>>464785

Have any anons looked into the Clowns' use of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) to launder money from drug running and Iran-Contra? This was a pretty big scandal back in the day when very few people were paying attention, and it broke right about the time Clinton took office. But it carried over even into the 2000's; Bush was connected to it, and it had a lot to do with financing Islamic terrorist groups. Also connected to Clinton, who apparently opened up Arkansas to the CIA to run drugs and launder money through banks there.

>>465137

Forgot

Links

https:// www.newsbud.com/2016/10/24/missing-from-hillary-clintons-email-saudis-worked-with-cia-to-create-terror/

http:// www.newsweek.com/bcci-cia-connection-just-how-far-did-it-go-195454

http:// www.apfn.org/apfn/snowjob1.htm

SNOW JOB: THE CIA, COCAINE, AND BILL CLINTON

>>465173

http:// www.apfn.org/apfn/snowjob1.htm

BCCI's drug dealings stretched also into the Middle East.

Pakistan's finance minister, Sartaj Asis, revealed that local branches of BCCI had laundered drug money for the CIA, channelled covert CIA aid to the Afghan resistance, and also managed a multi-million dollar "slush fund" for covert operations.[37]

The CIA's Afghan effort was one of the largest of the post-WWII era.

Coincidentally, Afghanistan and Pakistan are two of the largest producers of heroin and opium in the world. (As is the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon.) Thus they became part of the CIA's global drug supermarket.

Even the Colombians showed up.

In what has been described as a "typical operation", a container ship from Colombia docked at night in Karachi, Pakistan. On one particular night in April 1989, "black unit operatives" paid $100,000 in bribes to Pakistan officials and then directed the unloading of massive crates. Using cranes, the crates were put onto trucks and taken to a secure airport where they were loaded onto an unmarked 707 jet. The loading was supervised by an American CIA officer.[38]

From Karachi the plane flew to Czechoslovakia, electronically disguised as a Pakistan International Airlines commercial flight. From Czechoslovakia the drug laden plane flew into the United States.[39]

The network which supported these routine missions thus moved heroin from the "Golden Crescent" and cocaine from South America through Europe and into the United States. The routes closely parallel those used by the CIA since the 1950s to move heroin from the Corsican mafia. The famous French Connection was a small fragment of the huge international network set up in a deal between the CIA and gangster Lucky Luciano.

(For a superb history of the early days of CIA drug running, see The Great Heroin Coup [South End Press, 1980] by Henrik Kruger.)

>>465264

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Not surprisingly, the sprawling BCCI transnational bank network

has been directly

linked to the laundering of CIA drug money.

John Blum, a former chief special counsel for the Senate Foreign

Relations

Committee's investigation of BCCI chaired by John Kerry, disclosed that the US Dept. of Justice "failed to act" on substantial evidence of money laundering, including a Chicago operation that dated back to 1985.[34] Blum also said that in 1988 he met BCCI employees in Florida who detailed drug-money laundering activities by the bank. He said the Senate knew about the use of BCCI by Manuel Noriega to launder large sums of cash.

As part of the CIA drug network, Noriega received millions of dollars in kickbacks from the Medellin cartel, laundering $90 million of it through BCCI.

His credit was such that BCCI executives routinely took him and his mistress out for extravagant nights on the town, running up tabs of $100,000.[35]

According to Congressional testimony by Jose Blandon, the CIA had actually advised Noriega to use BCCI as his bank. They themselves were paying an additional $200,000 a year into his account there.

BCCI's Panama branch, in the words of Time magazine, also "systematically helped Noriega loot the national treasury."[36]

>>465280

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The congressional Iran-Contra committee noted that then-CIA

director William Casey wanted to establish an offshore entity capable of conducting operations in furtherance of US foregin policy that was "stand-alone"– financially independent of appropriated funds, and, in turn, congressional oversight.

Casey got his wish. The CIA was used BCCI and a complex offshore

financial system to set up its own unregulated, private, foreign policy apparatus.

In this way, it could ignore Congress and carry out its own political objectives throughout the world.

There is no question that BCCI was intimately involved in

covertly funding the decade's most heinous secret wars. "Black funds" travelled through BCCI for the Contra war, the Iranian-Israeli payoffs, and large covert wars in Afganistan

and Angola.[30]

Since its inception in 1972, BCCI was born and bred to move

billions of dollars of blood money with no one seeing it. Time magazine wrote of the bank, "Superlatives are quickly exhausted: it is the largest corporate criminal enterprise ever."

Even enemies were apparently welcome at the trough. A 1987 intelligence report by the French security services, later supported by US Congressional findings, stated that "BCCI had commercial links with Abu Nidal and front companies set up to finance his radical Palestinian group. The report also said Kuwaiti embassy officials paid $60 million into Nidal's BCCI account in London in 1987.[31] (This would have been around the time of the first Persian Gulf "Crisis", when Kuwaiti ships were reflagged as American and escorted by US warships.) The bank also maintained "cozy relations" with Libya, Syria, Iraq, and the PLO.

BCCI shareholder/frontman Abdul-Rouf Khalil is known to have

Saudi CIA connections, and frequents the office of the CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia.

The chief attorney for BCCI's powerful legal team was Clark

Clifford, a former Secretary of Defense and advisor to four presidents. His influence stretched even into the Federal Reserve. When Clifford was tried and convicted for his role in BCCI, Clinton himself pardoned him, ostensibly out of concern for the old man's health.

Perhaps most significantly, the US Senate has investigated the role

in BCCI of former Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms. Helms aided the 1978 takeover attempt of First American Bank on behalf of BCCI Ltd, Georgia (Stephens' bank deal).[32]

Richard Helms was the Deputy Director of (covert) Operations at the CIA in the 1960s, under Nixon. Not surprisingly, his projects included the Laos operation, which first brought together the Secret team which would later wreak such havoc in the '80s.

Helms conducted the CIA's Chile campaign, climaxing with the assassination of Salvador Allende and the installation of Pinochet's fascist military state.

Helms was then CIA Director in the '70s. He later served as the US Ambassador to Iran. He joined the Shah's payroll and declared himself an agent of a foreign government after retiring.[33]