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People (78)

  • A. R. (Abdul Raouf) Khalil Saudi intelligence official and BCCI front man who testified to the Federal Reserve in 1981 as a passive investor in First American's holding company and later served as a Capcom director.
  • A.Q. Khan Pakistani scientist associated with Pakistan's nuclear bomb program and its procurement network, and project director of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute, which received BCCI grants.
  • Abbas Gokal Chairman of the Gulf Group shipping empire, BCCI's largest debtor, convicted at the Old Bailey in 1997 of conspiracy to defraud and sentenced to fourteen years.
  • Abdur Sakhia BCCI's senior officer in the United States, who left the bank in 1990 and testified to the Senate on its secret control of First American and its courting of drug money.
  • Abdus Sami Senior BCCI officer from the bank's founding whose January 1978 memo to Abedi set out the nominee scheme for taking over Financial General Bankshares and recorded Clark Clifford's blessing.
  • Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist and target of Israeli intelligence operations, connected to the Achille Lauro attack and arms trafficking networks, whose organization was financed through BCCI in London.
  • Adnan Khashoggi Adnan Khashoggi (1935-2017) was a Saudi arms dealer and Iran-Contra middleman whose arms sales to Iran were bridge-financed through BCCI and who was named as a PROMIS software broker in 1985.
  • Agha Hasan Abedi Agha Hasan Abedi was a Pakistani financier who founded the BCCI in 1972, with the intention of creating the Third World's first multinational bank.
  • Alan Standorf Civilian analyst at Vint Hill Farms Station, the Army-run NSA post in Virginia, found beaten to death in his car at Washington National Airport in January 1991, whom Bill Turner named as a source of the BCCI and PROMIS documents in Danny Casolaro's missing briefcase.
  • Amjad Awan Amjad Awan was a manager of BCCI Panama and later the bank's marketing manager for Latin America and the Caribbean.
  • Arif Durrani Arif Durrani was a Pakistani arms dealer convicted of illegally providing HAWK antiaircraft missile parts to Iran.
  • Asaf Ali Asaf Ali is a Pakistani multimillionaire and arms dealer, closely associated with Agha Hasan Abedi and the BCCI.
  • Ayub Khan Pakistani field marshal and president whose confidant I. I. Chundrigar chaired Agha Hasan Abedi's United Bank and whose information minister later became publisher of BCCI's magazine South.
  • Bert Lance Jimmy Carter's budget director, who resigned in 1977, sold the National Bank of Georgia to BCCI nominee Ghaith Pharaon, and introduced Agha Hasan Abedi to Clark Clifford and Financial General.
  • Charles Keating Phoenix developer whose American Continental Corporation bought Lincoln Savings and Loan in 1984; its failure cost taxpayers billions, and the Senate BCCI inquiry flagged unresolved ties between BCCI figures and his companies.
  • Charles Saphos Charles Saphos was the Chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section of the Justice Department.
  • Clark Clifford Truman aide and Defense Secretary who, as chairman of BCCI's secretly owned First American Bankshares, assured regulators BCCI had no role in it; indicted in 1992, his charges were dismissed for ill health.
  • Curt Bradbury Stephens Inc. officer present at the November 1977 Little Rock meeting with BCCI, later chairman of Worthen Bank, which lent the 1992 Clinton campaign 3.5 million dollars.
  • Danny Casolaro Joseph Daniel Casolaro (1947-1991) was a freelance journalist whose investigation into the PROMIS software scandal expanded into a unified theory of an intelligence-criminal network he called 'The Octopus,' found dead in a Martinsburg, West Virginia hotel room on August 10, 1991, with both wrists slashed twelve times in a death officially ruled suicide.
  • David L. Paul Head of CenTrust Savings of Miami, whose failure cost 1.7 billion dollars; indicted with Ghaith Pharaon in 1992 over a BCCI debenture scheme and convicted of bank fraud in 1993 and 1994.
