Larry Kahaner - AK-47

109 For Somoza, a major draw of the Galil “Israel Shows Off a New Rifle That She Says Rates with the Best,” New York Times , April 15, 1973.

111 As hostilities grew, small arms rushed Christopher Dickey, With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985), 118-119.

112 In August 1985, the Contras received George Gedda, “Contras Obtain 10,000 Polish AK-47 Rifles, US Officials Say,” Associated Press, August 31, 1985.

113 When soldiers reached the wrecked plane Michael S. Serrill, “Shot out of the Sky: A Captured U.S. Soldier of Fortune Spins a Tale of CIA Intrigue,” Time , October 20, 1986.

114 Calero testified that Secord and Singlaub Elaine Sciolino, “Contra Leader Discloses Bank Records,” New York Times , March 6, 1987.

114 Further media investigations revealed Some of the best reporting at the time was by the Wall Street Journal , in particular, John Walcott and David Rogers, “Ship Used to Send Arms to Contras Said to Aid Delivery of East-Bloc Arms,” February 13, 1987.

116 During this time, the FMLN had received large shipments of AKs Roy Gutman, “Bush Assails Soviets on Salvador Aid; He Says They’re Exporting Revolution,” Newsday (New York), May 3, 1989.

116 As it turned out, the weapons came from an unexpected source “Grapevine,” Time , March 27, 1989.

117 This influx of AKs bolstered the rebels’ morale Frank Smyth, “Mysterious Influx of Soviet and Chinese Arms for Salvador Rebels,” Sacramento Bee , June 4, 1989.

120 One incident in October 1999 Report of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States on the Diversion of Nicaraguan Arms to the United Defense Forces of Colombia, January 6, 2003.

122 What makes this example El Tiempo , June 30, 2002. The first story on the arms diversion was published on April 21, 2002.

125 Montesinos went into business with the country’s drug dealers DEA unclassified document written August 27, 1996. Part of a FOIA request in the National Security Archive, George Washington University.

126 As more details emerged about Montesinos’s arming of Colombian rebels Juan O. Tamayo, “Peru’s Link to Arms Deals Worried U.S.,” Miami Herald , September 20, 2000.

127 A more intriguing possibility For pricing information, see An Vranckx, “European Arms Exports to Latin America: An Inventory,” IPIS Background Report , Antwerp, Belgium, updated January 2005.

128 The only bright spot for the Colombian government El Tiempo , June 16, 2004. See also Marcela Sanchez, “Guerrillas March to War in $100 Boots,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer , June 25, 2004.

130 U.S. officials paid less attention “The Iron Fist of Hugo Chavez,” FoxNews.com, February 4, 2005.

131 Rumsfeld discussed the AK purchase Pablo Bachelet, “Rumsfeld ‘Concerned’ about Venezuela’s Plan to Buy AK47s,” Miami Herald , March 24, 2005.

131 Chávez did not immediately respond Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, “Inside the Ring,” Washington Times , February 18, 2005.

134 Fearful that government agents See Kalashnikov, From a Stranger’s Doorstep , 335.

134 Over the following years, Ezell mailed Kalashnikov Ezell, Kalashnikov: The Arms and the Man , 231-239.

135 On May 15, 1990, Kalashnikov arrived Author interviews with William Addison Hurst, September 2004.

137 Over the following days Sergeant Chris Lawson, “Top Weapons Designers Meet Here,” Quantico Sentry , May 22, 1990.

137 They also shared a sense of humor Interviews with William Addison Hurst, September 2004.

138 Kalashnikov received unexpected praise Author e-mail and phone interview with Major General Matthew P. Caulfield (ret.), May 2005.

142 Still friends, the two did not have much time Stephen Johnson, “The Rifle Men; Meeting of the Minds Behind AK-47, M-16,” Houston Chronicle , January 18, 1993.

143 This small, modest man J. Kampfner, “Kalashnikov,” Courier (Queensland, Australia) Mail , March 5, 1994.

144 Observers also took note of Kalashnikov Celestine Bohlen, “Arms Factory Can Make Bricks, But, Russia Asks, Is That Smart?” New York Times , February 24, 1992.

147 “It did not look like he was really angry ” “Five Children Killed as Gunman Attacks a California School,” Associated Press, January 18, 1989.

150 Even former president Ronald Reagan Laurie Becklund, “Saddled Up, Reagan Vows to Speak on Issues,” Los Angeles Times , February 7, 1989.

150 President George H. W. Bush Douglas Jehl, “Bennett Pressured by NRA on Gun Views, Officials Say,” Los Angeles Times , March 18, 1989.

151 He reassured gun owners “Bennett Feels the Heat over Stand on Guns,” Chicago Tribune , March 18, 1989.

157 Within a few months of the ban Interview with Ron Whittaker, 60 Minutes , February 8, 1995.

158 Gun magazines, which had opposed the ban Gun World , August 2001.

158 “ If I could have gotten fifty-one votes in the Senate” Interview with Dianne Feinstein, 60 Minutes , February 8, 1995.

159 On February 28, 1997 There are many accounts of the North Hollywood shootout. See Nancy J. Rigg, “Shootout in North Hollywood,” 9-1-1 Magazine , Sept/Oct. 1997, for a discussion from the dispatcher’s point of view; “Botched L.A. Bank Heist Turns into Bloody Shootout,” CNN.com, February 28, 1997; Beth Shuster and James Rainey, “The North Hollywood Shootout,” Los Angeles Times , March 1, 1997; “Stunned Police, Residents Cope with Aftermath of L.A. Shootout,” CNN.com, March 1, 1997; and 1997 LAPD Annual Report . A recording of the police radio transmissions during the forty-four-minute incident is also available to the public from several sources on the Internet.

163 Police were routinely issued shotguns Mark Schlueb, “As Danger Grows, Orlando Cops Get Rifles with Punch,” Orlando Sentinel , June 4, 2002.

165 Some state assault rifle bans Author interview with John Rosenthal, June 2005.

171 As he hailed a cab outside the UN building Mei-Ling Hopgood, “Gun Lobby Keeps Heat on U.S. at Conference,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution , July 11, 2001.

172 Individual countries and regional groups Mike Crawley, “Kenya Trade-In; Guns for Schools,” Christian Science Monitor , January 2, 2001.

172 In a presentation a year earlier Kofi Annan, We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century, October 2000 Millennium Report , April 3, 2000.

173 Even before the conference began Setting the Record Straight , UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, New York, July 9-20, 2001. Published by the United Nations Department of Public Information in cooperation with the Department for Disarmament Affairs, July 2001.

173 Despite these clarifications Global Structures Convocation (3rd: 1994), February 2-6, 1994, Washington, D.C.

183 The implications of such bullet-tracing systems Joint Report of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Nations Operation in Burundi and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights into the Gatumba Massacre, October 5, 2004.