it has a number of merrick's files the documents for example indicate that klaus bobby a former nazi who fled to south america after the war also bought surplus west german weapons from eric's. new mayor thanks us for america was so to speak an extension of the federal government . and it worked with a b. and d. and shipped weapons through various channels to latin america for example. for all . the b. and d. actively promoted such deals to gather intelligence about crisis regions but how much mit says it violated its constitutional mandate to simply observe. let's begin production in from to get this activity began in the 1950 s. and least its peak in the mid 1960 s. with large shipments of weapons. they started taking more risks because the merit system works of well i don't use

a consensus question. it wasn't intelligence work but weapons deals. merrick's wasn't involved with intelligence. but the b. and d. found that they could gather intelligence much more effectively by setting up and implementing these weapons deals because of. the size or whatever so it gave them access that they might not have had otherwise. not solute. this photo shows matins at his office in vaughan he was now selling weapons worldwide with the approval of the b n d. he also became an international representative for the u.s. firearms manufacturer cult matins and his family later moved to america as eldest daughter margarita now lives in northern virginia. might get or is 70 years old now and has become an accomplished artist this is a self-portrait. some of her works have been displayed at local exhibitions.

might get a tells us that her father was often away from home on business. this is enough you know what he did for a living out of this with you know all that. profession he was known as dina. 24 almost every week my brothers and i would see in until about my father in desh veto the german news magazine. fucked up. on one occasion my high school physics teacher told me at the beginning of the year. that he was going to give me the worst great possible on. this because of your father. i think so my father had bought me a house in the oil district of bone. and. i had a car too i was the only student who had 1. 1 of my teachers said to me

i ride to work on a bicycle and you come driving up in an alfa romeo it wasn't good for my image are . not good public relations in the us did you feel like you had to defend him. you know all fathers have some sort of job. to find. your heart matters on a number of properties including this estate near bonn of course he always arrived at his headquarters in his mercedes he often held meetings here with his international business contacts. on rare occasions he also received journalists but they were not really welcome. in the mid 1970 s. matins did agree to an interview with journalist bigot.

we meet vicar and hamburg back then he was working for monitor t.v. magazine he was doing research for a report and came across material on militants in his weapons deals including claims that bribes were paid vica had talked to some politicians about this and now he wanted to interview matins the 2 met and met in the state near bonn. so i went over there and he was very polite. to say we went into his office and he asked me what i wanted to talk about. and i replied i'd like to ask you about saudi arabia saudi arabia right. i wanted to ask about the connections between merrick's and the loose and shipyard and the payments that were made and so on. and. what happened after to get preference and

he started shouting get out of. the somehow he was very quick tempered. and so the interview came to an abrupt end before it even started but vic it decided to pursue the story from a different angle. he said offer loosened shipyard braman check on allegations that bribes had been paid in connection with the sale of 3 patrol boats to saudi arabia. so i went to the shipyard and i brought along all the documents i had to steal. diffuses. but my cameraman shot some film outside and then we went in. the company official came out to meet me and he said my cameraman was welcome to go to the cafeteria and have some coffee but i

said that he had to stay with me to recall the interview. it is. so we went to this room and there were about 20 people sitting there. for 3 shipyard officials lawyers and so on. they asked me what i wanted to talk about and so i told them because. they asked me to be more specific so i showed them the documents and then everyone got really angry and they threw us out of the scope of the shipyard headquarters and braman. the family owned company with each ship yards bills luxury yachts and warships. british person is the company's c.e.o. he has a good contacts with the german political establishment including german president . with foreign minister listen accompanied him on visits to saudi arabia and iran. here they are the shipping trade event in payment in 2016.

there were plans to sell loose and build patrol boats to end goal. in 2012 newson signed a 1500000000 euro contract with saudi arabia but b.m.d. documents indicate that it was. who introduced them to some shipyard to the saudis . met and set up the patrol boat steel that vica had investigated back then even proposed to build a military port facility for the saudis. here the blueprints. west german steel giant corp was also to have participated in the project. the project would include barracks for $1500.00 men a shipyard and storage bunkers for tippy toes the b. and d.

is said to have been aware of these plants the loose and company declined to talk to us at all about this but it seems clear that manton's represented the shipyard and informed the b.m.d. . about off he was also involved with a b. and d. right this is the guy with a knife i know nothing about that. i have no idea what the b. n.d.s. is it the cia i know what you're here he had a lot of contacts and they included the cia he knew 1st hand what was going on around the world and. conduct a stand. no no you see so he had cia contacts yes i knew that. it's difficult to document the extent of matins contacts with the cia many of the files are still top secret. but b.m.d. long suspected that he was also working with a foreign intelligence service later and even considered him a security risk because of his extensive network of contacts he didn't always share

what he knew with a b. and d. . but that being de continue to work with militants.