Kwitny,J. The Crimes of Patriots. 1987
Kwitny, Jonathan. The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money,
and the CIA. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987. 424 pages.
When Frank Nugan was found dead in Australia in 1980, it was accepted
as a suicide and the sighs of relief could almost be heard in Langley, on
the other side of the globe. But then William Colby's business card was
found in Nugan's wallet, and Nugan's partner, Michael Hand, had been a
contract agent for the CIA in Vietnam. Australian authorities began tracking
Nugan Hand Bank, which developed into the most fun story of Golden Triangle
drugs, money-laundering, profiteering, corporate shell games, and financial
fraud that has yet surfaced in the CIA's unofficial history.
The most intriguing aspect of Nugan Hand Bank was the list of Yankees
who were in on the scam. Theodore Shackley, Richard Secord, Thomas Clines,
and Edwin Wilson played peripheral roles, while Gen. Edwin Black ran the
Nugan Hand Hawaii office, Gen. Erle Cocke ran the Washington office, Gen.
LeRoy Manor ran the Philippine office, Colby was their lawyer, former CIA
deputy director Walter McDonald was a consultant, Adm. Earl Yates was
president of Nugan Hand, and Robert Jantzen, a former CIA station chief in
Thailand, got out of Nugan Hand when he smelled drugs. He needn't have
bothered; apart from Kwitny's Wall Street Journal articles in 1982, Nugan
Hand received little coverage and no official interest in the U.S., perhaps
because evidence was lacking that it was a direct CIA proprietary.
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