CANNON IN THAT BRINK'S JOB ONLY A TWIST IN ARMS TRAFFIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300080009-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Cannon in Thcit Brink's Mob
Only a Twist !?, ' Ar Ims '.Traffic'
Iiy,tir. I+'. TER giQltltST Cummings .was touring SINCE World War
SPECIAL THE PRESS Euru Il,
after World War it the big market for weapons
The use of an ant.l?tank and came upon numerotas'has been Africa and Asia,:
c a n n o n to blow open' a (stockpiles of abandoned and xv h e r e newly ? emerging
Brink's Co. safe In Syra? obsolete weapons. That ?di??'
s or revolutionary;
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cure, N.Y., Is only it bizarre:covery, It is said,. gave him groups have needed arms to
twist to the International (the, Idea of going into the j achieve their demands. Al.
traffic In `,military, hard. business of buying and sell. l geria was a booming center
ware than runs Into billions' Ing weapons on a large, for arms. traffic before it
of dollars every year. I scale. Whether Cummings' i, finally gained independence
The bulk of ' the arms brief career as a.S,JA weap? f from ' Fiance., 'I 'Congo
ions expert has anytliTng to
bon t do with the business 1s?open 1,has been a good customer,-.
thed UnitediaStates,a Sovie
Russia, Communist China, to con?jecttire.* * too.
France, Great, Britain and Because the State Depart
West Germany, A United IN ANA` J.VENT, operat? ment has 'banned private,'
Nations report has ing under licenses by the i
pgg?d)State Department., Inler?,saies of arms to Latin
world spending on arms armco In the last 11 America, interarmco hasn'tt
and munitions at $130. bit-l years'
,sold any there since' 1939.
lion last year. has swung the forlowing , But rival companies in
Since 1950, this ' country awns . deals: Submachine, ,
has provided military J guns and other hand weap?1' other parts of the-world ap?i
and equipment to arms friendly ; ens to Cuban dictator Ba?lparently keep the revolu?;
ycountries In Europe andioiutand. to the Castro rev,. tlonaries supplied, particu.,
olutlnnarles at the sam,' larly those, with access 'In
Asia at a total value of '
more than $35 billion time; Swedish Jet - fighter coup .rtes,?rom Communist
.' aircraft to the Trujillo dic?.
BUT THI;IU IS a clan,Itatorship, now ousted, In'' Sometimes It Is. difficult:
the ' Dominican Republic: I to determine 'whether an
destine side to the arms.lEnfield rifles to Yugoslavia.; arms deal Is, ik. recognlzedl
business th
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t the 13 r 1 t 19 h Intelllgencel The corrrpany Isn't Talk-j
Service, or those directed Ing about recent sales maim'
:, by the I{remlln. A great ly because Its customers'
deal of the twilight arms would just as :soon keep
I traffic Is done,, by, Interna? them quiet. But Interarmco:
tional d e a I e r s , -. for.. big officials contend they would.
profits. be foolish to try to circum?;
One of the biggest deal?ovent export controls of the:
erships In.the world is' In? U.S. Office of Munitions
ternatlonal A r in a m e n t s Control. Every foreign sale,;
Corp. (Interarmco), which they have Insisted In test,.:
has its warehouses in Alex. mony before Congress, la
andria, Va., Just, across the done under export ? licenses"
Potomac Riven from Wash; approved by the U.S.. gov!
ington. It was an Interarm? ernment.
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