Agha Hasan Abedi person
also: Abed Abedi, Abedi, Abedi Had, Abet Abedi, A bet he had, a betty, a Betty, Aga Khan Abedi, Agha Asan Abdidi, Agha Hassan, Agha Hassan Abedi, Agna Hassan, Betty, Costa Betty, his nineteen-year-old niece Betty, Mahmoud Ahmad Abedi
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Claims (26)
James Rothschild married
Agha Hasan Abedi documented
document
“he contrived to steal time to make a journey to Frankfort in early July, 1824, in order to marry his nineteen-year-old niece Betty…”
source: book — The Rise of the House of Rothschild, 1770-1830 · p.333
Agha Hasan Abedi family_of
Solomon Rothschild documented
document
“Betty, the daughter of Solomon.…”
source: book — The Rise of the House of Rothschild, 1770-1830 · p.333
Agha Hasan Abedi founded
BCCI documented
“According to free market rules, because this is how Islamic economies should function. That was what this Hamdi was quoted as saying. So, unquote, perhaps the best case study of this is the BCCI. It was founded in 1972 by Agha Hassan Abedi.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 12 @ 20:15
Agha Hasan Abedi headed
BCCI host_asserted
“That man showed up to work, Abedi, the guy that was supposedly the CEO of the bank overall. He showed up to work every day in London.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 9:18
Agha Hasan Abedi founded
BCCI documented
“By the way, E. Howard Hunt confessed to all this on his deathbed. Yes. Absolutely. Okay. So we've got Jimmy Carter's role in it. And you've already covered the fact that Agha Hassan Abedi was the founder in 1972. And I love his bleeding hea…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 1:17:03
Agha Hasan Abedi founded
BCCI documented
“and take it to there. This is founded in 1972 by a Pakistani. I've got his name right here. It's one of those names that's hard to remember. Aga Khan Abedi. And it's founded in 1972. It was supposed to be a Muslim World Bank, but it's incor…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 1 @ 12:39
Agha Hasan Abedi controlled
National Bank of Georgia host_asserted
“Abedi had gotten control of the National Bank of Georgia, which we explained last week how that happened. Abedi reconfigured it along the lines of his own bank. In 1979, shortly after one of Abedi's partners had bought up the remaining stoc…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale BCCI with War Hamster PART 4 @ 42:11
Agha Hasan Abedi worked_for
First United Bank host_asserted
“making the tiny nation all the more attractive for criminals looking to conceal cash. Huh. Well, that's very interesting. I'm going to have to look into that one. Okay. So back when Abedi, the guy that is credited with setting up BCCI, he w…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 14; BCCI - The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 4) @ 35:18
Agha Hasan Abedi founded
BCCI host_asserted
“And of course, that's when he registered it and incorporated it in Luxembourg and then set up the office in London. So also. So this is back in 72 when they're first getting started. Yes. Interesting. I did not have that data point. So in i…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 14; BCCI - The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 4) @ 39:07
Agha Hasan Abedi headed
BCCI host_asserted
“Its main office in dealings, the guy, what's his name, Abet Abedi, his office was in London. So I just find it very interesting that there was a lot of, and I just have to share a real quick story. One of my husband's best friends decided h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner interview with Paul Williams (Operation Gladio) Part 2 @ 45:59
Agha Hasan Abedi founded
Ajman Arab Bank host_asserted
“Nice connections there. Abedi and Irvani were close associates and partners in the bank Abedi started in Iran called Iran Arab Bank. Now, again, this is in the 70s before the overthrow of the Shah. The timing is interesting. Very interestin…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale BCCI with War Hamster PART 4 @ 43:41
Agha Hasan Abedi founded
BCCI host_asserted
“By the way, E. Howard Hunt confessed to all this on his deathbed. Yes. Absolutely. Okay. So we've got Jimmy Carter's role in it. And you've already covered the fact that Agha Hassan Abedi was the founder in 1972. And I love his bleeding hea…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 11; BCCI-The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 1) @ 1:17:03
Pakistan covered_up
Agha Hasan Abedi host_asserted
“while they're harboring a fugitive that embezzled billions of U.S. dollars in these banks that they illegally purchased.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 51:28
