RE: [MV] Singars on Ebay

From: Glen Bedel (GBedel@designforum.com)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 05:05:25 PDT


Here's my problem: American Tax money being reutilized over-seas.

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From: TacticalTruck@aol.com [mailto:TacticalTruck@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:54 AM
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Subject: [MV] Singars on Ebay

Here's what happend to those radio's in Korea:

Two charged after Army radios end up on eBay

                                                     

                                                     

    By Jeremy Kirk, Stars and Stripes

    Pacific edition, Thursday, July 3, 2003

                                                     

                                                     

                                                     

    YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea ? Two South Korean

    men are in custody and a third may be charged

    after Army radios stolen from a Pusan recycling

    depot turned up on an online auction site, a

    Pusan police official said Friday.

                                                     

                                                     

    The eight radios and accessories ? valued at

    $67,000 total ? were recovered by Korean

    National Police, said Maj. David Oten, 8th Army

    deputy public affairs officer.

                                                     

                                                     

    The radios are RT1439 single channel ground

    airborne radio systems, known as SINCGARS, the

    Army's standard ground and vehicle radio used by

    infantry troops, Oten said.

                                                     

                                                     

    A man named Hong who worked for the Defense

    Reutilization and Management Office a few miles

    from Camp Hialeah allegedly kept eight Army

    radios in April 2001, said Lt. Son Kyu-hwa of

    the Pusan police agency of foreign affairs

    division. A base employee whom Oten could not

    identify allegedly falsified paperwork saying

    the radios had been properly decommissioned,

    Oten said.

                                                     

                                                     

    The military uses DRMO to recycle or dispose of

    equipment, Oten said. If the cost of repairing

    an item is more than the item's value, the Army

    may choose to dispose of it, he said.

                                                     

                                                     

    Some equipment may be sold, but materials having

    proprietary military technology are

    "demilitarized," Oten said.

                                                     

                                                     

    The radios, which each cost $7,000 new, were

    scheduled for demilitarization, Oten said.

                                                     

                                                     

    But Hong sold them for about $83 each to a man

    named Chae who collects surplus Army equipment,

    Pusan police's Son said. Chae resold the radios

    to a man named Kim, an amateur radio technician,

    for about $266 each, Son said.

                                                     

                                                     

    Only the last names of the three men were

    available, Son said.

                                                     

                                                     

    On May 15, Kim posted two of the radios for

    about $1,200 each on eBay, Son said. A CIA agent

    noticed the radios and contacted Camp Hialeah,

    Son said.

                                                     

                                                     

    While illegal, the sale of the radios didn't a

    pose a great security risk, Oten said.

                                                     

                                                     

    The radios are common and didn't have advanced

    cryptographic equipment, Oten said.

                                                     

                                                     

    "It was not a secure communications issue," he

    said.

                                                     

                                                     

    The incident remains under investigation by Army

    Criminal Investigation Division agents, Oten

    said.

                                                     

                                                     

    ? Choe Song-won contributed to this report.

                                                     

                                                     

                                         

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