  • Dennis DeConcini Democratic senator from Arizona from 1977 to 1995, one of the Keating Five, and chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the 103rd Congress.
  • Donald Regan Regan stated that 'Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House chief of staff was cleared by a woman in San Francisco who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in favorable alignment for the enterprise.' This revelation was confirmed by W
  • Douglas Mulholland Douglas Mulholland was the intelligence liaison at the Treasury Department.
  • E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. Former federal prosecutor who built the case against Edwin Wilson, coordinated BCCI's defense after its 1988 Tampa indictment, and was chief counsel of the House October Surprise Task Force in 1992 and 1993.
  • Eddie George Eddie George was the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
  • Eugene Holley Eugene Holley was a former Georgia state senator who introduced Bert Lance to Agha Hasan Abedi.
  • Eugene Metzger Washington lawyer and Financial General shareholder whom a federal court found in 1981 to have breached his duties as the company's counsel during the BCCI takeover fight; the judgment was vacated in 1982.
  • Faisal Saud al-Fulaij Kuwaiti businessman who served as a BCCI nominee shareholder in the Financial General and First American takeover and was indicted in New York with Clifford, Altman and Abedi in 1992.
  • Gerald Lewis Gerald Lewis was the Florida state comptroller who refused to renew BCCI's license to operate in the state after the 1990 Tampa money-laundering conviction.
  • Ghaith R. Pharaon Pharaon launched himself into the construction business in Saudi Arabia in 1965, founding Saudi Arabian Research and Development Corporation (REDEC).
  • Ghanim Faris al-Mazrui Secretary general of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and head of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department who sat on BCCI's board from 1981 and became its chairman.
  • Ghassan Qassem Manager of BCCI's Sloane Street branch in London who handled Abu Nidal's accounts and passed details of them to British and American intelligence.
  • Ghulam Ishaq Khan Pakistani civil servant who ran the State Bank under Bhutto and the finance ministry under Zia, chaired the Pakistani BCCI Foundation, and was president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993.
  • Gokal brothers The Gokal brothers, Abbas Gokal, Murtaza Gokal, and Mustafa Gokal, were Pakistani businessmen who ran the Gulf Group, a London-based shipping company.
  • Hank Brown Republican representative and senator from Colorado, ranking member of the Kerry subcommittee's BCCI inquiry and co-author of its December 1992 report.
  • Jack Blum Former Senate investigator and chief counsel to Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, widely recognized for exposing the BCCI scandal and investigating Contra-connected drug trafficking.
  • Jackson Stephens Little Rock investment banker whose firm held the nominee account through which BCCI's clients bought into Financial General Bankshares in 1977, and whose Worthen Bank, owned with the Riady family, financed Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign.
  • James Callaghan James Callaghan, also known as Lord Callaghan, was a former British prime minister who served as a paid economic adviser to the BCCI.
  • James Dougherty James Dougherty was a Florida lawyer for Lloyd's of London who investigated Munther Ismael Bilheisi and the BCCI.
  • John Heimann New York banking superintendent who twice blocked BCCI's attempts to buy a New York bank through nominees, then as Comptroller of the Currency approved Ghaith Pharaon's 1978 purchase of the National Bank of Georgia.
  • John Kerry Senator from Massachusetts who chaired the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations, investigating both BCCI and links between the Contras and cocaine trafficking with findings that were systematically suppressed.
  • Jonathan Beaty Time journalist who with S. C. Gwynne wrote the July 29, 1991 cover story describing BCCI's 'black network' and the 1993 book The Outlaw Bank.
  • Joseph E. Vaez In February 1978, Vaez submitted a report on the BCCI that characterized it as a bank dangerously out of control.
  • Kamal Adham Kamal Adham was the former head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and brother-in-law of the late King Faisal.
  • Kemal Shoaib BCCI officer whom Agha Hasan Abedi installed as chairman of the secretly acquired Independence Bank of Encino; the Federal Reserve fined him 20 million dollars in 1991.
