Word: shipments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...customs agents at Geneva's airport have seen just about everything. But when ten heavy sacks arrived for Catrel, a Swiss industrial-research firm, they were a bit surprised. The contents of the shipment: 1,000 lbs. of grapefruit rinds, hamburger scraps, coat hangers and other junk discarded by California homeowners...
...Iranian representatives. Some contend the meeting took place in Geneva; others say Washington. Then, in November, a ship loaded with parts for American-made F-4 jets and helicopters sailed from northern Italy to Israel. The cargo was transferred to a plane carrying Israeli-supplied Hawk antiaircraft missiles for shipment to Iran. The plane was provided by Southern Air Transport, formerly a CIA proprietary airline. CIA Director William Casey told Congressmen two weeks ago that he had approved the use of the plane but thought that the cargo would be oil-drilling parts. As it turns out, the shipment...
...late July, two months after the McFarlane mission, Father Lawrence Jenco was released, and the arms trade was revived. In August another shipment of 500 TOWs and Hawks was sent from Texas to Tel Aviv and on to Tehran, and the White House told the State Department to expect the release of several more hostages. In the fall three more Americans in Beirut were kidnaped. In October, the U.S. sent yet another arms shipment to Iran; less than a month later, Hostage David Jacobsen was released. But only a few days before his release, a Lebanese Arabic journal, Al Shiraa...
...arms, and who set up the Swiss contra ! account? The Israelis contend they neither set the price for the weapons nor managed the accounts. According to Israeli sources, an Iranian straw company in Switzerland deposited its payment for the arms in an escrow account just before the shipment was made. After the delivery, the Iranians reimbursed the Israelis through a Swiss bank for the book value of the cargo, plus generous insurance and freight charges. The Israelis, in turn, used part of these funds to pay the U.S., depositing its payment into a Swiss account sent...
...government of laws, run by officials who can be held accountable. This moral principle, more than even its arsenal of nuclear missiles, accounts for the fundamental strength the U.S. exerts in its dealings with people around the world. That is why any operation -- whether it be the covert shipment of arms to Iran or the secret diversion of funds to the contras -- that is run in a manner designed to skirt legal accountability represents such a deep danger...