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Subject: Cardoen, Thatcher & Murdered Journa
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:40:00 GMT
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Subject: Cardoen, Thatcher & Murdered Journalist
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            Weekly News Update #150, December 13, 1992


CHILE: CARDOEN, THATCHER AND THE MURDERED JOURNALIST 

A Chilean court has reopened the case of British journalist
Jonathan Moyle, who was found hanged in a Santiago hotel room on
March 31, 1990. (See Update #85) The editor of Defence Helicopter
World, Moyle was apparently in Chile to investigate plans by arms
manufacturer Carlos Cardoen--who is closely connected to the
Chilean military--to develop helicopter and missile systems based
on British and US designs. The British embassy in Chile promoted
a story that Moyle had accidentally hanged himself while
masturbating, but subsequent investigation revealed that he had
been injected in the heel with a lethal substance. The court has
ordered Cardoen's former public relations officer Raoul
Montesinos to appear in court for an identity parade on Dec. 10.
[The Guardian (UK) 11/23/92; The Independent (UK) 11/28/92]
 
United Kingdom has been rocked over the last month with
revelations of British involvement in arms sales to Iraq during
the middle 1980s, some through Cardoen Industries. Cardoen says
that he gave both the British and the US Defense Department
"ample explanation" of his Iraqi arms sales and that officials
had "verified the entire manufacturing process of the arms in
question." Cardoen denies any link to Moyle's death and says his
firm did a "relatively small amount of business" with Iraq "in
the face of the huge arms sales carried out by the United States
and the United Kingdom." His company built an arms factory
outside Baghdad in 1987 and made about $80 million a year selling
cluster bombs to Iraq. [Independent 11/26/92] Mark Thatcher, son
of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, has been described as
an associate of Cardoen by former Israeli intelligence officer
Ari Ben-Menashe. [Independent 11/28/92] (Another Thatcher
associate at the time was H. Ross Perot, whose firm, Electronic
Data Systems (EDS), paid Thatcher as a consultant while it was
discussing $500 million in defense contracts with the British
government.) [The Observer (UK) 11/22/87]
 
On Dec. 9 US Attorney General William Barr turned down demands
from Congress for a special prosecutor to investigate alleged US
government wrongdoing involving loans to Iraq from the Banca
Nazionale del Lavoro's Atlanta branch. Barr had appointed his own
counsel, Judge Frederick Lacey, to investigate the case. "Had
there been any corruption here," Lacey angrily told a press
conference, "I would have smelled it and found it." [NYT
12/10/92]

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