http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060608/1061315.asp FBI mum after raid of local company
_____ Offices hit have ties to Defense Department By DAN HERBECK News Staff Reporter 6/8/2006 <http://www.buffalonews.com/images/space.gif> <http://www.buffalonews.com/images/space.gif> Federal agents conducted a search Wednesday at the Lewiston offices of a Toronto-based defense contractor that has dealings with the American military, authorities confirmed. The nature of the investigation at Ensil International was not disclosed, but sources from two police agencies said it could involve issues of national security. A team of agents from the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Defense Criminal Investigation Service conducted a court-authorized search at the company's Cayuga Street offices Wednesday morning. Farsad Kiani, an Iranian-born businessman from Toronto, is president of Ensil. He could not be reached to comment at his Toronto office. Inquiries were referred to Louis Koikas, who identified himself as an office manager for the high-technology company. "I have no idea. We don't know what's going on," said Koikas when asked about the search in Lewiston. "There's no comment I can make, whatsoever." The company may have more to say at a later date, Koikas said. Federal agents also declined to comment, as did U.S. Attorney Terrance P. Flynn. "I cannot confirm or deny the existence of an investigation," Flynn said. According to the company Web site, Ensil is "North America's largest multidiscipline printed circuit board repair organization serving the defense, aerospace, medical, telecommunications, mainframe and industrial/robotics industries." Last October, the company announced it had been awarded a $128,692 contract to repair radio frequency amplifiers for the Air Force. In 1999, it announced it had an $8 million Defense Department contract to repair and maintain electronic warfare, communications and navigation systems for the military. In April 1999, Kiani said Ensil had considered building a $6 million electronics plant in Niagara County that would have employed 120 technicians, but was hampered by a lack of cooperation from local government. He said they decided to build in Florida instead. In March 1998, Kiani complained to The Buffalo News that James Galie, then the mayor of Niagara Falls, had conducted an "unlawful criminal investigation" into his background, involving police and either the FBI or Central Intelligence Agency. Galie defended his actions, saying he needed to check out something that had come to his attention. Authorities said Wednesday's search in Lewiston had no connection to the terrorism probe that resulted in 17 arrests in Toronto over the weekend. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free. http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
