Farhad Azima person
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Claims (16)
Indian Springs State Bank financed_via
Farhad Azima documented
“in Washington, approved Russo's employment by the bank, despite his felony conviction, mob connections, and a recommendation by the FDIC's regional office not to do it. The second biggest borrower at Indian Springs, next to Renda's linked f…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 16:14
Farhad Azima headed
Global International Airways documented
“That sounds like a genter press. Among other ventures, he had also been arranging for shipment of live cattle to Iran. He decided to go into the cattle shipping business for himself. And in 1977, he incorporated Global International Airways…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 23:36
Farhad Azima member_of
Indian Springs State Bank documented
“For example, Azizma was elected a member of the Indian Springs Board of Directors in 82 when he became the fourth largest stockholder with almost 10% of the stock. He claimed later that he lost all of his $400,000 investment in the bank sto…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 18:48
Farhad Azima funded
Republican Party documented
“He contributed almost $55,000 to Republican candidates and $15,000 to Democrats. From 84 to 86, he contributed $27,000 to a presidential dinner committee, which was also called the Republican Senate House Dinner Committee. This dinner is an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 29:59
Anthony Russo paid
Farhad Azima documented
“During Anthony Russo's trial for tax income fraud in 1986, Russo testified that in 1982, he received $25,000 from Global for accompanying the dictator of Liberia, Samuel Doe, on a trip. Well, you all met Farhad Azima. He was the chairman of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 35:41
Farhad Azima sponsored
Indian Springs State Bank book_quoted
“Azima allegedly sponsored a loan to the Dunes from a mob-controlled Indian Springs State Bank in Kansas City, where Azima himself had loans. This apparent digression into trails leading from covert operations to political influence and ulti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 4:33
Farhad Azima trafficked
CIA book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 54:42
Lloyd Monroe investigated
Farhad Azima documented
“After the IRS criminal investigators gave Monroe his information on the Azima Indian Springs connection, Monroe assigned an FBI agent team investigating Indiana Springs to look into it. The agents met with Monroe and gave him some shocking …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 56:59
CIA paid
Farhad Azima host_asserted
“as a result of a military coup in 1980 by Sergeant Samuel Doe. The CIA also used Farhad Azizma and his Global International Airways to take Doe on a round trip around the world to curry favor with the new military dictator so that it could …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 50:16
Farhad Azima funded
Burr Brauer documented
“the son of a San Antonio businessman, Morris Jaffe. In 89, one of Jaffe's closest friends and associates, John White, a lawyer, lobbyist, and former DNC chairman, was telling reporters that Azima had gone into the hush kit business with Bur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 33:46
Burr Brauer funded
Farhad Azima documented
“with strong accusations and recriminations on both sides. But the suit was settled in 1989. Burr Brauer's company buying the interest of Azima's group in the two aircraft for $2 million. But they only cost $500,000 a piece. So where did the…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 34:44
Farhad Azima funded
Doug Jaffe documented
“the son of a San Antonio businessman, Morris Jaffe. In 89, one of Jaffe's closest friends and associates, John White, a lawyer, lobbyist, and former DNC chairman, was telling reporters that Azima had gone into the hush kit business with Bur…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 33:46
Farhad Azima headed
Global International Airways documented
“During Anthony Russo's trial for tax income fraud in 1986, Russo testified that in 1982, he received $25,000 from Global for accompanying the dictator of Liberia, Samuel Doe, on a trip. Well, you all met Farhad Azima. He was the chairman of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 35:41
Farhad Azima founded
Global International Airways book_quoted
“Aviation company called Race, R-A-C-E, Aviation, flying U.S. arms into Iran. You know, the one we like to call the boogeyman today. We were perpetually arming Iran. So it's kind of odd now for them to say that they're the big bad boogeyman.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 3:01
Farhad Azima founded
Race Aviation book_quoted
“Aviation company called Race, R-A-C-E, Aviation, flying U.S. arms into Iran. You know, the one we like to call the boogeyman today. We were perpetually arming Iran. So it's kind of odd now for them to say that they're the big bad boogeyman.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 3:01
Farhad Azima borrowed
Utica National Bank and Trust documented
“the main company that belonged to Azizma, borrowed about $8 million between 84 and 88 from Utica National Bank and Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma, using several airplanes as collateral. The head of Utica National Bank was Victor Thompson, the fat…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 33:36
Mentions (43)
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We're going to start with the section called the darker side of covert assets. And he basically is talking about a influencer by name of Farhad Azima, who was a contributor to both political parties and.…
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And both of those, obviously, Air America was primary in Vietnam, Southern Air Transport. We read about in the Iran-Contra, also in Colombia, ferreting drugs out of there and into the United States. There's Bridget. Excuse me. Okay. And als…
