European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Iran arms smuggling inquiry growing Fri trying of Frace bring charges Washington not Federal hav ing foiled what they said was a plot to smuggle missiles from the United states to say they Are seeking to determine whether some of the people arrested last week previously shipped arms to in unrelated cases involving the purported smuggling of american military equipment to Iran Are said to be under Jeffrey an assist ant attorney in los said Friday charges in one Case were expected later this month in that the Fri reported thursday that it had arrested six people in what the government said was a plot to smuggle More than million in advanced missiles and weapons to government sources said the Bureau was particularity interested in two of those Paul a Mili tary science writer in san and Wayne Gillespie of who worked at the Penta gon in the army Materiel come and held to secret Clear according to documents released Sjeklocha and Gillespie had previous an Fri affidavit filed thursday said Sjeklocha told one of the bureaus undercover agents that he has been Deal ing in arms with Iran for the last two years and has sold them enough arms to net Between million and Mil lion in the affidavit also said Sjeklocha had used Gillespie before in France and Germany to Check items for the missile Case is the latest in a series of incidents in which the Fri and the customs service have uncovered what they said were attempts to smuggle arms and military equipment to Iran Over the last in Many of these cases the arms were said to have been seized before they reached although the arms shipments Are said to have originated from Many places throughout the United states and to involve a variety of equipment and differing Partick there Are Many common similar methods of according to Federal la enforcement offi Stem from what they describe As a Well financed Effort by Iran to obtain military equipment and parts for its nearly 5yearold War against what makes this illegal arms Market the officials is documents released thursday maintain that Iran is willing to pay Premium prices for while including various middlemen and make tremendous profits by raising the Cost of the weapons to two or three times their original Federal officials say that in trying to obtain Amer ican often uses a Complex network of people and including middlemen in the United Portugal and West transshipment of equipment through Europe and International financial the officials say these deals sometimes involve the use of iranian offices in for an indictment last october in Chicago involving a purported conspiracy to Export aircraft parts to Iran named two Chicago businessmen and three British middlemen who were directed by the iranian procurement office in in another Amir an iranian part time student in los pleaded guilty last april to illegally exporting spare parts for military jus Tice department officials said Motamedi had acted As a purchasing agent for with Money flowing to him from Iran through London and goods going Back to Iran through the smuggling stems from an american prohibition on exports to Iran that went into effect in november 1979 after the embassy in Tehran was seized and embassy personnel were held Iran still has billions of Dol Lars in american military equipment that it acquired be fore followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah Early in in its efforts to acquire american Iran apparently went so far As to Send a procurement official on a shop Ping Mission to the United among those arrested last week in the Case was Hossein who described himself to associates As an official of the iranian govern Federal officials have not publicly confirmed Azars official but have privately Given prosecutors information that supports Azars Radical guilty of escaping Federal prison a Radi Cal Marilyn Jean who admitted walk ing away from a Federal prison where she was serving a sentence on a weapons has been convicted of the jury deliberated 28 minutes Friday before returning the District judge Charles Haden sentenced the 37 year old woman to five years in prison and fined her Buck was serving a 10year sentence on a conviction for using a false name to buy weapons when she was granted a furlough from the Federal correctional institution for women at in 1977 so she could visit her lawyer in new she never returned to the and was recaptured in new York last the self proclaimed member of the Black liberation army still faces a new York indictment that while she was at she took part in four four armoured car robberies and two among the robberies in which she is charged was the october 1981 Holdup of a brinks armoured truck in which a guard and two policemen were who represented herself at the two Day told the jury she was an anti imperialist revolutionary who fled from the prison because she was a 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