Michael Hand of Nugan Hand found

[Peter Lemkin]

Well, well, well.....so he was hidden in plain sight all along! I agree with Dave that his old 'Company' protected him for sure. How did he get discovered? It probably doesn't matter, he will just disappear again and not be prosecuted for anything. Also, I'll bet 60-Minutes will call the Nugan-Hand bank a 'dirty money bank', but will NOT talk about how its money was CIA drug money, and worse - not that its assets were transferred to BCCI to keep it in the 'family' [read: in the Company]. Hand knows about a murder - if not involved in it and the statute on that is forever...but what's justice when 'National Security' is at stake ::darthvader::

Hand had a lot of interesting friends...just to name a very few: Shackley, Clines, Secord, Wilson, Terpil, Lansdale, North, Nugan and a host of others in the shadowy worlds of war, drugs, arms, big money, intelligence, black ops, et al.....:: ::

In early 1980 Frank Nugan, co-founder of the Australian-based Nugan Hand Bank, was found shot dead in his car at Bowenfels, near Lithgow, in New South Wales Australia which is about 100 miles due west of Sydney.
The Australian bank Nugan Hand Ltd. was run by "former" CIA and U.S. Military Officers. It served as a "laundry" for Illicit heroin and arms syndicates which it also helped to finance. The bank collapsed following Nugans death.
The bank's officials were made up of retired U.S. Military and CIA personnel. Admiral Earl P. Yates, former chief of the Navy's Pacific strategies; General Leroy J. Manor, former chief of staff for the U.S. Pacific command; General Erle Cocke Jr. and General Edwin F. Black; Walter MacDonald, former CIA deputy director; William Colby, former CIA director; and Nugan's co-founder,Michael Hand, a former Green Beret-CIA operative who worked with Oliver North in VIETNAM and LAOS.
Nugan Hand Banks , Michael Jon Hand, a former Green Beret-CIA operative in Laos, disappeared shortly after the bank collapsed. The investigation showed strong links between the bank and Hand's CIA superiors in LaosTheodore Shackley and Thomas Clinesas well as with former CIA and Navy Intelligence agent Edwin Wilson.
Wilson's long-time partner, Frank Terpil, explained Nugan Hand's role in the CIA drug wars in a 1983 interview: "Where do the drugs come from? Laos. Who is the boss of Clines? Shackley. Where do they come from? Laos. The pilot...was Secord. What was on the plane? Gold. He was going...to pay off the warlords, the drug lords. Now what do you do with all the opium? You reinvest it in your own operations. Billions of dollarsnot millionsbillions. Where did the money come from? Nugan Hand."