  • Khalfan al-Mazrui Khalfan al-Mazrui was the Head of the Karachi office of Sheikh Zayed's Private Department.
  • Khalid bin Mahfouz Saudi banker who held about 20 percent of BCCI, was indicted in Manhattan in 1992 for defrauding its depositors, and settled in 1993 for 225 million dollars; named in a 1985 PROMIS software document.
  • Lawrence Wechsler Washington defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor who assembled BCCI's legal team after the 1988 Tampa indictment, negotiated its 1990 plea agreement and lobbied the Senate on the bank's behalf.
  • Masihur Rahman Masihur Rahman was the former chief financial officer of BCCI.
  • Mohammed Hammoud Lebanese money changer who became a BCCI front man and shareholder, bought Clifford and Altman's First American stock, and was reported dead in Geneva in 1990.
  • Munther Ismael Bilheisi Munther Ismael Bilheisi was an expatriate Jordanian involved in coffee smuggling, arms dealing, customs violations, money laundering, and paying bribes and kickbacks.
  • Nazir Chinoy BCCI's general manager in Paris and earlier Pakistan branch chief, a defendant in the Tampa money laundering case, whose testimony described Khashoggi's Iran arms financing and BCCI's protocol department.
  • Norman Lamont Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1990 to 1993 who answered for the government after BCCI's July 1991 closure and, with the Bank of England's Governor, commissioned the Bingham inquiry.
  • Paula Hawkins Republican senator from Florida from 1981 to 1987 in whose Senate office BCCI's American manager met Justice Department officials in 1984 over her allegation that the bank laundered drug money.
  • Raymond Banoun Former head of the fraud division of the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington who defended BCCI from 1988 and whom the Senate subcommittee found may have willfully misled it.
  • Richard Brenneke Portland-based arms dealer and self-described CIA contract agent who claimed to have attended the October 1980 October Surprise Paris meetings, was indicted for perjury in 1989 and acquitted in 1990, and served as a document source for Danny Casolaro’s Octopus investigation.
  • Richard J. Kerr Kerr appeared before Senator John Kerry's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations on October 25, 1991, to discuss the CIA's knowledge of BCCI's activities.
  • Robert Altman Washington lawyer, Clark Clifford's partner and president of First American Bankshares, indicted in July 1992 over BCCI's secret ownership of the bank and acquitted by a Manhattan jury in August 1993.
  • Robert Genzman United States Attorney in Tampa from 1988 to 1993 whose office took BCCI's 1990 guilty plea to money laundering, a settlement the Kerry-Brown Senate report criticized for ending the prosecution of the bank.
  • Robert Mazur United States Customs special agent who, as 'Robert Musella,' was the principal undercover operative of Operation C-Chase, the 1986-88 sting that led to BCCI's 1990 Tampa conviction.
  • Robert Morgenthau Manhattan District Attorney from 1975 to 2009 who opened the BCCI investigation in 1989 on information from Senate investigator Jack Blum and indicted Abedi, Naqvi, Clifford and Altman.
  • Robert Mueller Robert Mueller was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division.
  • Roberto Calvi Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's largest private bank, and a member of Propaganda Due whose bank collapsed in June 1982 with a $1.3 billion deficit after his offshore shell company network - backed by guarantees from the Vatican Bank - was exposed; he was found hanging from scaffolding under London's Blackfriars Bridge on June 18, 1982, eight days after fleeing Italy on a forged passport.
  • Robin Leigh-Pemberton Robin Leigh-Pemberton served as the Governor of the Bank of England.
  • Roy P. M. Carlson Bank of America executive who arranged its 1972 stake in BCCI, then ran the National Bank of Georgia for Ghaith Pharaon and BCCI until its sale to First American.
  • S. C. Gwynne Former international banker and Time correspondent, bureau chief and senior editor who co-wrote Time's 1991 BCCI cover story and The Outlaw Bank, later executive editor of Texas Monthly and a historian.
