Sarkis Soghanalian person
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Claims (25)
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Iran host_asserted
“a Turkish-born citizen who had been Saddam Hussein's leading armed procurer and who introduced super cannon builder Gerald Bull to the Iraqis. He later sold 103 military helicopters to Iraq illegally, was caught, and served six years in pri…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 48:45
James J. Brennan paid
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“He returned to Hughes and told company executives to finish loading the planes, and he began the marathon flight to get the choppers to Iraq. A few months later, Brennan went to Paris, where Sarkis paid him $92,000 instead of the million do…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 10:36
Sarkis Soghanalian paid
James J. Brennan book_quoted
“He returned to Hughes and told company executives to finish loading the planes, and he began the marathon flight to get the choppers to Iraq. A few months later, Brennan went to Paris, where Sarkis paid him $92,000 instead of the million do…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 10:36
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Peru host_asserted
“Sarkis agreed to broker Peru's purchase from Jordan with U.S. money of 50,000 AK-47 rifles to be used to fight the quote-unquote rebels in Colombia. They were not rebels. They were people who wanted their country back from the CIA. Sarkis a…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 1:04:14
Edwin Wilson supplied_arms_to
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“He was a Turkish-born Armenian arms dealer from one of the best-connected Christian families in Lebanon. Back when Wilson worked with Air America, he had sold Slohani Island, his first Boeing 707 cargo plane, to haul arms for the CIA back t…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 6 @ 17:05
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“Sarkis then arranged for shipments of mortars from Bulgaria, arms capital of NATO, and France. Of course, it was still Soviet Union at the time. Artillery from South Africa, which was getting illegal arms shipments from Israel as well.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 39:38
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“So anyway, 1982, just a year into, well, it's about two years into Reagan's administration, was supervising the culmination of his first big U.S. deal for Iraq. 60 Hughes Defender helicopters, 60 helicopters were being loaded onto cargo pla…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 6:53
Sarkis Soghanalian laundered_money_for
Iran book_quoted
“$4.7 billion in U.S. agricultural credits, which according to the House Banking Committee report, U.S. officials allowed Iraq to trade with other countries in exchange for cash to pay for weapons. Well, we don't, at least in this case, we d…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 25:11
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Iran host_asserted
“which they contracted through Nicolae Crocercu from Romania prior to his execution. The partners in the particular deal were former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and Sarkis Saganalian, S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 36:22
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Iran host_asserted
“I-A-N, a Turkish born citizen who had been Saddam Hussein's leading arms procurer. It was, I'm gonna call him Sog. I don't know how to pronounce his last name. The Turkey guy who introduced super cannon builder, Gerald Bull to the Iraqis wh…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 6 @ 36:52
BCCI financed_via
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“in business, and that he finances all of these arms deals in the Middle East covertly with BCCI's backing financing. He becomes Saddam's key arms dealer. Now, Saddam, being part of the government, is going to be buying both legitimate arms …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 35:12
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“in business, and that he finances all of these arms deals in the Middle East covertly with BCCI's backing financing. He becomes Saddam's key arms dealer. Now, Saddam, being part of the government, is going to be buying both legitimate arms …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 35:12
Sarkis Soghanalian recruited
Gerald Bull book_quoted
“to let the Iraqis get to know him first. Because the Iraqis were having problems modifying their long-range artillery, Sarkis contacted the ballistics expert in the world, the best one, the guy by the name of Gerald Bull, G-E-R-A-L-D, and h…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 12:03
Sarkis Soghanalian removed_from_power
Gerald Bull book_quoted
“and removed him from Iraq. Hassan Kamal was furious when he found out, and Sarkis' friend Krala felt the pressure. Meanwhile, Saddam's tailor, the guy that started the whole thing, and go-between, was pressing Sarkis for his commission. Sar…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 14:24
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Afghanistan book_quoted
“to allow the Eastern Bloc war materials to transship through Iraq to the anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan. In other words, they were using Iraq as a shipping place. The irony of Saudi Arabia's paying Saddam to fight Muslim fundam…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 16:51
