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Fara Mansoor produced a confidential document called the "Country Team Minutes" that details a meeting in Iran on 26 April 1978, which states:

The Ambassador commented on our distinguished visitors, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Margaret Thatcher, and commented that Teheran seems to be the site for an opposition parties congress.

I´ve searched in vain for this "Country Team Minutes" document...

On 20 January 1977, President Jimmy Carter fired CIA-Director George H.W. Bush.

In July 1977, Bush´s covert team issued a plan for the possible transition of power in Iran.
CIA analyst and Deputy Chief Political officer of the US Embassy in Iran John D. Stemple wrote about this plan:

A ten page analysis of the opposition written by the embassy's political section in July 1977 correctly identified Bakhiar, Bazargan, Khomeini and Behesti as major actors in the drama that begin unfolding a year later.

On 31 October 1977, President Carter became the enemy of the CIA when he fired 800 CIA covert operatives.

On 7 January 1978, an article in the Iranian daily newspaper Ettela'at attacked the exiled Khomeini, after which massive protests in the Holy City of Qum were staged the next day.
This Qum incident made many of the clergy oppose the Shah; a "dirty trick" by General Fardoust.
John D. Stempel, characterised Fardoust's importance: "it is hard to over estimate the value of having a mole in the inner circle of the Shah".

In late August 1978, U.S. Ambassador Sullivan recorded the Shah's pleadings over the outbreak of violence:

he said the pattern was widespread and that it was like an outbreak of a sudden rash in the country ... it gave evidence of sophisticated planning and was not the work of spontaneous oppositionists ... the Shah presented that it was the work of foreign intrigue...
this intrigue went beyond the capabilities of the Soviet KGB and must, therefore, also involve British and American CIA. The Shah went on to ask 'Why was the CIA suddenly turning against him? What had he done to deserve this sort of action from the United States?”

In mid-September 1978, at the height of the revolution, Khomeini's trusted associate Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, secretly visited the US where he met with Ibrahim Yazdi in Texas.

On 12 December 1978, Ibrahim Yazdi made a trip to the US where he secretly met Director of the Iran Desk at the State Department Henry Precht (one of Bush’s main men in the Carter Administration).
Later Precht and Yazdi appeared for a televised discussion on Iran, where Yazdi assured that Khomeini’s "election would be absolutely free" and that the Islamic Republic "would enjoy full freedom of speech and the press, including the right to attack Islam”.

On 5 February 1979, Khomeni named Mehdi Bazargan interim Prime Minister. Yazdi and Abbas Amir Entezam became Bazargan's deputies.

On 14 February 1979, 2 weeks after Khomeini's returned to Iran in power, the US Embassy in Teheran was seized by Khomeini supporters disguised as leftist guerrillas, but the Iranian coalition government restored order immediately.

From August to 31 October 1979, pro-Bush CIA official George Cave visited Iran to provide intelligence briefings to Khomeini's aides, especially Yazdi and Entezam, on the Iranian officials who had restored order after the first Embassy seizure.

On 4 November 1979, with all those Iranian officials eliminated, the US Embassy was taken again. Leading the charge was Ambassador Sullivan's trusted Mashallah Kashani, the Embassy's former security chief: http://web.archive.org/web/2002061520334...orld2.html


In one of those strange coincidences, in the mid-1980s Michael Lewis was hired by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), coming from the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI).
Michael Lewis later became the director of AIPAC's Policy Analysis.

Michael Lewis is the son of none other than Princeton University´s Bernard Lewis, who devised the Muslim extremist strategy for the Middle East (still going strong): https://www.wrmea.org/1992-july/the-secr...ebate.html

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Rodney Stich - Defrauding America

October surprise – bribing Ayatollah Khomeini
While the US military was preparing another rescue mission, the Reagan-Bush team sabotaged the efforts by making this plan public.
William Casey and other members of the Reagan-Bush team met secretly with Iranian factions, offering bribes if the Americans remained hostage until after the November 1980 elections. The $40 million bribe money came from the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP)

Richard Brenneke testified that he saw George Bush and Donald Gregg in Paris on the weekend of 19 October 1980.
Russbacher said:

On the flight deck were pilots Richard Brenneke, an Air Force pilot, and I was the command pilot. In the cabin were George Bush; William Casey (who would be appointed director of the CIA); Robert Gates; Donald Gregg (who at that time was a member of President Carter's National Security Council) and others.

Russbacher stated that other passengers included George Cave (former CIA Iran expert and translator); Richard Allen; Senators John Tower and John Heinz; Congressman Dan Rostenkowski; and Jennifer Fitzgerald of the State Department.
Russbacher also saw Adnan Khashoggi and Hashemi Rafsanjani (Ayatollah Khomeini's second in command) in Paris.

