Through a mysterious intermediary, a former Mossad agent, Avner Azulay, Rich managed to exert pressure on Clinton from prominent Israeli politicians including Ehud Barak and former prime minister Shimon Peres.
Through an intermediary – a former high-level intelligence source – one of the officers described the operation to the Guardian: "The cars started coming down the street and surrounding the ministry.
In 1972 he began claiming he was D.B. Cooper, and attempted through an intermediary, a former cellmate named James Brown, to sell his story to a Hollywood production company.
George Ramsden, the bookseller, had indicated through an intermediary — Lord Christopher Tugendhat, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and a Wharton enthusiast — that he might, after years of resistance, be willing to sell the collection.
Among the committee's questions is why the federation used a sports marketing company called Traffic, run by a former sports journalist, José Hawilla, as an intermediary in negotiating the contract.
But according to public records and people close to the case, the intermediary was Kenneth T. Robinson, a former trader and mortgage broker on Long Island, who worked alongside both Mr. Bauer and Mr. Kluger early in their careers, establishing close personal friendships with them.
"America cannot win this war, and the Taliban cannot win this war," Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, a former Taliban ambassador and one of the intermediaries, said in an interview.
If Mr Putin tries to crack down, it would worsen his conflict with the elite.Alexei Kudrin, a former finance minister, has tried to act as an intermediary between the Kremlin and the protesters.
But talks with the Revolutionary United Front are being held through intermediaries, including President Charles Taylor of Liberia, a former guerrilla who has long supported Mr. Sankoh.
A former parlementaire himself, Montesquieu argued that the aristocratic courts were "intermediary bodies" whose resistance to royal authority prevented abuses.
