Kamal Adham person
also: Sheikh Kamal Adem, Kamal Adem, Kamal Adam, Adem, Adom, Kamal Adom, Kamil Aydin, Aydin, Adham, Adam, Kamal Atom
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Claims (30)
Kamal Adham funded
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“Wilson had been led into a trap through his relationship with Turple and Hakim. The financing for all of his deals were now controlled by lawyers and bankers with absolute loyalty to Kamal Adem. And Kamal Adem is the Saudi intel guy. Adem w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 44:16
Kamal Adham funded
BCCI book_quoted
“that had general officers on the board of it. So, all right, to the book. The worst crisis of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the capture of the Tehran embassy in 1979 and the taking of American hostages as early as 1972, which is the date BC…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 26:36
Kamal Adham worked_for
BCCI book_quoted
“is with BCCI, whose main bank is in the city of London. By the time Adam had moved many of his operations to London, to include BCCI, along, and they were very good friends with Thatcher and her husband and son. Mark Thatcher goes on to do …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:25:34
Kamal Adham recruited
Mark Thatcher book_quoted
“is with BCCI, whose main bank is in the city of London. By the time Adam had moved many of his operations to London, to include BCCI, along, and they were very good friends with Thatcher and her husband and son. Mark Thatcher goes on to do …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 1:25:34
Robert Altman recruited
Kamal Adham documented
“BCCI with their domestic institutions. The clearest example was the effort of Robert Altman and Clark Clifford, who you guys who've watched our series on the BCCI Bank with Warhamster, and I will remember those names, to help Kamal Adem tak…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:00:46
Clark Clifford recruited
Kamal Adham documented
“BCCI with their domestic institutions. The clearest example was the effort of Robert Altman and Clark Clifford, who you guys who've watched our series on the BCCI Bank with Warhamster, and I will remember those names, to help Kamal Adem tak…”
▶ The Colonels corner Prelude to terror final chapter @ 1:00:46
Clark Clifford recruited
Kamal Adham book_quoted
“Adam was initially approached by one of the most respected and powerful men in Washington, Clark Clifford, who rose to power under Harry Truman and had enjoyed a relationship with the intelligence community for years. Quote, Clark Clifford …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 48:11
Kamal Adham member_of
BCCI book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 19:18
Kamal Adham transformed
BCCI book_quoted
“Pakistani merchant bank, BCCI, into the worldwide money laundering machine, buying banks all around the world in order to create the biggest clandestine money laundering outfit in history. Bush had an account at BCCI established at the time…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 1:01:49
Kamal Adham recruited
Anwar Sadat book_quoted
“They already had all that intelligence because they set up the network, guys. According to Wilson and Crowley, Bush ordered Raymond Close, C-L-O-S-E, the CIA's top man in Saudi Arabia, to work closely with Adem. Adem had other important rol…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 1:03:34
Kamal Adham founded
Black Network book_quoted
“They would also need muscle. They tapped into the CIA's stockpile of malcontents and created a 1,500-strong group of assassins and enforcers. Huh, that sounds like a Gladio network. They referred to it as the Black Network. It combined inte…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 1:05:25
Kamal Adham headed
Saudi Arabian Intelligence book_quoted
“Saudi Arabia's intelligence network, basically their version of the CIA. So, of course, he shows up in Prelude to Terror because we know that the CIA, which this book is written with material from CIA agents, the CIA was behind BCCI. And, o…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 18:21
BCCI laundered_money_for
Kamal Adham book_quoted
“Wilson had been led into a trap through his relationship with Turple and Hakim. The financing for all of his deals were now controlled by lawyers and bankers with absolute loyalty to Kamal Adem. And Kamal Adem is the Saudi intel guy. Adem w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chapter 15 @ 44:16
Kamal Adham proposed
Iran-Iraq War book_quoted
“Adem advised Saddam that if he became a proxy warrior against the Iranian revolutionary government, he would have the loyalty of the Saudi and the Gulf royal families and the appreciation of the Western world…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 16:45
Kamal Adham member_of
BCCI book_quoted
“a basic background check on the shareholders like Kamal Atom or A.R. Khalil would have revealed all of their intelligence connections.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 32:25
Kamal Adham funded
Anwar Sadat host_asserted
“That means that you buy weapons from the Soviet Union after the West has cut you off. Kamal Adom, the chief of intel from Saudi Arabia, at that time still began personally visiting Sadat, urging him to cooperate with the Americans, because …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 7:52
George H.W. Bush recruited
Kamal Adham book_quoted
“whom Bush had met through his father. Bush has told reporters, I never met Kamal Adom personally, but that's a lie. According to lawyers for the late Saudi intelligence head, several officials at the CIA who served under Bush said that ther…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 42:26
Kamal Adham financed_via
Nugan Hand Bank book_quoted
“Adam worked closely with George Bush on a plan to provide covert banking services to the CIA. That's the BCCI, by the way. Like most things the Saudis do, there was a benefit in it for the Saudi family. The arrangements would give the Saudi…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 13 @ 58:51
Kamal Adham secretly_owned
BCCI host_asserted
“listed as the founders, kind of really a misnomer because this other guy by the name of Kamal, Kamal, K-A-M-A-L, Kamal, Adam, A-D-H-A-M, Adham, he ends up being the no kidding guy behind the scenes making all the decisions and owned a large…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 1:04:49
