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- type: partner_of
with: "[[Carlos Cardoen]]"
start: 1984
role: "agreement to divide the world cluster bomb market, as described by investigator Thomas L. Flannery and reported by Timmerman (sole source)"
role: "agreement to divide the world cluster bomb market, as described by investigator Thomas L. Flannery and reported by Timmerman"
fn: 22
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[[James Guerin]] (died February 10, 2022, aged 91) founded [[International Signal and Control]] (ISC), a defense electronics company in [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]], in his basement in 1971. The company reported about 600 million dollars in annual revenue by 1987, when it merged into the British defense firm [[Ferranti]]. He was indicted in [[Philadelphia]] in 1991 for fraud and for illegal exports to [[South Africa]], and in 1992 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.[^1][^2][^3]
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[^4]: Glenn Frankel, "British Firm Claims It Was Duped by Pa. Arms Maker," *Washington Post*, September 29, 1989, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/09/29/british-firm-claims-it-was-duped-by-pa-arms-maker/5b675f69-e5e0-4c25-9aee-ced8b8e07efa/. The article places Guerin at 59 and describes the Haig filing as "a filing Haig made when running for president last year."
[^5]: Ministry of Defence letter of 12 September 1989 (B. R. Hawtin, Private Secretary) to Charles Powell, 10 Downing Street, and Powell's reply of 13 September 1989, in Prime Minister's papers on Ferranti (file PO-CH-NL 0500 PART A), Margaret Thatcher Foundation archive, https://archive.margaretthatcher.org/HMTPO/PO-CH-NL%200500%20PART%20A.pdf. The letter is marked "secret" and "commercial in confidence/market sensitive."
[^6]: "Ferranti calls in Coopers & Lybrand to investigate ISC contracts," *Computer Business Review* (Tech Monitor), September 17, 1989, https://www.techmonitor.ai/?p=208120.
[^7]: "Guerin's company pleads guilty to $700m International Signal fraud," *Computer Business Review* (Tech Monitor), published September 25, 1990, https://www.techmonitor.ai/?p=222346. Sole source for the Parent Industries plea and the 4.4 million dollar settlement; the report does not state the date of the plea.
[^7]: "Guerin's company pleads guilty to $700m International Signal fraud," *Computer Business Review* (Tech Monitor), published September 25, 1990, https://www.techmonitor.ai/?p=222346. The report does not state the date of the plea.
[^8]: "James Guerin has finally admitted fraud and tax evasion," *Computer Business Review* (Tech Monitor), published December 9, 1991, https://techmonitor.ai/?p=184145.
[^9]: "Ferranti gets losses under control but it will be a long, hard climb out of the pit," *Computer Business Review* (Tech Monitor), published June 23, 1992, https://www.techmonitor.ai/?p=184616.
[^10]: "Weapons-smuggling plot tied to Pa. executive on trial for trade violations," Knight-Ridder News Service, *Baltimore Sun*, November 10, 1992, https://www.baltimoresun.com/1992/11/10/weapons-smuggling-plot-tied-to-pa-executive-on-trial-for-trade-violations/. The defense account is that of Jasin's attorney, Gaar Steiner; the quoted reply is Goldman's.
[^11]: "South African Firms Settle Arms Smuggling Case," Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, https://www.wisconsinproject.org/south-african-firms-settle-arms-smuggling-case/ (undated).
[^12]: Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls, Public Notice 2522, "Statutory Debarment Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations," *Federal Register* 62, no. 56 (March 24, 1997), p. 13933, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1997-03-24/html/97-7273.htm.
[^13]: *United States v. Jasin*, 280 F.3d 355 (3d Cir. 2002) (Greenberg, J.), https://static.case.law/f3d/280/cases/0355-01.json. The opinion gives the 67-count indictment against 19 codefendants, Jasin's positions from July 1984, and the verdict of December 10, 1992 after a five-week trial. It dates the indictment October 30, 1991; the district court's 2002 opinion in note 16 dates it October 31, 1991.
