Global International Airways organization
also: Global International Airways of Kansas City, Global International, Global, Global Airlines, Global International Airlines, Azizma's Global International
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Claims (27)
Farhad Azima headed
Global International Airways documented
“That sounds like a genter press. Among other ventures, he had also been arranging for shipment of live cattle to Iran. He decided to go into the cattle shipping business for himself. And in 1977, he incorporated Global International Airways…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 23:36
William LeMaster member_of
Global International Airways documented
“on Azizma's company, Global International Airway. He had also borrowed more than $55,000 from Indian Springs to buy the stock in Global. In 1982, LeMaster borrowed $50,000 from Azizma personally and never repaid it. Anthony Russo, too, was …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 20:11
Anthony Russo member_of
Global International Airways documented
“on Azizma's company, Global International Airway. He had also borrowed more than $55,000 from Indian Springs to buy the stock in Global. In 1982, LeMaster borrowed $50,000 from Azizma personally and never repaid it. Anthony Russo, too, was …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 20:11
Pentagon financed_via
Global International Airways documented
“the Department of Defense, which contracted with Azizma Company to provide military airlift of military passengers. One such contract was for $2.7 million beginning in 1983, just days before Global filed bankruptcy and continued through Sep…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 27:37
Farhad Azima founded
Global International Airways book_quoted
“Aviation company called Race, R-A-C-E, Aviation, flying U.S. arms into Iran. You know, the one we like to call the boogeyman today. We were perpetually arming Iran. So it's kind of odd now for them to say that they're the big bad boogeyman.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 3:01
Global International Airways trafficked
Afghanistan book_quoted
“He owned an airline called Global International Airways, and it became involved in the 1980s in U.S. arms trafficking to Afghanistan. It was also part of a complex of CIA-linked contract cargo airlines that included ones that we know a lot …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 2:01
Global International Airways supplied_arms_to
Iran documented
“Azizma's scheduled testimony in Anthony Russo's tax fraud case. In the first weeks of July of that same year, a Boeing 707 owned by Azizma and his wife Linda was used to ship 23 tons of arms to Iran as part of the secret Iran Contra shipmen…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 31:01
George Selman member_of
Global International Airways documented
“George Selman, a flight engineer who worked at Global after three years at Saudi Arabian Airlines, later transferred to CIA-connected Buffalo Airways, which Azima purchased in 1989. So they're using Azima as a front guy for the CIA. Next, S…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 49:25
Global International Airways sued
Response Air documented
“in part that it had never been paid for. Global's bankruptcy attorneys responded with a lawsuit to cover $93,000 Global paid to response in the 90 days preceding its bankruptcy. No officers of response could be located to serve a lawsuit on…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 3:04
Aziz Mazloum headed
Global International Airways documented
“that I just described to you with personal experience. So the parts were probably headed overseas, although Asthma's Global International Airways was apparently Response Air's biggest customer. It doesn't seem likely that the parts were des…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 16:01
BCCI financed_via
Global International Airways host_asserted
“Arabian International Bank that later was proved to be BCCI. So wait a minute. BCCI financed the expansion of Global International Airways of Kansas City, which then tells you it's also a CIA front. Meanwhile, the CIA was funding its Afghan…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs Oil and War Part 4 @ 40:05
Global International Airways funded
Page Abjet documented
“Interestingly, Azima's Global International Airways listed a $71,000 letter of credit due to Page Abjet, Burr Brower's future partner, as one of the liabilities owed to an Indian Springs state bank. On the surface, it appears that the lawsu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 19 @ 34:16
Global International Airways supplied_arms_to
Nicaragua documented
“from Tanzania to Nicaraguan refugees in Costa Rica. A load of lettuce. Huh. The plane was diverted from its scheduled stop to a commercial airport, from a commercial airport to a military field. The pilot became suspicious and asked to chec…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 40:33
David Gann member_of
Global International Airways documented
“Three of its top eight managers had previously worked for TWA or Saudi Arabia. David Gann, Global's vice president of operations, was a captain and check pilot for Saudi Airlines from 1973 until he joined Global. Robert Rose, their marketin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 48:56
Robert Close member_of
Global International Airways documented
“Three of its top eight managers had previously worked for TWA or Saudi Arabia. David Gann, Global's vice president of operations, was a captain and check pilot for Saudi Airlines from 1973 until he joined Global. Robert Rose, their marketin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 48:56
Response Air submitted_claim_to
Global International Airways documented
“but it's doing business in Kansas City and had its headquarters in California. That's weird. Was it set up by the CIA in Miami with all the rest of the CIA operations in Miami? In October 1984, a year after Global declared bankruptcy, Respo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA, and George Bush Part 16 @ 2:32
Farhad Azima headed
Global International Airways documented
“During Anthony Russo's trial for tax income fraud in 1986, Russo testified that in 1982, he received $25,000 from Global for accompanying the dictator of Liberia, Samuel Doe, on a trip. Well, you all met Farhad Azima. He was the chairman of…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 35:41
Global International Airways supplied_arms_to
Samuel Doe documented
“to fly the president of Liberia, which was a new government and its cabinet around the world on a Goodwill tour. And they hired criminals to do it. That's when Liberia had had a change of regimes. And remember, Liberia is the colony that we…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 36:10
Heinrich Rupp member_of
Global International Airways documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 44:27
Global International Airways front_for
