#CommodityCreditCorporation

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People (1)

Wafai Dajani Jordanian grain trader close to King Hussein whom Atlanta prosecutors planned to indict in the BNL case in 1991 and who was named instead as an unindicted co-conspirator after the State Department noted his connections.

Organizations (1)

Commodity Credit Corporation Federally chartered corporation within the Department of Agriculture that supports farm prices and guarantees export credit, whose guarantees financed about five billion dollars of Iraqi purchases from 1983 to 1990.

Programs (1)

Commodity Credit Corporation Iraq Program Agriculture Department credit guarantees that backed about five billion dollars of Iraqi purchases from 1983 to 1990, financed largely through Banca Nazionale del Lavoro's Atlanta branch, and continued after the fraud there was found.

Events (1)

Gulf War The 1990 to 1991 war in which a United States-led coalition expelled Iraq from Kuwait, after years of credits and exports to Baghdad, with Kuwaiti-paid publicity beforehand and veterans' illnesses afterward.