I will never apologize for the United States. I don’t care what the facts are.

— Then Vice President George H.W. Bush, after a US missile cruiser
shot down an Iranian civilian jet in 1988, killing 290 innocents

Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Kwitny, Jonathan: The Crimes of Patriots

Two Boner image: This is a work that breaks new ground, and quite possibly forced changes in the way the government either does business, or hides it.

Kwitny, Jonathan (1987) The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA. New York: W.W. Norton, 424 pp.
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When Frank Nugan was found dead in his car on a lonely Australian highway, victim of an apparent suicide, it uncovered a global web of intrigue. Nugan died with CIA director William Colby’s business card in his wallet and was one of the two partners in the Nugan-Hand Bank. Shortly after Nugan’s death, Michael Hand disappeared, and has not been seen since. The Nugan-Hand bank was basically a CIA proprietary and featured a staff and board that read like a who’s who of the US intelligence and military communities. Not only was the bank heavily involved in money laundering for the drug trade, but the deposits of innocent investors, many of whom were US servicemen, all disappeared after Nugan’s death. You read this book and others like it, such as Disavow and Outlaw Bank, and you can come to only one conclusion. The secrecy that surrounds the US government’s covert agencies is often used to hide good old fashioned criminal activities that not only have nothing to do with national security, but actually serve to subvert it. How long are we gonna take this?

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