Ari Ben-Menashe stated that he was a member of the Mossad's advance team working with the French government, which arranged the meetings on the 19 October 1980 weekend in Paris.
Oswald LeWinter stated that he saw George Bush, Donald Gregg and William Casey at the Paris meeting.
Alexandre de Marenches said that he organised the meeting, on the request of his friend, William Casey, but that he did not attend it.

This 20 September 1985 document describes the arms-for-hostages scheme showing Israeli involvement; identifying Gunther Russbacher and Robert Hunt (2 of Stich’s sources); and names Oliver North.


The initial meeting was held in Geneva on or about 14 March 1980, between Ahmed Heidari and Mohammed Hussein Behishti with Cyrus Hashemi and Ari Ben-Menashe (of the Mossad).

At a second meeting in Barcelona at the Pepsico International Headquarters Building, William Casey, Robert McFarlane and Peter Van Tyne (executive vice-president for Pepsico) met with the Iranians Hushang Lavi and Rogovin.

Russbacher described how the CIA’s Valley Bank in Phoenix played a key role in moving money for the October Surprise.

This 27 May 1986 document from John Poindexter to Bill Casey lists the bank account number of a CIA proprietary, for money for the arms. Also listed are Khashoggi, Gunther Russbacher and Robert Hunt. Vice President Bush apparently received a copy of this document.


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Rodney Stich – Defrauding America; Encyclopedia of secret operations by the CIA, DEA, and other covert agencies (1993) – 98.5 MB!!!: https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/Rod...20-%20.pdf

https://forums.richieallen.co.uk/showthr...38#pid7238


Another interesting story that involves Iran, is that in 2009, the FBI (when its director was Robert Mueller) asked Oleg Deripaska to funnel millions of dollars to rescue former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who was captured in Iran in 2007, while working for the CIA.
In 2009, FBI agents courted Deripaska in a series of secret hotel meetings in Paris, Vienna, Budapest and Washington.

One agent who negotiated with Deripaska was Andrew McCabe, recently fired as FBI deputy director. McCabe supposedly played a seminal role in starting the Trump-Russia story.
The FBI rewarded Deripaska for his help. In 2009, Deripaska visited Washington on a rare law enforcement parole visa. Since 2011, Deripaska was granted entry on at least 8 occasions on a diplomatic passport (even though he’s no diplomat).

In 2016, Deripaska was in New York as part of Russia’s UN delegation when 3 FBI agents awakened him.
A couple of months before Trump was elected, they discussed how Russia could get Trump elected.

There’s even evidence that in 2016 Manafort offered to send Deripaska secret information on Trump’s campaign (to get whole).
Some lawyers have argued that Deripaska’s absence from Mueller’s indictments could be related to his connections to the FBI. According to Melanie Sloan, a “far more significant issue” is that the earlier FBI operation was probably illegal:

It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement with Mr. Deripaska violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.

http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3...n-oligarch
(archived here: http://archive.is/e2uwc)

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Heroin, P2 and arms for Khomeini

From the beginning of the 1960s, for 20 years the Arsan gang smuggled hundreds of millions of tons of weapons to the Middle East, including Leopard tanks and U.S.-produced military helicopters, and arms from the Soviet Union and Bulgaria.
Henri Arsan was the chairman of Stipam International Transport that was also trafficking drugs, which occupied a building in the Propaganda Due (P2) linked Banco Ambrosiano Milan. Arsan owned trains and ships and had billions of dollars stashed on bank accounts throughout the world.

Opium from Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, and other areas of Asia were trafficked to Turkey, where it was transformed into morphine.
From Turkey, the drugs were shipped through Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to Trieste, Italy in trucks of the TIR company. Then the morphine were shipped, mostly through Milan, to Sicily, where they were transformed into heroin and finally shipped to North America, Germany, Scandinavia, Marseilles (France), Belgium and the Netherlands.

The weapons were trafficked from the ports of Genoa and Leghorn through the Sharadon region, in Syrian on the border with Turkey. From there, the weapons were smuggled to Middle Eastern "clients", including terrorists, military groups, and governments in Kurdistan, Lebanon, and Syria.

Arsan used the Leghorn export company, owned by P2-member Maurizio Bruni.
Another owner of Leghorn is P2-member Alessandro Del Bene, who was also indicted for weapons smuggling and very close to Licio Gelli.

One large secret weapons sale involved arms from Israel to the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini for Iranian oil at favourable prices. The oil was delivered to Israel thanks to British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell. The weapons were used in the war against Iran and Israel used the oil to invade Lebanon.
The intermediary for this secret deal was the Swiss financial company Dreikot, a subsidiary of Banco Ambrosiano, at the time chaired by Roberto Calvi. Dreikot’s chairman was Hans-Albert Kunz, who travelled to London with P2-member Robert Calvi on his final trip (where he was “suicided”).
Kunz was also an associate of Victor Emmanuel de Savoi, a close friend of P2 Grandmaster Licio Gelli.