Sarkis Soghanalian recruited
Carlos Cardon book_quoted
“By 1988, Sarkis understood that things were changing in Iraq and that he was being sued by Mitchell and Brennan for lost commissions on the uniform deal. Hassan Kamal had begun, with the CIA's cooperation, to bring rivals like Chilean clust…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 28:19
Sarkis Soghanalian recruited
Tony Kharter book_quoted
“In 1974, Sarkis hired a young Lebanese man named Tony Carter, K-H-A-R-T-E-R, as his assistant.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 21:31
Donald Rumsfeld appointed
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“Sarkis successfully took a large share of credit for the visit. Rumsfeld was so taken by Saddam's anti-communist stand that he recommended that the Reagan administration make a deeper investment into Iraq. Iraq was thrilled. In January 1984…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 19:10
Sarkis Soghanalian supplied_arms_to
Iran book_quoted
“Sarkis succeeded in getting the U.S. to send the classified parts to a British company called United Scientific.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 39:09
James J. Brennan ordered_assassination_of
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“of losing a war with Iran because it did not have enough conventional artillery to stave off a massive human wave attack, this was unacceptable. Sarkis confronted Bull. I told him that he was playing a very dangerous game, going around the …”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 13:58
DIA recruited
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“According to DIA Control Officer Colonel Joseph Hunt, that Sarkis became one of the most valuable intelligence assets we ever had. Sarkis became a utility man for both DIA and CIA.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 21:31
Kamal Adham recruited
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“Kamal Adem's call to Sarkis' Geneva apartment came in October 1980.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 22:31
Sarkis Soghanalian exposed
Israel book_quoted
“He asked to speak privately with the defense minister and informed him that Iran was obtaining classified equipment from Israel while the U.S. looked the other way.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 37:10
CIA recruited
Sarkis Soghanalian book_quoted
“Sarkis became a utility man for both DIA and CIA. His fluency in seven languages made him invaluable.…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 21:31
Sarkis Soghanalian member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“he had serious connections to King Hussein in Jordan and had successfully operated throughout all of Africa and Latin America, which tells you he's part of Operation Gladio…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 32:21
Mentions (81)
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As the Reagan-Bush team took over, Saddam Hussein offered two attractions. The first one was that he was the ideal hedge against Iran. The second was that billions of dollars in weapons sales meant there could be profits in the war for the …
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Sarkis, S-A-R-K-I-S, S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N. And remember, he's the Turkish-born Armenian who had grown up in Lebanon before violence became a way of life. But the beauty of life in volatile Beirut was shattered for Sarkis.…
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by the battles between the Muslims and the Christians. After his father, a Christian, was murdered in the 1950s, Sarkis began toting a machine gun until he found his father's killer and got revenge. He worked as a ski instructor and met and…
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According to DIA Control Officer Colonel Joseph Hunt, that Sarkis became one of the most valuable intelligence assets we ever had. Sarkis became a utility man for both DIA and CIA. His fluency in seven languages made him invaluable. In 1974…
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Carter said Sarkis gave the U.S. deniability and he was effective. In other words, he could do all of the crap. And if he ever got caught doing the crap for the CIA, then nobody's going to get the blame. So they used him again and again. An…
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He could sneak arms into an African country by painting a large red cross on the side of cargo planes and then laugh about it. Kamal Adem's call to Sarkis' Geneva apartment came in October 1980. A guide by Abu Garo, which is an Arab term of…
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Garo was the name of Sarkis' son. That's how he started the conversation. I need your help. Washington came in with Iraq to help take care of this old Khomeini bastard. Sarkis understood that when Kamal Adem called, it was a Saudi royal fam…
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of doing their bidding. Sarkis had done vast amounts of business with Adem and understood that if he came to the middleman for Iraq, there could be a huge profit. Kamal said a man with close ties to Saddam would call me. He said I should sh…