Agha Hasan Abedi headed
BCCI host_asserted
“Without access to money flowing in. Yeah, I just found it very interesting. I did a chart where they both had branches in London. They both had branches in Switzerland. And BCCI was actually registered in Luxembourg, although it's always re…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author of Operation Gladio PART 2 @ 45:41
Agha Hasan Abedi member_of
London banking system host_asserted
“Some of the banks that they worked in were subsidiaries of the London banking system, which is why Abedi ends up taking his bank and setting it up in London, because he had worked in the banking system in India. He was part of one of those …”
▶ Operation Gladio 1968 and East Pakistan @ 45:28
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq contributed_to_immunity_of
Agha Hasan Abedi host_asserted
“and also contributed to the immunity that Abedi had inside of Pakistan, was murdered in his aircraft being blown up in August of the next year. So within 12 months of each other, the two people that was basically covering for BCCI, both in …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 20:58
Agha Hasan Abedi controlled
National Bank of Georgia host_asserted
“Further on the Bank of America, it says that once Abedi had gotten control of the National Bank of Georgia, which we explained last week how that happened, Abedi reconfigured it along the lines of his own bank. In 1979, shortly after one of…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 14; BCCI - The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 4) @ 42:21
Burt Lance did_business_with
Agha Hasan Abedi host_asserted
“Carter brought a lot of Georgia old boys with him to the White House, and they're going to keep popping up. He was involved in deals with Abedi, of course, with BCCI. He was also involved in deals with a guy by the name of Moktar Riyadi. Mo…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 2 @ 17:23
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq covered_up
Agha Hasan Abedi host_asserted
“and also contributed to the immunity that Abedi had inside of Pakistan, was murdered in his aircraft being blown up in August of the next year.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 20:58
Agha Hasan Abedi funded
International Credit and Investment Corporation host_asserted
“I don't know if you've done any research on that, but they use the pension funds of all of the union people to fund themselves in all of these different operations. So this is basically the model that BCCI was using. They took their employe…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 14; BCCI - The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 4) @ 30:27
Agha Hasan Abedi financed_via
Pakistan host_asserted
“And Abedi had a relationship with the government of Pakistan that those remittance, he was like the vendor of choice for the government. And all those remittance came through the branch in Pakistan of BCCI. And so he had that float, which w…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 14; BCCI - The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 4) @ 31:55
Ali Boutrous removed_from_power
Agha Hasan Abedi host_asserted
“came to power in Pakistan, it was banned from even doing business in Pakistan. The other guys around that was installed in Pakistan loved it. But Boutros actually kicked Abedi out of the country and said, you can't do that crap here. So I f…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt. 14; BCCI - The World's Sleaziest Bank (Pt. 4) @ 38:41
Ali Boutrous removed_from_power
Agha Hasan Abedi host_asserted
“came to power in Pakistan, it was banned from even doing business in Pakistan. The other guys around that was installed in Pakistan loved it. But Boutros actually kicked Abedi out of the country and said, you can't do that crap here. So I f…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale BCCI with War Hamster PART 4 @ 38:24
William Casey recruited
Agha Hasan Abedi book_quoted
“A bet he had by then came to be an ally in William Casey's crusade against the quote unquote evil empire.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 32:51
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Agha Hasan Abedi host_asserted
“that describe a Betty's sudden heart attack as not random. That there are a lot of people out there that believe he was heart attacked by the CIA, but just didn't die. And as a result of that, because it occurred at the same time they took …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 15 BCCI Finale @ 27:07
