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Jamal Khashoggi And His Dismemberment May Be Tied To Las Vegas Illegal Arms Ring With Yenovkian Ties

You may remember the Las Vegas shooting, where a CIA operative named Jamal Khashoggi tried to organize the assassination of the then Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, ending in the largest mass shooting in American history in Las Vegas.

Detailed Article Summary

The linked George Webb reporting threads together the long arc of Khashoggi-family influence with recent intrigue around former President Donald Trump and the 2017 Las Vegas massacre. Webb’s reporting opens with Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome 2018 murder, noting new UN-documented details of the pre-planned dismemberment and alleged Saudi attempts to erase forensic evidence. Al Jazeera

From there, Webb back-tracks to his uncle, Adnan Khashoggi, the flamboyant Saudi super-broker who helped institutionalise the post-1960s “arms-for-oil” bargain that underpins today’s U.S.–Saudi security pact. Wikipedia

One emblem of that era was the 282-foot yacht Nabila (later Trump Princess), whose sale-and-resale—from Adnan to the Sultan of Brunei, to Trump in 1988, and finally to Prince Al Waleed bin Talal in 1991—mapped both the liquidity of Khashoggi’s network and Trump’s financial gyrations. WikipediaWikipedia

Webb’s piece argues that the yacht’s repeated refits for surveillance gear mirror the family’s role in covert arms deals—ranging from Iran-Contra to a reported $4 million anthrax purchase brokered by Israeli-Canadian operative Ari Ben-Menashe and controversial biotech investor Dr Earl Brian.

Webb’s narrative then pivots to the 1 October 2017 Las Vegas shooting. It juxtaposes the timeline—only three months after Adnan Khashoggi’s death—with allegations that gunman Stephen Paddock helped stage a failed plot to kill Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) during his secret visit to the city.

Although only some public evidence supports that theory, the article notes that Paddock owned a small aircraft and that the tail-number lineage has been probed by researchers for possible links to CIA contractor DynCorp; mainstream investigations have not confirmed those claims. WikipediaWikipedia

Finally, the piece connects an abortive 2024 Trump-rally assassination attempt—allegedly planned by Armenian-American filmmaker Vem Yenovkian (a/k/a Vem Miller)—to the same shadow arms pipeline. Court filings show Yenovkian has a long litigation trail and once gained extraordinary access while re-upholstering Trump’s Boeing 757 in 2011. Justia LawThe Independent

Investigative blogger George Webb speculates that those contacts could have permitted the placement of surveillance devices analogous to the equipment reportedly installed on Trump Princess. The overarching through-line is that the Khashoggi family’s Cold-War-era “guns-and-galleys” apparatus never died; instead, it morphed into today’s opaque mix of private military contractors, real-estate vehicles and registered-agent shells such as InCorp in Nevada. InCorp

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Key Individuals

Jamal Khashoggi – A veteran Saudi journalist once close to the royal court, Jamal broke ranks and became a Washington Post columnist critical of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He was lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 and murdered in an operation a UN rapporteur called “premeditated extrajudicial killing”; the hit team’s leader was recorded instructing colleagues that the victim’s “joints will be separated.” Al Jazeera Western intelligence assessments later said MBS authorised the mission, straining U.S.–Saudi ties. In the conspiracy framework discussed here, Jamal’s fate is portrayed as a brutal warning to anyone plotting against the prince.

Adnan Khashoggi – Nicknamed the “Great Gatsby of the Middle East,” Adnan masterminded multi-billion-dollar commissions on U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the 1960s-80s and cultivated CIA and political contacts from Nixon to Reagan. Wikipedia He bought the Nabila super-yacht, featured in the 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again, and threw lavish Las Vegas parties that doubled as informal deal rooms. His fortunes ebbed after Iran-Contra indictments and mounting debts forced the yacht’s 1988 sale, but investigators argue that his logistical footprint—jets, DC-8 cargo planes, and Swiss shell companies—endured as a template for later covert networks.

Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) – Crown Prince since June 2017 and Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, MBS pairs high-profile social reforms (e.g., women driving) with harsh repression of dissent. Wikipedia He champions “Vision 2030” to diversify the oil economy and invests heavily in technology megaprojects, yet critics cite the Yemen war and Khashoggi murder as evidence of authoritarian overreach. According to the article, rival royals such as Prince Al Waleed and external actors allegedly sought to unseat him, catalysing intelligence dramas from Las Vegas to Istanbul.

Prince Al Waleed bin Talal – A billionaire investor and grandson of Saudi Arabia’s founder, Al Waleed bought Trump Princess in 1991 (renaming it Kingdom 5-KR) and survived MBS’s 2017 Ritz-Carlton detention purge after paying a reported multi-billion-dollar settlement. WikipediaWikipedia His eclectic portfolio—Citigroup, Disney, Twitter—makes him a bell-wether of U.S.–Saudi financial cross-currents. The article floats the theory that the yacht’s onboard electronics, upgraded under Trump, recorded coup chatter involving Al Waleed and dissident princes.

Donald Trump – Then a cash-strapped casino owner, Trump acquired the Nabila in 1988, re-branded it and, according to marine-registry records, undertook an expensive Atlantic City refit before selling it three years later. Wikipedia As president, he publicly shielded Saudi leadership after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, citing arms-sales jobs. The article suggests Trump’s long-running real-estate and branding ties with Saudi elites create overlapping lines of interest with intelligence players around both the yacht and his Boeing 757 (“Trump Force One”).

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah – The absolute monarch of Brunei briefly owned the Nabila between Adnan Khashoggi and Donald Trump, acting as an intermediary that kept the vessel off creditors’ radars during Khashoggi’s legal troubles. Wikipedia His role underscores how discreet sovereign buyers often serve as “wash-stations” for sensitive assets in the clandestine luxury market. After reselling the yacht he faded from the storyline but remains a symbol of sovereign wealth’s utility in private intelligence logistics.

Dr. Earl Brian – A physician-turned-tech-entrepreneur and former California health secretary, Brian became infamous in investigative lore for allegedly stealing INSLAW’s PROMIS case-management software for intelligence use. CovertAction reporting ties him to Iran-Contra financing schemes and to a $4 million anthrax purchase said to have been brokered for Iran via Adnan Khashoggi. CovertAction Magazine Though convicted in 1991 for unrelated securities fraud, Brian figures here as a nexus between biotech, software espionage and clandestine arms deliveries.

Ari Ben-Menashe – An Iranian-born Israeli-Canadian ex-intelligence officer and arms dealer, Ben-Menashe claims insider knowledge of the October-Surprise and Iran-Contra affairs. Wikipedia In the article’s reconstruction he acts as courier (“bag-man”) moving cash to Dr Brian for the alleged anthrax deal, illustrating the multilateral nature of the Khashoggi arms web. His memoir Profits of War remains a key, if contested, primary source for these allegations.

Danny Casolaro – The investigative journalist found dead in 1991 while probing what he called “The Octopus,” a purported cabal linking PROMIS software theft, Iran-Contra and organised crime. Casolaro’s notes identified Adnan Khashoggi and Earl Brian as central figures, and his suspicious death by wrist-slashing echoes the article’s warning about lethal counter-measures against independent investigators. CovertAction Magazine His work is presented as an early blueprint for understanding today’s Khashoggi–DynCorp–Las Vegas nexus.

Vem Yenovkian (a/k/a Vem Miller, Vem Steinberg) – A Los Angeles documentary filmmaker who, court records show, repeatedly sued major banks and was arrested in 2024 for bringing weapons to a Trump rally. Justia LawThe Independent He claims to have met Trump “20 times” and filmed the 2011 refurbishment of Trump’s 757, giving him rare access to the aircraft’s interior. The article posits Yenovkian as a likely conduit for surveillance or sabotage gear—an unproven but newly scrutinised possibility after his alleged assassination plot.

