#ArmsDealer
14 entries tagged ArmsDealer.
People (11)
- Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist and target of Israeli intelligence operations, connected to the Achille Lauro attack and arms trafficking networks.
- Adnan Khashoggi Adnan Khashoggi (1935-2017) was a Saudi billionaire arms dealer and key Iran-Contra middleman who bridged financing for the Reagan administration's arms sales to Iran through BCCI, and was named alongside Manucher Ghorbanifar and Richard Armitage in the May 1985 Reynolds letter as a broker for the covert distribution of PROMIS software.
- Albert Hakim Iranian-American businessman who co-directed the Iran-Contra Enterprise with Richard Secord, managing its finances and negotiating with Iranian officials before pleading guilty in 1989 to supplementing Oliver North's salary.
- Herbert Alwyn Smith Convicted British arms dealer acting for the CIA who offered Ari Ben-Menashe $2 million and U.S. citizenship for his silence.
- Hushang Lavi Iranian Jewish arms dealer recruited by Mossad who coordinated the October 1980 Washington meeting on hostage release negotiations.
- John Knight London-based arms dealer who ran Dynavest Limited, supplying weapons from Yugoslavia to Palestinian groups via Mohammed Radi Abdullah.
- Manucher Ghorbanifar Manucher Ghorbanifar was a former SAVAK officer and Iranian exile arms dealer whom the CIA formally burned as a 'fabricator' in 1984, yet who became the primary Iranian intermediary in the 1985-1986 Iran-Contra arms deals brokered through the NSC, and who was named in the May 1985 Reynolds-Weld letter as a broker for the covert distribution of PROMIS software.
- Mark Thatcher In 1983, Thatcher introduced Gerald Bull to Gen.
- Monzer Al-Kassar Monzer al-Kassar was a Syrian arms dealer who received $1.2 million from Richard Secord during Iran-Contra to facilitate weapons transfers to the Contras, operated from Marbella Spain with connections to Syrian intelligence and multiple intelligence services, and was convicted in 2008 in US federal court on charges of conspiring to provide material support to FARC terrorists.
- Oliver North Marine lieutenant colonel and National Security Council staff member who ran the illegal Contra resupply operation from the White House, central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair implicated in drug trafficking, arms dealing, and obstruction of justice.
- Sarcis Sargalian American arms dealer of Lebanese-Armenian extraction involved in supplying military equipment to Iraq alongside Ihsan Barbouti.
Organizations (3)
- Dynavest Limited Dynavest Limited was a London arms dealing company run by John Knight that acquired arms from Yugoslavia for resale to Mohammed Radi Abdullah, who distributed them to Palestinian groups including Abu Nidal.
- Eagle Eagle was an Israeli arms company whose representative Pesach Ben-Or assisted the Guatemalan military regime in establishing a computer tracking system against leftist insurgents, connecting Israeli military exports to Latin American authoritarian regimes.
- Sidem International Limited Sidem International Limited was a London arms dealing company involved in acquiring arms from Yugoslavia for resale to Mohammed Radi Abdullah, who distributed them to Palestinian groups including Abu Nidal.