Was well known so many even wrote a book about its. When he lived here 30 years ago he took care of the place he had 7 gardeners the top. Of the 50. The neighbor says the sheik bought the estate but left it empty but back then mansions used to host Intelligence Officers and other people. Host weekend meetings there good weapons manufacturers and people from the Defense Ministry there were under was reportedly a lot of drinking. Interns even for intro short. Documents from the b. M. D. And other sources indicate the agency was losing control of matins and his business activities. The material includes photos and transcripts of confidential meetings between b. And d. Officials in mantons. A report from one meeting hints that the agency had no idea how to rein him in. The november 1965 mansions met with to be India Officials storm and helms off at his villa in switzerland the talks went on for days. Met and picked up hams dorf at the geneva airport the storm arrived later that evening the men started drinking wine. Merchants who reportedly had drank whiskey beforehand and was quoted as saying that they were going to have a real party. At one point he was also reported to appraised at all hitler met and said that he was negotiating with iran to allow surplus bonus for aircraft to land there for leadership meant to pakistan. He also admitted that he was working with the cia. But then the alcohol got to him. The d. N. D. People experienced mertons erratic behavior the next day he brought out a secret report from the Egyptian Military and documents from the cult company he said that the b. M. D. Could make copies. There is no record of how the 2 guests responded to all this. The other what was mertons relationship with the b. N. Deal like. Shit thats difficult. In the beginning i think the b. And d. Had a lot of respect for him. And he was a selfmade man who set up an International Corporation in just a few years. And then thats not about years or. Rights but it became clear early on that mertons was unpredictable. Made it clear that he was going to pursue his own interests regardless of the people who were protecting him. Of a unique and even shoot some of the in the b. M. D. He also knew that if something went wrong he wasnt going to have to take the blame. At the end of the 1960 s. The b. M. D. Wanted to break of contacts with matins he was called to appear before an internal b. M. D. Commission that was investigating the agencys involvement with weapons teams. They wanted to know about his other contacts and how much they knew they wanted to take control of the situation. Perhaps he was a double agent of course. Probably yes smetana. What do you think of the sessions. And i cant say but he was very selfconfident i cant imagine that he felt intimidated by these people. Did he bring lawyers. For what. He had all the documentation he needed from the b. M. D. Exactly. Hard militants now turned against the b. N. P. That could be dangerous for a lot of top government officials. This is villa hama schmidt your ball is the official residence of the west german president until 1904. Karl causton served as the president from 1979 to 1904 she began his government career in the 1960 s. As a state secretary or deputy minister 1st in the Foreign Office and then in the ministry of defense. In 1968 and 69 carstens was the head of the Chancellors Office his responsibilities included keeping an eye on the b. M. D. So he must have been familiar with care had met its weapons deals and his cooperation with the Intelligence Agency. You also do is a member of the bee indeed historical commission. He would interest this ecstatic a lot of stuff came across carstens desk at the Chancellors Office including some things that could turn out to be illegal. But he said later that he couldnt remember a lot about some of its at sea so later he was called to testify before a Parliamentary Committee that was looking into the b m ds activities. In 1974 costins was interviewed about the b. Indeed involvement with the sale of surplus weapons. They never found out if the b. And ds role in weapon deals is to be fully clarified a special investigation must be carried out. Would you be prepared to testify that such a course but im not convinced that such an investigation would be in the countrys best interests theres no point in asking questions about activities that were perfectly legal and followed they give these in. Cost and told the committee that when he was head of the Chancellors Office he was not aware of any b. And d. Weapons deals that implies that he knew nothing about the internal b. M. D. Investigation into mertons activities. Chancellor Court New York using on scene here on the far left appears to have had a chief of staff that was rather poorly informed on this matter. The s. P. D. Was particularly upset about the reports of weapons sales to india and pakistan and demanded answers from kissing as government. In 1969 and became chancellor the s. P. D. Launched an investigation into the b. Indias involvement with weapons deals. Matins sought as a move to discredit costins. You have often im tired of people picking on. Just this morning i read in spiegel magazine that a court judge in lower saxony is looking into some new allegations. That your decision was it can was i can only say to those who attacked custance that i could make similar claims about the activities of the current chancellor you know the flu study but it does the same thing it does there. Matins felt that he was being targeted by the new s. P. D. Government but once chief of staff even proposed a series of b. M. D. Reforms but at the same time he refused to hand over files to prosecutors who were investigating matins him because said that to do so would be detrimental to the interests of the government. In november 975 met in stood trial in bonn