#Arms
14 entries tagged Arms.
People (4)
- David Kimche David Kimche was a senior Mossad officer who became director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry and served as the primary Israeli architect of the arms-for-hostages initiative that became the Iran-Contra affair, pressing the Reagan administration in mid-1985 to approve weapons transfers to Iran.
- Nicholas Davies Nicholas Davies was the foreign editor of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, accused by Seymour Hersh in 1991 of operating as a Mossad intelligence asset, passing Mordechai Vanunu's location to the Mossad, and co-directing an arms-dealing firm with Ari Ben-Menashe.
- Richard Babayan Richard Babayan was a CIA contract operative and arms broker who received a reported $6 million from Earl Brian on behalf of Hadron, Inc. and who appeared in overlapping accounts of the PROMIS software scandal, October Surprise allegations, and Robert Maxwell's Australian operations.
- Yaacov Nimrodi Yaacov Nimrodi was an Israeli arms dealer and former military intelligence attache in Iran who served alongside David Kimche and Al Schwimmer as part of the 'troika' that managed the first three Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages transfers in 1985.
Events (2)
- Arms-to-Iraq The Arms-to-Iraq affair was the British corollary to the same illicit Iraq weapons procurement networks examined in the Iran-Contra and BNL scandal investigations: British companies, licensed by the government, supplied precision machinery and military-relevant technology to Saddam Hussein's government during the Iran-Iraq War; the collapse of the Matrix Churchill prosecution in 1992 and the subsequent Scott Inquiry (1992-1996) documented government deception of Parliament.
- Hashemi Sting The Hashemi Sting was a 1986 U.S. Customs undercover operation targeting illegal arms sales to Iran, prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani's Southern District of New York office, which resulted in indictments of arms dealers including former Israeli general Avraham Bar-Am; it intersected directly with the Iran-Contra network and the October Surprise investigations, and its key informant Cyrus Hashemi died in London under disputed circumstances shortly after the sting concluded.
Places (8)
- Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates and the home emirate of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahayan, the primary shareholder and ultimate backer of BCCI; Abu Dhabi's financial resources and sovereign immunity effectively shielded BCCI's fraudulent operations from regulatory action for years.
- Amsterdam Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands and a city whose presence in this vault relates primarily to three intersecting subjects: the Dutch and international pedophile advocacy networks operating through publications based there in the 1970s-1980s, Francis Shelden's flight there after the North Fox Island abuse network collapsed, and the city's role as a node in European arms brokering networks.
- India India appears in this vault primarily in connection with CIA covert operations during the Cold War, arms sales through brokers connected to vault subjects (including Mirage jet sales brokered by Asaf Ali), BCCI's significant Indian operations, and India's nuclear weapons program which intersected with Pakistani proliferator A.Q. Khan's network.
- London London is the capital of the United Kingdom and a recurring location throughout this vault: the headquarters of MI6 and GCHQ oversight, the site of BCCI's global headquarters in the 1980s, the base of operation for Robert Maxwell's media and intelligence empire, and the location of key arms-to-Iraq commercial networks.
- Paris Paris is the capital of France and a key geographic node in this vault: the claimed site of October Surprise meetings between Reagan campaign officials and Iranian representatives in 1980, a hub for Middle Eastern arms brokering and intelligence back-channels, and the city where Ayatollah Khomeini spent his final months of exile before the Iranian Revolution.
- South Africa South Africa is a country at the southern tip of Africa whose apartheid-era government developed nuclear weapons with covert Israeli assistance and maintained extensive illicit arms trading networks that intersect with Iran-Contra and Cold War covert operations subjects in this vault.
- Tel Aviv Tel Aviv is Israel's largest metropolitan area and de facto commercial and intelligence capital; it served as a key node in the Iran-Contra arms pipeline and the Israel-South Africa arms relationship, and is home to institutions central to the vault's Israeli intelligence subjects including Mossad headquarters.
- United Kingdom The United Kingdom is a Five Eyes intelligence partner of the United States whose security services (MI5, MI6, GCHQ) are extensively cross-referenced in this vault; the UK hosted BCCI's global headquarters, was the base of Robert Maxwell's operations, was implicated in the Arms-to-Iraq affair, and was the home of the Paedophile Information Exchange.