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(55,745 posts)Here's something from 2004 on BCCI, what Robert Gates and Poppy Bush called the "Bank of Crooks and Criminals International" and related matters with echoes from Dealey Plaza to the present day, 11 long, war-filled years later:
[font color="blue"]Nguyen Hand Bank, the P-2 lodge and Banco Ambrosiano, BCCI, the S&L "failures" and more: the thread through all the scandals is the hand-in-glove financial relationship of Intelligence Agencies, organized crime and terrorist proxies. As one financial corruption is exposed, another begins, and the players remain the same, as do the crimes: money-laundering, drug-smuggling, assassination and staged terrorist acts. [/font color]
More: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2118878
DUers were unafraid to get their fingernails dirty, lifting up that rock -- 2004, before the Great Bankster Bailout of '08. Nostalgia.
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