EATSCO organization
also: Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, EATSCO, E-A-T-S-C-O, Eatsco, Egypt American Transport and Service Company, Eastco, Egyptian-American transport company, Egyptian-American transport, Eatsco, EATS cooperation
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Egyptcountry · 28Edwin Wilsonperson · 26CIAintelligence service · 18Tom Clinesperson · 14Thomas Clinesperson · 13Richard Secordperson · 12Von Marburgperson · 11Ted Shackleyperson · 10Hosni Mubarakperson · 8Anwar Sadatperson · 8Assassination of Anwar Sadatevent · 7Department of Defenseintelligence service · 7William Caseyperson · 7Saddam Husseinperson · 7Afghanistancountry · 6U.S. Department of Justiceorganization · 6David Atlee Phillipsperson · 6International Research and Tradeorganization · 6Israelcountry · 5Mossadintelligence service · 5United Statescountry · 5Global International Airwaysorganization · 4TER SAMorganization · 4BCCIorganization · 3
Claims (47)
David Atlee Phillips 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
Theodore Greenberg covered_up
EATSCO book_quoted
“According to Wingate Lloyd's handwritten notes, Pittman stated that the National Security Advisor, William Clark, made clear that the White House does not want any criminal prosecution. With that clear instruction, Theodore Greenberg carrie…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 30:53
Thomas Clines 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
Thomas Clines founded
EATSCO documented
“multiple times because it's infiltrated with CIA. Azizma told the Kansas City Star that Eatsco's contract accounted for more than half of their cargo. Eatsco, as previously noted in this book, had a connection to Herman Beebe, the mafia guy…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 25:05
Edwin Wilson funded
EATSCO documented
“Hussein Salam, an Egyptian. Ex-CIA operative Edwin Wilson put up Klein's $500,000 as the initial capital investment in ITSCO. Former CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations, the covert side, Ted Shackley, according to his Iran-Contra te…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 25:40
EATSCO overbilled_or_diverted
Pentagon documented
“That's probably around the time they were framing Edwin Wilson and he was going to jail. Azizma added that Global International Airways was not implicated in any criminal activities with ETSCO because I don't know how it wouldn't have been …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 26:39
S. Thomas Romeo exposed
EATSCO book_quoted
“called Federal Maritime Commission, named S. Thomas Romeo, did just that. He was a bureaucrat who was doing an audit of Itzco and uncovered massive overcharging. In 1981, the Federal Maritime Commission notified the Egyptian embassy, along …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 10:26
Theodore Greenberg covered_up
EATSCO book_quoted
“The professionals at the CIA who handled the settlement successfully covered up all of the nastiness that the case revealed. The men who led the cover up was the chief of that group was called Theodore Greenberg. He was an assistant U.S. at…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 11:53
Ted Shackley member_of
EATSCO documented
“Hussein Salam, an Egyptian. Ex-CIA operative Edwin Wilson put up Klein's $500,000 as the initial capital investment in ITSCO. Former CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations, the covert side, Ted Shackley, according to his Iran-Contra te…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 25:40
EATSCO supplied_arms_to
Egypt book_quoted
“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. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 18:50
EATSCO 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
Tom Clines sold
EATSCO book_quoted
“of $499,934.63. At the same time, Clines arrived in Geneva and was given a release on the original Wilson loan when he finally paid him off. In January 1982, Clines officially severed his business relationship with Eatsco, selling his share…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 15:16
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 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
Richard Secord 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
Tom Clines member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“Sadat on several occasions and from my conversations with him as a partner who is a member of Sadat's intelligence, as well as being Sadat's back man, unquote. Wilson then went on to say that for a substantial retainer, he might be able to …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 25:38
Edwin Wilson created
EATSCO book_quoted
“And Klein had basically at this point stolen from him. Shackley, or taken it over. Shackley had to protect his interest in the International Research and Trade, which was called, so that's IRT. That was one of the companies. And then the ot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 17:07
Ted Shackley took_over
EATSCO book_quoted
“And Klein had basically at this point stolen from him. Shackley, or taken it over. Shackley had to protect his interest in the International Research and Trade, which was called, so that's IRT. That was one of the companies. And then the ot…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 17:07
EATSCO front_for
CIA book_quoted
“S-A-M, Ter Sam. And he sold it for more than $2 million. Clines told the FBI that Eatsco had been used for intelligence cover for the United States Air Force. Don't you love how they always pin it on the military? It definitely is a pattern…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 15:47