Kamal Adham member_of
Safari Club host_asserted
“closely worked with George H.W. Bush, who had been appointed the CIA director in 1976. So that was during that same time. Adam signed the charter of the Safari Club, which was listed as an anti-communist foreign policy initiative on behalf …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 1:09:57
Kamal Adham founded
Barrick Gold Corporation host_asserted
“was one of the founders of a gold company called Barrick Gold Corporation, established in 1983. So doesn't that make you feel good? That you've got the chief of the CIA version for Saudi Arabia and the world's biggest weapons dealer, Aidan …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Live Research Project into CIA corruption @ 1:11:51
Kamal Adham funded
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“most of which he deferred until Iraq could better afford to pay him. Adem understood the level of talent available through Shackley's private network. In cooperation with the Israelis and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Adem led a strange profit-ma…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 26:29
Kamal Adham funded
Nugan Hand Bank book_quoted
“Nugent Hand Bank. He became in effect Adam's man inside Nugent Hand Bank. Adam viewed Nugent Hand as a way for BCCI to fund its riskier operations. Isn't that interesting? McDonald was one of those who heard Bernie Houghton's tape-recorded …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 29:50
Kamal Adham headed
Saudi Arabia host_asserted
“The France, the SDECE, is the Operation Gladio guy. Saudi Arabia guy was their chief of intelligence, Kamal Adam, and the Egyptian chief of intel, the Morocco chief of intel, and then the Iranian guy that we trained. So those are all just b…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 1:31:41
Kamal Adham ordered_assassination_of
King Faisal book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 19:18
Kamal Adham recruited
Anwar Sadat book_quoted
“all the way through the Reagan administrations, which, of course, Bush was the vice president of. According to the Senate BCCI investigation and Morgan Thowell's investigation into BCCI, which I talked extensively about when we did our show…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 21:12
Kamal Adham funded
Soviet-Afghan War book_quoted
“was aware of the cutbacks at the CIA. The investigations in the U.S. Congress that had began in 1974 had basically shut down the Directorate of Operations. During this period, the amounts of money devoted to the enterprise began in the tens…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 25:32
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
Kamal Adham framed
Saddam Hussein host_asserted
“is the one that came to the United States after Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait later on and goes, oh my God, look what he did and set him up and lied about the whole baby and incubator thing…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 18:34
Kamal Adham secretly_owned
BCCI host_asserted
“Sheikh Kamal Adem, who is the chief of intel in Saudi Arabia, that was behind the BCCI bank as well…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 11:46
Mentions (82)
▶ 32:25
a basic background check on the shareholders like Kamal Atom or A.R. Khalil would have revealed all of their intelligence connections. And that single point right there tells me not only was the Federal Reserve complicit, that they knowingl…
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At the same time, Bush, with his old friend, Sheikh Kamal Adem, who is the chief of intel in Saudi Arabia, that was behind the BCCI bank as well, established the tilt towards Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. It was an arms merchant's wildest …
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that likes to take bones underneath the footstool so the other dog can't get them. That's what you hear in the background. For Kamal Adam, Saddam Hussein was the annoying neighbor who had one useful characteristic. He was a minority Sunni M…
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and his relationship with Adem and Shackley to be suspicious. Within a few months of the new Islamic government, assumptions of power in Iran, cross-border attacks and attempts to export religious quote-unquote warriors into Iraq began. The…
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Well, Saddam Hussein caught wind of that and assassinated that guy. According to one of Kamal Adem's closest advisors, Adem advised Saddam that if he became a proxy warrior against the Iranian revolutionary government, he would have the loy…
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if he didn't do something about him. Meanwhile, Saddam had a long list of issues with his neighbors, specifically Kuwait. Saddam was convinced that Kuwait was stealing Iraqi oil, and they were. He asked Adem if Saudi Arabia would intervene …
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Take on Kuwait if he first took on Iran. So here's the Sunni guy over here, chief of intel, Adem. And he tells Saddam Hussein, the secular guy, who's keeping everybody in their box and attacking the Kurds, by the way, that Kuwait, part of t…
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So, hey, I'll help you combat your enemy, which is the Shia in Iran, if you'll help me combat my enemy in Kuwait. And Adem says he will, but he doesn't because Adem in Saudi Arabia.…
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is the one that came to the United States after Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait later on and goes, oh my God, look what he did and set him up and lied about the whole baby and incubator thing. They basically took Saddam Hussein out to the cle…
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in isolation. In many ways, it was brought about by the same kind of Saudi manipulation that had pulled the U.S. into the Afghan war against the Soviets. Well, the CIA basically set the Soviet Union up on that one, but whatever. Adom persua…