Hans-Albert Kunz and Gelli’s associate Stefano Delle Chiaie met in Switzerland with Sadeq Tabatabai, the brother of the daughter-in-law of Khomeini, who on 8 January 1983 was caught with 1.65 kg opium in his suitcase at Düsseldorf airport, but released on bail.
See Ayatollah Khomeini, Sadeq Tabatabai and Franco-German journalist Peter Scholl-Latour on the flight from Paris to Tehran on 1 February 1979.


On 7 March 1981, Karl Kofler, was found dead in his cell dead from an apparent “suicide” (killed with a long needle through his heart). Kofler was a key witness, who was expected to spill the beans: https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1983/...eads_b.pdf
(http://web.archive.org/web/2018030214503...eads_b.pdf)

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Francois Genoud, Islamic terrorism

Hans-Albert Kunz was also close to Francois Genoud.

In 1958, Francois Genoud established the Banque Commerciale Arabe (BCA) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was helped by Hjalmar Schacht (as financial adviser) and Zouhair Mardam Bey amongst others. Her Syrian father, Kahlil Mardam Bey, was an intimate friend of Ibn Saud (of the Saudi royal family).
Zouhair’s father was also an intimate of Otto Skorzeny. In 1983, Skorzeny's wife, Ilse (niece of Hjalmar Schacht), met with Mardam Bey and Francois Genoud in Paris.
Zouhair and Genoud ran the BCA up until the Algerian government government took it over and renamed it the Banque Algerien de Commerce Exterieur.

At the end of the 1950s, Lausanne became the center of FLN financing of arms deals, which often involved “former” Nazis who had become arms merchants. During the mid-1960s, Genoud financed a major arms-drugs deal between the Lebanese drug-smuggling operation Casino de Liban and a "French organization".
Otto Skorzeny, from Madrid, was part of the arms-smuggling operations which financed the anti-de Gaulle Secret Army Organization (OAS) and the Algerian FLN.

The Schlumberger banking complex overlaps with Genoud's operation.
Schlumberger, and Neuflize and Mallet bank with Prince Mohammed al-Faisal's DMI bank financed Islamic extremism throughout the West: https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1983/...contro.pdf


Francois Genoud used Swiss bank to finance “liberation armies” in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
When Algerian independence was proclaimed in 1962, Genoud became director of the Arab Peoples' Bank in Algiers, bringing Schacht with him. Two years later, Genoud was arrested in Algeria for violating exchange control regulations in the transfer of $15 million of FLN money to a Swiss bank. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser helped Genoud to be released without a trial.

On 21 February 1972, Palestinian hijackers took a plane from Bombay bound for Frankfurt hostage, with 188 passengers including the 19-year-old son of assassinated Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy, on board.
The next day, a letter from Cologne to Lufthansa demanded $5 million in used bills for the "Organization for the Victims of the Zionist Occupation". After the ransom money was left at the Beirut airport holding , the Boeing flew to Yemen, where the crew and passengers were freed, including Kennedy. The $5 million went to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

The hijacking was orchestrated by the Palestinian terrorist Wadi Haddad with the assistance of Francois Genoud, who drove to Cologne for the letter with the ransom demand.
Genoud later explained:

The amount of money demanded of Lufthansa was very high. Too low a number would have made us lose credibility. Too high a number might have made the operation fall through, especially considering how quickly the money had to be collected.

For some reason, the US State Department wouldn’t declassify 45 documents relating to Genoud: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/H...itler.html
(http://archive.is/8BXv)


After Ayatollah Khomeini was kicked out of Iran, he settled in Iraq, where in 1978 he was arrested and deported.
His subsequent exile in France was financed by Francois Genoud.

Up until 1996, Francois Genoud was also responsible for setting up subsidiaries of the Bin Laden Group (the family of Osama) from Lausanne: https://www.roguenews.com/roguenews/2018...reat-again

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Personally I find the war between the US and Iran less than convincing.
In 1979, the ruthless Islamic extremist regime of Ayatollah Khomeini was installed by Anglo-American intelligence, and Iran has been very good to the big oil corporations ever since.

The 3 January assassination of General Qasem Soleimani doesn’t really change this: https://forums.richieallen.co.uk/showthr...579&page=6


Current Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is another crooked lawyer.
Not all of the information in the following article is confirmed by the “independent” Wikipedia (and I haven’t been able to confirm everything)….
Rouhani changed his family name from Fereidun (or Fereydoun or Fereydun).

In 1970s, Rouhani was educated in England, learning textile design and English.