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Agha Hasan Abedi speculative
“that there are a lot of people out there that believe he was heart attacked by the CIA, but just didn't die.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 27:15
Mentions (55)
▶ 9:18
He says Morgenthau told him that witnesses and British officials were being told by the DOJ not to cooperate. Well, what's interesting about that is we know that the entire operation was ran out of London and not one time did anybody in Lon…
▶ 20:31
The only issue is whether it's a result of high level corruption or if it's designed to hide illegal government activities. Well, that's not or. So William Casey had something to do with the immunity BCCI enjoyed. Casey died in 1987. Genera…
▶ 26:42
So, Abedi's usefulness as a hidden ally of American intelligence went away with the Soviets' withdrawal from Afghanistan. And before the years ended, Abedi himself had dropped out of sight. Now, I have read probably three different books th…
▶ 27:15
that there are a lot of people out there that believe he was heart attacked by the CIA, but just didn't die. And as a result of that, because it occurred at the same time they took out Casey, the same time they took out Zia, he was supposed…
▶ 32:51
Had investigators from Agency X looked at BCCI in 84 or 85, they would have discovered the bank's relationship with the CIA. A bet he had by then came to be an ally in William Casey's crusade against the quote unquote evil empire. When Sena…
▶ 41:56
Casey was very good at compartmentalizing their information, but the agency was using BCCI in connection with covert operations from England to Pakistan. Other elements of the agency were collecting information about Abedi and the bank's ne…
▶ 42:23
Although international weapons dealers say BCCI's role in providing private channels for weapons and even mercenaries for some of the world's intelligence agencies, including those in the United States, was well known around the world. U.S.…
▶ 50:31
He's got secret confessions from Saudi officials that he flew in that was grand jury indicted. He's got this mountain of evidence against BCCI. And he did all of that while the Department of Justice was fighting him tooth and nail. They wou…
▶ 51:00
He's had a heart attack. He's hiding in Pakistan. During the time that he's hiding in Pakistan and Morgenthau is trying to build a case of his money laundering, we gave Pakistan $60 billion during the course of all of this time in military …
▶ 51:28
while they're harboring a fugitive that embezzled billions of U.S. dollars in these banks that they illegally purchased. So the U.S. government refuses to lean on Pakistan to extradite a buddy to stand trial in New York City. So let me just…
▶ 45:28
Some of the banks that they worked in were subsidiaries of the London banking system, which is why Abedi ends up taking his bank and setting it up in London, because he had worked in the banking system in India. He was part of one of those …
▶ 1:50:19
And then once they buy up a whole bunch of whatever assets it is that the CIA wants them to do, they live off their 5% of a foundation that they set up while the CIA gets to manipulate the rest of the money. And that's, in fact, exactly wha…
▶ 1:03:55
So this is just one example, guys. There is a guy by the name of, hold on, I'm going to have to minimize this and get over to my phone. There is a guy by the name of, so the name that you keep hearing with BCCI, the founder, Agha Hassan.…
▶ 1:04:21
A-B-E-D-I. That's the name you hear associated with BCCI every time. You never hear about anybody else. There were investors. There's all kinds of other. Some of them were basically just front people. But other people were intimately involv…
▶ 1:04:49
listed as the founders, kind of really a misnomer because this other guy by the name of Kamal, Kamal, K-A-M-A-L, Kamal, Adam, A-D-H-A-M, Adham, he ends up being the no kidding guy behind the scenes making all the decisions and owned a large…
▶ 1:07:25
They knew who this man was. They knew this man was in charge of the Saudi Intel program. His name was on the original investors list. You've got this Abedi guy who's all kinds of shady shit. And the bank is a Pakistani bank doing its main o…
▶ 1:02:36
Time magazine reported that the bank had its own spies, hitmen, and enforcers. What no one reported at the time was that the bank was being used by the United States and Saudi Arabia as an intelligence front as well. There had never been an…
▶ 1:04:03