  • Saigol family Punjabi textile and industrial family whose account Agha Hasan Abedi carried from Habib Bank to United Bank and BCCI, and which owed BCCI 44 million dollars by 1990.
  • Sami Masri Sami Masri was a BCCI operative.
  • Sani Ahmed Sani Ahmed was a key figure in the BCCI, serving as the head of its protocol department in Pakistan before moving to Washington, D.C.
  • Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan Son of Sheikh Zayed of Abu Dhabi in whose name BCCI bought Financial General Bankshares stock in 1978; auditors later cited evidence that its four such shareholders concealed BCCI's role.
  • Swaleh Naqvi Swaleh Naqvi was the chief operating officer of BCCI, taking over after Agha Hasan Abedi's 1988 heart attack.
  • Syed Ziauddin Ali Akbar Head of BCCI's London treasury division, whose September 1993 guilty plea to false accounting was the first criminal conviction arising from the bank's collapse.
  • William Ryback William Ryback was the Deputy Director of Banking Supervision at the Federal Reserve.
  • William von Raab Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service during the C-Chase investigation of BCCI, whose agents recommended a RICO case against the bank that the Justice Department did not approve.
  • Zafar Iqbal Zafar Iqbal took over as head of BCCI in late 1990, after the firing of Agha Hasan Abedi and Swaleh Naqvi.
  • Zayed bin Sultan AL-Nahayan Ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, whose family and government owned 77 percent of BCCI at its 1991 closure and whom the Senate found not credible as its victim.
  • Zia ul-Haq Pakistani army chief who seized power in 1977, hanged Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ruled until his 1988 death in a plane crash, and was cultivated by BCCI's Agha Hasan Abedi.
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Pakistani prime minister whose government nationalized Agha Hasan Abedi's United Bank in 1974, who was deposed by Zia ul-Haq in 1977 and hanged in 1979.

Organizations (35)

  • Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Sovereign investment institution of Abu Dhabi, founded 1976, which held 10 percent of BCCI from 1980 and was awarded 1.347 billion dollars against BCCI's convicted executives in 1994.
  • Abu Nidal Organization Palestinian terrorist organization of Sabri al-Banna (Abu Nidal) whose commercial and arms network was financed through a general account at BCCI in London, as a 1987 State Department report described.
  • Attock Oil Oil company incorporated in England in 1913 and operating in Pakistan, called BCCI's oil company by the Senate, in which Kamal Adham, Faisal al-Fulaij and Ghaith Pharaon held interests as BCCI nominees.
  • Banco Ambrosiano Banco Ambrosiano was Italy's largest private bank, founded in Milan in 1896, whose chairman Roberto Calvi used a network of Vatican Bank-guaranteed offshore shell companies to export $1.3 billion from the bank before its June 1982 collapse - the largest bank failure in Italian history - which coincided with Calvi's death under London's Blackfriars Bridge.
  • Bank of America San Francisco bank that supplied BCCI's founding capital and Western credibility in 1972, held up to 30 percent of it, and sold out to BCCI's affiliate ICIC from 1978 while keeping a correspondent relationship.
  • Bank of Credit and Commerce International Pakistani-founded international bank, registered in Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands, that secretly owned US banks and laundered money for traffickers and intelligence clients before regulators closed it on July 5, 1991.
  • Bank of England Central bank of the United Kingdom and BCCI's principal supervisor, which propped up the bank in secret from 1990 before closing it in July 1991.
  • Banque Arabe et Internationale d'Investissement Arab-owned Paris consortium bank sharing directors with BCCI, which lent 50 million dollars for the 1982 Financial General takeover and passed BCCI money to Ghaith Pharaon for Independence Bank.
  • Capcom London and Chicago commodities futures firm of 1984 to 1988, created by BCCI's treasury chief Ziauddin Akbar and owned by BCCI's Saudi shareholders, through which BCCI took trading losses and laundered money, including Noriega's.
