The Nation - News from June 2, 1989
A Louisiana businessman surrendered to authorities in Baton Rouge on charges he conspired to export sophisticated sonar to the Soviet Union in a $1.32-million scheme officials said posed a threat to national security. Raymond Long, the 39-year-old president of the R & L Marine & Drilling Services of Springfield, La., turned himself in a day after authorities in New York named him in an export-conspiracy indictment along with four foreign nationals. Extradition procedures were under way for three of the foreigners, including two Japanese and a Norwegian. Authorities said the fourth suspect is a Soviet national.
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