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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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But the most important connections he had was Kamal Adom, the chief of intel in Saudi Arabia. He was considered a businessman who always delivered. The former CIA officials advising Bush suggested that the way to control Sarkis was to get h…
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American night vision technology sold to Iran after the Shah had left power. Sarkis vowed to find the same technology for the Iraqi fleet of tanks. According to Sarkis, he contacted Kamal Adem, who suggested that the devices could be export…
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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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who, by the way, was an arms dealer, to be present in London's hotel room when the deal was made. Sarkis then arranged for shipments of mortars from Bulgaria, arms capital of NATO, and France. Of course, it was still Soviet Union at the tim…
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listed as the founders, kind of really a misnomer because this other guy by the name of Kamal, Kamal, K-A-M-A-L, Kamal, Adam, A-D-H-A-M, Adham, he ends up being the no kidding guy behind the scenes making all the decisions and owned a large…
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share of like the largest share of the bank so I bet he seems to have been they sell his story as you know oh my god he grew up poor in Pakistan and he wanted to make this bank for third world people and blah blah blah but once you get down…
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I don't know. I'm just going to call him a ham. This guy, as the majority share owner, was actually doing a lot of the hiring and firing behind the scenes. And you never hear anyone talk about him. Do you want to know why you never hear any…
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closely worked with George H.W. Bush, who had been appointed the CIA director in 1976. So that was during that same time. Adam signed the charter of the Safari Club, which was listed as an anti-communist foreign policy initiative on behalf …
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Adem founded a construction company, like one of the largest ones. And it's like the back tail of Saudi Arabia. That was his company. He basically built out Mecca in Medina. And from what people say, it looks good, but nothing works. Adem, …
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was one of the founders of a gold company called Barrick Gold Corporation, established in 1983. So doesn't that make you feel good? That you've got the chief of the CIA version for Saudi Arabia and the world's biggest weapons dealer, Aidan …
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I recorded a lot of that in a book review over on Substack under the house of Saad, the house of Bush. Lots of very interesting details about that relationship. The most important friendship Bush had was with a quiet man named Sheikh Kamal …
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whom Bush had met through his father. Bush has told reporters, I never met Kamal Adom personally, but that's a lie. According to lawyers for the late Saudi intelligence head, several officials at the CIA who served under Bush said that ther…
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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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During the outbreak of the 1967 war with Israel, after later completing his education in England, Turkey again returned home to prepare himself eventually to succeed his uncle, Kamil Aydin, as the chief of Saudi intelligence. Now, we've got…
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And BCCI is the entity that was used to fund all of the drug trafficking, arms trafficking and human trafficking that the CIA was involved in. And Kamal Adom was at the heart of all of that. OK, so again, we're pulling in another book, the …
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Turpel told Wilson that he went back years with Turcay through his personal assistance. When Wilson needed financial backing for several of his large front companies, Prince Turcay put up the cash. In 1992, Wilson said that he shared millio…
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would play enormous roles in servicing the spy network designed to replace the official CIA while it was under congressional scrutiny between the time of Watergate and the end of the Carter administration, the Enterprise. The idea of using …
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A guy by the name of Clark Clifford. Is Warhamster still in here? I saw him earlier. Clark Clifford is the guy that is hired by BCCI to disguise the illegal purchase of three American banks by BCCI. So let me read that again.…
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Adam was initially approached by one of the most respected and powerful men in Washington, Clark Clifford, who rose to power under Harry Truman and had enjoyed a relationship with the intelligence community for years. Quote, Clark Clifford …
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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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He complained the CIA was not giving him the full picture of how the Shah was losing control of Iran. Adem believed that the binding Saudi Arabia with the U.S. would increase the House of Saud's chance of surviving an Islamic resurgence. Be…
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Adam worked closely with George Bush on a plan to provide covert banking services to the CIA. That's the BCCI, by the way. Like most things the Saudis do, there was a benefit in it for the Saudi family. The arrangements would give the Saudi…
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In 1975, the royal family was approached by the Pakistani government for help in financing an Islamic nuclear weapon. Adem and his advisors had simultaneously reached the conclusion that the royal family could not survive if they let the Is…
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Yeah, I'm sure they did. Adam understood that creating a single worldwide clandestine bank was not enough to assure the kind of resources necessary to stave off the coming Islamic revolutions that were threatening Saudi Arabia at the time. …
