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The records were from government files and they showed that Khan and Lerch had made the offer, using Wisser as the middleman.

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As the night wore on, the sixty-five-year-old Wisser began to fade.

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The failure to convict Lerch in Germany and the difficulties confronting the prosecution of Wisser and Geiges in South Africa were stark evidence of the ongoing cost of the American position.

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The Americans had also provided the German intelligence service with extensive information about the involvement of Gotthard Lerch, a German living in Switzerland, and Wisser, a German citizen who had lived for years in South Africa.

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They had the cooperation of a key witness, Johan Meyer, who was prepared to testify that he had built the feed-and-withdrawal system on instructions from Wisser and that they both knew it was destined for a Libyan nuclear plant.

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They had conducted a thorough investigation, interviewed dozens of people, and arrested Meyer, Wisser, and a third man, Daniel Geiges, back in September.

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Meyer was the key prosecution witness in the case the South Africans were building against Wisser and Geiges.

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On the same day as the searches, they took Wisser, Meyer, and a third man who worked for Krisch and Tradefin on the project, Daniel Geiges, into custody.

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In September 2007, Gerhard Wisser pleaded guilty in South Africa to attempting to export centrifuge equipment to Libya and transferring other sensitive equipment to Pakistan; he was given an eighteen-year prison sentence, which the court reduced to only three years of house arrest.

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Prosecutors there who were building the case against Wisser and Geiges were confronting difficulties getting cooperation from the American government.

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