Bahamas country
also: Bahama, Bahama Islands, Bahamas, Bahamian, Grand Bahama Island, Nassau, Nassau, Bahamas, the Bahamas
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Castle Bank & Trustorganization · 8Paul Helliwellperson · 8United Statescountry · 7Citigrouporganization · 6CIAintelligence service · 6Meyer Lanskyperson · 5Cubacountry · 5Miamiplace · 4Mercantile Bank and Trustorganization · 3Nugan Hand Bankorganization · 3BCCIorganization · 3Isle of Jerseyplace · 3Stafford Sandsperson · 2Bay Street Boysorganization · 2Bank of Nova Scotiaorganization · 2Costa Ricacountry · 2Carlos Lehderperson · 2Hong Kongplace · 2Laoscountry · 1Nicaraguacountry · 1Banco Ambrosianoorganization · 1Burmacountry · 1West Germanycountry · 1Skull and Bonesorganization · 1
Claims (9)
The Finders member_of
Bahamas documented
“See if this rings a bell. London, Germany, Bahamas, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Africa, Costa Rica. Huh, that's weird. We've talked about all of those countries. They also had folders that were identified by the word project, followed by some othe…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 59:40
James Jesus Angleton operated_in
Bahamas book_quoted
“The CIA officer that handled the Caribbean deaths was James Angleton, because of course he was. The central character in the history of the assassination of JFK was George Morganchild, the man who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald in early 1963.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 21 (final) @ 26:54
Paul Helliwell moved_to
Bahamas host_asserted
“The Nationalists also ran opium and heroin out of the Golden Triangle for the KMT, which is Tian's army. Paul Helliwell then retired to Nassau, where he set up the Castle Bank and Mercantile Bank and Trust. He became an intimate of Groves, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 45:15
Citigroup laundered_money_for
Bahamas book_quoted
“was given like a 10% commission. So he had billions, tens of billions of dollars deposited in his own accounts as his commission for securing all of this gold as it came out. And his daughter and bookkeeper went to New York to Citibank and …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 33:25
Castle Bank & Trust located_in
Bahamas host_asserted
“That's why the CIA was so busy training them under the guise of, oh, my God, we got to go get Cuba. And so you have this entire deployable network that operates and you gain revenue from it. So if I need to go make a covert arms buy of Bulg…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 9 @ 52:38
Meyer Lansky acquired
Bahamas host_asserted
“hearings was a front for their narcotics trafficking. After losing his Havana paradise, Meyer Lansky used straw men to buy up the Grand Bahama Island and erected a new gambling city in the city of Nassau. But though Lansky and Traficani eac…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 8 @ 54:45
Castle Bank & Trust located_in
Bahamas host_asserted
“that cash and they were, there was banks popping up everywhere and, um, castle bank in the Bahamas, um, Nugent hand bank in Australia and the BCCI bank mysteriously set up in Pakistan, um, which is basically a CIA failed state, um, were all…”
▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 3 @ 1:45:35
Santa Romana did_business_with
Bahamas book_quoted
“to city trust in the Bahamas. This would have been the effect of putting the gold outside the jurisdiction of New York courts, blocking any lawsuits from the heirs. Legally, such assets could not be moved out of New York jurisdiction withou…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 59:59
Robert Maheu laundered_money_for
Bahamas book_quoted
“Yeah. So he's intimately involved in all of this. He also was involved in the money laundering in the Bahamas. And he had a house that he set up under the guise of it being associated with Howard Hughes in Arizona, where they were trafficki…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 11 @ 1:20:05
Mentions (39)
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banks that were completely impervious to all laws. Yeah. And that takes us all the way through that. That goes all the way through the recent series, the Colonel and I did on BCCI, the world's sleaziest bank. It's the same story, but you kn…
▶ 1:13:45
They first accused the people of them being forged. Then they said that they basically weren't going to honor it. And they transferred the gold to their subordinate bank in the Bahamas where it couldn't be audited. And so these banks curren…
▶ 8:23
was very much against getting into the drug trade. They thought it was beneath them. So you had Lucky Luciana and Meyer Lansky and Paul Helliwell decided that they were all going to open a bank called Castle Bank in the Bahamas. And Paul He…
▶ 1:24:18
