#ArmsTrade

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Douglas Leese Douglas Leese was a British defense contractor named in Parliament in 1996 as a channel for Al-Yamamah commissions, and whom Steven Hoffenberg credited with introducing him to Jeffrey Epstein.

Ora Group The holding company that, in Ari Ben-Menashe's account, the Israeli Joint Committee created about 1981 to hold the slush fund of its arms sales to Iran, run in London through Nicholas Davies as Ora Limited, and through which he says 600,000 dollars went to Earl Brian's Hadron for INSLAW's law firm.

Iran Middle Eastern state whose 1953 coup, Israeli-trained secret police, 1979 revolution and hostage crisis, and wartime arms purchases underlie the October Surprise and Iran-Contra affairs.
Israel Middle Eastern state whose undeclared nuclear arsenal, intelligence operations in the United States, covert arms sales to Iran and Latin America, and surveillance-technology industry run through much of this vault.
Middle East The region from Egypt to Iran as it appears in the vault: the object of American nuclear intelligence, arms and hostage dealing, covert liaison clubs, and, latterly, of sovereign-wealth money for the well connected.