In the 1990s, Rouhani studied for 6 years at the privately owned Caledonian University in Glasgow, Scotland, which gave him a PhD in “Islamic law” (in 1999).
This was arranged by none other by Jack Straw (Secretary of various offices in the British government for most of 1997 to 2010): https://www.orient-news.net/en/news_show...-elections
(http://archive.is/8LDwB)


In 2014, Tehran’s only Jewish hospital, the Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center, received $400,000 from the government of President Hassan Rouhani.
The cash was delivered by Rouhani’s brother, Hossein Fereydoon: http://web.archive.org/save/https://www....world&_r=0


During the Anglo-American orchestrated Islamic coup of 1979, the Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center was one of the very few (the only) that helped the wounded “revolutionaries” without reporting them to the notorious SAVAK.
Ayatollah Khomeini himself wrote a personal thank you note to the hospital after the coup succeeded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sapir_...ity_Center


Mohammad Zarif is another lawyer, who was the Foreign Affairs Minister in Iran from July 2013 to February 2019.
In 1977, when he was a teenager, Zarif left Iran to study in the US. Zarif attended private college-preparatory high school Drew College Preparatory School in San Francisco, California. He later studied at San Francisco State University, from which he gained a Master degree in 1982.

In San Francisco, Zarif joined the Islamic Student Association and made friends who later became political figures in Iran, including the brother of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian president from 1989 to 1997.

Zarif continued his studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, from which he obtained a Ph.D. in international law and policy in 1988: https://www.france24.com/en/20190226-zar...clear-deal
(http://archive.is/aUuub)


After the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran by Islamist students in 1979, Zarif was sent to shut down Iran's consulate in San Francisco.
Both of his children were born in the United States.

Zarif later protested at the Iranian mission to the United Nations, where the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations offered him a job in May 1982.

Zarif has spent more time with John Kerry than any other foreign minister in the world: https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/03/middl...index.html


Zarif was Iran's representative at the UN from 2002 to 2007

In 2016, Zarif with John Kerry shared the Chatham House Prize (awarded by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a.k.a. Chatham House): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Javad_Zarif


See Bonesmen George W. Bush and John Kerry outside the Skull & Bones crypt, circa 1966.



Qasem Soleimani wasn’t the first high Iranian official that was silenced for knowing too much or being a threat to the Iranian regime.

In 1977, Hassan Rouhani delivered the eulogy for Khomeini’s dead son, who supposedly committed “suicide”.

In 1992, Rouhani’s son reportedly committed “suicide” by shooting himself with his father’s pistol.
According to Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who was very familiar with Rouhani, Rouhani’s son was assassinated on a military base in southern Tehran “on political grounds”.

In June 2001, Leila Pahlavi, daughter of the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi who died in Egypt, also supposedly committed “suicide”.

In 2011, Alireza Pahlavi, son of the former shah of Iran, also died of a reported “suicide”.
Alireza Pahlavi was also educated in the US. He obtained a B.A. from Princeton University in 1984 and a masters degree from Columbia University in 1992 and later attended Harvard University: https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/rouhani-s...extremism/
(http://archive.is/8OOUW)

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Maybe General Qasem Soleimani was killed as a diversion strategy from the limitless amount of scandals the Trump family is involved in?
And was another disaster orchestrated for more diversion?!?


Iran's state TV has reported that its military "unintentionally" shot down Ukrainian passenger jet PS752 with a missile, killing all 176 people on board.
The statement said it had done so due to "human error" as the plane was mistaken for a "hostile target" when it flew close to a site belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guards: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51073621


The Trump Organization, Ivanka Trump in particular, was in business with the Baku XXI Century of the Azerbaijani Mammadov family since 2008. The Mammadovs were in turn business partners of the Iranian construction company Azarpassillo of Keyumars Darvishi (since about 2008).

Azarpassillo’s chairman, Keyumars Darvishi, became the head of Raman after he fought in the Iran-Iraq War. Raman is an Iranian construction firm, controlled by the Revolutionary Guard (that was controlled by Soleimani).

At least 2 of Keyumars’s brothers — Habil and Kamal Keyumars — were (are) also associates of the Revolutionary Guard. Ziya Mammadov conspired with the Revolutionary Guard to make overpriced deals that would enrich them both while using shell companies to launder the money and circumvent sanctions against Iran.

Trump spokesman Alan Garten admitted that the Trump Organization learned in 2015 about “the possibility” that the Mammadovs had ties to the Revolutionary Guard, but the company didn’t end the Baku deal until December 2016 (after Trump was elected US president): http://archive.is/9pqcZ


Azerbaijani partners in crime of US president Donald Trump since 2012, in a project to build a Trump Tower in Baku, also appear in the Laundromat scheme.
The $35 million project was controlled by Baku XXI Century of Elton and Anar Mammadov, the brother and son of the country's transport minister Ziya Mammadov. They hold seats in parliament and have ties to Azerbaijani President Aliyev.
The Mammadovs’ Baghlan holding company is linked to Laundromat transactions.

Ziya also has connections to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard and with Iraq-Iran war veteran Keyumars Davishi, the chairman of a company which Mammadov awarded transportation contracts to in 2008.
In February 2017, defense and intelligence officials warned the White House against designating Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation.

Anar founded The Azerbaijan American Alliance. Between 2011 and 2015, he spent almost $13 million for lobbying in the US.
Anar Mammadov lives in London and considers Ivanka Trump a “dear friend” (see them together).