Richard Secord member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 6:26
Hosni Mubarak secretly_owned
EATSCO host_asserted
“Of the tens of millions of dollars in shipping overcharges, he initiated an investigation, which revealed that Mubarak was, for all practical purposes, a secret partner in the operation getting kicked back. This investigation became a threa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 21:11
Edwin Wilson member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“The connections were clear enough. Through Israeli intelligence sources in Libya, the CIA had the memo Ed Wilson had written to Qaddafi's military security on May 12, 1981, detailing his activities in Egypt through ISCO. In that memo, Wilso…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 25:11
Saddam Hussein member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“The NSA was also intercepting cable traffic from Mubarak's men, including Hussein Salam, who had gone right from a job in Egyptian intelligence into the Tursam-Itsko joint venture. But the direct link to Mubarak was his brother-in-law, whos…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 26:07
Ted Shackley member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“The KGB, Mossad, Saudi, and others all knew about the business arrangements. The fact that Shackley was working with the Israelis and had detailed knowledge of ETSCO gave the Israelis a stranglehold on Egypt. And the ultimate irony is that …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 27:33
Edwin Wilson financed_via
EATSCO host_asserted
“With the slender agreement in hand, Wilson began to talk. For the first time, he detailed the history of ETSCO and confirmed his role in financing all of the operations. He named other witnesses to the payoff and kickbacks. The debriefing l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 34:44
Albert Hakim founded
EATSCO book_quoted
“They were also selling and trading military equipment and technology for cash and drugs. Two of the individuals involved there were Albert Hakim and Edwin Wilson, who later formed ETSCO, Egypt American Transport and Service Company, which, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 13:40
Edwin Wilson founded
EATSCO book_quoted
“They were also selling and trading military equipment and technology for cash and drugs. Two of the individuals involved there were Albert Hakim and Edwin Wilson, who later formed ETSCO, Egypt American Transport and Service Company, which, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing @ 13:40
CIA front_for
EATSCO host_asserted
“of Sadat's protege, Mubarak, would lodge a strenuous protest because they all knew it was the CIA that had trained Sadat's bodyguards. But there was nothing, not even a mild complaint. The truth of the matter was that there would be no prot…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 18:21
International Research and Trade front_for
EATSCO book_quoted
“R-O-S-S-O-T-T-I, was the lawyer Tom Clines hired to organize his company called International Research and Trade, the company that had originally been funded by Ed Wilson and Ted Shackley organized, which became Eatsco. So basically, she's …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Book Club Prelude to Terror Chap 25 @ 29:57
NSA had_access_to_financial_transactions_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“but they didn't want him having the access to be able to see it himself. The NSA handled all encrypted messaging for the government. More important, the NSA had access to all overseas communication and financial transactions. This meant tha…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 24 @ 25:19
Tom Clines front_for
EATSCO book_quoted
“for the Reagan and Bush campaign. The hidden link between Reagan and Bush campaign and the private network was the businesses that Wilson had financed, like International Research and Trade, IRT. Clines, with Shackley's help, had successful…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 7:55
Tom Clines founded
EATSCO book_quoted
“the Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, ETSCO. Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, ETSCO. It was established by Klein to cut Wilson's around-the-world shipping out of the picture. So it's going to replace…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 8:25
Tom Clines member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“Hill and Knowlton, Robert Gray, the whole nine yards. During Koreagate, Vigari had been involved with Park and the Korean CIA, KCIA. Vigari was paid nearly a million dollars for a direct mail campaign on behalf of the Koreans as a PR campai…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 18:32
Ted Shackley member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“Shackley was able to structure his own retirement in 1980 so that it appeared that he had gone to work for Klein's in Ed Wilson's old company. This gave Shackley deniability when the FBI asked him about activities outside of what he had con…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 22:23
Hosni Mubarak member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“of Sadat's protege, Mubarak, would lodge a strenuous protest because they all knew it was the CIA that had trained Sadat's bodyguards. But there was nothing, not even a mild complaint. The truth of the matter was that there would be no prot…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 18:21
Richard Secord 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
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
