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Stephan Kock

Postby blanc » Mon Jun 29, 2009 9:16 am

royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/12/05/shell-saudi-arabia-ar - [Cached Version]
Published on: 12/5/2008 Last Visited: 12/6/2008
Stephan Adolph Kock, who was one of their special arms consultants, was, said Weaver on that occasion, 'a man with influence and contacts at the highest level, including Mrs Thatcher'.
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(Stephan Kock, a shadowy character associated with Shell and said to be an MI6 agent, became a director of Astra and was instrumental in the supply of unlawful arms sold to Iran and Iraq.)

EXTRACT FROM PAGE 151

I asked him which major companies he had been connected with, and he mentioned Biddle Holdings and Shell Oil, which had been on the Midland brochure, and bluffed his way through, saying he had been connected with so many.

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'Following his retirement from the army', the Midland brochure continues, Kock 'was for a period International Director for a major international Dutch mining and manufacturing group and subsequently again as International Director for the Shell Oil Company … '

But this is not strictly true either. As he was forced to admit to the DTI Select Committee, he was in fact a director of a metals mining company called Billiton, a Shell subsidiary known to provide 'retirement' posts for Intelligence officers. Kock was far from retired, however; for according to information he supplied for an internal Astra newsletter, at the very same time he 'carried out special assignments for the Foreign Office.'

ASTRA HOLDINGS PLC - [Cached Version]
Published on: 11/13/1989 Last Visited: 8/19/2001
F3.19 Astra Holdings plc ( Astra ) completed its acquisition of PRB on 11 September 1989. * 14 Stephan Kock was a non-executive director of Astra at the time of the acquisition. * 15 According to Mr Kock's evidence to TISC , he went with others to visit the PRB plants in Belgium on 19/20 September 1989.At the PRB plant at Kaulile he was told by the manager that PRB were involved in exporting unusual propellants. * 16 Mr Kock reported the matter to colleagues in the company and discussed it with them.He also says that he telephoned the intelligence services on 22 September 1989. * 17 He next came down to London from his home in Scotland on 11 October 1989 and made a full report.Intelligence documents confirm that Mr Kock telephoned from Scotland to ask for an urgent meeting.Intelligence documents also suggest that on 10 October , a preliminary meeting was held with Mr Kock at which he mentioned the take-over by Astra of PRB and suggested that PRB's books indicated some shady dealings in the past.It appears that the preliminary meeting was soon followed by another meeting.The source report on the meeting records the following information :.

PRB of Belgium

1. The British arms firm ASTRA Holdings has recently acquired a wholly owned subsidiary in Belgium ‘PRB sa'.
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F3.20 Quite independently of Mr Kock , other information was simultaneously put forward by Astra for the consideration of the British authorities.
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F3.27 In early November 1989 , a meeting was arranged at the Grantham offices of BMARC which was attended by Gerald James , Stephan Kock , an SAS officer and Mr Q. Evidence given to TISC by Mr James was that the objective alleged [ of the meeting ] was to look at equipment purchases.
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Mr Kock has confirmed to the Inquiry that , subject to two points , the minutes of his evidence to TISC have been accurately recorded , although he does also say that some of the questions put to him were based on assumption or incorrect evidence by others.

* 16 - Evidence to TISC ( Mr Kock ) : HC 86-xii : Questions 3044-3060 ; 3116-3119.I have already referred ( supra ) to a propellant contract between PRB and the Royal Jordanian Armed Forces.

* 17 - TISC ( Ibid ) : Q 3239

Blood Money - Pt III - Huge Profits On Illegal MidEast... - [Cached Version]
Published on: 12/4/2004 Last Visited: 2/5/2006
In the case of the shipments to Iraq and Iran starting in the early 1980's, Western politicians used numerous agents, but none were more important than MI6 agent Stephan Kock.
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"Kock was also said to be head of Group 13, the government's assassination and dirty tricks squad according to Richard John Rainey Unwin, a close associate of Kock himself who was a contract MI6 agent and Consultant to Astra.Kock and Unwin, with Martin Laing Construction, negotiated the 2 billion Pound Malaysian defense deal before George Younger, the Defense Secretary even knew about of it," said James about his knowledge of Kock's shady dealings.

Blood Money Pt. 1 - [Cached Version]
Published on: 12/30/2004 Last Visited: 3/25/2006
Atsra records also show its board was compromised by Stefan Kock, a support agent for both the Security and Intelligence Services (MI6), in his capacity as consultant for the Midland Bank.He orchestrated the supply of armaments through "front" companies in deals of which the board remained ignorant, and which did not appear on the Astra books.
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A new dummy board was formed in reality by Kock with two MI6/MI5 stooges ran the company into the ground over the next two years.
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Gumbley was immediately framed up for corrupting an MOD official and jailed for 9 months and after desperately trying to find something on me and failing, Kock and MI6/MI5 decided to institute through Peter Lilley and the DTI a DTI Inquiry.Lilley was Secretary of state at the DTI at the time.

