13 lines
974 B
Markdown
13 lines
974 B
Markdown
---
|
|
category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
|
|
tags:
|
|
- Person
|
|
summary: "Undercover U.S. Customs agent who operated under alias 'Lettner' in a sting operation targeting Ari Ben-Menashe over arms sales to Iran."
|
|
---
|
|
|
|
[[John Lisica]] was an undercover [[U.S. Customs|U.S. Customs Service]] agent. He operated under the alias "Lettner" and was involved in a sting operation targeting [[Ari Ben-Menashe]] and others connected to [[Israel|Israeli]] intelligence arms sales to [[Iran]].[^1]
|
|
|
|
[[John Lisica|Lisica]] met with [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe]] at [[Kennedy Airport]] as part of this operation, attempting to entice him into agreeing to an illegal sale of C-130 aircraft to [[Iran]]. The conversations were taped, and these tapes later became a central piece of evidence in [[Ari Ben-Menashe|Ben-Menashe's]] trial.[^1]
|
|
|
|
### Footnotes
|
|
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).
|