EATSCO supplied_arms_to
Afghanistan host_asserted
“The old Soviet and Eastern Bloc war material was sent to the Afghan rebels as Egyptian aid via Saudi Arabia and Iraq. So at the same time we're doing all of this, we're also giving military aid to Afghanistan. And that was to buy new weapon…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 13:22
EATSCO overbilled_or_diverted
Egypt host_asserted
“Salam proposed that Klein control 49% of the shipping contract through Eats Go with Tursam controlling the 51%. In 1981, Sadat's staff undertook an audit of the Tursam Eats Go shipping invoices and discovered a serious overcharge and misuse…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 20:47
Don Lowers member_of
EATSCO book_quoted
“which was also located at 7777 Leesburg Pike as a tenant of Bakari's. So you already have Bakari and his Bakari company. Now we have Itzko at that same location, and both of them are CIA operations. Many of old Wilson's operatives, like Don…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 19:02
Marwar Sabet member_of
EATSCO host_asserted
“The NSA was also intercepting cable traffic from Mubarak's men, including Hussein Salam, who had gone right from a job in Egyptian intelligence into the Tursam-Itsko joint venture. But the direct link to Mubarak was his brother-in-law, whos…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 26:07
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
EATSCO host_asserted
“would affect the national security of the United States and would constitute a breaking of a pledge of confidentiality between them and the Egyptian government. To protect the principles in its go from prosecution, the Justice Department ne…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 29 @ 32:20
Ted Shackley founded
EATSCO book_quoted
“which stood for Egyptian American Air Transport and Services Corporation. And ETSCO was an airline just like Air America. And it also entailed like ground ops. So it was a whole package. They could deploy anywhere to support any of their dr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #8 @ 28:04
Edwin Wilson secretly_owned
EATSCO host_asserted
“Edwin Wilson front company that is in the process of being taken over by retired CIA agents…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 9:26
CIA paid
EATSCO host_asserted
“we were talking about how he had a shipping company that basically got thrown all of this CIA shipping contracts…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 9:55
BCCI laundered_money_for
EATSCO host_asserted
“the BCCI Bank and New Japan and all of the rest of them were all part of the financing of these arms deals and the money laundering associated with the profits generated from that…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 10:22
Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for
EATSCO host_asserted
“the BCCI Bank and New Japan and all of the rest of them were all part of the financing of these arms deals and the money laundering associated with the profits generated from that…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 10:22
Mentions (75)
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we're working behind the scenes with a couple of other people to bring you guys some more really good shows. And we will have this Friday, the second show with Bella Liberté. So anyway, okay. Chapter 26. This chapter is talking about embrac…
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Edwin Wilson front company that is in the process of being taken over by retired CIA agents. And they're throwing Edwin Wilson under the bus. So that's kind of where we're at. So you've got each goes partners and business was booming. It ha…
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like tens of millions of dollars each year. Their connections gave them political power to the Reagan administration. Now, keep in mind that these companies are in the covert operations. Remember, we were talking about how he had a shipping…
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They can't buy the arms with the appropriated funds, but they can give the contract to the shipping. So we, the taxpayers, are paying for the shipping of illicit arms around the world. And the BCCI Bank and New Japan and all of the rest of …
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companies that were set up to do that. Their international contacts put them in a position to cash in on almost any foreign policy initiative undertaken by the new president, all of them. That means all regime change they're going to make a…
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for the Reagan and Bush campaign. The hidden link between Reagan and Bush campaign and the private network was the businesses that Wilson had financed, like International Research and Trade, IRT. Clines, with Shackley's help, had successful…
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the Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, ETSCO. Egyptian American Transport and Services Corporation, ETSCO. It was established by Klein to cut Wilson's around-the-world shipping out of the picture. So it's going to replace…
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Hill and Knowlton, Robert Gray, the whole nine yards. During Koreagate, Vigari had been involved with Park and the Korean CIA, KCIA. Vigari was paid nearly a million dollars for a direct mail campaign on behalf of the Koreans as a PR campai…
