#Syria
3 entries tagged Syria.
People (1)
- 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.
Places (2)
- 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.
- Syrian Embassy in London The Syrian Embassy in London was implicated in a 1986 plot to bomb an El Al plane, orchestrated by Rafi Eitan to discredit Syria.