In October 2014, Ivanka Trump toured Trump Tower Baku that was scheduled to open in 2015. Ivanka wrote that she had “overseen” the project. For some reason the hotel never opened despite being almost completed: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...-ever.html

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Wilbur and the FBI in Iran

I was thinking that some “news” like this would be made, to make everybody scared shitless over the nuclear bomb threat, as the ultimate distraction (the supposed only weapon of mass destruction that was never used on a massive scale)…
Iran has informed the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency that its nuclear program “no longer faces any operating restrictions”, which hypothetically means that it could produce those magical nuclear weapons that we’ve heard so much about: https://www.rt.com/news/477529-iran-roll...lear-deal/


It shouldn’t surprise anybody that Donald’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross profits from business with a country under US sanctions – Iran.

Wilbur Ross has gotten some adverse publicity for his connections to China and Russia.
Wilbur Ross’s Navigator Holdings is in business with the Sibur in which Vladimir Putin’s “son-in-law” Kirill Shamalov is a stakeholder: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...4872#p4872


Wilbur Ross’s Diamond S Shipping is also in business with Iran.
One of the main clients of Diamond S was the Russian oligarch controlled Glencore.

And... the Trump Organization has rented space to state-controlled Iranian Bank Melli that, according to the US government, funded the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (controlled by General Soleimani): https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5984#p5984


See the countries visited by Diamond S Shipping’s fleet, including Venezuela and Iran.


Most of Diamond S Shipping’s fleet sails under Chinese flags, and is tied to a Chinese investment fund. Its ships have also visited ports in Russian and Iran: https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-07/c...investment


Another controversial deal that involves Wilbur Ross is the 2017 trade deal with China that was cut with the help of Wendy Teramoto, chief of staff to Commerce Secretary Ross …

At the time Teramoto was still a director for Navigator Holdings Ltd.
On 3 March 2017, Teramoto was (also) still on the board of directors for Diamond S. Shipping. Teramoto resigned from the board of Diamond S. Shipping before becoming full-time chief of staff on 1 August 2017.

In November 2017, Teramoto still served as a director of another shipping company, Nautical Bulk Holdings Ltd. and its 19 subsidiaries. Nautical Bulk was also founded by Ross and other investors in 2013.

Ross was also chairman of Diamond S. Shipping, while he promised to step down when he became Commerce secretary. It’s unclear at what time he did: https://www.marketplace.org/2017/11/06/t...firm-tied/
(http://archive.is/iER9D)


Another example of the FBI funding the Iranian regime…

In 2009, the FBI asked Oleg Deripaska to funnel millions of dollars to Iran, supposedly to rescue former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who was captured in Iran in 2007 while working for the CIA.
In 2009, FBI agents courted Deripaska in a series of secret hotel meetings in Paris, Vienna, Budapest and Washington (FBI director at the time was one Robert Mueller).

Andrew McCabe was one of the agents that negotiated with Deripaska, who was fired by President Donald as FBI deputy director. McCabe supposedly played a seminal role in starting the Trump-Russia story.
The FBI rewarded Deripaska for his help. In 2009, Deripaska visited Washington on a rare law enforcement parole visa. Since 2011, Deripaska was granted entry on at least 8 occasions on a diplomatic passport (even though he’s no diplomat).

Some lawyers have argued that Deripaska’s absence from Mueller’s indictments could be related to his connections to the FBI.
According to Melanie Sloan, a “far more significant issue” is that the earlier FBI operation was probably illegal:

It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement with Mr. Deripaska violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.

https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5204#p5204

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Khashoggi, Iran-Contra, and Donald Trump

Social media disinformation expert Professor Marc Owen Jones analysed the trend. He found that most of the 60,000 Soleimani-hating came from nearly 10,000 accounts, which had for the most common phrases “Make America Great Again” and “Trump”. Personally I wouldn’t expect that accounts using those phrases are Iranians.
Marc Jones concluded that “once again that the online right wing MAGA movement is boosting the trend that seeks to indicate that Iranians actually hated Soleimani”.

Those who were most extreme in their opposition to the recently killed general, had typical machine-generated usernames and generic profiles, with little personal data and default, plain displays on their page. This is an increasingly common occurrence in conflicts, to control the narrative on the internet.
In November 2019, during the U.S.-backed coup against President Evo Morales, thousands of newly created bots boosted a Spanish-language hashtag “there is no coup in Bolivia”.

There is evidence to suggest that most Iranians didn’t hate the killed Soleimani.
A 2019 survey by the University of Maryland found that “General Soleimani remains the most popular Iranian public figure” with 59% of the country viewing him “very favorably” and more than 80% of Iranians having a positive opinion of him.