"The DTI Inquiry lasted three years and cost 2.5m plus (as much as the Scott Inquiry).The announcement of the Inquiry and the misleading press statements issued by the DTI and Government ensured the downfall of Astra.Crooks and MI5, MI6, agents or informers were put in charge of Astra, including Kock, Roy Barber FCA and Tony McCann.
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"Kock had a cover as a consultant in Midland Bank's secret arms department, Midland and Industrial Trade Services ("MITS").This was staffed by ex service officers, MI5, MI6, agents and intelligence affiliated bankers.Midland with the Bank of Boston were Astra's main bankers and dominated by MI6 CIA agents.Kock was also said to be head of Group 13, the Government's assassination and dirty tricks squad according to Richard John Rainey Unwin, a close associate of Knock himself who was a contract MI6 agent and Consultant to Astra.
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Kock and Unwin, with Martin Laing Construction, negotiated the 2bn Malaysian defence deal before George Younger, the Defense Secretary even knew of it.

ISSUE 11 - 1998: May Part 1 - [Cached Version]
Published on: 4/29/2004 Last Visited: 4/16/2005
Last month Belgian investigating magistrate Christian de Valkeneer received information, - on headed notepaper of the UK company Astra Defence Systems Ltd., - of a secret visit to Belgium between 19 and 21 March 1990, of a 3-man team from the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) Special Forces Staff (who deal exclusively with Military Intelligence and the SAS) accompanied by the enigmatic Stephan Kock, a non-executive director of Astra Holdings PLC, who had links with MI6 and MI5 and also represented the Defence Sales Division of the Midland Bank.

Illuminati Part 1 : LA IMC - [Cached Version]
Published on: 2/3/2006 Last Visited: 6/7/2006
Atsra records also show its board was compromised by Stefan Kock, a support agent for both the Security and Intelligence Services (MI6), in his capacity as consultant for the Midland Bank.He orchestrated the supply of armaments through "front" companies in deals of which the board remained ignorant, and which did not appear on the Astra books.
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A new dummy board was formed in reality by Kock with two MI6/MI5 stooges ran the company into the ground over the next two years.
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Gumbley was immediately framed up for corrupting an MOD official and jailed for 9 months and after desperately trying to find something on me and failing, Kock and MI6/MI5 decided to institute through Peter Lilley and the DTI a DTI Inquiry.Lilley was Secretary of state at the DTI at the time.

"The DTI Inquiry lasted three years and cost 2.5m plus (as much as the Scott Inquiry).The announcement of the Inquiry and the misleading press statements issued by the DTI and Government ensured the downfall of Astra.Crooks and MI5, MI6, agents or informers were put in charge of Astra, including Kock, Roy Barber FCA and Tony McCann.
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"Kock had a cover as a consultant in Midland Bank's secret arms department, Midland and Industrial Trade Services ("MITS").This was staffed by ex service officers, MI5, MI6, agents and intelligence affiliated bankers.Midland with the Bank of Boston were Astra's main bankers and dominated by MI6 CIA agents.Kock was also said to be head of Group 13, the Government's assassination and dirty tricks squad according to Richard John Rainey Unwin, a close associate of Knock himself who was a contract MI6 agent and Consultant to Astra.
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Kock and Unwin, with Martin Laing Construction, negotiated the 2bn Malaysian defence deal before George Younger, the Defense Secretary even knew of it.

Mark Pythian Arming Iraq: How the US and Britain... - [Cached Version]
Published on: 10/3/2006 Last Visited: 3/31/2009
Richard Unwin, owner of Unwin Intl. and involved in arms pipelines to Nigeria and the Middle East, closed out to Astra Holdings on the condition that Stephen Kock be included in the management team as a non-executive director.
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Stephen Kock was the only member of the original management team to remain after AstraÕs purchase of PRB. Stephen Kock served on the Special Air Services (SAS) Rhodesian C squadron, worked as an advisor to the Rhodesian prime minister, served in Malay during the Malay insurgency, worked as director of the international Dutch mining and manufacturing group and as the international director for Shell Oil. He was a central figure in the Malaysian arms deal at the center of the Pergau Dam scandal, worked as an advisor/consultant for Midland BankÕs Defense Equipment Finance Department (DEFD), established to finance arms deals. Stephen Kock is suspected of ties to British intelligence and was involved in all Thatcher inspired arms deals. He is the one who reported PRBÕs propellant contracts to security services resulting in the indictment of company officials. (p.154-7)

SpyTalk2: Gerald James - The residue just won't wash... - [Cached Version]
Published on: 5/2/2001 Last Visited: 11/10/2001
Astra itself was also to fall victim with James deposed as chairman by non-executive director Stephan Kock.
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It later emerged that Kock was working for the security services all along.

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Barber and Kock then took the extraordinary step of inviting a DTI inquiry into the running of their own company.

