William Downing

William Lee Downing was a partner of Ronald Lister in the Mundy Security Group, the Laguna Beach security company Lister incorporated in mid-1983. Through this "security business" in high-class Laguna Beach, Downing and Lister procured weapons for Danilo Blandón, who resold them to Ricky Ross and other crack dealers in South Central Los Angeles.¹

Laser Sighting Device

Downing designed a laser sighting device for AR-15 assault rifles that the Mundy Security Group attempted to market. The device used a tiny laser beam to put a small red dot on a target, facilitating kills at night. Christopher W. Moore, a director of Mundy Security Group, said this gadget was one of the company's only known business activities aside from a few burglar alarm installations.¹

Weapons Supply Network

The weapons Downing helped procure included the full spectrum available to Lister's network. Blandón told Central Intelligence Agency inspectors that Lister had access to such a wide variety of weapons that in 1983 or 1984, he arranged for Lister to give a sales presentation to Contra leadership. The Mundy Security Group was licensed with the State Department in 1983 to export U.S. Munitions List items to other countries, receiving three temporary export licenses (DSP-73s) to export laser components and spare parts to "various countries."¹