Derek Olson
Derek Olson is a character that appears in the film, The Sum of All Fears and the video game of the same name.
Biography
The money behind the Loyal Boer Sons belonged to Derek Olson, a South African arms dealer. Olson first shows up on the CIA's radar supplying weapons to UNITA in Angola back in the late 1980s. Since then, he's been linked to deals in Chad, Zaire, Uganda, and South Africa, and he's supplied terrorist organizations all over the globe. There's evidence of his having moved everything from handguns up to helicopters.
Olson's involvement in the Baltimore incident is twofold: as a procurer and as a source of funding. He's the one who arranged the initial purchase of the weapon and arranged for its reconstruction, and he connected the buyer and the seller. He also worked through the Loyal Boer Sons of the Transvaal to transport the bomb to Lebanon, from whence it went to Haifa and then Baltimore.
The man himself moves between homes in Damascus, Mauritius, and Salzburg. The bulk of his records, however, are kept at the estate on Mauritius. For that reason it is still heavily defended, though Olson himself is not in residence at this time.
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Olsen as he appears in the video game adaptation
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