  • Credit and Commerce American Holdings Netherlands Antilles holding company formed by BCCI in 1978 through which nominee shareholders held First American Bankshares, the Washington bank BCCI secretly controlled.
  • Department of Justice The federal department of prosecutors, the FBI, the DEA and the U.S. Attorneys, in the vault the defendant in the INSLAW case, the obstructor found by the BCCI and BNL inquiries, the CIA's partner in the 1954 and 1982 understandings on prosecution, and the investigator of The Finders.
  • Federal Reserve Board Governing body of the U.S. central banking system, which approved the BCCI-backed takeover of Financial General Bankshares in 1981 on false assurances and fined BCCI 200 million dollars in July 1991.
  • First American Bank Washington bank, formerly Financial General Bankshares, secretly owned and controlled by BCCI through the nominee holding company CCAH; Clark Clifford was its chairman and Robert Altman its president.
  • Gulf Group Shipping and trading group of the Gokal brothers, based in Geneva and London, which became BCCI's largest borrower; its chairman, Abbas Gokal, was convicted of fraud in London in 1997.
  • Houston Chronicle Houston daily newspaper, the largest in Texas in 1987, when the Houston Endowment sold it to the Hearst Corporation for 400 million dollars.
  • ICIC Group of Cayman Islands entities that held and disguised the ownership of BCCI, booked its insider loans, and carried at least one billion dollars of circular transactions.
  • Independence Bank of Encino California bank secretly acquired by BCCI in 1985 through Ghaith Pharaon as nominee; its failure in 1992 cost the federal bank insurance fund about 140 million dollars.
  • Kerry Committee Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee under John Kerry that investigated drugs and foreign policy in 1987-88 and BCCI from 1988 to 1992, with a staff of two attorneys and no travel budget.
  • Kissinger Associates New York consulting firm founded by Henry Kissinger in 1982 whose officers Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger advised Banca Nazionale del Lavoro before returning to government during the bank's unreported lending to Iraq.
  • Kuwait International Finance Company Kuwaiti finance company in which BCCI ostensibly held 49 percent but which it controlled through its nominee Faisal al-Fulaij, used as a parallel bank to move and disguise BCCI funds.
  • Lippo Group Indonesian banking and property conglomerate of the Riady family, partner of the Arkansas Stephens family from 1978 and employer of John Huang, whose California bank pleaded guilty to campaign finance counts in 2001.
  • National Bank of Oman Oman's first incorporated bank, founded in 1973, in which BCCI bought Bank of America's stake in 1987 and which the Senate listed among BCCI's parallel banks.
  • National Commercial Bank Jeddah bank controlled by Khalid bin Mahfouz, with which BCCI concealed more than 500 million dollars of lending to its major customers, a practice auditors found continuing in 1990.
  • Overseas Private Investment Corporation Federal corporation created by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to insure and finance American private investment in less developed countries, which paid ITT for its expropriated Chilean telephone company.
  • Pakistan People's Party Pakistani political party of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto, which a 1978 government White Paper said had received two or three crores of rupees through Agha Hasan Abedi in 1977.
  • Price Waterhouse Accounting firm whose British partnership audited BCCI's Cayman bank for fifteen years and its consolidated accounts from 1987, and whose 1991 Sandstorm Report preceded the bank's closure.
  • Propaganda Due Propaganda Due (P2) was a clandestine Italian Masonic lodge headed by Licio Gelli from 1967 whose 962-member list discovered in March 1981 included the heads of all three Italian intelligence services, senior military officers, magistrates, politicians, and financiers including Roberto Calvi and Silvio Berlusconi, and which Italian parliamentary investigators linked to Operation Gladio and the strategy of tension terrorist bombings.
  • Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senate standing committee since 1816, hearing diplomatic nominations and CIA testimony on Chile, whose Kerry subcommittee reported in 1988 that the State Department had selected companies owned by drug traffickers to supply the Contras.
