[net-gold] Secrecy News -- 09/26/11
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- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:32:39 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:06:46 -0400
From: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@xxxxxxx>
To: Steven Aftergood <saftergood@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Secrecy News -- 09/26/11
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SECRECY NEWS
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from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2011, Issue No. 92
September 26, 2011
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Secrecy News Blog:
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/
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** GLOBAL RECESSION SPURS COMPETITION IN ARMS SALES
** BRENNAN CENTER ON "CURBING NEEDLESS SECRECY"
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GLOBAL RECESSION SPURS COMPETITION IN ARMS SALES
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Led by the United States, arms-exporting nations are competing ever more
intensely to win lucrative sales contracts in a shrinking global
marketplace, according to a new report from the Congressional Research
Service.
"Worldwide weapons sales declined generally in 2010 in response to the
constraints created by the tenuous state of the global economy," the report
said. The value of all arms transfer *agreements* with developing nations
declined from $49.8 billion in 2009 to over $30.7 billion in 2010. At the
same time, however, the value of all arms *deliveries* to developing nations
was nearly $21.9 billion, which is "the highest total in these deliveries
values since 2006." See "Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations,
2003-2010" by Richard F. Grimmett, Congressional Research Service, September
22, 2011:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R42017.pdf
Yet "as new arms sales have become more difficult to conclude since the
global recession began, competition among sellers has become increasingly
intense," the report said.
"A number of weapons-exporting nations are focusing not only on the clients
with whom they have held historic competitive advantages, due to
well-established military-support relationships, but also on potential new
clients in countries and regions where they have not been traditional arms
suppliers."
Meanwhile, "[D]eveloping nations have been leveraging their attractiveness
as clients by demanding greater cost offsetting elements in their arms
contracts, as well as transfer of more advanced technology and provisions
for domestic production options," the report said.
The United States dominates the global arms market both in sales agreements
and in deliveries, according to the CRS report, which was first reported in
the New York Times on September 24.
The annual CRS reports prepared by Mr. Grimmett are authoritative
compilations of official data on arms transfers, based on privileged access
by CRS to government records. As such, they may have enduring reference
value for researchers in the field (despite the fact that the reports do not
include clandestine or covert transfers). A collection of all CRS annual
reports on conventional arms transfers dating back to 1982 is available on
the Federation of American Scientists website here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/index.html
Additional background is available from the FAS Arms Sales Monitoring
Project.
http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/asmp/index.html
BRENNAN CENTER ON "CURBING NEEDLESS SECRECY"
The Brennan Center for Justice will sponsor a panel discussion October 5 at
the National Press Club in Washington DC on overclassification and "Curbing
Needless Secrecy" to accompany the release of a new report on the subject.
Participants include former Rep. Christopher Shays, former ISOO director J.
William Leonard, former NRO director and chair of the Public Interest
Declassification Board Martin C. Faga, and Elizabeth Goitein of the Brennan
Center.
http://www.brennancenter.org/content/events/
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Steven Aftergood
Project on Government Secrecy
Federation of American Scientists
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