[B-Chan]

I agree. The transaction could have been a private sale, a government-sanctioned sale, a Mafia thing, or a Chechen thing. We'll have to look into it after the war.

[hchutch]

I don't know if we had any threads (it was before my time here), but in September of `98 or so, I recall reading a front-page Bill Gertz story with the headline: "Operable Missile Seized by Customs" or something like that. Short version: A Scud was seized by Customs. The guy who bought it was a collector. CIA had NO clue it was on its way here. Nor did any of the other alphabet soup agencies who presumably should have been tracking things.