Toshiba Tells Role in Libyan Factory
Toshiba sent technicians to Libya in 1987 to supervise the installation of electrical equipment at a plant later alleged to be for the production of chemical weapons, a spokesman said Thursday.
He said the men supervised installations at an electricity substation that they believed was part of a project to build a desalination plant.
“The plant was not operational when they left,” the spokesman said, adding that “they didn’t know at all” that it might be other than a desalination plant.
The Japanese electronics and machinery firm acknowledged last week it had supplied transformers, switch gear and other equipment for the Libyan plant as a subcontractor to Japan Steel Works in December, 1985.
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