Cyrus Hashemi person
also: Hashimi, Kashimi, Cyrus, Cyrus Hashimi, Cyrus Kashimi, Hashemi
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Claims (5)
Donald Gregg met_with
Cyrus Hashemi book_quoted
“national security staff. Gregg's official job was to coordinate intel in East Asia. At about that time, the first rescue mission collapsed. Gregg attended a meeting in New York with Cyrus Hashimi's bank at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. As G…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:07:03
William Casey met_with
Cyrus Hashemi book_quoted
“opened the discussion by asking Casey what was the purpose of the meeting. Casey replied with a question of his own. Was the Islamic Republic ready to deal with the Republicans? It was impossible to establish good relationship between the t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:13:38
Cyrus Hashemi appointed
William Casey book_quoted
“Iran now expected the Republicans to fulfill their end of the agreement by using their influence to assist Iran in procuring arms. A threat of imminent war with Iraq was looming, and the Iranian exiles had thrown in with Saddam Hussein. Acc…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:15:52
Cyrus Hashemi trafficked
Israel book_quoted
“Menachie, a former Israeli intelligence agency. And I'm going to put former in air quotes. There were four sessions with Casey and more meetings were set up for October. Israel would be the unnamed third country. Cyrus Hashimi purchased a G…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:16:23
BCCI financed_via
Cyrus Hashemi book_quoted
“to Bandar Abbas. The Israelis were paid through a letter of credit, and Hashemi received, according to CIA sources, a $7 million commission on the deal. That letter of credit was issued by BCCI. The Hashemi brothers' recollections and six r…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:16:53
Mentions (22)
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is looking for U.S. weapons, and they know this colonel is like the underground conduit for those weapons. The story of the Hashmini brothers, Cyrus and Jasmid, did not begin with their claims concerning the October surprise. The Shah and t…
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during the so-called White Revolution in 1963. Cyrus and Jamshed had both left Iran and had become involved in a shadowy world of international arms deals. While they remained close to the anti-Shah clerics, they also had connections in Ame…
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revolutionary government. He was also assigned as military commander in the Kutsan Stan region along the Shat al-Arab waterway, where hostilities with Iraq was expected to begin. When Cyrus Kashimi…
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American lawyer in Paris called a colleague in Washington offering his client's expertise on what was currently happening in Iran, i.e. intel. The colleague wrote a letter to the deputy secretary, Warren Christopher, of state. Almost immedi…
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and I'm not even going to say that's reliable, on the Iranian government. Carter administration officials found his information credible, according to Gary Sick, but they had nothing to base that on. In March of 1980, Jamshid Hashmini regis…
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No one else except his brother Cyrus was supposed to know what he was doing. So when someone knocked on his hotel door, he was surprised. At the door was a businessman named Roy Furmark, F-U-R-M-A-R-K, who had business connections to Cyrus.…
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Jamshid expressed surprise to Furmark and Casey at their unexpected appearance. During the meeting, Jamshid phoned Cyrus, who assured him that Casey was reliable. Jamshid, who by the time this book was put together, had died, told Gary Sick…
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So Reagan's campaign manager is talking to the Shah's intelligence people, and that's crazy, and shady people. On March 21st, Cyrus and Jamshid got together at Cyrus's home in Connecticut. Cyrus told Jamshid that his contact with Casey…
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was through John Shaheen, I don't know how you say this guy's name either, Shaheen, S-H-A-H-E-E-N, Shaheen, with whom Cyrus had been involved already on several oil refinery deals. Because again, people, we had so much dealings with Iran.…
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He decided to become basically a double agent to the Reagan-Bush campaign. Casey asked the Shahimi brothers to arrange a meeting with someone in Iran who had the authority to deal on the hostages. The Shahimi connection did not reach to Kho…
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with a cleric by the name of Ayatollah Makdini Kurubi, who had close ties to Khomeini's son. According to Gary Sick, the Hashmini brothers also offered the Carter administration a meeting as well. When Donald Gregg, keep that name in mind, …
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because they were killing people left and right. According to Gary Sick, the other Carter NSC officials who wish to remain confidential, there were no official reason for Greg to meet with Hashimi in New York at all. Hashimi took Greg to lu…
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openings that the Carter administration and the Hashimis were trying to make with the new Iranian government. Years later, Greg denied that he had any contact with any of them. He did not deny that he had contact with his old boss, Ted Shac…
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at a hotel with a Carter administration official. That meeting opened a dialogue and President Bonnie Sauter reacted favorably enough that he agreed to begin a serious negotiation of releasing the hostages. I think this was a bait and switc…
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Greg secretly received non-public material from the Carter White House that even included a copy of a personal letter from Ammar Sadat to Carter. The October surprise, Gary Sick, about the October surprise, Gary Sick wrote what is widely ac…
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To the new administration, the Republicans would be eternally grateful and give Iran its strength back. Dick wrote Hashemi as saying that Karubi's response was that he had no authority to make this commitment, that he would have to seek ins…
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Casey said that he had no objection if the Iranians continued to deal with the Carter administration, but he personally had washed his hands of Carter. Hashimi said that Karubi ended the meeting by saying in Persian, I think we are opening …
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This time, the news he carried was electrifying. According to Hashimi, Khomeini had agreed to Casey's terms. The hostages would be released on the day of Reagan's inauguration, though the Iranians would continue to go through the motions wi…
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Iran now expected the Republicans to fulfill their end of the agreement by using their influence to assist Iran in procuring arms. A threat of imminent war with Iraq was looming, and the Iranian exiles had thrown in with Saddam Hussein. Acc…
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Menachie, a former Israeli intelligence agency. And I'm going to put former in air quotes. There were four sessions with Casey and more meetings were set up for October. Israel would be the unnamed third country. Cyrus Hashimi purchased a G…
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to Bandar Abbas. The Israelis were paid through a letter of credit, and Hashemi received, according to CIA sources, a $7 million commission on the deal. That letter of credit was issued by BCCI. The Hashemi brothers' recollections and six r…
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Twitton's decision in that of London Station is highly suspect and negligent, as they knew, as I did, that the British government was, along with the British arms industry, Tiny Rowland, Ashraf Marwan, and Aidan Khashoggi, his partner, deep…