Memorandum to the Africa Fund Trustees about a past Africa Fund victory on the case of Fred Tatos, who acquired shotguns and ammunition illegally from the U.S. in violation of the arms embargo. The Africa Fund brought to the attention of the Commerce Department shipping reports it had obtained indicating shotguns were being transshipped through South Africa to Namibia and Zimbabwe but which The Africa Fund believed were actually destined for South Africa. The memorandum mentions the Suburban Gun, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Freedom of Information Act, Armscor, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), federal judge Loretta Preska, the African National Congress (ANC), U.S. District Court Judge...
Memorandum to the Africa Fund Trustees about a past Africa Fund victory on the case of Fred Tatos, who acquired shotguns and ammunition illegally from the U.S. in violation of the arms embargo. The Africa Fund brought to the attention of the Commerce Department shipping reports it had obtained indicating shotguns were being transshipped through South Africa to Namibia and Zimbabwe but which The Africa Fund believed were actually destined for South Africa. The memorandum mentions the Suburban Gun, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Freedom of Information Act, Armscor, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), federal judge Loretta Preska, the African National Congress (ANC), U.S. District Court Judge John Keenan, Robert Mosbacher, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peer B. Sobol, the U.S. Embassy in Gaborone, Franklin Siegal, the Office of Export Enforcement, Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, Assistant U.S. Attorney Chinta Gaston, John Welsch, Abraham Burger, and the South African Gunowners' Association. Two newspaper articles are reprinted: "U.S. bars Cape Town gun dealer from suppliers" by Simon Barber and "Suit Asks Release Of Gun Sale Data" by M.P. McQueen.