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Aviation company called Race, R-A-C-E, Aviation, flying U.S. arms into Iran. You know, the one we like to call the boogeyman today. We were perpetually arming Iran. So it's kind of odd now for them to say that they're the big bad boogeyman.…
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An FBI agent told author Pete Bruton that some global flights had munitions and arms going out and narcotics coming back in, which of course is exactly what was happening in Vietnam, Afghanistan, everywhere. Azima also had a contract for gl…
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Azima allegedly sponsored a loan to the Dunes from a mob-controlled Indian Springs State Bank in Kansas City, where Azima himself had loans. This apparent digression into trails leading from covert operations to political influence and ulti…
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and most notoriously, BCCI. The unscrupulous individuals and groups can make fortunes through supplying covert operations. Richard Secord of Iran Contra fame, also a Nugent Hand client, first made millions with Farhad Azima and Global Inter…
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23 tons of military equipment flown in July 1986 by Azima's Madrid airline, Race Aviation. Now, keep in mind, we've talked about this before. This is not unlike what was going on in Angola in 1980s as well, where Israel was the cutout to pr…
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then formed a joint venture called TRACOR, T-R-A-C-O-R, the Austin-based defense contractor with connections to Michener Circle in Houston to manufacture and install these kits. In 1985, Doug Jaffe was supplying Hush kits to Azima's Buffalo…
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That had belonged to Azima's Global International Airways and was repossessed after Global filed for bankruptcy. The financing for this purchase came from Tesoro Savings and Loan in Laredo, Texas, which had been implicated in drug money lau…
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That kind of closes up the chapter on Silverado. At the same time that Farhad Azima had bought Buffalo Airlines, he was engaged in a big controversy over two DC-8s in Spain with individuals who led to a vast international interconnected web…
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Berbragger was looking around for DC-8s to put his hush kits in. Another person looking for DC-8s was Farad Azima. In May of 87, Azima Aviation Leasing Group signed a contract to buy two DC-8s from a Swiss company, Industry Leasing AG, a su…
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Azima agreed to pay half a million dollars for each of the airplanes, which had originally been owned by United Airlines. However, there was a problem. The airplanes were all leased to Air Cargo Spain, which was in the middle of bankruptcy …
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Burr Brauer was also trying to buy the aircraft and had succeeded in getting the bankruptcy liquidation committee to approve the sale of the aircraft to him for $930,000. But it was really a fight between Azima and Burr Brauer. Quiet Nacell…
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the son of a San Antonio businessman, Morris Jaffe. In 89, one of Jaffe's closest friends and associates, John White, a lawyer, lobbyist, and former DNC chairman, was telling reporters that Azima had gone into the hush kit business with Bur…
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Interestingly, Azima's Global International Airways listed a $71,000 letter of credit due to Page Abjet, Burr Brower's future partner, as one of the liabilities owed to an Indian Springs state bank. On the surface, it appears that the lawsu…
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with strong accusations and recriminations on both sides. But the suit was settled in 1989. Burr Brauer's company buying the interest of Azima's group in the two aircraft for $2 million. But they only cost $500,000 a piece. So where did the…
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which tells you he was working for the CIA again. Prosecutors said he got off easy because of the evidence he gave him, including some that led to higher echelons in the Medellin cartel. However, there were other relationships that Burr bro…
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in Washington, approved Russo's employment by the bank, despite his felony conviction, mob connections, and a recommendation by the FDIC's regional office not to do it. The second biggest borrower at Indian Springs, next to Renda's linked f…
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and his companies, including Global International Airways. The affairs and fate of these people and institutions are intertwined. When Global International Airways filed for bankruptcy in 1983, Azizma and his companies had almost $600,000 i…
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was eventually whittled down to about $60,000 after offsets and adjustments. Azizma and Global certainly didn't contribute to the failure. That was according to Michael Manning, a private Kansas City attorney hired by the FDIC to investigat…
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Azizma and his affiliated companies borrowed close to $2 million from Indian Springs, which was a gross violation of lending limits to any one borrower, which at Indian Springs was half a million. So they broke their own rules, thanks to Le…
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From April 82 to March 83, the overdrafts averaged $150,000 a day. Federal examiners expressed concern about the loan limits and the overdrafts. You think? We'd have been in jail. These problems were compounded by the connections and confli…
