An Australian National University intelligence expert is standing by claims a local company has supplied sophisticated radios to the Burmese military in breach of international sanctions.
Desmond Barrett told the Sydney Morning Herald 2050 radios had recently been deployed at high-level Burmese Army commands and they had both encryption and frequency-hopping functions.
The company and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade claimed the radios lacked the encryption or frequency-hopping functions, but Barrett disagrees.
”I have been present when communications using Barrett 2050 transmitters have been received and can assure you they are being used in both encrypted and frequency-hopping modes,” he said.
It was possible the sets had been sold by an intermediary, or modified after sale.
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