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Organizations (3)

  • Euramae Trading Company Euramae Trading Company was a company operating throughout the Middle East, described by Michael Riconosciuto as a companion company to First Intercontinental Development Corporation and an National Security Council cutout.
  • First Intercontinental Development Corporation First Intercontinental Development Corporation was a company whose board of directors included prominent figures with ties to government and intelligence, and it was reportedly a National Security Council cutout.
  • 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.

Places (2)

  • Liechtenstein Liechtenstein is a small Central European principality known for banking secrecy, where arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi established front companies alongside Swiss entities to handle commissions from Iran-Contra arms deals.
  • Switzerland Switzerland is a European country whose banking secrecy laws made it the primary offshore jurisdiction for Iran-Contra arms dealer commissions, BCCI front operations, and Adnan Khashoggi's front companies, before Khashoggi was arrested there in 1988.