>not in a position to comment about matters involving him. These were
>weapons designated as military weapons which were illegal even
>before the presidents ban of May 1994.
>
>The indictment said Chinese arms merchants, including Lu, had agreed
>to deliver those weapons to undercover agents posing as members of
>organized crime. In February 1996, just days after the White House
>meeting, Lu and co-conspirators illegally imported the machine guns,
>the indictment said.
>
>Federal enforcement officials were confident that they had
>penetrated the upper echelons of the Chinese governments arms
>industry, and planned to sting high officials before ending their
>undercover operation. But word of the undercover operation leaked in
>Washington.
>
>We had to end this at a very inopportune time, a top federal law
>enforcement official said. Some of those indicted who are
>fugitives (like Lu) would likely have been arrested. They benefited
>from the leak of this story.
>
>Lu worked under Wang Jun at Norinco, officials said.
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