#Iraqgate
5 entries tagged Iraqgate.
People (2)
- Christopher Drogoul Manager of the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro who extended more than four billion dollars in unreported credit to Iraq and testified that his superiors in Rome and Kissinger Associates knew of the business.
- Henry B. Gonzalez House Banking Committee chairman from San Antonio who read classified documents on American aid to Iraq into the Congressional Record in 1992 after the Justice Department asked him to stop his inquiry on national security grounds.
Organizations (2)
- Kissinger Associates New York consulting firm founded by Henry Kissinger in 1982 whose officers Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger advised Banca Nazionale del Lavoro before returning to government during the bank's unreported lending to Iraq.
- Matrix Churchill British machine tool maker bought in 1987 by an Iraqi military procurement front, financed by the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose directors' 1992 trial collapsed and led to the Scott Inquiry.
Events (1)
- BNL Scandal Discovery in 1989 that the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro had lent Iraq five billion dollars off its books, and a prosecution that Congress and the trial judge said shielded higher officials.