was billions. So you can imagine what the actual deposits were. And when his heirs, with all of their dingles and letters and legal certificates, went to get the gold or their money out of Citibank, they basically told him they couldn't hav…
▶ 51:51
and the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. Castle was joined at the hip with another bank, Mercantile Bank and Trust, which was another CIA operation, this time in the Bahamas, also founded by Paul Helliwell. Castle owned a large block of stock in Me…
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Both banks had the exact same directors on it, and money flowed back and forth. That's, again, another laundering operation. Mercantile and Castle were also involved with an entity called Underwriters Bank, which is, again, another Bahama b…
▶ 53:47
In 1976, Mercantile was closed by the Bohemian government after investors discovered the bank's holdings were completely worthless. It was just a front bank in order to launder money. And again, Pricewaterhouse makes an astounding appearanc…
▶ 1:09:02
a cow in the Bahamas. So City Group comes up many times. And I think it's funny when you said other bankers like him. That's not a real strong endorsement. You know that, right? Colonel, if we were to actually meet in person and you find ou…
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Shackley's job as head of the Far East Division included taking care of his friends from Vietnam and Laos. What made it possible was the collapse of Paul Helliwell's banking empire in the Bahamas, and that would be the Castle Bank. In 1973,…
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The IRS wasn't looking for a CIA connection. It was looking for the names of 308 depositors who the IRS was convinced was avoiding taxes by depositing money in the shell bank in the Bahamas. But Halliwell had never been content with the IRS…
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Just a friendly reminder that both Citibank and Chase Manhattan are both banks with deep skull and bones and Rockefeller connections. Correct. So the accountant and the heir shows up at Citibank in New York City to demand the gold after he …
▶ 33:25
was given like a 10% commission. So he had billions, tens of billions of dollars deposited in his own accounts as his commission for securing all of this gold as it came out. And his daughter and bookkeeper went to New York to Citibank and …
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and other CIA-linked businesses such as the National Bank of Miami and General Development Corporation, contributing to a boon in America and the Bahamas. In 1959, U.S. Congress Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Ma…
▶ 14:03
Now, keep in mind that in the 70s, it's when BCCI and Nugent Hand Bank was created, which are CIA front banks for money laundering. And they had banks in Miami, thanks to Paul Helliwell, and Castle Banks in the Bahamas, that was facilitatin…
▶ 1:03:26
confirmed to the U.S. Subcommittee in 1988 that Noriega's pilots would fly up weapons for the Contras along with drugs, leaving the guns behind in Costa Rica before hitting two routes north, one through Mexico for the West Coast market and …
▶ 1:20:05
Yeah. So he's intimately involved in all of this. He also was involved in the money laundering in the Bahamas. And he had a house that he set up under the guise of it being associated with Howard Hughes in Arizona, where they were trafficki…
▶ 39:23
Girola zoom in and out of the airbase hauling drugs and carrying cash to the Bahamas and flashing credentials of the Salvadoran Air Force and the president's office. When I ran Girola's name in the computer, it popped up with 11 DEA files d…
▶ 28:36
Set up shop in the Bahamas, buying an island where drug planes flew in and out of Cuba and they could land and refuel and wait for the night to fly into the U.S. Lader's transportation system worked well and gave the Medellin cartel its fir…
▶ 38:23
L-E-H-D-E-R, who, if you guys recall when we were doing the Columbia book, he was in the meddling cartel. And he basically, they go through a short little part about how they came into the United States, as we well know, to create their own…
▶ 28:30
were actually still working together. And this is a quote. They had reunited to head, quote, a criminal organization that operates internationally from Colombia and Bolivia through the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Nicaragua to the United States, un…
▶ 1:20:25
where his fellow directors included Joseph Benz of U.S. Life. Benz was also involved in the Bahama land deals and speculations of Meyer Lansky's business partner, Lou Chesler. Also involved was John Hauser, an intelligence officer from the …
▶ 5:59
to Meyer Lansky's bank, who arranged for Civil Air Transport, later Air America, to become a CIA proprietary airline, and the secession of later banks with the CIA, drug, and mob connections. Castle Bank of the Bahamas, which we've read abo…
