Word: alberts
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...force in Thailand to supervise flights for the agency's secret Laotian war. In 1975 he was stationed as a military attache in Iran and helped guide the Shah in spending billions of dollars on a 500-plane air force. In Tehran, he met his future partner Albert Hakim, who was then engineering the sale of sophisticated electronic equipment to the Shah's secret police...
...North used in both the Iran arms deals and the contra-supply operations, Secord is expected to help untangle one of the scandal's chief remaining mysteries: Where did the money go? An arms dealer ever since he left the Pentagon in 1983, Secord joined a company run by Albert Hakim, an Iranian American who recently gave committee investigators thick notebooks containing details of the firm's various bank accounts. Proceeds from the Iranian arms sales as well as covert money for contra military supplies are believed to have moved through these accounts...
...purpose of the IOP is to teach people about politics and particularly about electoral politics," said Singer, noting that two former Institute fellows--Sen. Paul Simon (D-III.) and Sen. Albert Gore Jr. '69 (D-Tenn.)--are now presidential candidates...
Faced with those figures, some of the world's flossiest manufacturers are reaching out to the bigger customers with cashmere and silks, gabardines and fine cottons. Last year Designer Albert Nipon sold $5 million worth of his new Dimensions line, for sizes 12 to 24, to such stores as Bonwit Teller, Dillard's and Marshall Field's. Givenchy anticipates wholesale sales of $4 million this season for its pricey Givenchy en Plus line in sizes...
WASHINGTON--Congressional investigators, relying on Swiss bank records and other material provided by businessman Albert Hakim, have confirmed the diversion of more than $1 million in Iranian arms sale profits to Contras rebels fighting the Nicaraguan government, sources said late Thursday...