The paper claims that among those revealed are “former high-ranking officials of the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Colombia and Rwanda”, the names include the former Saudi intelligence chief Sheikh Kamal Adham , “one of the CIA's key intermediaries in the 1970's”.

The Munich newspaper adds that “secret agents and their informants have used the company's services…Agents have set up shell companies to conceal their activities.” The same publication, which has retrieved information from 11.5 million leaked documents, claims that other Mossack Fonseca clients were individuals who were linked to the Iran-Contra affair. In that affair, in the 1980's, officials belonging to the R.Reagan administration were found to have promoted arms sales to Iran so that they could achieve the release of US hostages as well as the funding of Nicaraguan Contra rebels.