The_Info_Web/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/John Knight.md

category	tags	summary
Arms Dealers & Brokers	Person CIA ArmsDealer Israel	London-based arms dealer who ran Dynavest Limited, supplying weapons from Yugoslavia to Palestinian groups via Mohammed Radi Abdullah.

John Knight was an arms dealer who ran a company called Dynavest Limited in London. He was involved in acquiring arms from Yugoslavia and selling them to Mohammed Radi Abdullah, who in turn sold them to Palestinian groups like Abu Nidal.¹

John Knight was familiar to Ari Ben-Menashe and his associates, having worked with the Anthony Pearson-Nicholas Davies group since the late 1970s. He was also mentioned as a supplier of equipment to Iraq directly from Britain.¹

Footnotes

---

1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