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Date: March 30, 2007 5:45:45 PM PDT
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Subject: Company Charged with Trading with the Enemy -- Directors
Linked to DoD
ITT FINED IN TECH EXPORT CASE
Bloomberg News
Boston Globe, March 28, 2007
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/03/28/
itt_fined_in_tech_export_case/
WASHINGTON -- Defense contractor ITT Corp. agreed to pay $100
million and plead guilty to two criminal charges for allowing the
transfer to China of night-vision technology that is critically
important in battle.
ITT, the Defense Department's leading maker of night vision
goggles, will be the first major defense contractor convicted of a
criminal violation of the Arms Export Control Act, the Justice
Department said. The company will enter the plea today in federal
court in Roanoke, Va.
"There was a lot of illegal activity going on here," said John
Brownlee, the US attorney in Roanoke.
The government accused White Plains, N.Y.-based ITT of trying to
cut costs over a 20-year period by shipping technology and
components without export licenses to an unidentified Singapore-
based contractor. That company began shipping the technology to a
China-based optics firm around 2001, court documents said.
China has been trying to get so-called Generation 3 night-vision
technology to develop ways to counteract it, analysts say.
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ITT's Board of Directors
http://www.itt.com/profile/board.asp
<includes:>
JOHN J. HAMRE
<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_J._Hamre>
President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Strategic &
International Studies ("CSIS"), a public policy research
institution dedicated to strategic, bipartisan global analysis and
policy impact
Dr. Hamre, 55, was elected President and Chief Executive Officer of
CSIS in April of 2000.
Prior to joining CSIS, he served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of
Defense from 1997 to 2000 and Under Secretary of Defense /
Comptroller [specializing in procurement issues]) from 1993 to 1997.
Dr. Hamre is a Director of MITRE Corporation, Choicepoint, Inc. and
SAIC, Inc.
<MITRE: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?
title=MITRE_Corporation. Among its Board of Directors: Richard J.
Kerr, present in Cuba during Bay of Pigs, made Deputy Director of
the CIA under Bush41, http://www.mitre.org/about/bot/kerr.html;
Nixon man James Schlesinger, CIA Director 1973, CFR, Dubya's
Homeland Security advisor, http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?
title=James_Rodney_Schlesinger; Martin Faga, on Dubya's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board, http://www.mitre.org/about/bot/
faga.html; David Jeremiah, on Defense Policy Board under Richard
Perle, director of Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs,
former chairman of the board at Wackenhut, http://
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_E._Jeremiah; James Busey,
Dubya's Secy of Transportation (for FAA vis-a-vis Terrorism).>
<CHOICEPOINT: "Big Brother Inc" -- privatized supplier of domestic
intel data to government spy agencies, enabled Jeb Bush to "weed
out" Democrats in the 2000 election, handled identification of 9/11
victims by using DNA samples: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/
S00193.htm
http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/05/con06200.html>
<SAIC: http://www.investor.reuters.com/business/
BusCompanyOverview.aspx?ticker=SAI&symbol=SAI&target=%2fbusiness%
2fbuscompany%2fbuscompfake%2fbuscompoverview
He received a B.A. degree, with highest distinction from Augustana
College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was a Rockefeller Fellow at
Harvard Divinity School and was awarded a Ph.D., with distinction,
from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins
University, in 1978.
Dr. Hamre has been a Director of ITT Corporation since 2000.
CURTIS J. CRAWFORD
President and Chief Executive Officer, XCEO, Inc., a leadership and
corporate governance consulting firm
Dr. Crawford, 58, is President and Chief Executive Officer of XCEO,
Inc. From April 1, 2002 to March 31, 2003 he served as President
and Chief Executive Officer of Onix Microsystems, a private
photonics technology company. He was Chairman of the Board of
Directors of ON Semiconductor Corporation from September 1999 until
April 1, 2002.
Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of ZiLOG,
Inc. from 1998 to 2001 and its Chairman from 1999 to 2001.
"Zilog was founded in 1974 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of
Exxon Corp. by 1980. The company's management and employees
purchased Zilog back from Exxon in 1989. Zilog became a publicly-
held company in February, 1991. In March of 1998, Zilog was
privatised, as a result of the merger and recapitalisation
transaction by Texas Pacific Group (TPG)."
http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~mgr/404/burks/foldoc/97/130.htm
Dr. Crawford is a Director of E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company,
ON Semiconductor Corporation, and Agilysys, Inc. and is a member of
the Board of Trustees of DePaul University.
<DuPont: "In a report submitted by Saddam Hussein to the United
Nations before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it was revealed that
DuPont <<along with Bechtel and several U.S. government agencies>>
had participated in Iraq's WMD program during the 1980s. (The Bush
Administration attempted to redact the names of all U.S. companies
involved but an uncensored copy was leaked to the press.) DuPont
still has not faced any sanctions for acting in violation of
international arms agreements."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0315205>
He received a B.A. degree in business administration and computer
science and an M.A. degree from Governors State University, an
M.B.A. from DePaul University and a Ph.D. from Capella University.
Governors State University awarded him an honorary doctorate in
1996 and he received an honorary doctorate degree from DePaul
University in 1999.
Dr. Crawford has been a Director of ITT Corporation since 1996.
RALPH F. HAKE
Chairman and Chief Executive, Maytag Corporation, a home and
commercial appliance company
Mr. Hake, 57, was named Chairman and Chief Executive of Maytag
Corporation in June of 2001. On March 31, 2006, Whirlpool
Corporation completed its acquisition of Maytag Corporation.
Previously, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer for [Texas-based] Fluor Corporation, an engineering and
construction firm.
<Fluor is a Bechtel/Halliburton league defense contractor, in Iraq
oil field re-construction, famed for its multibillion-dollar DoD
lobbyists, boasts ex-generals and ex-officials of the CIA and NSA
on its Board of Directors. http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/
bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=21>
From 1987 to 1999, Mr. Hake served in various executive capacities
at Whirlpool Corporation, including Chief Financial Officer and
Senior Executive Vice President for global operations. Mr. Hake
serves on the Board of the National Association of Manufacturers,
where he is Chairman of that association’s Taxation and Economic
Policy Group. Mr. Hake is a 1971 business and economics graduate of
the University of Cincinnati and holds an M.B.A. from the
University of Chicago.
Mr. Hake has been a Director of ITT Corporation since 2002.
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