List of US businesses that sold weapons to Saddam
Hussein.
When the massive pile of documents from Iraq appeared the U.S.
immediately pulled out all stops to get first access, to shut down wide
dissemination. The smart money said there would be evidence of U.S. culpability
in aiding the Iraqi weapons programs. To be reported in tomorow's Die
Tageszeitung (Berlin daily), here is a list of US and Eurpean corporations that
supplied Iraq with nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile technology, prior
to 1991. The list comes, it seems, from the original Iraqi report to the
Security Council."
U.S. corporations involved:
A - nuclear K -
chemical B - biological R
- rockets
(missiles)
1) Honeywell (R,K)
2) Spektra Physics (K)
3) Semetex
(R)
4) TI Coating (A,K)
5) UNISYS (A,K)
6) Sperry Corp. (R,K)
7)
Tektronix (R,A)
8) Rockwell )(K)
9) Leybold Vacuum Systems (A)
10)
Finnigan-MAT-US (A)
11) Hewlett Packard (A.R,K)
12) Dupont (A)
13)
Eastman Kodak (R)
14) American Type Culture Collection (B)
15) Alcolac
International (C)
16) Consarc (A)
17) Carl Zeis -U.Ss (K)
18) Cerberus
(LTD) (A)
19) Electronic Assiciates (R)
20) International Computer
Systems
21) Bechtel (K)
22) EZ Logic Data Systems,Inc. (R)
23) Canberra
Industries Inc. (A)
24) Axel Electronics Inc. (A)
Additionally to these 24 companies based in the US, are nearly
50
subsidiaries of foreign enterprises whose arms co-operation with
Iraq
seems to have been operated from the US. In addition,
Ministries for
defense, energy, trade, and agriculture, as well as the
foremost U.S.
nuclear weapons laboratories at Lawrence Livermore. Los Alamos,
and
Sandia, are designated as suppliers for the Iraqi arms programs for
A,
B, and C-weapons as well as for rockets.
Iraq's 11,000-page report to the UN Security Council lists 150
foreign companies, including some from America, Britain, Germany and France,
that supported Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programme, a German
newspaper said yesterday.
Berlin's left-wing Die Tageszeitung newspaper said it had seen
a copy of the original Iraqi dossier which was vetted for sensitive information
by US officials before being handed to the five permanent Security Council
members two weeks ago. An edited version was passed to the remaining 10 members
of the Security Council last night.
It is not known who leaked the report, but it could have come
from Iraq.
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