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Back to Palmer National Bank, Halper hired Frederic Malek, a Nixon/Bush guy who had to resign from the deputy RNC chair position after it was revealed he had compiled a list of how many Jewish ppl worked at the Dept of Labor Statistic who were all removed from their positions. Malek was a West Point mafia guy, Green Beret, Harvard MBA and was appointed to the Postal Service Board of Directors by Reagan.
Probably the most interesting guy Halper hired was Harvey McLean Jr. He was the only one not in the DC swamp. He was a real estate developer in Shreveport LA. McLean Sr was in the oil business and worked with Bush Sr at Zapata Offshore Oil which has ties to the CIA. McLean and Halper met on the Bush campaign in 1980. McLean did favors for Bush related to Jeb Bush.
Halper reached out to McLean several times while at the State Dept including taking him on a trip to China. During that trip McLean offered to fund a bank in DC if Halper would open one.
Here's the clincher. McLean put up 95% of the initial money ($3M) for the bank. He got the money from Herman K Beebe, a known mobster. Beebe's bank Bossier Bank & Loan sent the money. Normally Bossier would have received some level of ownership for fronting the money…they receive zero ownership interest for the $3M. Palmer was actually named after McLean family members.
Yes, there's more. The bank became a laundermat for every Republican political action committee in DC, 'loaning' them money. Carl R "Spitz" Channell set up his National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty (which my naming pattern has nothing to do with liberty) at Palmer. He raised $10M for contra support all kept at Pamer. This of course was done after congress cut the CIA off from funding the contras. Channel was later convicted bc he'd been telling donors the 'contributions' were tax exempt. Palmer would wired the money to Oliver North's Swiss bank (with a few stops along the way) for arms deals with Iran/Contra. Channel was hit by a car and died in the hospital.
Halper's name is also in the very last note in Oliver North's famous notebook titled "Legal Defense Fund".
The guy with no banking experience leaves Palmer after it was exposed and moved to National Bank of Northern Virginia. NBNV's attorney had borrowed money from Palmer (Halper). The attorney, curtis Herge was also the attorney for the Nicaraguan Resistance Education Foundation. Herge was also Channell's attorney.
While all of this was going on Ray Cline (FIL) was advising GeoMiliTech on selling arms to efforts like the Contras. Singlaub was involved in this effort as well. GeoMiliTech CEO was Barbar Studley who set up a $5M sell of weapons to the Contras.
Palmer was involved in many shady loans tied to failed S&L throughput the country.
Sunday dinner conversations at the Cline/Halper house would have been very interesting, don't ya think?
Nov 4, 2025 · 6:02 PM UTC
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