on charges of violating west german export laws particularly in connection with weapon sales to India Pakistan and saudi arabia. Matins is seen here on the right along with some of his merits codefendants no charges were filed against anyone from the be empty. In november 1905 the court ruling from this one vodafone for volvo mertons was acquitted on the charge of violating export laws as attorneys convinced the court that the weapons sales have been made on behalf of the b n d that was bad news for the agency that. We visited the north rhinewestphalia state archive and to a sport where a copy of the verdict is stored. Unlike the Regional Court in bonn it considered it important to keep it. We werent allowed to take pictures of the actual documents just the covers of the files but we were permitted to quote from the documents matins was acquitted because the weapons exports were approved by the b. M. D. And he was convinced they were legal because. The b. India received requests from individual states and enabled contractual agreements. To b. M. D. Took steps to provide Financing Options for merricks. The be a nice warm eriks representatives to secrecy. At the b. M. D. Implemented its own Foreign Policy agenda was it a state within a state a socalled deep state. Yours do for sums up his findings. New owners of your car there was a very Bureaucratic Organization that operated with a great deal of vanity and weakness in highly complex circumstances sleaze is what the weapons deals were probably known to just a small group within the b. M. D. So i dont think it was a deep state system as such but it had some of its characteristics i was a martyr stuff. Mehrtens weapons deals made him a very wealthy man. He sold 90 old west german fighter planes to pakistan as well as automatic weapons ammunition and hand grenades to chad as that country descended into civil war in the mid 1960 s. After met and was acquitted the west German Government was ordered to pay him 5000000. 00 marks in compensation an expensive end to a close business relationship between arms dealer and Intelligence Agency should be in the order for the b. M. D. Bears the final responsibility because the mertons deal got out of control and does 5 and a picture he was actually conducting Foreign Policy by selling weapons to various countries in the b. M. D. Probably underestimated americans completely. Met his wife and daughter gave us the impression that they knew little about the full extent of his business dealings he didnt talk much about them and he was away from home much of the time. But my guitar has come to terms with the fact that her father was a weapons dealer. Would you like to know more. No it doesnt really matter. Yeah thats whats done is done you have to get on with your life. Matins worked for the cia in the us he allegedly supplied weapons to anti communist guerrillas in Central America on its behalf. And he maintained unofficial connections to the b. And d. The nightmare 13th and was why he was excluded from the operational side of the agencys activities. But in the 1970s the b n d used them and his contacts to find out more about the International Arms trade through from there so he continued as an informer and was never completely locked out of it. Historian yosh dealer has found evidence that linked militants to the infamous Colonia Dignidad settlement in chile which was a step left by german immigrants. It appears be India Official sent mehrtens into the settlement. Sheila found evidence that militants have close ties to pinochet security apparatus. A map in Southern Africa mertons repeatedly stated that he traveled to chile on behalf of the b. And d. He met Manual Control as it was later head of pinochets secret police and officials of Colonia Dignidad including hartley top it appears they stopped as close ties and. As for. This video was made in the 1980 s. It shows the main road that led to the settlement. Heres the main entrance. The sign over the gate says benefactor or a dignified or benefactor of dignity. Met installed state prosecutors in 1990 that he had visited the settlements several times on behalf of the v. N. D. He called the. State prosecutors in a bid to help its leader paul shaffer when he was under investigation for crimes including physical injury and deprivation of liberty. And. In a statement merchants praised the settlement as a model German Community he denied reports that people had been physically abused in a room known as the potato seller. Metals testimony runs to 31. 00 pages and still has a copy of it. Sums up the statement. Mertons described in detail his visits to Colonia Dignidad and he attempted to refute a number of allegations point by point. For example he said that hed see no evidence that people had been tortured there and he saw no underground corridors also spoke with a doctor at the settlements hospital he concluded it was impossible torture had taken place there. Before. But in fact the potato cellar was used by chiles secret police to torture political detainees. We asked did the begin do you really ask matins to visit the settlement what was his exact mission there the b. M. D. Declined to comment. Ursula mertons says she only knew her husband as a private individual. Theres only shift i just dont have any information on his business deals or contacts. Im sorry i really dont. Care hard mehrtens a former nazi paratrooper and Small Business owner who became one of europes leading weapons dealers died in 1903 at the age of 73 in Fort Lauderdale florida. He took many of his secrets to the great. O. T. Robotics. Keep learning marched reality wait a 2nd we want the whole picture perfect so is that of make ideas shift deliver us. From one measure to reality to cryptocurrency your topics for live in an ever changing Digital World lets talk digitalisation their shift