Co. Admits Attempt to Sell Missle Parts
State Metal Industries, a smelting company, has admitted that it had tried to illegally export missile bodies and control sections of AIM 7-F Sparrows to China.
The company was supposed to melt the parts into ingots but it later sold the parts to a company owned, in part, by the Chinese government.
The components were loaded into a 40-foot shipping container and hide under scrap deep inside the container.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors found the parts on March 25, 2004.
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