#MiddleEast
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- Hermann F. Eilts Hermann F. Eilts (1922-2006) was the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt during the Yom Kippur War and Kissinger shuttle diplomacy era, who later disclosed that Kissinger had withheld information about Israeli nuclear arming until a final meeting in late 1976.
- Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) was PLO chairman from 1969 until his death, building Fatah into the dominant Palestinian political-military faction, leading the PLO through exile in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia, and negotiating the 1993 Oslo Accords that earned him a share of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
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- Euramae Trading Company Euramae Trading Company was a company operating throughout the Middle East, described by Michael Riconosciuto as a companion company to First Intercontinental Development Corporation and an National Security Council cutout.
- Mukhabarat Mukhabarat (Arabic: intelligence) is the informal name for Arab state intelligence services, most prominently Egypt's General Intelligence Directorate and Iraq's General Intelligence Service under Saddam Hussein, central to CIA liaison relationships, Safari Club operations, and the BNL/arms-to-Iraq affair.
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- Bahrain Persian Gulf island state, one of BCCI's earliest growth markets, whose ruling family was among the bank's ostensible owners and where Ghaith Pharaon's defaulted BCCI loans were booked.
- Iran Middle Eastern state whose 1953 coup, Israeli-trained secret police, 1979 revolution and hostage crisis, and wartime arms purchases underlie the October Surprise and Iran-Contra affairs.
- Israel Middle Eastern state whose undeclared nuclear arsenal, intelligence operations in the United States, covert arms sales to Iran and Latin America, and surveillance-technology industry run through much of this vault.
- Jordan Jordan is a Middle Eastern country whose capital Amman is home to the Arab Bank Limited, which under Chairman Abdul Majeed Shoman expressed willingness to process multi-billion-dollar reconstruction fund transfers connected to FIDCO and Lebanon-related covert finance operations.
- Kuwait Kuwait is a Gulf state identified by DEA informant Lester Coleman as one of the Middle Eastern countries where the DEA used Euramae Trading Company to sell PROMIS software to drug abuse control agencies.
- Lebanon Lebanon is a country in the Middle East that became a focal point for intelligence operations, drug trafficking, and international arms dealing during the 1980s civil war period.
- Middle East The region from Egypt to Iran as it appears in the vault: the object of American nuclear intelligence, arms and hostage dealing, covert liaison clubs, and, latterly, of sovereign-wealth money for the well connected.
- Syria Syria is a Middle Eastern country whose Hafez al-Assad government controlled the Bekaa Valley heroin trade, maintained back-channel relations with Washington during the hostage crisis, and appears in this vault through its drug trafficking networks and connections to Lebanon-based intelligence operations.
- United Arab Emirates Gulf federation formed on December 2, 1971, whose president Sheikh Zayed and Abu Dhabi government held 77 percent of BCCI at its closure and kept its top officers out of foreign investigators' reach.
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