Gloger.es@PARC-MAXC (12/28/82)
I haven't seen any other response to your question on the fate of OTRAG, so I'll pass along what I know. OTRAG definitely was chased out of Central Africa - Zaire, I'm pretty sure it was - about 3 years ago. They moved to Libya. (Libya, remember, is our planet's foremost nation-state exponent+supporter of terrorism [as distinguished, say, from the Soviet Union, which is the foremost supporter of terrorism while espousing "peace."]) OTRAG said at the time that their's was strictly a business deal with Libya, whereby they leased land for an assembly, test, and launch facility. They further said explicitly that the deal did not include the supplying of rockets to Libya. They did not, however, say why oil-cash-rich Libya would want their money, nor did they in fact disclose anything about what Libya was to receive in exchange for tolerating the presence of Western imperialists. I have heard nothing more about OTRAG directly. Two years ago, however, I heard a rumor which is so good I pass it along: It is an open secret (at least according to this rumor) that the Soviets were behind the rebellion in Zaire which resulted in OTRAG's forced rapid departure from that country. Further, during the rebellion, Soviet-trained and -equipped Zairian rebels were caught while apparently making their way toward the OTRAG facility, with maps, weapons, etc., to destroy and/or capture the facility. Manwhile, OTRAG's arrangement with Libya does call for Libya to get working rockets (still all according to the rumor). And, oil-rich Libya is financing the Pakastani nuclear bomb effort (which effort dirt-poor Pakistan is definitely making, with some help from the U.S., in return for which help the Pakastani's occasionally lie and claim to be making only peaceful use of nuclear energy), this financing by Libya in return for some bombs from Pakistan to Libya. The combination, of course, results in Libya's possessing nuclear-tipped missiles. End of rumor.