Michael Hand person
also: Hand, Mike Hand, Michael Hand
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Claims (11)
Michael Hand member_of
Nugan Hand Bank host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio (241113) @ 25:03
Michael Hand member_of
CIA host_asserted
“Michael Hand, CIA guy, fellow veteran, and then the board members and the branch managers were, in most cases, retired general officers. It's crazy the amount of military that they had. And it doesn't seem the other owner, besides the CIA g…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Drugs,Oil, and War Part 3 @ 45:50
Michael Hand member_of
Ford Foundation book_quoted
“His records contain correspondence with people like Walter Robinson, Assistant Secretary of State, the theologian Reinhold Nyberg, Adlai Stevenson, Democratic politician and 1952 presidential candidate Michael Harris of the Ford Foundation,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 21:11
Booz Allen Hamilton recruited
Michael Hand host_asserted
“Other Booz Allen men included SecDef and CIA Director Leon Panetta, who was hired around that time, CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden, and Mike McConnell, who had served as the DNI. That's a lot of heavy hitters at one defense contractor.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Shell Game Part 2 @ 46:24
Michael Hand 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
Michael Hand founded
Nugan Hand Bank book_quoted
“Mike Hand was a soldier. Neither had much in their background as far as banking goes, but they still managed to form this shadowy bank. And that was true with Helliwell as well. Helliwell was a lawyer, but running one of their banks has not…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 6:51
Michael Hand member_of
Operation Watchtower book_quoted
“Livingstone laughed. Are you serious? He did it for the money, and I can tell you who his partner was, Michael Harari. Michael Harari was much like Ed Wilson, a front man used by Mossad, and he had deep interest in his own personal profits.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 20:15
Michael Hand paid
Edwin Wilson book_quoted
“in Operation Condor and the drug and arms running that occurred during the Iran-Contra and all of those other things. Harari was the first guy that we stumbled across. Harari was the one who gave Edwin Wilson two briefcases full of U.S. mon…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chapter 11_12 @ 8:56
Michael Hand recruited
CIA 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
Michael Hand front_for
Mossad book_quoted
“Livingstone laughed. Are you serious? He did it for the money, and I can tell you who his partner was, Michael Harari. Michael Harari was much like Ed Wilson, a front man used by Mossad, and he had deep interest in his own personal profits.…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 20:15
Michael Hand trafficked
Angola host_asserted
“of the Nugent Hand, Michael Hand, he was a weapons trafficker as well. He was selling weapons through Israel and South Africa to fight in Angola and several of the Southern African countries. So that was quite the rabbit hole. Anyway, yeah,…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Open Mic Friday @ 54:32
Mentions (27)
▶ 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…
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at the Special Forces camp of Dong Yang. As a result, he received a silver star, a purple heart, and America's second highest decoration, the Distinguished Cross. But there was much more to Hand's story. In 1966, Hand had already been worki…
▶ 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…
▶ 57:41
there's no way he could have shot himself in the head from where he was sitting in the car and like the position that he was found in. He would have had to have like been a contortionist. So basically it was an execution is basically what t…
▶ 58:12
runs off to, he was in London at the time, and he comes back and has a big shred, like Oliver North shredding party of all of the bank's documents in Australia and puts the word out to their subsidiaries that all of the documents basically …
▶ 22:46
Friendly countries can be attacked by the CIA as long as the CIA designates there's an enemy in the friendly country. That's what they're saying. Michael Haas, a retired Air Force colonel who wrote a government-sanctioned report last year o…
▶ 54:05
to traffic, to money launder, drug money from the Golden Triangle, primarily the stuff that transited through Saigon and Thailand and Laos and Cambodia back in the day. One of the founders got suicided and the other one went on the run and …
▶ 54:32
of the Nugent Hand, Michael Hand, he was a weapons trafficker as well. He was selling weapons through Israel and South Africa to fight in Angola and several of the Southern African countries. So that was quite the rabbit hole. Anyway, yeah,…
▶ 16:53
The U.S. Embassy invited him to a celebration. Livingstone said that he met a well-connected Panama man at the celebration. In fact, the man Livingstone met was, your guy's going to recognize this name, I hope, Michael Harari. Michael Harar…
▶ 18:22
El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile, all of them. They all went to Taiwan to this like intermediate school. Then the kind of creme de la creme, if you were going to get like your own cartel network and you were going to run drug routes …
▶ 18:51
everybody to go to. So all of the people whose names we would recognize as running cartels basically all went to the one-year school in Israel, and they were taught how to manage assassins, not just be an assassin. And Harari is the guy tha…
▶ 20:15
Livingstone laughed. Are you serious? He did it for the money, and I can tell you who his partner was, Michael Harari. Michael Harari was much like Ed Wilson, a front man used by Mossad, and he had deep interest in his own personal profits.…
▶ 8:27
and an Israeli officer whom Cattola would later identify as Michael Harari. Now, Bridget, if you wouldn't mind, Michael Harari, it's spelled H-A-R-A-R-I. This is the guy that we came across early on in our investigation that illustrated jus…
▶ 8:56
in Operation Condor and the drug and arms running that occurred during the Iran-Contra and all of those other things. Harari was the first guy that we stumbled across. Harari was the one who gave Edwin Wilson two briefcases full of U.S. mon…
▶ 35:41
The Saudi branch of Nugent Hand were treated very differently from any others. Mike Hand, the guy from Nugent Hand, told staffers that banking records in Saudi Arabia had been kept secret. According to a former manager in Australia who spok…
▶ 4:28
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…
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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…
▶ 45:50
Michael Hand, CIA guy, fellow veteran, and then the board members and the branch managers were, in most cases, retired general officers. It's crazy the amount of military that they had. And it doesn't seem the other owner, besides the CIA g…
▶ 46:24
Other Booz Allen men included SecDef and CIA Director Leon Panetta, who was hired around that time, CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden, and Mike McConnell, who had served as the DNI. That's a lot of heavy hitters at one defense contractor.…
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they of course needed a bank. And for Vietnam, we know from our other studies, that was Nugent Hand Bank in Australia. And of course, that was Francis John Nugent, an Australian attorney, and Michael John Hand, a special forces guy who had …
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When the Australian government began an investigation, Michael Hand declared the operation bankrupt and shut down the bank. But by that time, it had been determined that the drug profits from the Laotian war zone had been deposited in the N…
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John Michael Hand, the Special Forces guy, disappeared. But we found him in Oregon. No, Idaho. Right, Bridget? Did we find him in Idaho? I can't hear you. They've taken your microphone away. We found him in Idaho. There you go. Yeah. We fou…
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Cocaine from Colombian cartels was flown to Panama, to a Panamanian Air Force base, where agents of Manuel Noriega removed a percentage for their cut. Israeli Colonel Michael Harari and Mossad agent Mariam Nir was also involved, and we've c…
▶ 21:11
His records contain correspondence with people like Walter Robinson, Assistant Secretary of State, the theologian Reinhold Nyberg, Adlai Stevenson, Democratic politician and 1952 presidential candidate Michael Harris of the Ford Foundation,…