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He also told the Bureau that he did not want to get involved in any activity that involved materials that went bang or boom. Sure. It was not until 1983 that Shackley was even mildly questioned about working at Eatsco. More than a year afte…
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R-O-S-S-O-T-T-I, was the lawyer Tom Clines hired to organize his company called International Research and Trade, the company that had originally been funded by Ed Wilson and Ted Shackley organized, which became Eatsco. So basically, she's …
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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…
▶ 6:56
And we've read about that as well. ISCO is spelled E-A-T-S-C-O. And that was after they had overthrown the government of Egypt. Secord made more money by negotiating Iran-Contra arm deals to Iran. He also worked with David Kimche, K-I-M-C-H…
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In the late 1970s, Wilson put up half a million dollars to front Klein's half ownership in the Egypt American Transport Services, ETSCO. We've done shows on ETSCO before. Which won the contract to transport billions of dollars worth of Amer…
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And Klein had basically at this point stolen from him. Shackley, or taken it over. Shackley had to protect his interest in the International Research and Trade, which was called, so that's IRT. That was one of the companies. And then the ot…
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but they didn't want him having the access to be able to see it himself. The NSA handled all encrypted messaging for the government. More important, the NSA had access to all overseas communication and financial transactions. This meant tha…
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You know, to keep him paranoid so he stays on the tit of the CIA. Because his life and regime was, according to the CIA, under constant threats. That is what made the training of his security force so profitable for Wilson's company, which …
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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…
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of Sadat's protege, Mubarak, would lodge a strenuous protest because they all knew it was the CIA that had trained Sadat's bodyguards. But there was nothing, not even a mild complaint. The truth of the matter was that there would be no prot…
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And many of the men who controlled Itzko had also controlled the training of Sadat's bodyguards. An investigation might have resulted in the Egyptian public finding out that their martyred president had ordered an investigation of top assoc…
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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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Salam proposed that Klein control 49% of the shipping contract through Eats Go with Tursam controlling the 51%. In 1981, Sadat's staff undertook an audit of the Tursam Eats Go shipping invoices and discovered a serious overcharge and misuse…
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Of the tens of millions of dollars in shipping overcharges, he initiated an investigation, which revealed that Mubarak was, for all practical purposes, a secret partner in the operation getting kicked back. This investigation became a threa…
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The connections were clear enough. Through Israeli intelligence sources in Libya, the CIA had the memo Ed Wilson had written to Qaddafi's military security on May 12, 1981, detailing his activities in Egypt through ISCO. In that memo, Wilso…
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Sadat on several occasions and from my conversations with him as a partner who is a member of Sadat's intelligence, as well as being Sadat's back man, unquote. Wilson then went on to say that for a substantial retainer, he might be able to …
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The NSA was also intercepting cable traffic from Mubarak's men, including Hussein Salam, who had gone right from a job in Egyptian intelligence into the Tursam-Itsko joint venture. But the direct link to Mubarak was his brother-in-law, whos…
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The same man was also used by Casey to supply munitions to the Afghan resistance. Due to the corruption at ISCO, Mubarak was at risk of being blackmailed and manipulated by any intelligence service that had photographs of him on his visits …
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The KGB, Mossad, Saudi, and others all knew about the business arrangements. The fact that Shackley was working with the Israelis and had detailed knowledge of ETSCO gave the Israelis a stranglehold on Egypt. And the ultimate irony is that …
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My fear was that the Israelis would get someone in the personal guard and recruit them to spy on Sadat. I never thought they would try to kill him, unquote. Capruci agreed that Israel had no motive, but Mubarak did. Sadat found out that Mub…
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personal business dealings with Itzko. The memorandum written by a guy by the name of Keith Leinauer, L-E-I-N-A-U-E-R, went on to state that his sources believed that a conspiracy was being formed against Sadat to eliminate him from power. …
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So on October 27th, 1981, 21 days after Sadat was assassinated, the FBI opened an investigation into Yitzko. For Israelis' intelligence, the aftermath of Sadat's death left some problems. The first was that Wilson, now a very angry fugitive…
