-Caveat Lector-
Weapons reduction, government-style
Vanishing machine guns, encryption
devices, radar systems, computers,
grenade launcher
By Charles Smith
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
A newly released government report
shows that the U.S. Defense Department
has "lost" weapons and equipment that
could "get into the hands of terrorists or
foreign countries."
The General Accounting Office report,
"Defense Inventory: Inadequate
Compliance with Controls for Excess
Firearms and Other Sensitive Items," was
released in late December after being
declassified by the Pentagon. The report
documents the loss of "machine guns"
and advanced "electronics" for warplanes
from the U.S. military.
"Although we were able to account for
the items in 104 of 107 transactions
reviewed, we were unable to trace the
actual disposition of the items in 3
transactions," states the report.
Several U.S. military depots and centers
were checked for the loss of "national
security" items. According to the General
Accounting Office, the Defense
Distribution Depot in San Diego lost an
advanced electronics computer for use on
the U.S. Navy E-2 "Hawkeye" radar
plane.
"No destruction
certification existed
for one item, a digital
computer used for
defensive
countermeasures on
the E-2 aircraft with
technologies that
could be used against the Department's
forces by a foreign military," wrote the
GAO. "Depot officials speculated that the
computer had been destroyed and that
the destruction certification had been
misplaced."
According to the report, the Naval
Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport,
Washington, lost track of "18 computers
used for guiding air- or surface-launched
MK-46 torpedoes to a target."
"Center officials believe the computers in
question were destroyed, but they could
not be sure due to the control
weaknesses," states the report, noting that
military officials at Keyport were not sure
of the final status on the missing
computers.
At the Defense Distribution Depot in
Norfolk, Virginia, the GAO discovered "a
high power simulator used to test early
warning systems on Navy aircraft" was
missing."
"Depot officials believe that the simulator
had been destroyed and that the
certification had been misplaced because
there was an annotation on a logbook
that the item was destroyed. However,
the officials could not be certain this was
the case," states the report.
The GAO also discovered weapons
missing from Defense Department
inventories. According to the report,
"records on four firearms transactions
showed that personnel at Fort Hood,
Texas, had entered data in the inventory
system that these firearms, including
eight machine guns, were sent to the
local disposal office, which is not
authorized to accept firearms."
"Our review showed that none of these
items were shipped to the disposal
office," concluded the report. "Army
officials told us that these four
transactions occurred when they
discovered that the firearms were listed
in their inventory records but were no
longer on hand. No investigation was
made to determine what had happened
to the firearms."
How much Pentagon weaponry is getting
into the wrong hands? According to the
GAO's report, "many of those losses
occurred during training exercises, but 69
of the losses (59 percent) were attributed
to theft and were never located. For
example, nine thefts reported during
fiscal year 1996 involved firearms,
including a machine gun, which are still
missing."
There is no question
to U.S. law
enforcement officials
that missing and
stolen military
equipment poses a
threat to their
domestic efforts. In
1995, police officers
discovered a functional grenade launcher
during a raid on a methamphetamine lab.
The launcher was traced to a Pentagon
surplus outlet in Crane, Ind. Although
the weapon had been stolen, documents
provided by the Defense Department
showed the launcher had been cut into
scrap.
However, according to a 1997 article from
U.S. News & World Report, "The
Pentagon's Army and Navy Store" by
Peter Cary, Douglas Pasternak, and
Penny Loeb, foreign countries also take
advantage of the Defense Department's
weaknesses in control.
U.S. Customs Service officials say China,
Iran and Iraq are active buyers of
mislabeled fully functional military
equipment sold from official Defense
Department outlets. Many of these parts,
sold as "surplus", were brand new.
Frequently, military equipment is
illegally exported by Chinese "scrap
dealers." Among the items seized by U.S.
Customs inspectors have been encryption
devices, submarine propulsion parts,
radar systems, electron tubes for Patriot
missiles, and even Stealth fighter parts.
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