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...York Businessman Roy Furmark, a consultant to Saudi Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, described a financial mystery in an interview with TIME. His story: Khashoggi lined up $25 million in bridge financing for U.S. sales of arms to Iran this year. Toronto Investors Donald Fraser and Ernest Miller, together with some Middle Eastern and European investors, routed the $25 million via Khashoggi into the Swiss account of Lake Resources, Inc. -- $10 million in February and $15 million in May. Why Lake Resources? Says Furmark: "Mr. Khashoggi said Mr. Nir of the Israeli government told him that Lake Resources was the account...
...ripe for the U.S. to establish communication with elements in the Iranian government who were willing to consider a new relationship. (Kimche has said publicly that McFarlane had approached him earlier with the same idea.) Kimche had already been in touch with the Iranians through a shadowy network: Khashoggi, Manucher Ghorbanifar -- an expatriate Iranian arms dealer -- and Israeli arms merchants were all part of it. The Israeli government, said Kimche, had confidence these Iranian contacts would eventually prevail in the power struggle already beginning in Tehran over the succession to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...Middle East middlemen in the arms deal, Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and Iranian representative Manucher Ghorbanifar, said on ABC-TV's "20-20" program that North apparently controlled Swiss bank accounts through which up to $35 million was deposited in the secret Iran weapons transactions that he coordinated...
That summer David Kimche, then director general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, traveled to Washington to discuss the idea with McFarlane, then National Security Adviser, and North. McFarlane was in the mood to listen: though details are sketchy, the White House privately credited Iran with helping win the release *Khashoggi has denied any involvement in the Iranian arms affair...
...early 1985 Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi businessman, entered the picture. Khashoggi fostered ties to two Israeli arms merchants: Yaacov Nimrodi, a former army colonel and longtime Israeli military attache in Tehran during the Shah's reign; and Al Schwimmer, the founding president of Israel Aircraft Industries and a close friend of then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He brought them together with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who was close to Iran's Prime Minister. According to the New York Times, the four met in London, where Ghorbanifar proposed that the Israelis ship TOW antitank missiles and Hawk...