Von Marburg person
also: von Marbog, von Marburg, Van Marbogh
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Claims (9)
Von Marburg paid
Thomas Clines book_quoted
“In the end, it works out to be an $8 million ripoff by ETSCO, funds which the Egyptians could have used for supplies. The Department of Justice memorandum stated it went on to say that von Marbog received a cash payoff in Geneva in October …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 29:01
Von Marburg headed
Defense Security Assistance Agency book_quoted
“News of how Isco had corrupted the Egyptian top military officials had reached the Pentagon. Von Marbog always seemed invincible. From 1978 to 1981, he managed the Defense Security Assistance Administration as its deputy director. Three mon…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 16:47
Thomas Clines paid
Von Marburg book_quoted
“In the end, it works out to be an $8 million ripoff by ETSCO, funds which the Egyptians could have used for supplies. The Department of Justice memorandum stated it went on to say that von Marbog received a cash payoff in Geneva in October …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 29:01
Von Marburg member_of
Defense Security Assistance Agency book_quoted
“News of how Isco had corrupted the Egyptian top military officials had reached the Pentagon. Von Marbog always seemed invincible. From 1978 to 1981, he managed the Defense Security Assistance Administration as its deputy director. Three mon…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 16:47
Von Marburg supplied_arms_to
Egypt book_quoted
“In the same memorandum, von Marburg confirms that he had expedited tank deliveries for the Victory Day parade as a favor to the defense minister in Egypt. Letter after letter was discovered in the files showing the equipment officially dest…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 21:10
Von Marburg member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:31
Edwin Wilson paid
Von Marburg book_quoted
“On October 4th, 1978, the Defense Department received a letter from the Egyptians saying that Tersam of Panama, it was registered in Panama, is the sole shipping agent for the government of Egypt. In January 1979, Wilson, Secord, and von Ma…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 28:01
Von Marburg supplied_arms_to
Afghanistan book_quoted
“In the same memorandum, von Marburg confirms that he had expedited tank deliveries for the Victory Day parade as a favor to the defense minister in Egypt. Letter after letter was discovered in the files showing the equipment officially dest…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 21:10
Von Marburg member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“I, the CIA front bank, because they're all going to get a cut too. The connections between ETSCO, BCCI, Casey, and Sadat were just beginning of the massive amount of aid that would go to Egypt and the Afghan resistance, quote unquote resist…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 14:24
Mentions (25)
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Wilson had no hint that he was a suspect in the Orlando Latier bombing or that he was under any investigation beyond a minor CIA internal issue. Complicating all of this was the divided loyalties inside the CIA with the old boys versus the …
▶ 35:21
Glenn Robbie Robinette. And this always struck me as weird that this Robinette guy, isn't that Biden's middle name? The agency security expert who later arranged for Oliver North's infamous home security system. That also was Glenn Robinett…
▶ 35:54
careful to always stay in the background. He was never a visible person. If he came around to the house, everyone else had to leave. Brill said that if there were other people around, Tom would sometimes go out and meet him, drive around, a…
▶ 14:56
of the Mujahideen effort, getting their cut. That happens to be Richard Secord and Von Marbach, weapons traffickers extraordinaire. Orchestrating much of what was going on in Egypt was a CIA agent by the name of William Buckley.…
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the company that Egypt designated as the sole shipping agency for all military hardware coming from the United States. When Salam, S-A-L-E-M, went to see von Marburg at the Pentagon to get his company accredited as a shipping agent, von Mar…
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Von Marbog was close to Egyptian's military attaché in Washington, a Major General Abu Ghazala, G-H-A-Z-A-L-A, as well as Mubarak. Through Ghazala, Von Marbog suggested to Salaam that Tom Klein would be an acceptable American partner in his…
