Computer probe
NZPA-AFP Pretoria Two American special agents had arrived in South Africa to investigate allegations that the country was being used as a link to smuggle sophisticated American computer equipment to the Soviet Union, the South African police said yesterday. The Police Commissioner, General Johann Coetzee, confirmed that South Africa and the United States would conduct separate investigations but were working “in liaison.” It was reported earlier from Stockholm that four crates thought to contain the equipment — said to be capable of guiding nuclear missiles and regarded as one of the world’s most militarily sensitive computers — had been under police and Customs surveillance in the southern Swedish port of Helsingborg since the week-end. The cargo was apparently delivered to South Africa by the Digital Equipment CorAmerican firm.
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Press, 23 November 1983, Page 10
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Computer probe
Press, 23 November 1983, Page 10
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