Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...McFarlane resigned and was replaced by Poindexter. Two days later, McFarlane traveled to London to meet with a group of middlemen variously identified as Kimche, Nimrodi and Ghorbanifar. He claims he distrusted these contacts and recommended that the Administration drop any plans for arms sales to Iran. On the same day in Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger persuaded Reagan to hold a meeting to discuss the NSC's proposal to sell arms directly to Iran. Six months earlier, when Weinberger received a CIA report favoring weapons deals with the Iranian army, he penciled...
...difference between the cost owed to the U.S. and the price charged by the Israelis, which is anywhere between $10 million and $30 million -- were deposited into numbered Swiss bank accounts that were "under the control of representatives" of the contras. The Attorney General claimed that Israeli middlemen had put the slush funds directly into the contra account. "No American," he said, "handled any of the funds that went to forces in Central America...
...British-Dutch consortium.) In 1983 the American Lever Bros. was enjoying splashy sales of its Shield deodorant soap and Sunlight dishwashing detergent when products with the same names began appearing at discount prices. Manufactured by the British Lever Bros., the soaps had been shipped to the U.S. by unauthorized middlemen. The U.S. firm complains that the British products have proved unsuited to American tastes and have thus driven away customers, costing it $5 million in sales. One charge: the British Shield is less effective at stopping...
...middlemen--relaying information to the Admissions Office from the Asian-American community and vice-versa...