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For example, Azizma was elected a member of the Indian Springs Board of Directors in 82 when he became the fourth largest stockholder with almost 10% of the stock. He claimed later that he lost all of his $400,000 investment in the bank sto…
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When Azizma was asked about the large overdrafts that Global had at Indian Springs, he replied, oh, I don't get involved in that level of detail in my business. I have no idea what that's about. The company had credit lines and authorized o…
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on property in Hawaii, for example. He claimed he warned the bank against being involved in that type of thing. But his statement was, I was a minority stockholder and no one paid attention to him. It's hard to believe that William LeMaster…
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on Azizma's company, Global International Airway. He had also borrowed more than $55,000 from Indian Springs to buy the stock in Global. In 1982, LeMaster borrowed $50,000 from Azizma personally and never repaid it. Anthony Russo, too, was …
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filed bankruptcy in 83, owing $280,000 in unsecured loans to Indian Springs. At the time, Global had $145,000 of CDs at Indian Springs and was later allowed to offset those deposits against loans owed. After Indian Springs failed, January 1…
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and his financial cohorts for defrauding Indian Springs. The FDIC got an injunction against the lawsuit and then sued Azizma Russo and the directors for fraud and negligence in the failure of the bank. This lawsuit was settled out of court …
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and do whatever they wanted with it. Azizma was born in 1942 in Iran to a prominent wealthy family that had close ties to the Pavlovi family. His father, Yusuf, a lawyer in Iranian Supreme Court justice. In 1959, Azizma traveled to the U.S.…
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because it didn't have an English language proficiency requirement and eventually graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri in 1968. Azizma became involved in various businesses in Kansas City with family members, including…
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That sounds like a genter press. Among other ventures, he had also been arranging for shipment of live cattle to Iran. He decided to go into the cattle shipping business for himself. And in 1977, he incorporated Global International Airways…
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And he bought a Boeing 707. But his business ran into trouble in 1979 when the Shah was overthrown. Shipping cattle to Iran was out. So he took an Iranian banker, Mansour Raznazvab, as his partner and tried to break away into the charter bu…
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They had 17 707s, two 727s, and one 747. There was many successes and he was helped along by none other than the U.S. government. One of Global's big first contracts hauling military equipment to Egypt for the Egyptian American Transport an…
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And during that time, he dealt specifically with Klein's and Salam. Shackley, along with Salam's brother, an oil geologist, were also contemplating an oil venture. But according to Shackley, nothing came of it. Azizma has said that Salam, a…
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the Department of Defense, which contracted with Azizma Company to provide military airlift of military passengers. One such contract was for $2.7 million beginning in 1983, just days before Global filed bankruptcy and continued through Sep…
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and air mobility command contracts. Another Azizma company, Capital Air Inc., was located in Smyrna, Tennessee. It had won a $5.5 million mobility air command contract for long-range international air transportation in August 1982. Azizma p…
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which represented an invoice from the German Federal Military of Defense for aviation fuel issued to Global during an Air Force exercise. The letter didn't identify the nature of the exercise, but it took place in the summer of 1984. Severa…
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who flew 707s for Global for four years. Anytime we had a little problem with the feds, we just called him. Azima has refused to say how much money he contributed to Republican candidates. That is not information I prefer to discuss, he sai…
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He contributed almost $55,000 to Republican candidates and $15,000 to Democrats. From 84 to 86, he contributed $27,000 to a presidential dinner committee, which was also called the Republican Senate House Dinner Committee. This dinner is an…
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A spokesman for the RNC told the Houston Post, it's a fairly large event. You know, there's no way we could know who all's there. Coop said that he is sure that President Reagan attended the 1986 dinner. Vice President Bush probably attende…
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Azizma's scheduled testimony in Anthony Russo's tax fraud case. In the first weeks of July of that same year, a Boeing 707 owned by Azizma and his wife Linda was used to ship 23 tons of arms to Iran as part of the secret Iran Contra shipmen…
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Race Aviation, which was owned by Azizma's brother, Farzan. Azizma denied having anything to do with the race or the shipment of arms to Iran. However, on March 7th, 1986, he received a letter from Farzan, his brother, regarding the lease o…
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as a result of a military coup in 1980 by Sergeant Samuel Doe. The CIA also used Farhad Azizma and his Global International Airways to take Doe on a round trip around the world to curry favor with the new military dictator so that it could …