A Morning Consultant poll showed that 47% of the Americans interviewed, support the drone assassination of Soleimani, although they agreed it made America less safe.
According to recent polls by Reuters and Ipsos, 39% of Americans “strongly disapprove” of the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran situation. Last weekend there were more than 70 anti-war protests across the United States.

According to Noam Chomsky, the US is a “rogue state” conducting “reckless international terrorism” with Trump’s actions giving ISIS “another lease on life”: https://www.mintpressnews.com/study-bots...ag/264024/
(http://archive.is/RaR8r)

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Apparently Adnan Khashoggi was one of the most important merchants to arm the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Khashoggi was even present at the notorious 19/20 October Paris meeting where George Bush Sr. made a deal with representatives of Khomeini to not release the American hostages.

In 1985, Mahfouz's Saudi National Commercial Bank (NCB) loaned Khashoggi $35 million dollars to finance the illegal sale of weapons to Iran, at the behest of Oliver North.

One of Kamel Adham's close contacts, Adnan Khashoggi, is among the richest men in the world. Khashoggi was the arms merchant at the centre of the whole Iran-Contra scandal, and a long-time friend of the bin Laden family.

https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...t=10#p5012


Adnan Khashoggi has also been named a business partner of Mohammed Sacirbey (and the widow of Prince Friso, Mabel) in arming Bosnian Muslims: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...6286#p6286


Khashoggi was also close to one-time Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

There is an even closer connection between Manafort and Khashoggi through his representative in Spain - Abdul Rahman Al Assir from Lebanon. Al Assir was once brother-in-law of Adnan Khashoggi. He arranged big weapons sales to African armies.
The London-based Sourakia once wrote:

The miracle of Al Assir is that he will have lunch with Don Juan Carlos [king of Spain], dinner with Hassan II [king of Morocco], and breakfast the next day with Felipe González [prime minister of Spain].

In the late 1980s, Manafort became friends with Al Assir. In 1989, Manafort took Al Assir as his guest to George H.W. Bush’s inauguration.

https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5274#p5274


It is no secret that Donald Trump has boasted on buying the world’s “greatest yacht” from Adnan Khashoggi.

A bit more difficult to find is that Adnan Khashoggi was also at Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples in New York on 20 December 1993: http://web.archive.org/web/2013061611570...aples.html



Donald Trump has also tried, but failed, to set up Members Service Corporation.
In early 1994, Donald Trump involved Adnan Khashoggi in setting this up: https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/do...h-10266479
(http://archive.is/iYNSI)


Adnan Khashoggi’s lieutenant Ramy El-Batrawi said he introduced Donald Trump to Adnan Khashoggi Olympic Towers in New York in the early 1990s.

See Ivanka Trump with Ramy El-Batrawi (second from right) at an event hosted by former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling


El-Batrawi was also in business with Trump’s friend, the billionaire Carl Icahn.

See 4 photos of El-Batrawi with the rich and famous.
In the picture with Trump, El-Batrawi is in the back right.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/yayyo-ipo...=true&r=US
(http://archive.is/ktsul)

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October surprise and PROMIS

The following is a collection of articles from 1991 of which the most interesting information is on the 1980 meetings between the Reagan-Bush team with representatives of Ayatollah Khomeini to NOT release the American hostages.
According to Israeli testimony, the Iranians were willing to release the hostages in September 1980, but the Republican bribed them to NOT release them until after the November 1980 elections.

Officials in the Reagan-Bush campaign, including John McFarland and William Casey, held meetings with representatives of the Iranian government in Washington DC and in Madrid, Spain.
In March 1980, a first meeting took place at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, attended by William Casey and the brothers Cyrus and Jamshid Hashemi. The Hashemis were willing to cooperate with the Carter administration, but Casey told them he didn’t want the release of 52 American hostages before the November 1980 elections.
In July 1980, the second meeting in Madrid took place, between Casey and Mehdi Karrubi (later speaker of the Iranian parliament).
On 2 October 1980, the third meeting took place at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington. This meeting involved Richard Allen (later President Reagan's National Security Advisor), Marine Lt. Col. Robert McFarlane (then aide to Texas Senator John Tower and later a national security advisor to Reagan), Lawrence Silberman (an aide to Allen and later a Federal Court of Appeals judge), and Iranian Jewish arms dealer Hushang Lavie.

Former Reagan White House aide, Barbara Honegger, published the book "October Surprise" in which she details the 3 meetings in Washington and Madrid.
Aboihassan Bani-Sadr (1980 president of Iran) published his own book "My Turn to Speak" in which he also accuses the Reagan-Bush team to pay to block the release of the 52 American hostages.

Intelligence reports indicate that the rescue mission, in which 8 US servicemen died, was sabotaged.
The Iranians were informed of the rescue attempt through moles in the White House. Richard Allen was circulating the memos of President Carter. The CIA had successfully pushed Carter to appoint Stansfield Turner as CIA chief, who played a key role in the October Surprise.
The Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Stephen Halper, also had "far reaching access to the most sensitive materials".