▶ 39:37
While representing Thailand, and I just mentioned that he was the official Thai consul in Miami, at a time when KMT money from Thailand and Burma came via Hong Kong to be washed through Meyer Lansky's properties. Money laundering. Still lat…
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the China lobby, oilmen, and the CIA. In 1970, I was unaware of Nixon's deep and incriminating financial connections to the mob and CIA-linked Castle Bank in the Bahamas. Castle Bank, as you will remember, was created by Paul Helliwell, who…
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But there was nothing on the record that showed who the beneficial owner of Vervetos was. Raymond Harvey was the principal whom both Lawrence Freeman and Atkinson's representatives dealt with on the Isle of Jersey. A Florida Department of L…
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I mean, he showed up in all of these places. He was in, he was the one, you remember the Resorts International down in Bahamas that was formed under the front company, Mary Carter Paint, and then turned into a mafia CIA hangout in the Baham…
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Ellison Trine Starnes Jr. lies in the ultimate destination of all that money he borrowed. Did he get it or was he a front man? Since tracking the money is not possible for everyone without subpoena power and may not even be possible for tho…
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Compendium and Sanson were set up in 77 and 78 after Ray Harvey and his associates moved to Jersey from the Bank of Nova Scotia in the Bahamas. Also in 78, Harvey and his Isle of Jersey partner, John Wadman, were involved in Denver land tra…
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Abrams handed him a three-by-five card with a typed bank account number on it. The assistant secretary's file card would later get diplomatic embarrassment. Abrams had gotten the bank numbers from both Alan Fiers at the CIA and Oliver North…
▶ 1:09:32
They slow kill us with our food, basically. So Brian and Dwayne Cates were hermits. They'd never been in the sun in their entire, they grew up in Texas. Brian spent like eight years down in the Bahamas, never in the sun, ever. And as soon a…
▶ 59:40
See if this rings a bell. London, Germany, Bahamas, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Africa, Costa Rica. Huh, that's weird. We've talked about all of those countries. They also had folders that were identified by the word project, followed by some othe…
▶ 1:21:51
When he did that, he got a 10% cut. So he had billions, like 40 billion, more than 40 billion. He had billions and billions of dollars. And his daughter and his accountant went with all of the credentials to get her money out of Citibank. A…
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The next day, the president of Citibank ships all of that gold to the Bahamas. They never got an ounce of the gold. And that gold's floating around somewhere on banks' books right now. Yeah. And I couldn't flood the market with it because i…
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So donors involved with the rise of the Bahamas in the 1960s, especially replacement for Cuba, didn't quite happen. But they did set up an offshore banking center. I'd been there since Prohibition. Meyer Lansky had lost everything in Cuba. …
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holds a significant stake in Banco Ambrosiano and was accused of facilitating money laundering through a web of offshore shell companies, primarily in Panama and the Bahamas. Sound familiar? Yep. These companies, allegedly controlled by the…
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well actually the assassination attempts on the goal were prior to this because the guy that nixon is working with was a different guy a different president so the corsican mafia was taken out what year around the early 70s okay so i was th…
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These players want to find a new Caribbean home. And they decide on the Bahamas. And Meyer Lansky goes over there with some others. Who else is involved in that? Sedona is, of course, involved. It becomes an offshore banking center. It had …
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The main one is a guy by the name of Stafford Sands. They tried to set up a whole new, I guess, Cuba on Grand Bahama, which wasn't much of an island before they started pumping money into it. They tried to create a whole new casino complex.…
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Well, initially, before the CIA and MI6 and all these guys got together and started creating fake banks like the Bank of International Commerce, Credit and Commerce International, BCCI, or the Australian Nugent Hand Bank and the Castle Bank…