This made Adem, in effect, Sadat's case officer. This relationship gave Adem leverage when the time came to persuade Sadat to sign the Camp David Accord. Adem and Abedi believed the U.S. needed monitoring after Adem left the Intelligence Di…
▶ 1:05:00
been investigating Helms' line to the Senate about the CIA's involvement in the coup in Chile. It was threatening the future of both Shackley and Helms and would have also exposed the Safari Club. Adam did not rely simply on money to carry …
▶ 33:28
and aid programs, but Gokul basically was a CIA front, and they were another BCCI, the biggest financer of the Gulf Group, which included the Gokul brothers. BCCI chairman Abedi had been suspected of links to U.S. intelligence.…
▶ 11:59
Did the CIA initiate the May 1979 contact with Hekmarter as part of Carter's and Brzezinski's national policy? Or did Abedi, the guy that was in charge of the BCCI bank, and Haque enjoy a special relationship, meaning the guy that's in char…
▶ 45:30
and other people to cultivate the poppy fields of Afghanistan. And that's, yeah. So you can't do this without access to money flowing in. Yeah, I just found it very interesting. I did a chart where like they both had branches in London. The…
▶ 25:10
Now, we we've corroborated that on a couple of different occasions. That is absolutely the case. And also keep in mind that BCCI, the Pakistani, quote unquote, Pakistani bank that Abedi set up, but it was actually registered in Europe and r…
▶ 1:06:18
that the bank was actually able to stay semi-solvent as long as it was. And the only thing I can guess is they were getting exorbitant fees on some of the services they were providing. So let me tell you how they did it, because that came o…
▶ 1:08:35
are going to use a Pakistani bank in these foreign countries to remit their money back to their families in Pakistan. And so Abedi was using that float, which happened to be billions of dollars every day, as his quote-unquote capital. It's …
▶ 1:17:03
By the way, E. Howard Hunt confessed to all this on his deathbed. Yes. Absolutely. Okay. So we've got Jimmy Carter's role in it. And you've already covered the fact that Agha Hassan Abedi was the founder in 1972. And I love his bleeding hea…
▶ 15:11
Who's Burt Lance? Well, he was the guy who introduced Jimmy Carter to BCCI's founder, Abedi. That's Burt Lance for you. He's also the guy famous for coining the phrase in government, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So what did he do for Ca…
▶ 17:06
So basically, he's the mouthpiece and a lot of other things for the office of the president. So this is not a small player. So you got to figure he's one of the four or five most powerful people in the executive branch. And yet he is the gu…
▶ 28:24
that Abedi had paid off Lance's $3.5 million loan at First National Bank of Chicago. I'm sorry, yeah, First National Bank of Chicago. The same day the BCCI pays off his own personal loan for $3.5 million, Lance would sell the National Bank …
▶ 14:48
the regulator's first objective glimpse into the world of the fast-growing multinational bank, into what Abedi and his cohorts had really been up to since the middle 70s, 72. Writing in the determinant,…
▶ 31:55
And Abedi had a relationship with the government of Pakistan that those remittance, he was like the vendor of choice for the government. And all those remittance came through the branch in Pakistan of BCCI. And so he had that float, which w…
▶ 35:18
making the tiny nation all the more attractive for criminals looking to conceal cash. Huh. Well, that's very interesting. I'm going to have to look into that one. Okay. So back when Abedi, the guy that is credited with setting up BCCI, he w…
▶ 36:17
In the early 1970s, Bank of America was the largest bank in the world and its ambitious chairman, A.W. Tom Clausen, was fairly drooling at the prospect of opening up a bank in the Middle East. And it was this Van Owen that decided to take a…
▶ 36:45
um management that they basically make an investment and it says in exchange bank of america would take a 30 share in the new bank for 626 000 and a seat on the board complete control of the day-to-day affairs was given to a betty is that c…
▶ 38:11
So I always suspect you're going to see a Dutch connection. Always. It's going to be there. They are still a major player. So we're also going to talk a little bit about the arms deal in the second part of the show. So I want to make this c…
▶ 40:03
He was basically operating everywhere else. And an increasingly nervous Bank of America had sold its equity at this point. It's 30%. What year are we in now? 1980s. Abedi had built the world's first third world, quote unquote, bank.…
▶ 40:30
