Arms Dealer

Arms Dealer
Something of a "third rail" topic for commercially-controlled media.

Back in 2007, Wikipedia has once had a page on "Arms Dealer", as distinct from the "Arms Industry". It contained information about a character from a video game and was deleted after 30 minutes.

History

In his groudbreaking 2011 book, The Shadow World, Andrew Feinstein states that Basil Zaharoff (1849-1936) was the first of the modern arms dealers.

Misdirection of Controlled Media

Gerald James wrote in 2007 that "The media talk glibly of 'arms dealers' as if private individuals and companies conduct business secretly and illegally. This is total nonsense. There are arms manufacturers and some middlemen or sales companies which are closely monitored by government. Occasionally there is news of some scandal which invariably involves some middleman or company disowned by his or its particular sponsor government due to embarrassment over policies and sales becoming public knowledge. It is true, however, that sometimes even elected Ministers do not know what is going on as the deals and policies are made by unelected unaccountable senior civil servants and intelligence and security officers. A typical case is the £2bn Pergau Dam related Malaysian defence deal. Secrecy is the road to corruption and the two are never far apart."

Deep State involvement

Dealing in arms, like large scale drug trafficking, appears to be the exclusive preserve of deep state affiliates.

 

Examples

Page name	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Douglas Bernhardt			US	Arms Dealer	American arms dealer who received a very mild sentence for selling weapons to British loyalist groups in Northern Ireland.
Bernhard von Biesterfeld	29 June 1911	1 December 2004	Netherlands	Soldier Arms Dealer Pilot Deep politician	Nazi arms dealer. Alleged bodyguard of Hitler, early member of the SS, requested presidency under Hitler during WW2. An early leader of the Dutch Deep State, founded Dutch division of Operation Gladio named Inlichtingen en Operatiën, co-founded Bilderberg as Steering Committee chairman. Started 1001 Club, WWF, Rijkens Club. Linked to Klaas Bruinsma.
Victor Bout	13 January 1967		Russian	Spook Soldier Arms Dealer Translator Polyglot Businessperson	Russian accused of arms smuggling by the US, was jailed with help from a turned associate, allegedly, on orders of the CIA.
John Bredenkamp	11 August 1940			Arms Dealer Rugby player Businessperson	Founder of the arms trading Casalee Group
John Carbaugh	1945	19 March 2006	US	Spook Lawyer Arms Dealer Deep state functionary	Cercle attendee linked to political double dealing, arms deals and Iran-Contra.
Carlos Cardoen	1 May 1942		Chile	Arms Dealer
Arif Durrani				Arms Dealer
Shaul Eisenberg	22 September 1921	27 March 1997	Israel	Arms Dealer Billionaire	Israeli arms dealer and billionaire tycoon
Manucher Ghorbanifar	1945		Iran	Arms Dealer	Arms dealer and central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Rolf Graage				Spook Arms Dealer	Arms dealer, Le Cercle...
Cyrus Hashemi	1938	21 July 1986		Spook Arms Dealer Iran-Contra/Premature death	Spooky arms dealer, Iran-Contra/Premature death
Bernie Houghton	25 July 1920	2000		Spook Arms Dealer	Arms dealer connected to the Nugan Hand Bank.
Adnan Khashoggi	25 July 1935	6 June 2017	Saudi Arabia	Arms Dealer	Multi-billionare arms dealer.
Yair Klein			Israel	Soldier Arms Dealer	Israeli arms dealer known for his activities in the 80s
Timothy Landon	20 August 1942	6 July 2007	UK	Soldier Arms Dealer	One of Britain's wealthiest men, an arms dealer who facilitated the 1970 coup in Oman.
Nahum Manbar	1948			Arms Dealer Businessperson	Israeli arms dealer
Gerhard Mertins	30 December 1919	19 March 1993	German	Spook Soldier Arms Dealer	A Nazi who fought for Germany in WW2. After being spotted by US intelligence as a neo-nazi, his business empire flourished as he went into arms dealing with the support of the Western intelligence agencies.
Robert Potter	1985		Australia	Propagandist Arms Dealer Businessperson	ASPI-connected Australian cybersecurity businessman, with a finger in many $$$-government contracts
Shapoor Reporter	1920	2005		Spook Arms Dealer	Persian born arms dealer
Wafic Saïd	21 December 1939			Arms Dealer Businessperson	Al-Yamamah arms deal middleman
Karlheinz Schreiber	25 March 1934		German	Lobbyist Arms Dealer	Atlantik-Brücke arms dealer lobbyist
Paul Sjeklocha	9 October 1937		US	Spook Arms Dealer	Arms dealer in contact with Monique Garnier-Lançon
Tim Spicer	12 October 1952		UK	Soldier Arms Dealer	UK soldier and arms dealer. Founded Sandline International, former CEO of Aegis Defence Services
Dirk Stoffberg	1936	July 1994	South Africa	Spook Arms Dealer	South African spook and arms dealer who died suddenly
Daniel Storm			South Africa	Diplomat Arms Dealer	South African diplomat arms dealer
Lester Suffield	1911	1999	UK	Arms Dealer	"The [UK] government's chief arms salesman"
Frank Terpil	1940			Spook Arms Dealer Drug trafficker	A close friend of Ted Shackley who was deeply involved in arms deals and drug trafficking for the US Deep State
Marc Turi			US	Spook Arms Dealer Fraudster Deep state operative	In an echo of the Arms for Libya case, Turi was charged in 2014 with illegally providing weapons for Libya. He too stated in his defense that although unregistered, the State Department and the CIA were aware of his arms dealing.
Mitchell WerBel	18 March 1918	17 December 1983		Soldier Arms Dealer Mercenary	OSS veteran "rumoured to be involved in" the JFK assassination
Edwin P. Wilson	3 May 1928	10 September 2012		Spook Arms Dealer Deep state operative Businessperson	CIA, Operation 40 member, US deep state arms dealer caught doing selling a mammoth consignment of C-4 explosive to Libya. He was thrown under a bus by the CIA's plausible deniability policy, but eventually exposed the CIA lie and overturned his conviction after 20 years in jail.
Basil Zaharoff	6 October 1849	27 November 1936	France Greece Ottoman	Arms Dealer	The first modern arms dealer, cunning, aggressive and ruthless.

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