#BNL

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Christopher Drogoul Manager of the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro who extended more than four billion dollars in unreported credit to Iraq and testified that his superiors in Rome and Kissinger Associates knew of the business.
Frederick Lacey New Jersey prosecutor and federal judge, one of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's first judges, whom William Barr named in 1992 to review the BNL-Iraq case and who cleared the Justice Department.
Lee Rawls Justice Department legislative affairs chief under Thornburgh who advised him on the House Banking Committee's BNL inquiry and corresponded with the House Judiciary Committee during its INSLAW investigation.

Department of Justice The federal department of prosecutors, the FBI, the DEA and the U.S. Attorneys, in the vault the defendant in the INSLAW case, the obstructor found by the BCCI and BNL inquiries, the CIA's partner in the 1954 and 1982 understandings on prosecution, and the investigator of The Finders.
House Banking Committee House committee created in 1865 as Banking and Currency; under Henry Gonzalez it investigated the BNL loans to Iraq over executive-branch resistance, and under Jim Leach the Systematics allegations.
Kissinger Associates New York consulting firm founded by Henry Kissinger in 1982 whose officers Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger advised Banca Nazionale del Lavoro before returning to government during the bank's unreported lending to Iraq.
Matrix Churchill British machine tool maker bought in 1987 by an Iraqi military procurement front, financed by the Atlanta branch of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, whose directors' 1992 trial collapsed and led to the Scott Inquiry.
Ministry of Industry and Military Industrialization Iraqi ministry under Saddam Hussein's son-in-law Hussein Kamel, from 1988 in charge of weapons industrialization, which bought Western technology through the Al-Arabi front network with BNL-Atlanta loans.

BNL Scandal Discovery in 1989 that the Atlanta branch of Italy's Banca Nazionale del Lavoro had lent Iraq five billion dollars off its books, and a prosecution that Congress and the trial judge said shielded higher officials.

Atlanta Georgia capital where BNL's branch lent Iraq billions off the books until the FBI raid of 1989, where BCCI's frontman bought Bert Lance's bank, and where CIA-funded LSD tests ran at the federal penitentiary.