Alan Bond

Alan Bond was a wealthy Australian businessman. He was involved in joint ventures with Carlos Cardoen and had connections to the CIA's operations.¹

In 1987, a contribution was made to the West Australian Labor Party from the CIA, involving Richard Babayan and Earl Brian acting on behalf of Hadron. This money was passed on by one of Maxwell's companies in Australia to be held by the Pergamon Press Trust Fund in Moscow. Babayan handed the check to Yosef Goldberg, who in turn gave it to Bond in his role as the guardian of the John Curtin Foundation funds.¹

Bond invested loans obtained from various Australian banks into Cardoen's construction company in Iraq, which was building a vast "agricultural complex" outside Baghdad. He also purchased the Chilean phone company from President Pinochet for approximately $300 million, making promises of improvements that were not fulfilled.¹

In late September 1988, an Israeli intelligence officer briefed the head of ASIS about Bond's activities in Chile. Following this, Bond almost immediately pulled out of Cardoen Industries and later out of Chile altogether.¹

Bond was convicted of bank fraud in May 1992 and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. He later went bankrupt and became involved in African mining investments.¹