Manucher Ghorbanifar person
also: Manakar Ghorbanifar, Ghorbanifar, Gobanifar's, Manikur Gorbanathar, Menacher Gorbanifar, Gorbanifar, Gorbanovar, Gorbunovor
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Claims (4)
Manucher Ghorbanifar financed_via
BCCI documented
“Floor described BCCI as acting not merely as Gobanifar's and Khashoggi's bank, but for the purpose of these transactions, they were actually a partner in the deal because they're basically the CIA.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 37:38
Michael Ledeen recruited
Manucher Ghorbanifar host_asserted
“Iranian middleman Menacher Gorbanifar, who we've come across multiple times because he's the weapons dealer partner with Aden Khashoggi. Even after Gorbanifar failed a polygraph test that the CIA gave him, Leiden persuaded Casey to trust hi…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 45:27
Manucher Ghorbanifar proposed
Arms for Hostages Scheme host_asserted
“So this is November 1984. Shackley met Hashimi at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hamburg. Hashimi introduced him to Gorbanifar. He also was a SAVAK agent and an arms dealer. Gorbanifar opened the three-day negotiation with Shackley by suggesting…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 48:21
Manucher Ghorbanifar member_of
SAVAK host_asserted
“So this is November 1984. Shackley met Hashimi at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hamburg. Hashimi introduced him to Gorbanifar. He also was a SAVAK agent and an arms dealer. Gorbanifar opened the three-day negotiation with Shackley by suggesting…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 30 @ 48:21
Mentions (14)
▶ 36:35
had all used BCCI services in some of their key operations. That's crazy. So these questions swirled around BCCI's role as a financier in both Saudi arms deals with Aden Khashoggi and Iranian middleman Manakar Ghorbanifar in the National Se…
▶ 37:09
in a number of arms deals with Khashoggi and at least five different deals with the United States and BCCI, providing bridge financing from Israel to Iran. According to the Kerry subcommittee summary report on BCCI, quote, Khashoggi's busin…
▶ 37:38
as stating, quote, these are my associates and writing down the name BCCI on a notepad, unquote. Floor described BCCI as acting not merely as Gobanifar's and Khashoggi's bank, but for the purpose of these transactions, they were actually a …
▶ 1:25:30
you know, everything's kosher with these deals that are happening. Like it's too easy. It's, it's like finding a needle in a haystack and they know it, you know, when you're talking like pots of money that you, you're talking thousands and …
▶ 1:26:02
And let me read just this little bit. Khashoggi was directly involved in helping organize and fund the top secret Operation Moses in 1984 to airlift 14,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel during a famine caused by the Ethiopian civil wa…
▶ 45:27
Iranian middleman Menacher Gorbanifar, who we've come across multiple times because he's the weapons dealer partner with Aden Khashoggi. Even after Gorbanifar failed a polygraph test that the CIA gave him, Leiden persuaded Casey to trust hi…
▶ 45:55
who once was described to CIA Intelligence Chief Charles Allen as great fun. Because, you know, that's a quality you want in your spies. Lawrence Walsh, the Iran-Contra special prosecutor, wrote in his book, Firewall, quote, Leiden was more…
▶ 47:55
where he lived in exile now that the Shah wasn't there. Hashimi quickly got the impression that Shackley had a very close connection to Bush and was advising the government on Iran. Hashimi told Shackley that while he had a few contacts in …
▶ 48:21
So this is November 1984. Shackley met Hashimi at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hamburg. Hashimi introduced him to Gorbanifar. He also was a SAVAK agent and an arms dealer. Gorbanifar opened the three-day negotiation with Shackley by suggesting…
▶ 48:52
He then suggested that the poor hostage captured by terrorists in Lebanon could be traded through Iran in exchange for cash. Because one of these hostages was Shackley's old friend and colleague, William Buckley, the station chief at the Be…
▶ 49:22
in any official capacity. But Shackley did not deny that he had wrote an urgent memo about his meeting with Gorbanovar, which he had distributed throughout the State Department and the Vice President's office. Before he left Germany, Shackl…
▶ 49:51
None of it mattered to Shackley. He proceeded to recommend to use him as a conduit, and he did it because Israeli intelligence suggested it. Shackley's reputation and influence with the Bush as vice president overcame any agency objections …
▶ 50:20
who worked at the State Department. Michael Leden later said in May of 1985 that he asked for and received a copy of the memorandum and gave it to Oliver North without, he claimed, ever reading it himself. B.S. The result, despite the CIA's…
▶ 50:17
The letter contains several blatant factual errors. For example, he stated, my agency tenure began in 57 with the OSS. The OSS, of course, was disbanded after World War II, unless there's something we don't know. He also stated in the lette…