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Nugan Hand Bank

Nugan Hand Bank

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Oct 7, 2026

Smith K. SteadGUEST
45:50
Mm
ClooneyHOST
45:50
... plays into all of this, and how you draw parallels to, uh, Nugan Hand, which I've, I've talked about that in a potential relation to Epstein in some of my other, um, essays myself as well.
ClooneyHOST
46:02
So, so yeah, uh, I just wanna hear you, you know, wax deep political about, uh, all of that, and take it, take it where you wish.
Smith K. SteadGUEST
46:10
You can draw a lot of, lot of parallels between what happened in the Caribbean, I think, you know, I guess over, uh, since Columbus' arrival in, in, in that region, um, and what went on in the Pacific.
ClooneyHOST
48:29
... uh, concern.
ClooneyHOST
48:31
Um, but yeah, so we, we would have examples of like similar, uh, um, similar areas in, in the Middle East as well.
Smith K. SteadGUEST
48:39
Yeah, and, and I think, you know, and from the '70s onwards you start to see, um, so Nugan Hand Bank, which is, was pretty much a CIA operation run out of Australia, um, a lot of it was, or a lot of the bank was dedicated to washing the profits out of, uh, Golden Triangle heroin, um, and organized crime and s- it was s- the classic kind of CIA black bank.
Smith K. SteadGUEST
49:03
Um, and in the '80s, you know, the B- BCCI, Iran-Contra, you have a lot of people moving through the Pacific either towards Asia or in the Pacific itself, um- You know, you had, uh, coups happening in Fiji in the '80s where ex-CIA directors were showing up to basically tell the Fijian Labor Party, "Hey, you can't have a nuclear free ban." Um, and then a, a bunch of, uh, Israeli Uzis show up in the '80s, uh, you know, four days before the coup.

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