Merchants of Menace
by Peter Butt
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"Guns, drug money and the CIA... These were not your average bankers. This was not your average bank.Tags
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Essentially a retread of Jonathan Kwitnys 1987 book The Crimes of Patriots + the summary in Alfred McCoys 2nd edition of Politics of Heroin, with a few extra bits of gossip thrown in.
The only new material is Michael Hands discovery in America and even that's rushed. It occupies the final few papers. No explanation of how Hand was found. Little more than a mention is made of ASIS being aware of his location in the early 1980s (CIA contractor in Central America) and nothing of the mail box The Canberra Times found in 1990.
No new exploration of, never mind answers to, what the Nugan Hand Bank was doing in Australia.
Read it if you can't get a hold of Kwitnys book or want to slog through the Royal Commissions.
The only new material is Michael Hands discovery in America and even that's rushed. It occupies the final few papers. No explanation of how Hand was found. Little more than a mention is made of ASIS being aware of his location in the early 1980s (CIA contractor in Central America) and nothing of the mail box The Canberra Times found in 1990.
No new exploration of, never mind answers to, what the Nugan Hand Bank was doing in Australia.
Read it if you can't get a hold of Kwitnys book or want to slog through the Royal Commissions.
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- Frank Nugan; Michael Hand
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- English
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