Riggs Bank Was "The Bank Of Presidents"

https://architectofthecapital.org/posts/2016/8/27/riggs-bank

In the 1980's the CIA came to Riggs with a covert international affairs project. Working through the Saudi royal family (who banked at Riggs), the CIA provided funds to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels and the anti-Soviet Mujahideen in Afghanistan.

Riggs also had a more sinister relationship with Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Senate hearings in 2004 shed light onto the ethically troubling story.

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The CIA and Riggs Bank

A Wall Street Journal story that the press gang should chase.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/01/the-cia-and-riggs-bank.html

Where is the rest of the press on the Riggs-CIA connection? Spooks, sheiks, dictators, millions in laundered money, and a $766 million merger in the balance! What does it take to entice an assignment editor these days, a tsunami or something?

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