Henry Kissinger & Marc Rich Bought Oil from Iran During the Hostage Crisis Excerpt from Metal Men, by A. Craig Copetas (Perennial, 1988), p. 211: Fox [Pictures] director Henry Kissinger was sleeping fitfully. An article in the Spanish journal Five Days alleged that Rich and Kissinger had jointly purchased $200 million worth of the Ayatollah¹s crude during the hostage crisis, falsified certificates of ownership, and had the funds to purchase the oil transferred to Tehran¹s control from the Zurich offices of the Swiss Banking Corporation and the Chase Manhattan Bank. Kissinger was awakened by a reporter from Fortune magazine who saw him napping in the business-class section on a flight from Paaris to London and asked the former secretary of state if he had ever met Rich. The fugitive trader¹s friend ³K² said that he had met Rich only once ‹ at a movie premiere. [Note: In fact, they were close friends and business partners at Fox and in the movement of crude oil in the Middle East.] A few months after than encounter, the State Department¹s Bureau of European Affairs began investigating the actions of America¹s Vatican ambassador, [Knight of Malta] William A Wilson, because of his personal intervention into the Rich case; State also launched a separate investigation into his contacts with the Most Reverend Paul C. Marcinkus, the Chicago-born prelate in charge of the Vatican¹s finances, known as ³God¹s Banker.²...
