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Article: Sting Informant Had 2nd Role, Court Told; Hashemi Reportedly Aided Covert Arms Deal
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- The Washington Post
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- January 6, 1987
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The government's undercover informant in a major Iranian
arms-sales prosecution also played an important initial role in the
administration's covert arms shipments, including introducing key
players in the sales to each other and attending meetings at which
the proposed arms deal was discussed, according to papers filed in
federal court here today.
In a 34-page memorandum, lawyers for one of the men charged in
the sting operation said that the late Cyrus Hashemi, an Iranian arms
merchant who served as an undercover agent for the U.S. Customs
Service, attended a July 1985 meeting at which then-Israeli Prime
Minister Shimon Peres and Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi first
discussed selling ...