[^14]: *United States v. Jasin*, 25 F. Supp. 2d 551 (E.D. Pa. 1998) (DuBois, J.), No. Crim. 91-602-08, decided August 12, 1998, https://static.case.law/f-supp-2d/25/cases/0551-01.json, citing N.T. November 24, 1992, at 70 for the "Washington approval" testimony. Sole source for the sentencing findings of July 16, 1998.
[^15]: Maurice Possley, "Thomas Jasin," National Registry of Exonerations, posted January 10, 2013, https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/11260. Sole source for Jasin's testimony about meeting CIA agents and for the dismissal of the charges after the 2002 ruling.
[^14]: *United States v. Jasin*, 25 F. Supp. 2d 551 (E.D. Pa. 1998) (DuBois, J.), No. Crim. 91-602-08, decided August 12, 1998, https://static.case.law/f-supp-2d/25/cases/0551-01.json, citing N.T. November 24, 1992, at 70 for the "Washington approval" testimony.
[^15]: Maurice Possley, "Thomas Jasin," National Registry of Exonerations, posted January 10, 2013, https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/11260.
[^16]: *United States v. Jasin*, 215 F. Supp. 2d 552 (E.D. Pa. 2002) (DuBois, J.), memorandum and order of August 8, 2002, https://static.case.law/f-supp-2d/215/cases/0552-01.json. The opinion quotes Guerin's letter (Def.'s Ex. 14 at 52), the government's closing (T. Dec. 3, 1992, at 95), the government's 2001 reply, and Shinehouse's testimony (T. Nov. 30, 1992, at 149), and notes that Guerin was named in a separate indictment and pleaded guilty.
[^17]: Dan Nephin, *LNP*, February 20, 2022 (see note 3), which states that Shinehouse "led the internal investigation and directed subsequent litigation to help Ferranti recover what money it could."
[^18]: *United States v. Jasin*, 280 F.3d 355 (3d Cir. 2002), https://static.case.law/f3d/280/cases/0355-01.json; the opinion cites the August 12, 1999 affirmance, 191 F.3d 446 (table), and the denial of certiorari, 528 U.S. 1139 (2000).
[^19]: "Ties to convict could be questioned," *Tampa Bay Times*, December 17, 1993, https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/12/17/ties-to-convict-could-be-questioned/. Sole source for the April 27, 1992 letter; the article does not say which of the two men the letter's "he had worked in the mid-1970s with U.S. intelligence agencies" describes.
[^19]: "Ties to convict could be questioned," *Tampa Bay Times*, December 17, 1993, https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/12/17/ties-to-convict-could-be-questioned/. The article does not say which of the two men the letter's "he had worked in the mid-1970s with U.S. intelligence agencies" describes.
[^20]: "Inman withdraws from nomination," *Christian Science Monitor*, January 19, 1994, https://csmonitor.com/1994/0119/19242.html.
[^21]: Open Secrets, "Declassified: Apartheid Profits," *Daily Maverick*, October 9, 2017, https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-10-09-declassified-apartheid-profits-american-guns/. Sole source for the claim that Guerin was a CIA agent; the article dates Guerin's sentencing October 31, 1991, which is the date of the indictment announcement in note 1.
[^22]: Kenneth R. Timmerman, *The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq* (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), pp. 168 to 169. Sole source for the Rockeye fuze, the CIA-approval statement, the agreement and the August 2, 1983 Cardoen arrest; the market-division quotation is Timmerman's quotation of Thomas L. Flannery.
[^23]: Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, "Update on BNL Investigation," *Congressional Record*, House of Representatives, January 21, 1993, p. H132, https://irp.fas.org/congress/1993_cr/h930121-bnl.htm. Sole source for the statement about Byrne and ISC.
[^21]: Open Secrets, "Declassified: Apartheid Profits," *Daily Maverick*, October 9, 2017, https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2017-10-09-declassified-apartheid-profits-american-guns/. The article dates Guerin's sentencing October 31, 1991, which is the date of the indictment announcement in note 1.
[^22]: Kenneth R. Timmerman, *The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq* (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991), pp. 168 to 169. The market-division quotation is Timmerman's quotation of Thomas L. Flannery.
[^23]: Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, "Update on BNL Investigation," *Congressional Record*, House of Representatives, January 21, 1993, p. H132, https://irp.fas.org/congress/1993_cr/h930121-bnl.htm.