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Sadat's assassination effectively ended the investigation. General Ghazala, von Marburg's good friend, had been the Egyptian military liaison to J.J. Capusti and later the CIA for the training of Sadat's personal bodyguards. After Sadat's m…
▶ 13:47
had lunch with Tom Clines at a restaurant in suburban Virginia. In their report they filed after the luncheon, they speculated that Clines had been using a concealed tape recorder. Clines had repeatedly lied to the investigators about his c…
▶ 14:17
had anything to do with. What the investigators found put von Marburg, Klein, and Shackley in the middle of an enormous criminal enterprise dealing with the new president that the CIA installed in Egypt. It did not take the FBI long to trac…
▶ 16:47
News of how Isco had corrupted the Egyptian top military officials had reached the Pentagon. Von Marbog always seemed invincible. From 1978 to 1981, he managed the Defense Security Assistance Administration as its deputy director. Three mon…
▶ 17:18
He had the reputation of being a courageous and imaginative government official. He had personally supervised much of the U.S. retreat from South Vietnam when the Saigon government fell. He had gotten Iran's deputy minister of defense to gi…
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he was still making a lot of those deals. This gave President Carter some leverage over the revolutionary regime, but more of the Reagan administration. Von Marburg had friends in high places. He was cautious and very smooth in social setti…
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Up until the time Secord introduced him to Edwin Wilson in Laos in the 1960s, there was no evidence that von Marbog was interested in accumulating government money for his own personal use. More typical of von Marbog's career was an inciden…
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So full ones could continue to land. Von Marbog had those kinds of moments. That is why his involvement in Yitzko seemed like such an aberration. Yitzko was officially paid $71 million for shipping some $750 million worth of arms to Egypt. …
▶ 20:17
of the value of the shipment instead of just the 10%. As powerful as his job at the Defense Security Agency, Von Marbog could not escape scrutiny. The trail from the tragedy that had taken place on Victory Day in Egypt led right to Von Marb…
▶ 20:45
on July 29, 1981, detailing a briefing that he and Mr. Salam had, who was an Egyptian national with contacts to their minister of defense. Von Marbog left out the fact that Salam was the business partner of Klein's in Itzko, and that Klein'…
▶ 21:10
In the same memorandum, von Marburg confirms that he had expedited tank deliveries for the Victory Day parade as a favor to the defense minister in Egypt. Letter after letter was discovered in the files showing the equipment officially dest…
▶ 23:06
who had been promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern, African, and South Asian Affairs, that he must not initiate any written or oral communication with Wilson, Klein, von Marburg, or Shackley. By this time, von M…
▶ 24:03
The U.S. had taken pains to avoid angering or embarrassing Cairo, unquote. The pains the Reagan-Bush administration was willing to take became clear as the Itzko case moved up the bureaucratic ladder to the National Security Council. What h…
▶ 24:30
Van Marbogh, Klein's, and the Egyptians in an illegal and unauthorized intelligence operation. As the Pentagon, with Van Marbogh retired, Frank Carlucci was now doing his best to protect General Secord. The depth of the government's knowled…
▶ 27:31
in order to inject national security concerns to thwart the DOJ investigation. Discussing the substance of the meeting, Sporkin wrote that Clines, Shackley, Secord, and von Marburg were conducting weekly meetings to discuss ways to obtain c…
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On October 4th, 1978, the Defense Department received a letter from the Egyptians saying that Tersam of Panama, it was registered in Panama, is the sole shipping agent for the government of Egypt. In January 1979, Wilson, Secord, and von Ma…
▶ 28:31
The money was used by Klein to form various business groups. All of the principals have 20% shares, and all but Klein's shares were secret. Each man, because basically what they're setting up is front companies. Each man in the meeting wrot…
▶ 29:01
In the end, it works out to be an $8 million ripoff by ETSCO, funds which the Egyptians could have used for supplies. The Department of Justice memorandum stated it went on to say that von Marbog received a cash payoff in Geneva in October …
▶ 29:31
citing those pesky health concerns. And also that Klein's got booted out of ETSCO. It continued, Salam buys him out. Salam says that Egyptians kicked Klein out because Klein's ties to Wilson and hence to Libya. Klein's comes out of this wit…