Categories: Espionage | Military stubs Manucher Ghorbanifar (nickname Gorba) is an expatriate Iranian arms dealer best known as a middleman in the Iran-Contra Affair during the Ronald Reagan presidency. ... Curveball was the designation for a claimed Iraqi chemical engineer who the United States claimed had served as an informant. ... Ahmed Chalabi Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi1 (Arabic: احمد الجلبي) (born October 30, 1944) is a deputy prime minister in Iraq, and currently interim oil minister [1]. Once dubbed the George Washington of Iraq by American Neoconservatives, he has since fallen out of favor and is currently under investigation by several government sources. ...