The Washington Post, April 25th, 1989
Allegations that a South African diplomat tried to obtain a stolen British surface-to-air missile from a Northern Irish guerrilla organization during a meeting in a Paris hotel room last Friday stirred political storms today in London and Pretoria. The South African government sought to distance itself from the diplomat, who allegedly offered to swap South African arms for the missile. Officials here said that if any such deal was attempted, it was done without official authorization. At the same time, though, the ministers of defense and foreign affairs both insisted that South Africa has the...
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