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Figuring out who the man was connected to would be important. When I told Kamal this worried me, he said to relax. The man is not an Iraqi. I told Adam to send him and we'd see what we could do. Sarkis used a suite at the Geneva Hotel that …
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saw to all of the details and organized a dinner for the visitor. The visitor's name was Herot, H-A-R-O-T, K-A-B-A-L-I-A-N, K-A-Y-A-B-A-L-I-A-N, who proved not to be an expert in munitions, but he did know all about dressing spiffy. He was …
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And Kyabalian was basically behind the whole thing. So Sarkis hit it off with Kyabalian the first night they met. Sarkis was a dazzling host. After several nights of expensive dinners and parties, Geneva's best, and exclusive club hopping, …
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corrupt and phony arms dealers. They needed one reliable person to work with the defense minister to supply the war effort. What was coming from the Soviet Union was not enough. Saddam wanted to reach out to the United States and if Sarkis …
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That first trip to Iraq opened all kinds of doors. Sarkis was invited to a farm in southern Iraq, owned by the defense minister, whose name was Aden, A-D-N-A-N, and his last name was K-H-A-Y-R-A-L-L-A-H. And we're going to call him Aden.…
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Sarkis was introduced to the top officers of the Iraqi army and was given a complete intelligence briefing of how the war was going with Iran. To the shock of U.S. officials, Sarkis strolled into the American embassy and introduced himself …
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He had the run of the country because he was going to help them try to win the war. What Sarkis found was a country that had started a war but had no way of finishing it. As he brought hunting rifles as gifts to the defense minister and oth…
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Aidan was more open and far less dour than all of the other men around Saddam Hussein. His power came from the fact that he was Saddam's cousin and his brother-in-law. But as soon as the Aidan started to trust Sarkis, he began to explain to…
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over literally nothing. Aiden also warned Sarkis to watch out for Hassan Kamal, K-A-M-E-L, the feared and powerful head of the secret police and Saddam's son-in-law. Don't get on his wrong side. Sarkis understood that the information he was…
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Edwin Darijan was a savvy foreign policy expert and former ambassador to Syria, who was serving as an aide to George Bush and James Baker, was sold on Sarkis' ability and his connections. He strongly suggested that Sarkis should get a heari…
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And in the end, DIA, State Department and White House officials all got briefings from him. And see, I love the way these guys like shove all of this. And we've talked about this before. Yes, the Department of Defense knew all about it. But…
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The White House was so amazed at Sarkis' contact that they had Oliver North and other people asking who knew him and where did his connections come from. What they learned was that he had serious connections to King Hussein in Jordan and ha…
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Bush's chief of staff, Admiral Daniel Murphy, telling me I should cooperate with the agency. He said we should find a way for me to work with them. Tony Carter helped his boss secretly move some of the most important former and current Amer…
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and other members of his safari club, which again is an off-book CIA covert operation. Sarkis routinely went to Washington and stayed in large suites in Madison Hotel. For a while, it was a successful collaboration with Sarkis. Saddam kept …
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Sarkis' Israeli friends made it clear that they had been given the green light to supply those spare parts to Iran. Sarkis was smart enough to come back to Baghdad with the useful intelligence. He asked to speak privately with the defense m…
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Sarkis succeeded in getting the U.S. to send the classified parts to a British company called United Scientific. But then the Iraqis said United Scientific was not acceptable to them unless a member of Margaret Thatcher's family accompanied…
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but that his meeting with Iranian officials who wanted him to get spare parts for the American-made airplanes, he thought Kamal would have him killed if he ever found out, unquote. As Sarkis delivered more and more equipment, the danger see…
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If Wilson had a weakness, it was a desire to be accepted by everyone. I wasn't one of the good old boys. I thought these guys could make me part of their world, Wilson said. Some months later, Wilson arranged for Rodriguez to meet the legen…