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If a serious investigation got underway, it was only a matter of time before the secret partnership behind ITSCO would be exposed, as well as its links to the training of Sadat security forces, its association with Israel, blah, blah, blah.…
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Sadat was killed by Americans to stop his investigation into Itzko, which would have exposed our man, meaning the Israeli man, Shackley, as well as the Americans involved in Itzko. According to the Israeli agent, the instructions the Israel…
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Keep in mind that this is Wednesday night, so I will be breaking early. So we're just going to do one chapter. And this chapter is a very important one in the overall story because this deals with the company called EATSCO, E-A-T-S-C-O. So …
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called Federal Maritime Commission, named S. Thomas Romeo, did just that. He was a bureaucrat who was doing an audit of Itzco and uncovered massive overcharging. In 1981, the Federal Maritime Commission notified the Egyptian embassy, along …
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It was, let's see, it was that notification that caused the Sadat regime to launch its own investigation, which was canceled after Sadat's death. And Mubarak, his assassination actually, Mubarak's subsequent elevation to presidency because …
▶ 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…
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The FBI traced the $500,000 in Arcadia loans to International Research and Trade, IRT, the company Shackley and Klein set up in Bermuda. In mid-August 1981, Klein's made two $500,000 loans from ETSCO to IRT about a week apart. On August 20t…
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of $499,934.63. At the same time, Clines arrived in Geneva and was given a release on the original Wilson loan when he finally paid him off. In January 1982, Clines officially severed his business relationship with Eatsco, selling his share…
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S-A-M, Ter Sam. And he sold it for more than $2 million. Clines told the FBI that Eatsco had been used for intelligence cover for the United States Air Force. Don't you love how they always pin it on the military? It definitely is a pattern…
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The FBI concluded that the check was for ETSCO transportation of trucks and Jeeps that came from a special fund. On September 22, 1982, Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Salinas provided the FBI with classified material that Army intelligence had o…
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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…
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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. …
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was Isco's cut. And so this is a fake CIA company taking their 10% off the top. 10% for the big guy? Yeah, same thing. And in these cases, this was money that was going to Edwin Wilson that then he used as seed money to start other front co…
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And it's our money because these are actual government. These were not black contracts. These were actual government contracts to sell official military sales to. And there's an official program of military sales and it's considered militar…
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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…
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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'…
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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…
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when they were due in 1980. And yet the equipment that they weren't paying for because they weren't getting it kept going because it was going to Afghanistan. On September 13, 1981, an article was written in the Wilmington News Journal, mad…
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Patrick Judge, had been a salesman in the Wilson organization. The information in the article was denied by both the Pentagon and the Egyptian government. Larry Barcella, the lead prosecutor on Wilson's case, quickly isolated Joe Judge from…
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notified General Richard Secord that he was the subject of a criminal investigation. Tapp wrote Secord, the investigation involved Itzko von Marbog, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Klein, Hussein Salam, and officials in the United Arab Republic and em…
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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…
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wrote a major story in the Wall Street Journal about a federal grand jury that was looking at Itzko. Pound had no idea Itzko might have been connected to the Sadat assassination. But he reported, quote, the case is so sensitive because of p…
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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…
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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…
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where top officials of the CIA and the Justice Department and State Department gathered to discuss the White House position on the Itzko prosecution. Stanley Sporkin, Bill Casey's hand-picked general counsel for the CIA, wrote a memorandum …
