On June 20 China confirmed that it had supplied short-range tactical missiles to Pakistan.

Thus, the possibility that Patriots had been sold to China, which has supplied ballistic missiles and related technology to Iran and Syria, was regarded as serious.

Among the report's disclosures about aid to the contras are these: * The White House approached an unidentified country to supply British antiaircraft missiles to the contras.

So far it has supplied nuclear material or missiles to Pakistan, Algeria, India, Brazil, Argentina, Syria and South Africa.

For example, it has long supplied missiles to Iran, and there have been suspicions, but no evidence, of nuclear cooperation between the countries as well.

Administration officials said that there was no evidence that this was done with Soviet help, but they added that the case underscored the risk of supplying ballistic missiles to third-world clients.

He also criticized the United States and Pakistan for continuing to supply powerful surface-to-surface missiles to the guerrillas battling Soviet and Afghan Government forces.

The Israeli embassy in Kenya also supplied anti-tank missiles to the rebels.

France is reported to have supplied antiaircraft missiles to Chad.

However, for one country in the Middle East, this was exactly the outcome it had sought: Iran has supplied missiles, munitions and other sophisticated weaponry to Hamas for years.