http://www.infoukes.com/lists/politics/1999/12/0465.htmlMaariv Publisher Nimrodi Accused of Murder - Maxwell -Mossad - KGB - Gusinsky -Daily Telegraph 27Dec99
In the book, "Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad", author
Gordon Thomas writes about how in 1984 the Israeli Mossad recruited Robert
Maxwell, the powerful press baron and publisher of the Daily Mirror in
Britain. In one chapter about Maxwell he includes players such as the
Mossad's director general, Nahuam Admoni and agent Ari Ben-Menashe.
Maxwell's high-level contacts in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, were useful
for the Mossad to exploit. In one March 1985 meeting at the Mirror
Newspapers headquarters in London, Mossad agent Maxwell ("sayan") arranged
for a meeting between Admoni, Ben-Menashe and the vice chairman of the KGB,
Viktor Chebrikov. The agenda was a scheme to launder an initial $450
million U.S. (a billion to follow) from the ORA profits on the sale of U.S.
arms to Iran (later known as the Iran-Contra Affair), by transferring the
funds from Credit Suisse to the Bank of Budapest in Hungary. That bank
would then disburse the funds to other banks in the Soviet bloc. The KGB
chief was to
ensure the funds safety in the Soviet bloc, and Maxwell was to earn an $8
million fee for brokering the deal. Maxwell was the Mossad's "high-level
Mr. Fixit." The Mossad had created the ORA as a central holding company to
process the billions of dollars involved in the purchasing and selling-on
of arms. For example, in 1987, Iran's Ayatollah Rafsanjani received a cable
from ORA wrt the sale to Iran of 4,000 TOW missiles, costing $13,800 each.
The cable concluded with signing authority for Nicholas Davies. Davies ran
the foreign operations for ORA while being the foreign editor for the Daily
Mirror. This all occurred before the break-up of the USSR. The Cold War was
not to get in the way of money-laundering from profits of international
arms deals with "rogue" countries.
The Nimrodi family bought the Maariv newspaper in 1992 from the estate of
Robert Maxwell, after the tycoon's mysterious death. Yaacov Nimrodi made a
fortune selling arms to the Shah of Iran, and built up one of Israel's
biggest empires, based on the Israel Land Development Corp. While Yaacov
Nimrodi
was an Israeli military attache in Iran during the 1960s, he recruited
Iranian Jews and military officials to the Mossad. In 1998, 25% of the
shares of Maariv were purchased by the Russian mafia oligarch, Vladimir
Gusinsky (currently a co-owner of Studio 1 Plus 1 in Ukraine). Below is an
article on the son of Yaacov Nimrodi, Ofer Nimrodi, and his indictment for
conspiracy to commit murder, in the ongoing Israeli media wars. Ofer
Nimrodi is a graduate of the Harvard Business School.
(snip)
Suprise, it's all about the money, again