  • Serious Fraud Office British prosecuting agency for serious and complex fraud, which opened its BCCI investigation in 1991 and convicted the bank's treasury chief Ziauddin Akbar in 1993 and its largest debtor Abbas Gokal in 1997.
  • Stephens Inc. Little Rock investment bank of the Stephens family, underwriter of Walmart and most Arkansas bonds, whose officers bought Financial General Bankshares stock for BCCI's clients in 1977 and whose Washington office housed John Huang.
  • Systematics Little Rock bank data-processing company controlled by Jackson Stephens, sued in 1978 over the BCCI acquisition of Financial General Bankshares, represented by Hillary Rodham, and the subject of a 1995 CIA and NSA briefing to Congress.
  • The Wall Street Journal Dow Jones & Company's New York financial daily, launched by Charles Dow and Edward Jones in 1889, whose 1991 and 1992 BCCI reporting the Senate cited repeatedly.
  • Touche Ross British accountancy firm appointed provisional liquidator of BCCI in the United Kingdom after the bank's closure on July 5, 1991, and described in Parliament as lead liquidator of its Luxembourg holding company.
  • United Bank Limited Pakistani bank founded by Agha Hasan Abedi in 1959, nationalized under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1974, and sold in 2002 to the Abu Dhabi Group and Bestway.
  • Vatican Bank The Vatican Bank (Instituto per le Opere di Religione, IOR) is the Holy See's financial institution, whose sovereign immunity from Italian banking regulation made it a vehicle for the P2-connected financial operations of Michele Sindona and Roberto Calvi, resulting in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse and a $244 million settlement with international creditors in 1984.

Events (5)

  • BCCI Kerry-Brown Senate Report December 1992 report by Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown on BCCI, documenting its fraud, money laundering, bribery and secret ownership of US banks, and criticizing the Justice Department, regulators and the CIA.
  • Bingham Report Lord Justice Bingham's 1992 inquiry into British supervision of BCCI, which cleared the Treasury, criticized the Bank of England as slow and overreliant on Luxembourg, and upheld its closure of the bank.
  • Operation C-Chase United States Customs undercover money laundering operation of 1986 to 1988, run by agent Robert Mazur as 'Robert Musella,' that ended in the arrest of BCCI officers and the bank's 1990 Tampa conviction.
  • Sandstorm Report Price Waterhouse's draft Section 41 report to the Bank of England of June 22, 1991, code-named Sandstorm, which found widespread fraud at BCCI and preceded the bank's closure on July 5, 1991.
  • Three Rivers District Council v Bank of England Twelve-year English lawsuit by BCCI's liquidators and depositors accusing the Bank of England of misfeasance in public office over its supervision of BCCI, abandoned on the 256th day of trial in November 2005.

Concepts (1)

  • The Octopus The Octopus is a term used by investigative journalist Danny Casolaro to describe a sprawling alleged criminal network linking the PROMIS software theft, Iran-Contra, the October Surprise, BCCI, and intelligence-connected drug trafficking under a single self-perpetuating criminal enterprise.

Places (20)

  • Abu Dhabi Capital of the United Arab Emirates and home emirate of Sheikh Zayed, whose government and ruling family owned 77 percent of BCCI when regulators closed it in July 1991.
  • Atlanta Georgia capital where BNL's branch lent Iraq billions off the books until the FBI raid of 1989, where BCCI's frontman bought Bert Lance's bank, and where CIA-funded LSD tests ran at the federal penitentiary.
  • Bahrain Persian Gulf island state, one of BCCI's earliest growth markets, whose ruling family was among the bank's ostensible owners and where Ghaith Pharaon's defaulted BCCI loans were booked.
  • Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean that served as the nominal registration point for BCCI and dozens of other offshore entities used in Iran-Contra financial flows, CIA front company structures, and the money-laundering infrastructure documented throughout this vault.
