Bernie Houghton person
also: Houghton, Bernie Houghton
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Claims (5)
Bernie Houghton member_of
Nugan Hand Bank host_asserted
“to people as part of the Nugent Hand. Yeah, Bernie Houghton was involved, like probably of the, he was the number three guy at Nugent Hand. You had Nugent and you had Hand and then you had Houghton. So Houghton replaces Paul Helliwell in Ba…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 20:42
Bernie Houghton exposed
Nugan Hand Bank book_quoted
“Nugent Hand Bank. He became in effect Adam's man inside Nugent Hand Bank. Adam viewed Nugent Hand as a way for BCCI to fund its riskier operations. Isn't that interesting? McDonald was one of those who heard Bernie Houghton's tape-recorded …”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 29:50
Bernie Houghton founded
Nugan Hand Bank book_quoted
“contamination of all of our service men as they went on R&R break in Australia. And also Mike Hand, who was a CIA asset, who also ends up as the hand part of Nugent Hand Bank. So all of these people are basically very close to William Colby…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 4:28
Bernie Houghton member_of
Nugan Hand Bank book_quoted
“and were used to fund businesses as covers for intelligence operations. Nugent Ham was very much like the Heliwell Bank, just on a bigger scale. Bernie Houghton, who had provided similar services to the CIA during the Vietnam War, was the m…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 7:20
Bernie Houghton recruited
CIA book_quoted
“Vice President Bush's office running the Iran-Contra as his national security advisor. Also is Tom Klein, Bernie Houghton. If you guys remember Bernie Houghton, he's the guy that was a CIA asset agent that set up the restaurant down in Aust…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 4:03
Mentions (21)
▶ 19:06
This is where our stories merge, guys. And this is kind of the fun part for me of doing all of this. Paul Helliwell was replaced in Bangkok by a guy by the name of Bernard Houghton. Now, who remembers who Bernard Houghton is? Do you remembe…
▶ 19:42
I got nothing. Okay, he's the guy that ran the operation in Australia for Nugent Hand. Oh, Nugent Hand Link. He is the guy that, Houghton is the guy that owned the restaurant in that red light area that they set up the R&R for all of the gu…
▶ 20:13
And when we were doing the Nugent Hand section, we were talking about Rupert Murdoch and all of his guys that were down there in the mafia that had owned that entire strip of area in Sydney where all of the vices, like it was like the Las V…
▶ 20:42
to people as part of the Nugent Hand. Yeah, Bernie Houghton was involved, like probably of the, he was the number three guy at Nugent Hand. You had Nugent and you had Hand and then you had Houghton. So Houghton replaces Paul Helliwell in Ba…
▶ 21:13
in Miami to be the reception of all the drugs that are about ready to come out of there. So that's very interesting because Houghton also, while he was in Vietnam, he made a fortune stealing military supplies and reselling them sometimes ba…
▶ 21:46
Bernie Houghton's cover was to operate the R&R tours, it says right here, R&R tours for GIs in Australia. Houghton expanded military rest stops to include Sydney, where he had opened the Bourbon and Beef Steak, that's the name of his restau…
▶ 22:15
Houghton would play a key role in money laundering for the American Private Intelligence Network through 1980, and that is with Nugent Hand, even though this author doesn't mention that. Another man who assisted Shackley in the secret war i…
▶ 23:37
We moved many of them down to the Delta and we did not provide for them. We began carpet bombing with B-52s, essentially destroying very ancient cultures. Unquote. By 1967, Mike Hand was the back man between the opium warlords and the banki…
▶ 24:05
used the Royal Thai Military Bank, a connection to set up Paul Helliwell's banks to launder the money, kicking back a percentage to fund the Thai officers already under CIA control. And that's where you come up with the $35 million that eve…
▶ 25:03
Hand, with the assistance of Houghton, developed a knack for handling the profits of the opium crops. Eventually, both Houghton and Hand became key players at Nugent Hand Bank and the CIA's successor to Paul Helliwell's offshore banks and t…
▶ 58:51
Adam worked closely with George Bush on a plan to provide covert banking services to the CIA. That's the BCCI, by the way. Like most things the Saudis do, there was a benefit in it for the Saudi family. The arrangements would give the Saudi…
▶ 29:50
Nugent Hand Bank. He became in effect Adam's man inside Nugent Hand Bank. Adam viewed Nugent Hand as a way for BCCI to fund its riskier operations. Isn't that interesting? McDonald was one of those who heard Bernie Houghton's tape-recorded …
▶ 30:22
that the real purpose of Nugent Hand was to provide banking services for the quote-unquote company or enterprise called the CIA. So Nugent Hand, which was created in the early 70s, around the same time BCCI was set up, was set up, as we kno…
▶ 30:54
the ambassador, if you will, between the CIA and the local mafia that was in Australia. And the bank gets set up. The guy Nugent gets assassinated, shot in the head in his car. Han, who was Army, was in Vietnam with all of these guys, goes …
▶ 32:43
I've read multiple books about BCCI. I've read multiple books about Nugent Hand and they don't interact. So I want to say this again. Adam viewed Nugent Hand as a way for BCCI to fund its riskier operations. And they used Bernie Houghton to…
▶ 34:12
The sudden appearance of Bernie Houghton in Saudi Arabia on behalf of Nugent Hand in late 1978 was indicative of their arrangement and the fact that it was sanctioned by the Saudi government. In January 1979, Houghton moved from Australia t…
▶ 34:41
and took at least $10 million in deposits from unsuspecting American workers who were paid in cash every two weeks. Although publicly Nugent Hand said it was still expanding, actually it was on the brink of failure. After the bank closed, d…
▶ 4:03
Vice President Bush's office running the Iran-Contra as his national security advisor. Also is Tom Klein, Bernie Houghton. If you guys remember Bernie Houghton, he's the guy that was a CIA asset agent that set up the restaurant down in Aust…
▶ 6:18
So by the early 1970s, the CIA needed another bank. And we know that that ended up being Nugent Hand and BCCI. Shackley and Colby turned to two of their Laos colleagues, Houghton and Hand. Nugent Hand Bank was established in 1973 in Austral…
▶ 7:20
and were used to fund businesses as covers for intelligence operations. Nugent Ham was very much like the Heliwell Bank, just on a bigger scale. Bernie Houghton, who had provided similar services to the CIA during the Vietnam War, was the m…
▶ 16:48
Clines recalled that the guy by the name of Bernard Houghton, H-O-U-G-H-T-O-N, and where did we find him? We found him as the number three guy at the Nugent Hand Bank. He just so happened to be in Saudi Arabia until it went bankrupt, which …