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Frank Nugent person

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Nugan Hand Bankorganization · 6William Colbyperson · 4Michael Handperson · 3Australiacountry · 2CIAintelligence service · 2Gerald Fordperson · 1Ted Shackleyperson · 1Watergate scandalevent · 1Bernie Houghtonperson · 1Elliot Richardsonperson · 1World Commerce Corporationorganization · 1International Diversified Corporationorganization · 1Archibald Coxperson · 1Richard Nixonperson · 1BCCIorganization · 1Castle Bank & Trustorganization · 1Laoscountry · 1

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Frank Nugent 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

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Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4
▶ 50:23 to the Cayman branch of the Nugent Hand Bank, which we've talked about, where Nugent ended up being killed. And also he was close nearby was the World Finance Corporation, which was another CIA front bank that dealt with the Vatican and the…
Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4
▶ 56:14 to stop any investigation into wrongdoing, no matter how egregious it is, to include killing millions of people with a rubber stamp called national security. January 1980, two Australian policemen come across the dead body of Nugent.…
Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4
▶ 56:41 Out of the Nugent Hand Bank, because that bank in Australia is exactly the same thing as the banks I was just describing to you. And the policeman finds the business card of William Colby, who was the CIA director, on the seat of the car ne…
Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4
▶ 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 …
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8
▶ 21:32 Among those clients were Nugent Hand. So again, all Colby did was go to the enterprise, which is what I call the covert side of the CIA in all of their fake entities. Ford had thought about replacing Colby with Elliot Richardson, the forthr…