At the fourth meeting (or meetings) in Paris France on 19 and 20 October 18, the Iranian government was paid $40 million through a Luxembourg bank and arms were promised. Two pilots have testified on the flights to and from Paris, Navy Captain Gunther Russbacher and international arms dealer and former CIA operative Richard Brenneke.

In the late afternoon of 19 October 1980, a BAC 111 plane left Andrews Air Force Base for Paris, France.
Its passengers included: command pilot Gunther Russbacher and Richard Brenneke; and in the cabin William Casey (later CIA Director); Donald Greggs (soon the US ambassador to South Korea); and George H.W. Bush. Also in the cabin were 2 security people, and a woman, who Russbacher believes to be Jennifer Fitzgerald (Bush's Chief of Protocol for the White House).

Bush reportedly met Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (second in command to the Ayatollah and later president of Iran), representatives of Ayatollah Behisti, Javad Bahonar and Saudi arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi in Paris.
The Bush-Reagan team also met Manucher Ghorbanifar (an Iranian born Mossad agent and arms dealer) and Mohammad Ali Rajai (future president of Iran).

Heinrich Rupp was not on the BAC-111, but did fly a Gulfstream to Paris where he met Brenneke and Russbacher.
Russbacher has stated that Bush stayed at the Hotel Crillion in Paris. Bush didn’t return on the same BAC 111 but instead Russbacher flew him back in the SR71.

Richard Brenneke, who testified before a Federal Court that he flew to Paris in October 1980, has been tried for perjury. A jury acquitted Brenneke of the charges.
US Senator John Tower, who was deeply involved through his aide Robert McFarlane, was chosen as chief investigator in the Iran-Contra scandal. He won’t tell what happened as he died in a plane crash.

French intelligence service (SDECE) was asked to ensure that Bush’s visit was kept secret. SDECE did make a routine memo on the incident, dated 18 November 1980. An anonymous agent has testified that in December 1980 he saw the French memo in the CIA archives.
This agent testifies that Bush met with 3 different factions of the Iranian revolution at the Rafael Hotel. Bush didn’t attend the first meeting but only the second. After 20 November 1980, Col. Alexandre de Marenches (head of the SDECE) met President-elect Ronald Reagan in California and presented the report to him.
Robert Benes (son of Czech President Edward Benes who died in 1948) was also at the meetings for the French SDECE.

CIA operatives who have exposed the October 1980 Paris meetings have been silenced through our wonderful legal system.
Richard Brenneke was tried on 5 counts of false statements to a federal judge.
Heinrick Rupp was tried on fraud counts involving the Savings and Loan scandal.
Gunther Russbacher was arrested for kidnapping, investment fraud, desertion, impersonating a US Attorney and US Marshal (he was locked up at Terminal Island with the court records sealed).
Michael Riconosciuto was tried for manufacturing methamphetamines and held without bail.

I have reasons to doubt the reliability of (former) Mossad agent Ari Ben Menashe…
Ben Menashe claims that Earl Brian, a close friend of Ronald Reagan and Edward Meese, illegally sold Inslaw’s PROMIS software to Iraq.
Ben Menashe states that Earl Brian and Robert McFarlane went to Iran to set up meetings with the Iranians on the hostage issue. Ben Menashe has also claimed that George Bush went to Paris in October 1980 to make a deal to not release the American hostages until after the election.
According to Ben Menashe, 3 meetings were held in Madrid and a fourth in Barcelona, Spain between the Reagan-Bush campaign and Iranian officials.

Former CIA operative Michael Riconoscuito, told Congressional investigators that he transferred the $40 million to a Luxembourg Bank: http://dmc.members.sonic.net/sentinel/usa3.html
(http://archive.is/9A9sC)


I’ve regularly seen “conspiracy stories” on PROMIS that has reportedly been used by the CIA (and Mossad) to gain backdoor access to computer systems all over the world. PROMIS regularly pops up in stories on 9/11 and Robert Maxwell.
The best information I found on PROMIS comes from Rodney Stich and while maybe it isn’t very relevant in this context, it DOES involve the same group of criminals.

Michael Riconosciuto has testified that the US Justice Department reconfigured Inslaw’s PROMIS software with a trap door to be used by the CIA and Dr. Earl Brian (a close associate of former Attorney General Edwin Meese and also a former member of Ronald Reagan's California cabinet).
Within a week of his affidavit, which was published in the St. Louis Post Dispatch and The Napa Sentinel, Riconosciuto was arrested by the DEA in the state of Washington and held without bail. According to Riconoscuito, the PROMIS software was stolen to obtain funds to reward Dr. Brian for his work in arranging the hostage agreement, including paying the $40 million to Khomeini. Brian made millions of dollars from the scheme.