Stephen Paddock – The 64-year-old high-stakes gambler who killed 60 people and wounded hundreds from the Mandalay Bay hotel on 1 October 2017, the deadliest lone-gunman shooting in U.S. history. Wikipedia Public records confirm he was a licensed pilot who owned two small planes; bloggers have pursued tenuous links between one aircraft’s past registration and DynCorp, though investigators have not substantiated a motive or organisational tie. In the article’s hypothesis, Paddock was a logistical asset in a failed bid to eliminate MBS during the prince’s discreet Las Vegas visit.

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Key Organisations

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – Founded in 1947, the CIA conducts foreign intelligence collection and covert action authorised by the U.S. president and overseen by congressional committees. CIA Throughout the Cold War it cultivated cut-outs—private actors or companies—to skirt diplomatic constraints; Adnan Khashoggi and later DynCorp exemplify that model. Critics argue that such outsourcing blurs accountability, a concern magnified by allegations that CIA alumni enabled or ignored illicit arms pipelines benefiting Saudi princes. The article frames the agency as the “invisible shareholder” in the Khashoggi–Las Vegas matrix.

Khashoggi Family – Originating from Mecca-based court physicians, the family vaulted to global prominence through Adnan’s arms brokerage and his sister Samira’s marriage into Egyptian royalty; the next generation includes journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Wikipedia Their wealth funded yachts, aircraft and real estate that doubled as negotiation venues for embargo-busting deals. Even after Adnan’s 2017 death, residual networks allegedly persisted through Las Vegas aviation circles and Swiss finance entities. The family thus represents a living case-study of private dynasties functioning as quasi-state actors.

Trump Organization – A privately held conglomerate encompassing real estate, hospitality and licensing ventures, the Trump Organization purchased Nabila in 1988 and invested millions in an Atlantic City overhaul before selling at a loss in 1991. Wikipedia The yacht episode underscores Donald Trump’s decades-long rub with Saudi oligarchic capital, later visible in hotel sales and golf-course deals. Critics see those ties as influencing his presidential policymaking toward Riyadh. Within the article’s frame, the Organisation’s assets—yacht, aircraft, brand—serve as potential intelligence nodes.

DynCorp International – A now-defunct Virginia-based military-services contractor that earned over 96 percent of its $3 billion revenue from U.S. government contracts, ranging from Afghanistan police training to State-Department aviation. Wikipedia The company has faced trafficking and corruption scandals yet remains a staple in conspiracy literature because its aircraft registry sometimes overlaps with covert operations. Researchers probing Stephen Paddock’s planes note serial-number coincidences with past DynCorp leases, though no official link is proven. In the article, DynCorp symbolises the privatised supply chain that can camouflage state activity.

InCorp Services – A Las Vegas-based registered-agent firm founded in 1998, providing paperless incorporation services in all 50 states for as little as $87 per year. InCorp Such firms create legal insulation and anonymity for shell companies, and investigators tracing arms-brokerage money often hit InCorp front-door addresses. The article notes that Stephen Paddock and other suspected facilitators used Nevada LLPs formed via InCorp, aligning with the state’s reputation for lax disclosure. While legitimate, these services illustrate how corporate-service providers can unwittingly cloak illicit finance.

Even though Jamal Khashoggi was a CIA operative, even though Jamal Khashoggi was the nephew to the richest arms dealer in the world, Jamal Khashoggi’s life ended in horrible torture of live dismemberment, which was filmed and then shown to other conspirators in the Crown Prince's assassination attempt.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/6/19/joints-will-be-separated-grim-new-details-of-khashoggi-murder

Now, new details of the latest Trump Assassination attempt by Vem Yenovkian might connect the dots of the Las Vegas Shooting and some of the most valuable assets of the Khashoggi Family to the current prize assets of Donald Trump.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/arms-harems-and-a-trump-owned-yacht-how-the-khashoggi-family-helped-mold-the-us-saudi-relationship-090007017.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJrjJd-rhYSsjBs3D21xZhUucOqQ65GzmTNr6P1C-UUSopNVVDNjAPiUzhQO2mbYNY8IoJr34_mgHt0ZLNGOH9gGZZzoIxDIbutjrz34jeKNNlDA-meW8uR2OjF4Ahpu8nzU0imPSTygow-zJVI_HJqev9qrD-eklguhnXvnmqHd