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who claimed that if DOJ continued with its investigation of the Egyptian-American transport company, Eatsco, it would cause severe damage to the country's relationship with Egypt. In fact, the lawyers were playing a game of what they referr…
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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…
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citing orders from the SEC DEF, he was not allowed to comment. Kester, who was aggressive in the case, then tried to get information out of the Defense Department directly using the FOIA request. But Richard Armitage, who was the Secretary …
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With the slender agreement in hand, Wilson began to talk. For the first time, he detailed the history of ETSCO and confirmed his role in financing all of the operations. He named other witnesses to the payoff and kickbacks. The debriefing l…
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to the media. If Wilson exposed the activities of Shackley, Clines, and Bar-Malbach in the media, it could have detailed, derailed the ongoing and now main, like it had already heated up, contra operation. Because basically what they were d…
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knew less about the EATS cooperation than his former secret partners did. When the conversations ended in 1983, the Justice Department sent Wilson to the U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. He never received an explanation of why his day…
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Office of Origin, Alexandria. Like Itzko, that case involving the documents Shirley Brill watched Clines and Chi Chi Quintero cut the classification codes off of all of the documentation would never be prosecuted. Wilson said, quote, there'…
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Adding to Wilson's bitterness was the fact that it was all so unnecessary. He was quoted as saying, if I had run it, eats go, it would have all been done legal and I would have been able to control clients. I would have said, you're not goi…
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Doing nothing but working. Cool. How about you? How are you? I'm awesome. That's good to hear. Sorry I missed most of your show, which I'm disappointed about, but it's recorded, right? It is. So I can go back and listen. Yeah, and you defin…
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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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multiple times because it's infiltrated with CIA. Azizma told the Kansas City Star that Eatsco's contract accounted for more than half of their cargo. Eatsco, as previously noted in this book, had a connection to Herman Beebe, the mafia guy…
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Hussein Salam, an Egyptian. Ex-CIA operative Edwin Wilson put up Klein's $500,000 as the initial capital investment in ITSCO. Former CIA Associate Deputy Director of Operations, the covert side, Ted Shackley, according to his Iran-Contra te…
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That's probably around the time they were framing Edwin Wilson and he was going to jail. Azizma added that Global International Airways was not implicated in any criminal activities with ETSCO because I don't know how it wouldn't have been …
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So basically, they were doubling the cost and pocketing the profit of our money. And they did that a lot. Also fined was Air Freight International, a Baltimore freight forwarding company used by Eatsco a lot. Air Freight International, or A…
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Just saying. There are some investigators who believe that Global was started in the mid-1970s as an off-the-shelf CIA company and was handed over to Azizma to do its work under commercial cover. One Gene Wheaton, the former Pentagon crimin…
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Another private investigator in Houston who does work for federal agencies has looked into Global and Eats Go, agreed, quote, William Klein and Richard Secord incorporated Global. Azizma has denied this, pointing out that he incorporated Gl…
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So he had, in fact, not only worked for the CIA, he was trained by the CIA. In a December 1990 interview with Dave Armstrong, then the editor of the Texas Observer, Rump said that he was involved in starting Global, which he said was owned …
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They were also selling and trading military equipment and technology for cash and drugs. Two of the individuals involved there were Albert Hakim and Edwin Wilson, who later formed ETSCO, Egypt American Transport and Service Company, which, …
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They set up a base in Tehran and retained Edwin Wilson to head an assassination program. The secret team banked its drug money at Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. It offered assassination services to Somoza in Nicaragua, the bad guy. The Shac…
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which stood for Egyptian American Air Transport and Services Corporation. And ETSCO was an airline just like Air America. And it also entailed like ground ops. So it was a whole package. They could deploy anywhere to support any of their dr…