Australia
Australia is the country where Nugan Hand Bank, the CIA-connected financial institution co-founded by Michael Hand and Frank Nugan, operated until its 1980 collapse amid drug trafficking and intelligence connections, after which Hand disappeared with alleged CIA assistance.
Australia is a country and continent in the Southern Hemisphere. It is mentioned in connection with Nugan Hand Bank, which was an Australian bank co-founded by Michael Hand and Frank Nugan. This bank reportedly laundered profits from drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle and financed subversive paramilitary activities in Southeast Asia. The bank collapsed in 1980, $5 billion in debt, and Michael Hand disappeared from Australia.1
Michael Hand reportedly fled Australia under a false identity on June 14, 1980, on a flight to Fiji. He was allegedly helped to escape by an American code-named "Charlie," identified as a former member of the U.S. Special Forces and ex-CIA operative. Michael Riconosciuto claimed to have handled money transfers for Hand when he fled Australia.1
Brian Toohey, a top Australian journalist, reported in his The Eye magazine in 1991 that Michael Hand had a postal drop in Washington State, and his wife was reportedly living with him there.1
Robert Booth Nichols also listed Australia as one of his residences.1
Sources
- Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩
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- PersonAlan Bond
- PersonAlan Standorf
- PlaceAustralia
- OrganizationAustralian Security Intelligence Organization
- OrganizationAustralian Security Intelligence Service
- EventBay of Pigs
- PersonBeat Meier
- PersonBrenton Tarrant
- PersonBrian Toohey
- PlaceCanada
- PersonCiro Daniel Amorim Ferreira
- PersonClarence Henry Osborne
- OrganizationDegem
- ProgramECHELON
- PlaceEl Aqsa Mosque
- PersonEugene Tighe
- OrganizationFashFront
- PlaceFiji
- OrganizationFive Eyes
- PersonFrancis Shelden
- PersonFrank Nugan
- OrganizationFXC International
- EventGiuffre v. Maxwell
- PersonHerbert Alwyn Smith
- OrganizationIron March
- PersonJeffrey Epstein
- PersonJoe McMoneagle
- OrganizationJohn Curtin Foundation
- PersonJohn Foster Dulles
- PersonJonathan Kwitny
- PlaceKibbutz Mishmar Hasharon
- PersonLawrence Krauss
- PlaceMarana
- OrganizationMI5
- PersonMichael Dennis Rohan
- PersonMichael Hand
- PersonMichael Riconosciuto
- PersonMordecai Vanunu
- PersonNelson Bunker Hunt
- OrganizationNew Zealand Security Intelligence Service
- SourceNobody's Girl
- OrganizationNugan Hand Bank
- PersonOra Ben-Shalom
- PersonOscar Guerrero
- PersonPaul Morasca
- OrganizationPergamon Press Trust Fund
- PersonPeter Singer
- PersonPeter Zokosky
- PlacePine Gap
- OrganizationPlacid Oil Company
- ProgramPROMIS
- EventPROMIS Software Scandal
- PersonRinaldo Nazzaro
- PersonRobert Booth Nichols
- PersonRobert Maxwell
- PlaceSingapore
- OrganizationSonnenkrieg Division
- OrganizationSpartacus Club
- OrganizationSpartacus International
- OrganizationSpartacus Network
- OrganizationTerrorgram Collective
- OrganizationThe Age
- OrganizationThe Base
- ProgramUKUSA Agreement
- OrganizationUnited States Army Special Forces
- PersonVirginia Giuffre
- OrganizationWikiLeaks
- PersonWilliam Sargant