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The Nation - News from July 28, 1985

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Two Green Beret sergeants were convicted in West Palm Beach, Fla., of stealing tons of Army weapons and explosives, then trying to trade them for cocaine and cash from federal agents posing as smugglers with Central American connections. Master Sgt. Keith Anderson, 32, and Sgt. 1st Class Byron Carlisle, 44, based at Ft. Bragg, N. C., were charged last year with selling 4,700 pounds of munitions to agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in exchange for $27,000 and what they believed to be a kilo of cocaine, which was actually milk sugar.

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