disinfozone/The_Info_Web
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

vault backup: 2026-10-12 16:59:05

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
disinfo.zone 2026-10-12 16:59:06 -04:00
parent bf9bed6383
commit 8117db02c6
No known key found for this signature in database
63 changed files with 2228 additions and 593 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

7
20 - ORGANIZATIONS/PRIVATE/Lockheed Aircraft Company.md
View file

@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ tags:
- Aerospace
- USA
category: "Private Organization"
summary: "The Lockheed Aircraft Company is an USA aerospace manufacturer that developed advanced military aircraft and became involved in a bribe scandal affecting Israel politics."
summary: "The Lockheed Aircraft Company is a U.S. aerospace manufacturer that built the U-2, named in Ari Ben-Menashe's account of a bribe in Israeli politics and in 1970s SEC disclosures of questionable overseas payments."
updated: 2026-10-12
start: 1926
end: 1995
location: "Burbank, California, USA"
@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ relations:
start: 1975
fn: 3
---
The [[Lockheed Aircraft Company]] is an [[United States|American]] aerospace manufacturer that developed advanced military aircraft and became involved in a bribe scandal affecting [[Israel|Israeli]] politics.
The [[Lockheed Aircraft Company]] is an [[United States|American]] aerospace manufacturer that developed advanced military aircraft and is named in [[Ari Ben-Menashe]]'s account of a bribe affecting [[Israel|Israeli]] politics.
### U-2 Spy Plane Development
@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ Lockheed built the revolutionary [[U-2 Spy Plane]] under cover in Burbank, Calif
### Israeli Bribery Scandal
In 1976, a telegram intercepted by [[Unit 8200]] revealed details of bribes paid by a Lockheed representative in Israel to Defense Minister [[Shimon Peres]]. The sum involved was $3.5 million, deposited in one of Peres's brother's business accounts in [[Europe]]. This information, discovered by [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], was subsequently covered up by Israeli military intelligence superiors, including [[Yoel Ben-Porat|Col. Ben-Porat]] and [[Sasson Yishaek|Lt. Col. Yishaek]].[^2]
Ari Ben-Menashe wrote that in 1976 he intercepted, as a duty officer in [[Unit 8200]], a telegram that revealed details of bribes paid by a Lockheed representative in Israel to Defense Minister [[Shimon Peres]]. He wrote that the sum involved was $3.5 million, deposited in one of Peres's brother's business accounts in [[Europe]], and that the information was subsequently covered up by Israeli military intelligence superiors, including [[Yoel Ben-Porat|Col. Ben-Porat]] and [[Sasson Yishaek|Lt. Col. Yishaek]].[^2]
### Disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission, 1975 to 1977