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Pakistani merchant bank, BCCI, into the worldwide money laundering machine, buying banks all around the world in order to create the biggest clandestine money laundering outfit in history. Bush had an account at BCCI established at the time…
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Time magazine reported that the bank had its own spies, hitmen, and enforcers. What no one reported at the time was that the bank was being used by the United States and Saudi Arabia as an intelligence front as well. There had never been an…
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They already had all that intelligence because they set up the network, guys. According to Wilson and Crowley, Bush ordered Raymond Close, C-L-O-S-E, the CIA's top man in Saudi Arabia, to work closely with Adem. Adem had other important rol…
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This made Adem, in effect, Sadat's case officer. This relationship gave Adem leverage when the time came to persuade Sadat to sign the Camp David Accord. Adem and Abedi believed the U.S. needed monitoring after Adem left the Intelligence Di…
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Because Atom, through his relationships with Shackley and Bush, had intimate knowledge on just how desperate the U.S. intelligence was for services, a convenient Washington, D.C.-based bank acquiring one became one of his main goals. Meanwh…
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been investigating Helms' line to the Senate about the CIA's involvement in the coup in Chile. It was threatening the future of both Shackley and Helms and would have also exposed the Safari Club. Adam did not rely simply on money to carry …
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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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Wilson had been led into a trap through his relationship with Turple and Hakim. The financing for all of his deals were now controlled by lawyers and bankers with absolute loyalty to Kamal Adem. And Kamal Adem is the Saudi intel guy. Adem w…
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about what we think are completely different areas, they show up in a different place in the same storyline. For example, if you guys listen to Warhamster and I's conversation about BCCI, we did several shows about it. Well, you will rememb…
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Saudi Arabia's intelligence network, basically their version of the CIA. So, of course, he shows up in Prelude to Terror because we know that the CIA, which this book is written with material from CIA agents, the CIA was behind BCCI. And, o…
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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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That is precisely why Adam did business with the private enterprise version of the CIA. For Kamal, trust is everything. He had to have a leader in the U.S. that could be trusted. Bush was his friend. Jimmy Carter was not. The ties between A…
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One of Bush's little-noticed responsibilities as a director of First National was his appointment in February 1977 as chairman of the board of its London merchant bank called First International. It is through this merchant bank that Adams,…
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all the way through the Reagan administrations, which, of course, Bush was the vice president of. According to the Senate BCCI investigation and Morgan Thowell's investigation into BCCI, which I talked extensively about when we did our show…
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to sign the Camp David peace accords. Adem personally guaranteed to Sadat that the Saudi Arabia would stand behind the agreement. But the Israelis were not totally trusting of Adem as their new Middle East benefactor. One of the reasons tha…
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While Israeli intelligence had enjoyed an excellent secret relationship with Adom over many, many years, the Israelis had been much more comfortable with the Israeli-Saudi-American triangle as long as James Jesus Angleton was the American p…
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They'll kill you. The bottom line was that ultimately he was as much their asset as anyone else's, referring to Mossad. When he became no longer useful to either one of them, they left him hanging out to dry. Although President Carter had c…
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Aden, realizing that the threat of Islamic fundamentalism was the number one issue facing both Saudi and Israel, also knew that an open Saudi peace treaty with Israel was impossible unless the royal family wanted to contend with a revolutio…
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Only a handful of high-level officials were informed about the source of the money or the BCCI bailouts of Nugent Hand and other agency operations. The Iraqi operation with Sorkist ran for the CIA in the early 1980s, ran into billions and b…
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most of which he deferred until Iraq could better afford to pay him. Adem understood the level of talent available through Shackley's private network. In cooperation with the Israelis and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Adem led a strange profit-ma…
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Adam's partners in Pakistan had a keen interest in making certain that their government didn't fall, as the Shahs had in 1979. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia would reward the Pakistani government with billions of dollars for providing shelter fo…
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basically come out against the Zionists in Israel. So the entire Middle East became a balancing act. Adem fighting the fundamentalists through the Iraqi surrogates in the Iran-Iraq war and tying up Moscow in Afghanistan by assisting the Muj…
