U.S. Seeks to Block Accounts Tied to 10 Men and 2 Firms, Swiss Say

The U.S. Justice Department has asked Swiss authorities to temporarily block the bank accounts and records of a total of 10 men and two companies in connection with the arms-for-Iran affair, Swiss sources said Friday.

The names of three of the men were disclosed earlier in the week by banking sources: Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, who has been dismissed from the staff of the National Security Council, Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord, a former Pentagon official, and Albert A. Hakim, a business associate of Secord. Two accounts at Credit Suisse bank, one reportedly controlled by North and the other by North, Secord and Hakim, have already been blocked.

Named in addition by Swiss sources Friday were Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian financier; Roy M. Furmark, a New York businessman and consultant to Khashoggi; Donald Fraser and Walter (Ernie) Miller, Canadian investors; Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer and Khashoggi associate, and two attorneys in Geneva, Jean de Senarclens, a Swiss national associated with a number of firms that deal with the transfer of money, and Willard I. Zucker, an American who specializes in fiduciary work.

One of the companies was identified as Audifi, a fiduciary firm, and one of its officers has been identified as Suzanne Hefti, who was also president of Lake Resources, a company reportedly set up by North and believed to be involved in the Iranian arms affair.

Lake Resources was dissolved in November after the Iranian arms transfers came to light.

The other company named is the Hyde Park Square Corp., about which little is known.