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...accounts and finally used a hidden camera to videotape him as he photographed documents under his desk. On Nov. 16, the day before his 46th birthday, Nicholson was at Dulles International Airport in Washington, planning to board a flight for New York and from there a connection to Zurich. Waiting on the tarmac, disguised as ground crew, were two FBI agents, members of the bureau's supersecretive counterintelligence squad. As Nicholson headed for the open door of his plane, they blocked his path and told him he was under arrest. At that moment, three more squad members slid out from...
...longer vague but had taken on physical form--piles of papers littering brokers' desks, each representing a hastily scribbled order to sell stock; rows of numbers flashing on computer screens, bringing news of alarming price breaks in all the early-opening markets: Tokyo, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Zurich...Then trading began in New York, and the unimaginable happened...
...after five decades and under immense international pressure, the Swiss stone wall is beginning to crack. Last week in Zurich, Edgar Bronfman Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress, based in New York City, produced a list--secret until recently--of long-ago account holders, and turned it over to a committee set up jointly last May by the Swiss Bankers Association and a coalition of Jewish organizations. The document contains the names, home cities and deposits--totaling $13.5 million--of some 500 account holders as recorded by Swiss Bank Corp.'s New York City office on June...
...agents, working closely with intelligence agencies here and abroad, are scouring all incoming reports about a possible Iran connection. Of interest are the recent movements by an alleged Hizballah terrorist named Hussein Mikdad, who is purportedly backed by Iran. On April 4, Mikdad took a Swissair flight from Zurich to Tel Aviv with bomb parts hidden in a carry-on bag. Eight days later, Mikdad blew off both his legs and one arm when a bomb he was assembling in an east Jerusalem hotel room accidentally detonated. Israeli security officials believe Mikdad was building the bomb using a powerful plastic...
...Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime. The U.S. was then able to charge that Libyan intelligence agents had tagged a brown "bomb bag" containing the radio with stolen Air Malta tags and placed it on an Air Malta Flight KM-190 routed to Frankfurt, whence...