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He was a Turkish-born Armenian arms dealer from one of the best-connected Christian families in Lebanon. Back when Wilson worked with Air America, he had sold Slohani Island, his first Boeing 707 cargo plane, to haul arms for the CIA back t…
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said he attempted to recruit the SOG guy, that's how he pronounced his last name, for the CIA, but was told to keep his hands off the DIA, which at that point was also running him as an informant. Wilson said, again, they love dragging in t…
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this arms dealer, as Klein requested, because he knew that the arms dealer was looking for an experienced man to train the Christian militia. But the arms dealer tells a darker story about what Wilson told him to do with Rodriguez. This is …
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Rodriguez was a big mouth, unquote. Whatever Wilson's intention concerning Rodriguez, the arms dealer learned that he was right about a big mouth. The arms dealer took Rodriguez to a training base for Belgium mercenaries. He started talking…
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like most Cubans who work for the CIA, talk too much. Now, I'm going to pause for just a second because this is a reoccurring theme. When the Cuban exiles was used in many of these Operation Gladio endeavors, both in the Congo and Angola an…
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for the mercenary paramilitary, Gladio, and that was along the Spanish border with France as well. So I'm not sure which one they used here, but both of those are possibilities. Wilson denies that he instructed the arms dealer to get rid of…
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when Rodriguez was already being paid by the CIA. Wilson said he told Rodriguez that if any arms sales opportunities arose, he would work with and protect him from the arms dealer, who had a reputation as being a very smart, tough businessm…
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I was present when they met in New York when Bush was still the U.N. ambassador. Sarkis Soghanian, S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N, said. Bush and Adam shared a fascination with intelligence. Bush also took a deep interest in the sheik's American-edu…
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to serve as a bridge between the two. Albert Hakim is spelled H-A-K-I-M. So you have Sarkis Saghala Yen, who was close to Sheikh Kamal Aydin during this period. And again, Aydin is the chief of intel for Saudi. Aydin frequently asked him wh…
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Wilson met with the top PLO leaders on a regular basis. His actions were making the Mossad and the Saudi intelligence nervous. Something would prove very important to Shackley and Klein. According to Sarkis, S-A-R-K-I-S, Solhanalian, the gu…
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BCCI was one means to the end. Atom's removal came with the assassination of King Faisal and his replacement by King Fod. Atom was not about to give up the reins of the covert operations, so as the main spy behind BCCI, he didn't have to. A…
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And the people in Iran were outraged. Again, strategy of tension. According to Sarkis Solhanilian, who became Saddam's key arms dealer. All right, so SR-71, you might want to repost that. S-O-D-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N. That Sarkis guy. Because we t…
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in business, and that he finances all of these arms deals in the Middle East covertly with BCCI's backing financing. He becomes Saddam's key arms dealer. Now, Saddam, being part of the government, is going to be buying both legitimate arms …
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Dev Mavin, D-E-M-A-V, as in Victor, A-N-D. That would be the heart of the Iran-Contra scandal. For Sarkis, the first inkling of the Reagan administration in Israel had embarked on a secret program to arm both Iran and Iraq in their brutal b…
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According to Sarkis, the U.S. replenished Israel's arsenal of U.S. weapons and parts to help Iran keep the Shah's old U.S. weapons stock intact. The reports detailing the Israeli sales that they were literally daily, according to a high-ran…
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a unappealing Castro-backed Sandinistas. The Israeli government was also a partner in this effort. The administration was at first split on how to support Nicaragua. Sarkis had been supplying the popular independent Eden Pastora, better kno…
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All right. So Chapter 32 is called The Shakedown. It starts in Los Angeles in December 1982 with Sorkis. And you guys remember he has the long, crazy last name S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L-I-A-N. So Hanalian. But his first name is Sorkis. And that's wha…
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So anyway, 1982, just a year into, well, it's about two years into Reagan's administration, was supervising the culmination of his first big U.S. deal for Iraq. 60 Hughes Defender helicopters, 60 helicopters were being loaded onto cargo pla…