The Arctic Beacon - [Cached Version]
Published on: 2/1/2006 Last Visited: 9/1/2008
In the case of the shipments to Iraq and Iran starting in the early 1980's, Western politicians used numerous agents, but none were more important than MI6 agent Stephan Kock.
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"Kock was also said to be head of Group 13, the government's assassination and dirty tricks squad according to Richard John Rainey Unwin, a close associate of Kock himself who was a contract MI6 agent and Consultant to Astra.Kock and Unwin, with Martin Laing Construction, negotiated the 2 billion Pound Malaysian defense deal before George Younger, the Defense Secretary even knew about of it," said James about his knowledge of Kock's shady dealings.
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In a letter dated June 16, 1989, on Midland Bank stationary, sent from Kock to Mohammed Hashemi, a representative of the Iranian Defense Ministry and of Tagell UK Limited, a major company working with Astra in the arms trade to Iraq and Iran, consultant Kock reassures Hashemi high level British officials, including Lord Peter Levene, were "making sure" the CATIC arms contract to the Middle East would "proceed smoothly."
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Let me assure you that the UK government at the highest possible level regards the contract with CATIC as important and has taken steps to endure that matters proceed smoothly to completion," wrote Kock in the business letter, a copy of which sent to the Arctic Beacon.
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Kock signed the letter as a consultant, citing Lord Levene's sanction of the PGS to China and then to Iran.
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Further in a April 28, 1987 letter from Kock of Midland Bank PLC to the Secretary of State for Defense, George Younger, showing his key role in negotiating a top secret defense deal with Malaysia, arms which would eventually end up in Iran and Iraq.
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Kock writes:
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Besides the correspondence explaining Kock's role in the Middle East arms deals, copies of an MI6 internal memo, tracking Kock's every move after his duties were completed, show just how concerned British intelligence was in the early 1990's to keep Kock silent and from talking to the press.

This secret intelligence service memo, obtained by the Arctic Beacon depicts, Kock as a longtime reliable agent, but at the time of the writing MI6 officials were concerned that he turned into somewhat of a loose canon.

"Kock has been an enthusiastic and effective agent.
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"Between September 1987 and January 1990 we met Kock periodically in London.For the most part, this contact was instigated by Kock and entailed him reporting on various arms-related matters…In October 1989 he volunteered information on the involvement of the Belgium company PRB, recently bought by Astra, in the supply of propellants for the Iraqi supergun project.

"This involvement antedated Astra's purchase of the company but we believe it relevant to the DTI inquiry into Astra which is referred to in the press.Elements of Kock's reporting were included in material about the "supergun circulated to government departments at the time by SIS.

"According to his account, Kock's role in relation to the Astra Holdings/PRB business was creditable…

"In January 1990 Kock was involved in a shooting incident outside his home in Scotland.

The Arctic Beacon - [Cached Version]
Published on: 2/1/2006 Last Visited: 3/31/2008
In the case of the shipments to Iraq and Iran starting in the early 1980's, Western politicians used numerous agents, but none were more important than MI6 agent Stephan Kock.
...
"Kock was also said to be head of Group 13, the government's assassination and dirty tricks squad according to Richard John Rainey Unwin, a close associate of Kock himself who was a contract MI6 agent and Consultant to Astra.Kock and Unwin, with Martin Laing Construction, negotiated the 2 billion Pound Malaysian defense deal before George Younger, the Defense Secretary even knew about of it," said James about his knowledge of Kock's shady dealings.
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In a letter dated June 16, 1989, on Midland Bank stationary, sent from Kock to Mohammed Hashemi, a representative of the Iranian Defense Ministry and of Tagell UK Limited, a major company working with Astra in the arms trade to Iraq and Iran, consultant Kock reassures Hashemi high level British officials, including Lord Peter Levene, were "making sure" the CATIC arms contract to the Middle East would "proceed smoothly."
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Let me assure you that the UK government at the highest possible level regards the contract with CATIC as important and has taken steps to endure that matters proceed smoothly to completion," wrote Kock in the business letter, a copy of which sent to the Arctic Beacon.
...
Kock signed the letter as a consultant, citing Lord Levene's sanction of the PGS to China and then to Iran.
...
Further in a April 28, 1987 letter from Kock of Midland Bank PLC to the Secretary of State for Defense, George Younger, showing his key role in negotiating a top secret defense deal with Malaysia, arms which would eventually end up in Iran and Iraq.
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Kock writes:
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Besides the correspondence explaining Kock's role in the Middle East arms deals, copies of an MI6 internal memo, tracking Kock's every move after his duties were completed, show just how concerned British intelligence was in the early 1990's to keep Kock silent and from talking to the press.

This secret intelligence service memo, obtained by the Arctic Beacon depicts, Kock as a longtime reliable agent, but at the time of the writing MI6 officials were concerned that he turned into somewhat of a loose canon.

"Kock has been an enthusiastic and effective agent.
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"Between September 1987 and January 1990 we met Kock periodically in London.For the most part, this contact was instigated by Kock and entailed him reporting on various arms-related matters…In October 1989 he volunteered information on the involvement of the Belgium company PRB, recently bought by Astra, in the supply of propellants for the Iraqi supergun project.

"This involvement antedated Astra's purchase of the company but we believe it relevant to the DTI inquiry into Astra which is referred to in the press.Elements of Kock's reporting were included in material about the "supergun circulated to government departments at the time by SIS.

"According to his account, Kock's role in relation to the Astra Holdings/PRB business was creditable…

"In January 1990 Kock was involved in a shooting incident outside his home in Scotland.


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