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...crowd with whale-size wallets prefers to buy. And if they hurry, there is a bargain on the market, the 282-ft. Nabila, complete with disco and swimming pool. Until recently the pride of financially troubled Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi, the yacht is up for sale at a mere $35 million...
Secord was not the only middleman who saw opportunities for profit in the Reagan Administration's private foreign policy ventures. Saudi Arms Merchant Adnan Khashoggi and Iranian Manucher Ghorbanifar earned lucrative commissions on the sales of U.S. weapons to Iran. Fund Raiser Carl Channell reportedly kept 35% of the private donations he solicited for the contras to bankroll his plush Washington offices, stretch limos and hefty payments to friends and associates. Even Oliver North, the superpatriotic National Security Council aide who ran the Iran-contra initiatives, cashed $2,000 worth of traveler's checks received from Contra Leader Adolfo Calero...
...that does not mean they are totally out of touch with their money. The Sultan of Brunei, for one, is evidently not the sort to delegate bill paying to a cadre of briefcase-toting accountants. When he recently bought a Boeing 727 jet from financially strapped Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi, the Sultan stunned bankers on the scene at his palace by pulling out an ordinary checkbook in a tattered plastic folder. He proceeded to pen neatly a check for $18 million, then slowly wrote down the check number, date and amount. That kind of careful record keeping may help...
...President's authority to question anybody about anything, the three members took it on themselves to conduct the most sweeping investigation yet of the whole affair. They have questioned 58 witnesses, including several no other body had heard from -- Reagan, for one, as well as Manucher Ghorbanifar and Adnan Khashoggi, the two leading middlemen in the Iranian deals. The commission has prepared its own chronology of the deals, a 200-page analysis that is by far the most comprehensive yet put together...
...Tower board, which interviewed nearly 60 witnesses-- including arms dealers Adnan Khashoggi...