  • Dubai Trading emirate of the United Arab Emirates whose ruling family was among BCCI's ostensible Arab owners, and through which a 1985 BCCI-backed TOW missile deal with Iran was channeled.
  • Frankfurt German city where Abbas Gokal, principal of the Gulf Group and chief defendant in the Serious Fraud Office's BCCI prosecution, was arrested aboard a New York flight in July 1994.
  • Geneva Swiss banking city, seat of BCCI's secretly held affiliate Banque de Commerce et de Placements and of the Gokal brothers' Gulf Group, whose BCCI loans led to a fourteen-year sentence for Abbas Gokal.
  • Grand Cayman Island of the Cayman Islands where BCCI Overseas and the ICIC group had their head offices and where Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu liquidated ICIC from 1991.
  • Hong Kong Financial center where the Stephens and Riady families formed their first joint company in 1978, where Lippo sought BCCI's failed subsidiary, and from which a Lippo company paid Webster Hubbell in 1994.
  • India India appears in this vault primarily in connection with CIA covert operations during the Cold War, arms sales through brokers connected to vault subjects (including Mirage jet sales brokered by Asaf Ali), BCCI's significant Indian operations, and India's nuclear weapons program which intersected with Pakistani proliferator A.Q. Khan's network.
  • Italy Italy appears throughout this vault as the location of CIA-backed Stay-Behind network Gladio, the center of the P2 Masonic lodge scandal connecting intelligence services to organized crime and far-right terrorism, and a hub for Vatican Bank (IOR) financial flows connected to the BCCI network and money laundering.
  • Karachi Southern port city of Pakistan and capital of Sindh province, where Agha Hasan Abedi lived and BCCI kept its Pakistani branch, files and protocol department.
  • Little Rock, Arkansas Capital of Arkansas and seat of Stephens Inc., Worthen Bank, Systematics, and the Rose Law Firm, where BCCI's emissary met Jackson Stephens and Bert Lance in 1977 and the Riady family entered American banking.
  • London London is the capital of the United Kingdom and a recurring location throughout this vault: the headquarters of MI6 and GCHQ oversight, the site of BCCI's global headquarters in the 1980s, the base of operation for Robert Maxwell's media and intelligence empire, and the location of key arms-to-Iraq commercial networks.
  • Poland Poland appears in this vault in connection with the CIA-Vatican-BCCI funding pipeline to the Solidarity trade union movement (1980-1989), which helped bring down the communist government, and as a Soviet bloc country that was a target of Western intelligence operations throughout the Cold War.
  • Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and home to the Vatican; it appears in this vault as the location of P2 Masonic lodge operations, the Vatican Bank (IOR) financial flows connected to BCCI and CIA-backed anti-communist programs, and the base of Italian intelligence services whose Cold War activities intersected with Gladio and the strategy of tension.
  • Rotterdam Rotterdam is the Netherlands' second-largest city and the largest port in Europe, serving as a major hub for international commerce; it appears in this vault as a transit node for arms shipments documented in the Iran-Contra affair, as a location in Dutch pedophile network investigations connected to the Dutroux inquiry, and as the site of BCCI banking operations in the Netherlands.
  • Tampa, Florida Gulf coast city in Florida where the 1988 Operation C-Chase indictment of BCCI was brought, and whose federal prosecutors the Senate found had missed the bank's wider crimes.
  • United Arab Emirates Gulf federation formed on December 2, 1971, whose president Sheikh Zayed and Abu Dhabi government held 77 percent of BCCI at its closure and kept its top officers out of foreign investigators' reach.
  • United Kingdom The United Kingdom is a Five Eyes intelligence partner of the United States whose security services (MI5, MI6, GCHQ) are extensively cross-referenced in this vault; the UK hosted BCCI's global headquarters, was the base of Robert Maxwell's operations, was implicated in the Arms-to-Iraq affair, and was the home of the Paedophile Information Exchange.