CIA book_quoted
“Global was also named as a CIA front by a retired CIA Middle East expert. In 1990, Bruce Hemings, a retired CIA senior operations officer who had worked the Iran desk in 85, issued several written statements criticizing the CIA's role in co…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 51:21
Global International Airways front_for
CIA book_quoted
“He owned an airline called Global International Airways, and it became involved in the 1980s in U.S. arms trafficking to Afghanistan. It was also part of a complex of CIA-linked contract cargo airlines that included ones that we know a lot …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 2:01
Global International Airways trafficked
CIA book_quoted
“An FBI agent told author Pete Bruton that some global flights had munitions and arms going out and narcotics coming back in, which of course is exactly what was happening in Vietnam, Afghanistan, everywhere. Azima also had a contract for gl…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 4:01
BCCI financed_via
Global International Airways host_asserted
“Aviation company called Race, R-A-C-E, Aviation, flying U.S. arms into Iran. You know, the one we like to call the boogeyman today. We were perpetually arming Iran. So it's kind of odd now for them to say that they're the big bad boogeyman.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil, and War Part 2 @ 3:01
Richard Secord founded
Global International Airways guest_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 44:27
William Casey founded
Global International Airways guest_asserted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 44:27
Global International Airways trafficked
Colombia guest_asserted
“The problem is the fact that this guy had to get out a jail-free card. His association with Global involved contract flying for the CIA. Some Global flights, the FBI agent added, had munitions and arms going out and narcotics coming in. Van…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 57:27
Global International Airways front_for
CIA speculative
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 43:56
Mentions (42)
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He owned an airline called Global International Airways, and it became involved in the 1980s in U.S. arms trafficking to Afghanistan. It was also part of a complex of CIA-linked contract cargo airlines that included ones that we know a lot …
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Aviation company called Race, R-A-C-E, Aviation, flying U.S. arms into Iran. You know, the one we like to call the boogeyman today. We were perpetually arming Iran. So it's kind of odd now for them to say that they're the big bad boogeyman.…
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from an Arabian international bank. Global International quickly became one of the nation's largest charter airlines. And I did look, but this quote-unquote Arabian international bank, what I could find in references looks a lot like BCCI, …
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An FBI agent told author Pete Bruton that some global flights had munitions and arms going out and narcotics coming back in, which of course is exactly what was happening in Vietnam, Afghanistan, everywhere. Azima also had a contract for gl…
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and most notoriously, BCCI. The unscrupulous individuals and groups can make fortunes through supplying covert operations. Richard Secord of Iran Contra fame, also a Nugent Hand client, first made millions with Farhad Azima and Global Inter…
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Insider DNC operatives were the ones actually facilitating the purchasing of them. So none of this is inadvertent. A third firm that became part of the Afghan arms pipeline was called Global International Airways of Kansas City. Now, we've …
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Arabian International Bank that later was proved to be BCCI. So wait a minute. BCCI financed the expansion of Global International Airways of Kansas City, which then tells you it's also a CIA front. Meanwhile, the CIA was funding its Afghan…
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Basically, we decided when we were doing the BCCI deep dive that that basically was like a CIA cutout shipping because basically all they did was ship the drugs. Along with a company called Global International Airways, which also appears t…
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Talking about all of the air assets that intermixed between Iran-Contra, the savings and loan, and who was financing them all. We talked about Response Air. We talked about Aidan Khashoggi and his weapons deals. Aero Air, Pan Aviation, Glob…
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So we start off by talking about Global's creditors in its bankruptcy case with a mysterious Southern California aircraft company that had defaulted on a multi-million dollar loan from one of the biggest failed savings in loan in the countr…
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but it's doing business in Kansas City and had its headquarters in California. That's weird. Was it set up by the CIA in Miami with all the rest of the CIA operations in Miami? In October 1984, a year after Global declared bankruptcy, Respo…
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in part that it had never been paid for. Global's bankruptcy attorneys responded with a lawsuit to cover $93,000 Global paid to response in the 90 days preceding its bankruptcy. No officers of response could be located to serve a lawsuit on…
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that I just described to you with personal experience. So the parts were probably headed overseas, although Asthma's Global International Airways was apparently Response Air's biggest customer. It doesn't seem likely that the parts were des…
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and Capital Air declared bankruptcy in 1984. The IRS began investigating Azizma, and the FAA stopped 707s from operating here. The Iranian native moved himself and his business to London. He started a company called Aviation Leasing Group, …
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Because, you know, anybody that works in Houston that does business with Adon Khashoggi, the Saudis, and George W. Bush and Senator Benson's son is going to need a Cayman Islands bank account and company. So the other principals were also o…
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Interestingly, Azima's Global International Airways listed a $71,000 letter of credit due to Page Abjet, Burr Brower's future partner, as one of the liabilities owed to an Indian Springs state bank. On the surface, it appears that the lawsu…
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in Washington, approved Russo's employment by the bank, despite his felony conviction, mob connections, and a recommendation by the FDIC's regional office not to do it. The second biggest borrower at Indian Springs, next to Renda's linked f…
