The agency in turn asked the Singapore Armed Forces to lend 50 of its thermal imaging scanners, used to help weapons systems locate targets that cannot be seen otherwise.
The project's primary purpose has always been to help weapons scientists ensure the reliability of the American nuclear arsenal without underground testing.
Recently the US military has been helping facilitate weapons deliveries from the Iraqis to the Kurds, who had been losing ground to the Islamic State.
Britain has offered naval resources to help stop weapons being smuggled into Gaza, Brown said.
In the 1980s, as a young undercover agent in Pakistan and Afghanistan, he helped funnel weapons to jihadists fighting the Soviets.
General Bergner said the man, whom he identified as Mahmoud Farhadi, helped transport weapons across Iraq's border.
Any of those tools conceivably could be put to use to help the weapons inspectors, one official said.
In January, Tokyo accused a Chinese military vessel of aiming a radar used to help direct weapons on a Japanese naval vessel near the islands.
The military ransacked houses and burned the main shopping street, accusing the shopkeepers of helping smuggle weapons over the border with Turkey.
United Nations peacekeepers were not neutral, he argued, but a warring party; he said he would provide proof that they helped smuggle weapons and ammunition to Muslim forces.
