Talk:Sarkis Soghanalian

Judy Weismonger's Original Research
I removed all of this "original research"... since the tag line that Judy nicely added admitted that it was original research. It's good stuff... but I don't have time to find references or to remove the overt politics. Azoreg (talk) 22:33, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

It was not the Bush administration that opened up "criminal charges" against Sarkis Soghanalian, but a Left-leaning US district attorney, Linda Tarby in Miami, Florida. From the beginning of Soghanalian's association with the US, he was considered a valuable double agent by US Intelligence, who was successful in keeping Saddam Hussein focused on its war against Iran, which caused both countries to be preoccupied in wars with each other and not the US or its allies.

It is often not acknowledged, that previous to Soghanalian's contact with Iraq, Iran had imprisoned US hostages and had publicly stated that Iran had the further intention of waging war on the US and its US and its allies if given the opportunity and the resources. However, a war with Iraq served a double purpose and kept both Saddam Hussein and Iran from carrying out such a war against the US and its oil suppliers in the Middle East. US Intelligence then used Sarkis Soghanalian as a double agent to keep Iran and Iraq at war with each other and not the US and its allies.

After Soghanalian was arrested, outted, and convicted...Saddam Hussein made peace with Iran, rebuilt his army and invaded a Kuwait, a major oil supplier for US markets. The rest is history. The US was then forced to defend Kuwait, and invade Iraq, and ten years later, invade Iraq a second time...because of the failure to protect or defend one of its best Middle Eastern double agents, Sarkis Soghanalian.

As an international arms dealer, not once did Soghanalian sell any US military equipment or hardware to Iraq. Soghanalian's conviction for "six counts for possession of armament...." amounted to no more than one RPG and six rounds, accidently left on one of his air planes parked at the Pan American airport in Miami, FL.

At one time, Hughes Aircraft considered selling "agricultural" use helicopters to Iraq, however, because they were found to be too easily modified for military use, the sale to Iraq was stopped. The number of "103" helicopters listed by Tarbe in the indictment, was the entire inventory of Hughes Aircraft.

Furthermore, in a seven year time period, Hughes Aircraft was also interviewed by the FBI many times before indictments were filed against the Hughes executives. During these interviews with the FBI, the Hughes executives willingly named and exposed all of their contacts in the Middle East and in Iraq and believed they were "sanctioned" by the US and the FBI. However, according to court transcripts, not once did the FBI state to Hughes Aircraft or its executives that they were engaging in any illegal operations or contacts with Iraq officials. Under US law, all such negotiations and contacts with foreign governments have to be cleared by the US and the FBI.

Executives of Hughes Aircraft "intent" to sell helicopters to Iraq was an overly aggrandized statement by the FBI at the behest of Linda Tarby, who knew that for several years that it was legal to sell helicopters and planes that could be used for agricultural purposes. Before the sale to Iraq, Hughes executives tested the helicopters and found them capable of being modified to carry and fire LAW rockets...therefore, the Hughes executives scrapped the sale, which never went through. All such sales of aircraft have to be cleared by the US government. Under oath, and showing documentation of the FBI's interview dates over seven years, Hughes executives stated that they willingly informed the FBI of all its negotiations and contacts with Iraqi officials.

Documentation of weapons sales during that period show conclusively that all of the weapons sold to Saddam Hussein, including planes, helicopters, rifles, germ warfare, and satellite intelligence and mapping services came from the British, the French, East and West Germans, the USSR, Cubans, the Chinese, and the North Koreans.

Subsequently, Soghanalian sold materiel in the form of second-hand and defective weaponry to Iraq's military, none of which came from US sources or companies. This was an operational design to keep Iran and Iraq nearly even in military hardware so that neither country could win and thus dominate the Middle East and to extend the war between the two countries to delay both countries aggression against the US and its allies. As was later shown, when Iraq stopped its war with Iran, it rebuilt its army and invaded Kuwait. Knowledge of Saddam Hussein's plans to interrupt American oil supplies had been known by US intelligence for many years...therefore, Soghanalian acting as a double agent and asset who had Saddam Hussein's confidence was a vital part in US Intelligence operations to secure US targets in the Middle East and prevent the necessity of a US war in the Middle East.

With the removal of Soghanalian, who was arguably one of America's best double agents and assets in the Middle East and the world stage, it ultimately forced the US send to send troops into battle, resulting in many unnecessary American casualties in two separate invasions. It can also be argued that such double agents are a vital necessity in keeping intelligence operations on track to secure the defense of the United States and prevent having to go to war.

Judy Weismonger PhD

Weismonger@yahoo.com (Information for this "correction" is based on court transcripts, and hundreds of hours of interviews of individuals who worked for Sarkis Soghanalian, Pan American, and Hughes Aircraft Co, and interviews with a Cuban defector in Miami, Florida who worked in a germ warfare laboratory in Havana along side Iraqi, British, and East German scientists.)

707 fraud
Is this anything to do with him? Zadradr (talk) 01:14, 18 December 2011 (UTC)