European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday novembers 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 gun smuggling is on the increase by Jeff Gerth and Joel Brinkley new York times in Early 1981 two Amu ican agrarian advisor Sand a salvadoran official were shot to death i what has become one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in Al Salvador. Now . La enforcement officials say they have evidence that a .-made semiautomatic pistol which had been smuggled out of Florida was used in the killings. This is one of a number of recent instances in which illegally exported .-made weapons have been used abroad in plots against americans and officials of governments Friendly to the United states. These cases and the increasing number of american weapons being smuggled abroad have caused concern / among . And foreign Law enforcement officials. A firearms exported illegally from tint United slates it have found their Way in Ever increasing quantities to a the most Remote countries in the world said a a confidential report by the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms on International arms trafficking in 1984. T f the number of International arms trafficking cases and defendants this year will be More than twice that of 1984, Phillip c. Mcguire the Deputy director of the Bureau said in an interview. Mcguire said that the biggest number of arms smuggled out of the United states passed through Southern Florida. There is no question that this country this stale and this p is against the mexican government including a possible assassination of president Miguel de la Madrid according to information recently uncovered by Federal officials. Guns recovered in Mexico earlier this year from the site where a slain american drug enforcement agent Enrique c. Salazar was found were smuggled out of Chicago. Los Angeles and san Antonio firearms Bureau officials say. A Mac-10 semiautomatic pistol used last year in the assassination of the columbian Justice minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was recently traced to Florida by Federal officials according to Edward d. Conroy head of the firearms Bureau office in Miami. The government has indicted a Miami arms dealer in a plot to Supply weapons to assassinate the president of Honduras Roberto Suazo Cordova. Earlier this year a Federal grand jury in Miami indicted several a Larriana Lor planning to kill Suazo. A group of to Ridland was arrested in Costa Rica in april Over an attempt to Supply arms purchased in Southern Florida to rebels seeking to overthrow the nicaraguan government according to Federal officials and some of the participants. The weapons included automatic rifles and cannons. Other Federal officials acknowledge that they have had difficulty in stopping gun running. They say numerous government officials and others involved in the arms business say that . Policies often Foster gun running. Since the government sometimes makes Covert arms purchases for intelligence operations abroad some major arms traffickers get government Protection these sources say