you know the 1st study but it does the same thing. it does there were met in felt that he was being targeted by the new s.p.d. government. chief of staff. proposed a series of b.m.d. reforms but at the same time he refused to hand over files to prosecutors who were investigating methods him to said that to do so would be detrimental to the interests of the government. in november 1975 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 co-defendants no charges were filed against anyone from the b.m.d. in november 1905 the court ruling from this mobile phone for mertens was acquitted on the charge of violating export laws his 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 rhine-westphalia state archive and to a sport
. 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 that s mothership be in the order for the b. and d. bears the final responsibility because the merton s deal got out of control and if he was actually conducting foreign policy by selling weapons to various countries indeed the b.m.d. probably underestimated americans completely. just. mehrtens wife and daughter gave us the impression that they knew little about the full extent of his business dealings he didn t 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. brings it would you like to know more.
You know the 1st study but it does the same thing. it does there were met in felt that he was being targeted by the new s.p.d. government. chief of staff. proposed a series of b.m.d. reforms but at the same time he refused to hand over files to prosecutors who were investigating methods him to said that to do so would be detrimental to the interests of the government. in november 1975 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 co-defendants no charges were filed against anyone from the b.m.d. in november 1905 the court ruling from this mobile phone for mertens was acquitted on the charge of violating export laws his attorneys convinced the court that the
Its own foreign policy agenda was it a state within a state a so-called deep state. used to refer sums up his findings. is trying to honor the go cart there was a very bureaucratic organization that operated but a great deal of vanity and weakness in highly complex circumstances and that is what the weapons deals were probably known to just a small group within the b.m.d. so i don t think it was a deep state system as such but it had some of its characteristics i was into 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.
Weapons sales have been made on behalf of the b n d that was bad news for the agency that. we visited the north rhine-westphalia 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 weren t 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.m.d. received requests from individual states and enabled contractual agreements. to b.m.d. took steps to provide financing options for merrick s eiji. the be a nice warm marriage representatives to secrecy. had to be in deep employer. it