Word: shells
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under local laws, the Panamanian firms could be started with as little as $10,000 in capital, but could be used to borrow far greater sums on world financial markets. Calvi launched at least a dozen such "shell" companies in Panama, listing employees of his Bahamas bank, including the switchboard operator, as directors and officers...
...leaks flow through known, but hard-to-plug, channels. Highly paid operatives may buy equipment from unwitting U.S. firms and ship it to Communist countries through foreign shell companies. Or thieves with no direct interest in espionage may steal advanced electronic gear from manufacturers and sell it to underground dealers in Southern California. They, in turn, offer it to all comers, with no questions asked. In one ingenious act of deception, Soviet engineers touring an aircraft plant reportedly wore sticky shoes that picked up metal filings that could later be analyzed...
...P.L.O. fighting men in West Beirut. He had just about completed the arrangements for the transfer of the departing P.L.O. forces to other Arab countries, leaving only a few relatively unimportant details still to be settled. The Israelis knew he was making progress, yet they continued to bomb and shell West Beirut on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday...
...talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir as an example of why Jerusalem had to stop the bombing of the city. In their defense the Israelis claim that no bomb had fallen in East Beirut and that the child, in truth, had been hit by a P.L.O. shell. Although the U.P.I, stood by the accuracy of its caption, the news agency was looking further into the matter...
...Canadian weapons expert. Chanslor telephoned Minnery, whom he refers to as Dr. Death, to ask about undetectable poisons, and they began a series of monthly conversations. One topic: D.D.V.P., which, Chanslor told Minnery, someone in Texas would sell him for $750. Minnery replied that D.D.V.P., which is used in Shell No-Pest insecticide strips, among other things, could easily be purchased for less than...