And it says he claimed not to own a single share of his own creation. And there's a whole story about how they basically did the shares because it was circuitous. So, for example, like, you know, a lot of people set up a company.…
▶ 41:22
that at this point is when all of the UAE and the Saudis all kind of get in bed with Abedi. And it says, and we talked about the former head of the Saudi intelligence, by the late 1970s, BCCI had effectively merged with a guy by the name of…
▶ 42:21
Further on the Bank of America, it says that once Abedi had gotten control of the National Bank of Georgia, which we explained last week how that happened, Abedi reconfigured it along the lines of his own bank. In 1979, shortly after one of…
▶ 42:53
London office, both Barone and a man by the name of Roy P.M. Carlson. Carlson was the Bank of America executive who had set up the bank's purchase of 30% back in 1972. So same guy that helped them create.…
▶ 43:19
Basically what I refer to as a CIA front bank called BCCI. And what would that be? 72. So seven years later, get summoned to appear before a Betty. Carlson had entertained a Betty when he came to the U.S. on multiple trips and the two had b…
▶ 43:49
Rahim Irvani, giant Milani group in Iran. Nice connections there. Abedi and Irvani were close associates and partners in the bank Abedi started in Iran, called Iran Arab Bank. Now, again, this is in the 70s, before the overthrow of the Shah…
▶ 44:22
Very interesting, isn't it? So basically we installed the Shah. Iran's a hotbed for CIA activities to include after the overthrow because we were basically selling weapons to Iran during the 1980s as well. Oh, and by the way, who financed a…
▶ 47:13
Abedi had lined up Irvani to be one of his front men in the financial general acquisition. To complete the circle, Irvani and Carlson, who we were just talking about, were also partners in the former CIA director Richard Helms' consulting f…
▶ 47:48
Yeah, fun connection. Is that crazy? So it says the three men chatted in Abedi's office, remembering old times, shaking their head at the terrible events that had happened in Iran that cost Abedi his bank and Carlson his job in Tehran. Then…
▶ 48:50
Is there a whole network of people in and outside of government allowing this to happen, playing by a separate set of rules? And to not ask that question, you have to be naive. I think unequivocally that's true. And also getting back to Cli…
▶ 9:18
He says Morgenthau told him that witnesses and British officials were being told by the DOJ not to cooperate. Well, what's interesting about that is we know that the entire operation was ran out of London. And not one time did anybody in Lo…
▶ 20:31
The only issue is whether it's a result of high level corruption or if it's designed to hide illegal government activities. Well, that's not or. So William Casey had something to do with the immunity BCCI enjoyed. Casey died in 1987. Genera…
▶ 26:35
The Federal Reserve saw the criminality and did nothing, which makes them complicit in it. So Abedi's usefulness as a hidden ally of American intelligence went away with the Soviets' withdrawal from Afghanistan. And before the years ended, …
▶ 27:07
that describe a Betty's sudden heart attack as not random. That there are a lot of people out there that believe he was heart attacked by the CIA, but just didn't die. And as a result of that, because it occurred at the same time they took …
▶ 33:02
Abedi Had by then came to be an ally in William Casey's crusade against the quote-unquote evil empire. When Senator Paula Hawkins visited Pakistan in 1984 and upset their apple cart by confronting General Zia with her knowledge that a Pakis…
▶ 41:37
Technology transfer, including unapproved transfer of U.S. technology to the Soviet bloc, weapons deals and manipulation of financial markets and other activities, unquote. They would have also found different levels of knowledge about BCCI…
▶ 42:23
Although international weapons dealers say BCCI's role in providing private channels for weapons and even mercenaries for some of the world's intelligence agencies, including those in the United States, was well known around the world. U.S.…
▶ 50:31
He's got secret confessions from Saudi officials that he flew in that was grand jury indicted. He's got this mountain of evidence against BCCI. And he did all of that while the Department of Justice was fighting him tooth and nail. They wou…
▶ 51:00
You know, he's had a heart attack. He's hiding in Pakistan. During the time that he's hiding in Pakistan and Morgenthau is trying to build a case of his money laundering, we gave Pakistan $60 billion during the course of all of this time in…