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and his companies, including Global International Airways. The affairs and fate of these people and institutions are intertwined. When Global International Airways filed for bankruptcy in 1983, Azizma and his companies had almost $600,000 i…
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was eventually whittled down to about $60,000 after offsets and adjustments. Azizma and Global certainly didn't contribute to the failure. That was according to Michael Manning, a private Kansas City attorney hired by the FDIC to investigat…
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Azizma and his affiliated companies borrowed close to $2 million from Indian Springs, which was a gross violation of lending limits to any one borrower, which at Indian Springs was half a million. So they broke their own rules, thanks to Le…
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From April 82 to March 83, the overdrafts averaged $150,000 a day. Federal examiners expressed concern about the loan limits and the overdrafts. You think? We'd have been in jail. These problems were compounded by the connections and confli…
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For example, Azizma was elected a member of the Indian Springs Board of Directors in 82 when he became the fourth largest stockholder with almost 10% of the stock. He claimed later that he lost all of his $400,000 investment in the bank sto…
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When Azizma was asked about the large overdrafts that Global had at Indian Springs, he replied, oh, I don't get involved in that level of detail in my business. I have no idea what that's about. The company had credit lines and authorized o…
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on property in Hawaii, for example. He claimed he warned the bank against being involved in that type of thing. But his statement was, I was a minority stockholder and no one paid attention to him. It's hard to believe that William LeMaster…
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on Azizma's company, Global International Airway. He had also borrowed more than $55,000 from Indian Springs to buy the stock in Global. In 1982, LeMaster borrowed $50,000 from Azizma personally and never repaid it. Anthony Russo, too, was …
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One of his recommendations was that Global buy gasoline from Morris Shanker's associate, Jay Finn. Russo testified in one of his tax fraud trials that he had received a commission for every gallon of gas sold to Global. I mean, it's an airl…
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Russo also borrowed more than $55,000 from Indian Springs to buy his global stock. He said he bought the stock in the name of his children and later sold it back to Azizma. Anthony Russo's brother-in-law worked at Global as well. He was an …
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filed bankruptcy in 83, owing $280,000 in unsecured loans to Indian Springs. At the time, Global had $145,000 of CDs at Indian Springs and was later allowed to offset those deposits against loans owed. After Indian Springs failed, January 1…
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That sounds like a genter press. Among other ventures, he had also been arranging for shipment of live cattle to Iran. He decided to go into the cattle shipping business for himself. And in 1977, he incorporated Global International Airways…
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And he bought a Boeing 707. But his business ran into trouble in 1979 when the Shah was overthrown. Shipping cattle to Iran was out. So he took an Iranian banker, Mansour Raznazvab, as his partner and tried to break away into the charter bu…
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They had 17 707s, two 727s, and one 747. There was many successes and he was helped along by none other than the U.S. government. One of Global's big first contracts hauling military equipment to Egypt for the Egyptian American Transport an…
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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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the Department of Defense, which contracted with Azizma Company to provide military airlift of military passengers. One such contract was for $2.7 million beginning in 1983, just days before Global filed bankruptcy and continued through Sep…
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and air mobility command contracts. Another Azizma company, Capital Air Inc., was located in Smyrna, Tennessee. It had won a $5.5 million mobility air command contract for long-range international air transportation in August 1982. Azizma p…
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Global's bankruptcy papers show that the Department of Defense owed Global $100,000 at the time it filed for Chapter 11. But they also show that Global owed the DOD almost $400,000. But they don't say why. In June of 1986, there was a lette…
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Azizma's scheduled testimony in Anthony Russo's tax fraud case. In the first weeks of July of that same year, a Boeing 707 owned by Azizma and his wife Linda was used to ship 23 tons of arms to Iran as part of the secret Iran Contra shipmen…
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Race Aviation, which was owned by Azizma's brother, Farzan. Azizma denied having anything to do with the race or the shipment of arms to Iran. However, on March 7th, 1986, he received a letter from Farzan, his brother, regarding the lease o…
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Global's bankruptcy filings show that Farzan, the brother, was a Global employee, and on March 15, 1985, Race Aviation paid $400 to Global for office rent. So it's basically the same company. They just created another name. Farhad hides beh…
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There's no getting out of that. Azizma denied any connection to the Iran-Contra scandal, saying that he had been thoroughly investigated and quote-unquote cleared. But when he was asked if he knew William Casey, who was the director of the …
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During Anthony Russo's trial for tax income fraud in 1986, Russo testified that in 1982, he received $25,000 from Global for accompanying the dictator of Liberia, Samuel Doe, on a trip. Well, you all met Farhad Azima. He was the chairman of…
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as a result of a military coup in 1980 by Sergeant Samuel Doe. The CIA also used Farhad Azizma and his Global International Airways to take Doe on a round trip around the world to curry favor with the new military dictator so that it could …