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Article: U.S. Says Israel Resells Technology; State Department Inspector General Reports on Alleged Violations
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- The Washington Post
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- April 2, 1992
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The State Department's inspector general charged in a report
issued yesterday that Israel engaged in a "systematic and growing
pattern" of reselling sensitive U.S. technology to other countries
in violation of U.S. law and attempted to conceal the exports.
The inspector general, Sherman M. Funk, also reported that the
State Department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs failed to
notify Congress or senior department officials although there was
"significant" evidence of violations. Funk said the practice began
in about 1983 and was only curbed after his investigation began.
Funk said the U.S. government had received at least seven
"summary reports" on Israel's global arms trade that ...