The mystery of the sunken gyros

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 34-39

  Orlov, Vladimir ^a   Potter, William C ^b  

^a PIR Center for Policy Studies   (Russian Federation)

^b MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (United States)

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EID: 0039008921     PISSN: 00963402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00963402.1998.11456901     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. The total of 210 instruments included 33 gyroscopes and 26 accelerometers.
2. See Vladimir Orlov, "New Details of the Gyroscope Deal Investigation," PIR Arms Control Letters, April 1998.
3. The order was given in a late evening meeting on May 5, 1993.
4. The Iraqis told the U.N. Special Commission that these samples were rejected and returned to Gharbiya for transport out of the country. Their subsequent disposition is unknown.
5. Several contracts were signed, one of which was between Gharbiya and the Office of Investment and Contracts, a shadowy body created by Hussein Kamel for money laundering and embezzlement. The office was eliminated immediately after his defection in August 1995.
6. It is known that senior NIIKhSM officials assisted in the physical transport of these goods.
7. The manufacturing equipment may have arrived in mid-July.
8. See Jim Hoagland, "Ritter's Resignation," Washington Post, Aug. 27, 1998, p. 21.
9. Although it is unclear if any technicians from the Mars Rotor Plant ever traveled to Iraq as specified in the contract with Gharbiya, guidance testing equipment from Mars Rotor was shipped to Amman.
10. For an extended discussion on this subject, see Vladimir Orlov and Anna Otkina, "Uroki dela o giroskopakh" ("Lessons of the Gyroscope Deal"), Yaderny Kontrol, no. 2, March-April 1998, pp. 13-17.
11. Security Council Resolution 661 (August 6, 1990), which imposed an economic embargo on Iraq, included a proscription against sales of "weapons or any other military equipment." Resolution 687 related that proscription more specifically to weapons of mass destruction.
12. Security Council Resolution 687, April 3, 1991. See The United Nations and the Iraq-Kuwait Conflict 1990-1996 (New York: U.N. Department of Public Information, 1996), pp. 193-98.
13. Michael Evans, "Russian Deal to Sell Saddam Key Missile Parts," London Times, August 4, 1998.
14. Michael Evans, "Russian Deal to Sell Saddam Key Missile Parts," London Times, 1998. Ibid.
15. These new regulations include Presidential Decree No. 54 "On the Realization of State Policy in the Sphere of the Missile-Space Industry" (January 20, 1998); Government Resolution No. 57 "On Enhancing Control Over the Export of Dual-Use Goods and Services Related to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missile Delivery Systems" (January 22, 1998); and Government Resolution No. 249 "On Introducing Changes to Russian Federal Government Resolution No. 737 'On Joining the International Missile Technology Control Regime'" (February 26, 1998).