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came down to the tarmac from his office with a concerned look. Sarkis remembers being in a great mood until Real told him that there was a problem with the export licenses for the helicopters. He reminded Real that the price had included th…
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Sarkis to the heart of a private network. Jack Real's driver took Sarkis to the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel. That is when I met Nixon's friend, Jack Brennan and Gene Boyer, B-O-Y-E-R. Sarkis said that Boyer had been in charge of the presid…
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By that time, he was the deputy national security advisor. When Sarkis arrived at Newport Beach Marriott, Brennan told him that it was global consultants that had arranged for Hugh's export license and that the firm needed to be paid before…
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I never was told about Brennan or any of his friends. I told him neither I nor the Iraqis had that kind of cash and that the money all went into the weapons and shipping. I told Brennan that if he helped the Iraqis, there would be plenty of…
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If he did not deliver the product to Iraq, he would lose all credibility. But to get the product, he now had to let Brennan and whoever else was in bed with him inside the tent of the weapons deals. McFarlane later confirmed through his law…
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He returned to Hughes and told company executives to finish loading the planes, and he began the marathon flight to get the choppers to Iraq. A few months later, Brennan went to Paris, where Sarkis paid him $92,000 instead of the million do…
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Over the next few months, Sarkis became a fixture in Iraq. He set up his operations next to the presidential palace downtown's airport and in the old Iraqi Airways crew quarters. It was now being used for distinguished visitors. Sarkis' emp…
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stocked the bar and the restaurant. He persuaded his friend, the defense minister, to install a large screen television in the bar and to detach several cooks from the army to do duty. He had around-the-clock use of chauffeured Mercedes. Br…
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to let the Iraqis get to know him first. Because the Iraqis were having problems modifying their long-range artillery, Sarkis contacted the ballistics expert in the world, the best one, the guy by the name of Gerald Bull, G-E-R-A-L-D, and h…
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For what? Arms trafficking. To Baghdad. Bull went to work and actually had former colleagues run computations on supercomputers in the Army Research Lab at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland to ensure Iraq's ballistic missile program impr…
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I guess that's what you get when you deal with convicted felons. Defense Minister Kerala warned Sarkis that Bull had had several meetings with Hassan Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and enforcer. Bull was trying to sell Kamal on a scheme…
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had made no progress on the job that he had been hired to do, which was modifying the artillery. Instead, he had spent the millions of dollars the defense ministry had given him to modify Scud missiles with new extended second stages and on…
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of losing a war with Iran because it did not have enough conventional artillery to stave off a massive human wave attack, this was unacceptable. Sarkis confronted Bull. I told him that he was playing a very dangerous game, going around the …
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and removed him from Iraq. Hassan Kamal was furious when he found out, and Sarkis' friend Krala felt the pressure. Meanwhile, Saddam's tailor, the guy that started the whole thing, and go-between, was pressing Sarkis for his commission. Sar…
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He used the opportunity to get Brennan off his back. I told Herrett I was working with some very influential people in the U.S. That included a company whose contacts were President Richard Nixon. That got his attention. Pouring on his char…
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involving replacement of their entire Iraqi uniforms. Sarkis played to the tailor's ego. I told him that he could design the new uniforms and that this deal would cement relationships with the Reagan administration. The warming of U.S. and …
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Sarkis understood that U.S. authorities did not want to be publicly associated with the murderous regime. Some of Hassan Kamal's cleanup operations for Saddam had Kerry's CIA staff concerned. Shortly after Saddam's predecessor, President Al…
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all of the governments understood that Saddam is the French, the Russians, and the Germans, Sarkis said. They all sent full diplomatic representation. The U.S. wanted clean hands, so they made theirs all unofficial. Sarkis was at the vortex…
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to allow the Eastern Bloc war materials to transship through Iraq to the anti-Soviet freedom fighters in Afghanistan. In other words, they were using Iraq as a shipping place. The irony of Saudi Arabia's paying Saddam to fight Muslim fundam…
