local Filipina named Maricel and lived just outside Subic. Jones had already been working for Paul Le Roux’s organization, cap- taining boats to Hong Kong and back with gold aboard, when Dave Smith approached him about sailing a ship from Turkey to Indonesia to the Philippines. La Plata Trading, one of Le Roux’s Philippine companies, would pay for the journey and supply the crew. Smith arranged for Jones to fly to Turkey and purchase the M/V Ufuk, a rusty but seaworthy twenty-four-hundred-ton vessel. Along with the Georgian crew, Jones sailed down the coast of Af- rica, stopping in Ghana before rounding the Cape of Good Hope and heading for Indonesia.

At a dock in Jakarta, he picked up the cargo, a shipment of weapons from a company called PT Pindad. Then, along with Jo- seph Hunter, who came on board in Jakarta for protection, he set out for the Philippines. Jones told Supnad he believed the shipment was legitimate: He had been supplied with an end-user certificate— a document in the arms trade establishing the legitimate govern- ment purchaser—indicating that the guns were meant for a buyer in Mali. Some fifty Indonesian police and soldiers had supervised the pickup.

As Jones piloted the ship toward the Philippines, he got a call from Smith telling him to delay bringing it into port. When the Ufuk had been in a holding pattern for several days, Jones began to worry. His wife was pregnant, due any day. Jones told Smith he wanted to get off.

That night, Smith and another mercenary, Chris De Meyer, brought high-speed rubber rafts alongside the Ufuk. Jones was re- placed on board by Burne, the South African captain, and the six- teen crates of guns were transferred onto the rafts and then to the Mou Man Tai. The smaller boat took Jones and Hunter back to Subic.

Jones was telling Supnad all this to signal to the authorities that he was willing to spill what he knew about the people who had hired him—a well-financed syndicate, he called it, whose owner