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of the royal family and his relationships made him one of the most valuable officers in the CIA. MacDonald had grown close to Atom, who suggested that when MacDonald retired from the CIA as deputy director for economics, that he should open…
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Nugent Hand Bank. He became in effect Adam's man inside Nugent Hand Bank. Adam viewed Nugent Hand as a way for BCCI to fund its riskier operations. Isn't that interesting? McDonald was one of those who heard Bernie Houghton's tape-recorded …
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I've read multiple books about BCCI. I've read multiple books about Nugent Hand and they don't interact. So I want to say this again. Adam viewed Nugent Hand as a way for BCCI to fund its riskier operations. And they used Bernie Houghton to…
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The young Osama bin Laden was one of the Mujahideen patrons and fellow funders. He was representing the Saudi intel component inside Afghanistan. Carter's decision was a major victory for Kamal Adom, the chief of Saudi intel, and Prince Tur…
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The France, the SDECE, is the Operation Gladio guy. Saudi Arabia guy was their chief of intelligence, Kamal Adam, and the Egyptian chief of intel, the Morocco chief of intel, and then the Iranian guy that we trained. So those are all just b…
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had a personal account at BCCI. Quote, the Safari Club needed a network of banks to finance its intelligence operations. With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adam transformed a small Pakistani merchant bank, the…
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that had general officers on the board of it. So, all right, to the book. The worst crisis of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the capture of the Tehran embassy in 1979 and the taking of American hostages as early as 1972, which is the date BC…
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who was one of the financiers of the BCCI bank, had predicted to his friends that the Shah's effort to open up Iranian society would be fatal. He politely ignored the Shah's advice that the Saad family should consider making reforms and all…
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Kamal Adem saw. A colleague of Shackley's from Laos by the name of Ambassador Thomas Sullivan had replaced Richard Helms in Tehran in 1977. He, again, let me just say this, you've got CIA people serving as ambassadors. He was one of the few…
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Iran in exchange for delaying the hostages. So this guy is saying what actually happened. What makes Smalley's account believable is the fact that he provided Raleigh his notes on the shipments years before they were ever made public. Why w…
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is with BCCI, whose main bank is in the city of London. By the time Adam had moved many of his operations to London, to include BCCI, along, and they were very good friends with Thatcher and her husband and son. Mark Thatcher goes on to do …
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into the arms deals. So it was that arrangement that got Margaret Thatcher's son into the arms deals. He was involved in the arms deals in the Falkland Islands. And it says, Kamal's system of cultivating the sons of politicians was excellen…
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And again, they're on the outside of the CIA. For Bush, Google could complicate his dealings with people like Kamal Adom, the chief of Saudi Arabia intelligence. Well, I think at this point he had already moved on, but he's still involved. …
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That guy just keeps coming up. He's a very busy guy. For Bush and his off-books covert intelligence operation, the news that Casey and Hogle had succeeded in cementing a new relationship between Israel and the CIA was not a welcomed aspect.…
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That means that you buy weapons from the Soviet Union after the West has cut you off. Kamal Adom, the chief of intel from Saudi Arabia, at that time still began personally visiting Sadat, urging him to cooperate with the Americans, because …
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wasn't allowed to buy Western equipment because they cut him off because they didn't like him because he was a popular president and kicked the British out. In life, Grant. Okay. The arrangement went through, who else? Kamal Adom, the chief…
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Henry Gonzalez, chairman of the House Banking Committee, forged ahead with an investigation into how the agricultural aid had been used to purchase weapons using BCCI. Around the world, Kamal Adom's house of cards at BCCI was on the verge o…
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Brunek signed a million-dollar contract with Simons and Schuster to chronicle his true-life experience communicating with seven-foot-tall angels. I know it's hard to believe, he said, but I've conversed with all of the apostles, too. A frie…
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for participating in the banking scandal that nearly bankrupted the entire royal family of Jordan. The collapse of PetroBank was the canary in the coal mine. It should have been a warning to the entire house of cards underpinning BCCI. But …
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BCCI with their domestic institutions. The clearest example was the effort of Robert Altman and Clark Clifford, who you guys who've watched our series on the BCCI Bank with Warhamster, and I will remember those names, to help Kamal Adem tak…
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Where this all ties in is if you look at what was going on in Arkansas as relates to all of this, with at the time, Governor Bill Clinton in walks the BCCI's front in the D.C. bank, Kamal Adom.…
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of foreign intelligence chiefdoms from Saudi Arabia or an international bank of ill repute had just been allowed to buy into an American banking system illegally and over the objections, supposedly, of the Federal Reserve. Even a basic back…