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surveillance of Sarkis and his family on a 24-hour basis. He did the same with Kraywala. He was convinced we were both U.S. spies, but they were clumsy and we found out about it, Sarkis said. As much as Hassan Kamal came to detest Sarkis, t…
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I was worried that some people in Washington was working directly with Kamal. Sarkis dismissed my concerns at the time. I warned him that the U.S. had used him to open the door. Once he did that, he would not be needed. Sarkis believed that…
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he brought into Iraq, were late in paying him. The lack of cash flow caused him to miss delivery dates. In the process of handling hundreds of millions of dollars in arms sales, Sarkis made mistakes at a time when Hassan Kamal's agents were…
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The heat got turned up. But just as Hassan was going to move against Sarkis, the American embassy sent word that President Reagan was dispatching a personal friend as an envoy to see Saddam Hussein. Two days before Christmas in 1983, Donald…
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to defend America. Okay. Sarkis' exposure of the French led the Clinton administration to make an overture to the French government on five different occasions about the role of its companies in supplying turbopumps to China. Sarkis began t…
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In her place, Sarkis' contact with the French authorities installed a Palestinian woman. Cut off from the French, Sarkis began to look for an alternative source of income. His connections in Jordan urged him to assist the U.S. on arms deals…
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Sarkis agreed to broker Peru's purchase from Jordan with U.S. money of 50,000 AK-47 rifles to be used to fight the quote-unquote rebels in Colombia. They were not rebels. They were people who wanted their country back from the CIA. Sarkis a…
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A year later, Sarkis was slowly rebuilding his business in Jordan when he came home to the U.S. for Christmas. He was arrested by customs again and charged with bank fraud involving a counterfeit cashier's check on a Southern California ban…
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Sarkis was moved to Los Angeles, where he remained jailed until he was told that the National Security News Service that his Peruvian arms dealer had not gone as planned. The arms had, in fact, been diverted by Monteseros to the FARC rebels…
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Whatever the Peruvians did with them after I sold them to them is on them. Sarkis's allegations of an elaborate double-cross raised serious questions about U.S. agencies' close ties to spy chiefs. To make matters worse, the CIA was involved…
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Then the opposition newspaper in Peru, the La Republica, carried a story that brought down the government. President Fujimori fled to Japan and Montesineros was eventually incarcerated. At that point, the Justice Department worked out a ple…
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He continued to assist the FBI and other U.S. agencies on terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation. In 2004, his health worsened and he sought advice on returning home. After Sarkis was assured that he would face no legal hurdles in comi…
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a former CIA analyst in the Soviet Union, said they were funding the wrong Islamic groups. And he's also quoted as saying, and had little idea where the money was going or how it was being spent. Sarkis, who profited from providing arms to …
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in Pakistan. I can tell you that more than three quarters of the money was skimmed off the top. What went to buy weapons for the Afghan fighters was peanuts, unquote. And keep in mind, they also were using that money to buy hand-me-down Sov…
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Israel's defense industries, the huge government-controlled defense entity. That's actually the name of it, Defense Industries. That's the name of a company. Shimon was absolutely necessary to arms deals with Iran, Sarkis was quoted as sayi…
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which they contracted through Nicolae Crocercu from Romania prior to his execution. The partners in the particular deal were former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell and Sarkis Saganalian, S-O-G-H-A-N-A-L.…
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I-A-N, a Turkish born citizen who had been Saddam Hussein's leading arms procurer. It was, I'm gonna call him Sog. I don't know how to pronounce his last name. The Turkey guy who introduced super cannon builder, Gerald Bull to the Iraqis wh…
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and Jack Brennan, former aide to Nixon, who were involved in a $181 million business deal to supply uniforms to the Iraqi army, which they contracted with Nikolai Karsasku, Romanian, prior to his execution. The partners in this particular d…