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"By the second annual meeting of Safeer in November 1979, Carlson and Irvani had moved on, leaving Richard Helms as the sole owner. BCCI turned to a new front, Kamal Adham, former head of Saudi intelligence.
"The books of Safeer show that Helms primarily used it as his own consulting firm, not only receiving fees from [[Northwest Investment Corporation]] (Irvani), but also from defense industry corporations with links to the intelligence community, such as [[Martin Marietta]], [[McDonnell Douglas]], Mitsui, Hughes Aircraft, [[Itek]], Electronic Data Systems, and [[Bechtel]]. Helms, of course, was CIA director from 1966-1973, and then ambassador to Iran until January, 1977. These documents were scanned from U.S., Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, hearings before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, February 19 and March 18, 1992, The BCCI Affair, Part 4, pages 237-240 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992).
"[[John Kerry]] (D-MA) presided over these hearings, but was unable to get the CIA to produce any relevant documents -- perhaps because by 1983-84, CIA director [[William J. Casey]] and his assistant [[Robert Gates]] were secretly meeting with Abedi. The material on Safeer originated from a civil case in Georgia, in which a German company tried to trace Irvani's assets through a maze of offshore companies." [http://www.namebase.org/foia/helms.html]
