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Military Installation | Marana is a CIA airbase near Tucson, Arizona, that served as a collection and staging point for U.S. government weapons transferred to Israel and subsequently to Iran, including 4,000 TOW missiles shipped through Guatemala and Australia in February 1987. |
Marana is a Central Intelligence Agency airbase located near Tucson, Arizona. It served as a collection point for weapons purchased by the United States government for transfer to Israel and subsequently to Iran.1
The first batch of weapons from Marana was flown out in October 1981. In February 1987, 4,000 TOW missiles were flown out of Marana Base to Guatemala and then shipped through Australia as part of a large-scale arms supply operation to Iran.1
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