Ben Menashe said that Brian told him he was trying to sell PROMIS to Israel and that Robert McFarlane was also involved. Ben Menashe also stated that Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen told him that PROMIS was sold for use by Iraqi military intelligence. Iranian arms dealer Richard Babayan stated that a member of Iraqi intelligence told him Iraq had acquired PROMIS.
Senator John Tower in 1984, for the CIA and Mossad, approached Robert Maxwell to sell PROMIS software to East Bloc countries, including Russia.
PROMIS was also sold to Canada, Jordan, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan, Nicaragua, Colombia, Chile, and Brazil.

Inslaw was a small computer programming company owned by William and Nancy Hamilton that was forced into bankruptcy by high Justice Department officials, so that PROMIS could be “bought” pennies for dollars.
Earlier, Dominic Laiti (chairman of Hadron) tried to purchase the PROMIS software from Inslaw, but Inslaw refused. Laiti warned William Hamilton that Hadron was connected to Attorney General Meese, and "We have ways of making you sell”.

While in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Inslaw filed a civil suit against the US Department of Justice for stealing the PROMIS software.
Judge George Bason awarded Inslaw $6.8 million. On 7 February 1985, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington DC reversed the decision, because the lower court judges had no “jurisdiction”.

Ari Ben Menashe claims to have seen a cable from Israel's Joint Committee requesting to transfer $600,000 from the CIA-Israeli slush fund to Hadron to pay off the law firm of Dickstein and Shapiro, as compensation for removing Inslaw's attorney, Leigh Ratiner, from the case.

In 1994, President Clinton's Justice Department conducted an "investigation" into the Inslaw affair that was led by Webster Hubbell, who cleared the Justice Department of any wrongdoing.

Lester Coleman posed a danger of exposing CIA and DEA drug trafficking connected to Pan Am Flight 103 and the stolen PROMIS software. Coleman fled the United States after the FBI arrested him on trumped up charges of passport irregularities.
Coleman’s statements show that Libya was not responsible for the bomb on Flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Coleman discovered that the PROMIS software was sold by the DEA's Nicosia office, which involved the Eurame company, which also dealt in the sale of drugs and arms. The software was installed by the CIA front-company Link Systems, Ltd.
Michael Hurley, who was also drug trafficking, also sold the PROMIS stolen software.

Many witnesses were silenced through suspicious deaths (including suicides).
Free-lance reporter Danny Casolaro was writing a book on the stealing of PROMIS by the DoJ. Casolaro spoke almost daily with CIA contract agent Michael Riconosciuto.
On 10 August 1991, Casolaro was killed at the Sheraton Inn in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Rodney Stich – Defrauding America; Encyclopedia of secret operations by the CIA, DEA, and other covert agencies (1993) – 98.5 MB!!!: https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org/Rod...20-%20.pdf

[Firestarter]

It isn’t a great “secret” that Saddam Hussein in the 1980s was supported with American arms to fight against the evil Ayatollah Khomeini (that had been installed and was armed from the USA)...

It isn’t widely known that according to several sources, Saddam Hussein was already working for the CIA in 1959, as part of a six-man hit squad in the failed assassination attempt of Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.

According to Adel Darwish, the assassination attempt on Qasim was done "with full knowledge of the CIA" and Saddam's handler was an Iraqi dentist working for CIA and Egyptian intelligence. Darwish said that Saddam was paid by the assistant military attaché at the Egyptian Embassy Capt. Abdel Maquid Farid. This was confirmed by 3 former senior U.S. officials.

According to several U.S. government officials, after the failed assassination attempt, Saddam (who had a leg injury) escaped to Tikrit with the help of the CIA and Egyptian intelligence agents.
According to Darwish and former senior CIA officials, Saddam then crossed Syria and was transferred to Beirut by Egyptian intelligence agents, where his apartment was paid for by the CIA that also trained him.
The CIA helped Saddam to get to Cairo where he made frequent visits to the American Embassy where he spoke with CIA operatives like Miles Copeland and CIA station chief Jim Eichelberger.

According to veteran CIA operative Miles Copeland (father of the famous Police drummer), the CIA had "close ties" to Qasim's ruling Baath Party.
Former National Security Council staffer in the 1970s Roger Morris confirmed that the CIA had picked the Baath Party "as its instrument" to control Iraq.

According to former U.S. intelligence officials, the Agency provided the Baath Party with lists of suspected communists who were then jailed, interrogated and killed.

Morris claimed that the CIA (approved by President John F. Kennedy) was also behind the February 1963 Baath Party coup in which Qasim was killed. This was strongly denied by a former senior CIA official.

See Iraqi president Saddam Hussein with special envoy of US president Ronald Reagan, Donald Rumsfeld, in Baghdad, 20 December 1983.


The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency became even closer to Saddam after the start of the Iran-Iraq war in September 1980. In the 1980s, the CIA regularly sent intelligence to Iraq to increase the effectiveness of Iraq's armed forces.

Of course Saddam was executed before he got the chance to tell all: https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/c...36408.html
(http://archive.is/IUZVV)