Here is Adnan Khashoggi, the “World’s Richest Man,” on his yacht, which was sold to Donald Trump through a rinse transaction with the Sultan of Brunei in 1988. I believe the yacht was outfitted with more sophisticated bugging technology while it was docked in Atlantic City. The Khashoggi SuperYacht was then sold to the heir apparent to the Saudi Crown, Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal, in 1991, also one of the richest men in the world.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/roxy-founder-jill-dodd-never-thought-of-herself-as-a-hooker-during-time-in-harem/522d9e01-c929-4887-a4d8-c0de2d286536

Khashoggi maintained a harem of young, beautiful women he flew to Las Vegas for high-stakes gambling binges that powered the light bills for Las Vegas for years. Khashoggi was also known to make his arms deals as a Saudi citizen in Las Vegas, supplying embargoed arms to despots all over the world trying to hold on to power.

This Adnan Khashoggi yacht was sold to Donald Trump in 1988 after the disclosure of Iran Contra's involvement in Khashoggi, including a four million dollar payment to Dr. Earl Brian for Anthrax, which reporter Danny Casolaro discovered.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-owned-james-bond-superyacht-crashes-into-port

Khashoggi’s Iran arms sales included paying four million dollars to purchase Anthrax from Dr. Earl Brian in Arizona to support Iran in the war with Iraq. The bagman for the transaction was Ari Ben Menashe, and he describes carrying the cash to Brian’s bank in Arizona. Incriminating conversations by Khashoggi may have been made on the yacht. This yacht just crashed a few days ago.

Trump retrofitted the yacht in Atlantic City from 1988 to 1991 with all new listening devices and then sold it to Al Waleed Bin Talal, one of the competing Crown Princes for the Crown of Saudi Arabia. again, the yacht may have recorded the key conspiracy to murder the Crown Prince MBS in Las Vegas in June 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Waleed_bin_Talal_Al_Saud

In my last post about the Manoug Yenovkian illicit arms business in Las Vegas, I wondered aloud if this was just the residual international arms business of Adnan Khashoggi after his death in June of 2017.

The Las Vegas Shooting and the attempted assassination of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, MBS, occurred only a few months after Adnan Khashoggi’s death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

At stake was the CIA’s lucrative proxy arms business for supplying weapons for CIA overthrows around the world, along with propping up CIA-friendly dictators. Khashoggi also made a fortune selling arms to Iran to prop up Iran in the Iran - Iraq War in the 1980’s.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-01-16-mn-3779-story.html

I believe Khashoggi’s DC-8 was seized more to remove DNA evidence than because of debt, but we can let history have that argument with itself for now. And Khashoggi’s jet was probably stuffed to the gills with CIA and Saudi Intelligence listening devices as well.

This brings us to the curious case of Vem Yenovkian renovating the interior of Donald Trump 757 in 2011 and almost making a documentary about it in 2011. Vem Yenovkian says he has been within touching distance of Donald Trump at least twenty times. He first met him in 1998 at the Blade movie premiere in New York City, which was twenty-six years ago.

That’s a long history of being close to Trump and unprecedented access to the inside of his 757 jet. We don’t know how many of these events Adnan Khashoggi attended. We will just put a pin in this Trump Force One thread here for now, but this will be worth remembering.

Our researchers have now found a CIA link to a weapons supplier for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia assassination attempt, Steven Paddock. Paddock’s plane was owned by DynCorp, a CIA cutout company I have covered for eight years. Paddock also was incorporated by another CIA functionary, InCorp.

Paddock’s DynCorp plane in InCorp, may link the attempted assassination of MBS, the Crown Prince of Saudia Arabia, at the Las Vegas Shooting, to the CIA’s current arms proxy operations in Las Vegas now. I am at the Substack limit here for email, but we will continue to follow this story about the Manoug Yenovkian ring in Las Vegas.