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The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA Paperback – January 1, 1988

by Jonathan Kwitny (Author)
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
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Show how American defense and intelligence were involved in an operation that promoted the drug trade, tax evasion, and gun running
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  1. Print length
    424 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Touchstone Books
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1988
  5. ISBN-10
    0671666371
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0671666378
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Names Names
    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2016
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    Details CIA operations and how they set up a world-wide heroin smuggling operation, and how they expanded into other drug markets. The "War on Drugs" is nothing but a way to get rid of CIA's competition.
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  • Susan H
    5.0 out of 5 stars Something every American should know.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2015
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    Read this book when it first came out, and again now as a refresher of sorts. Been one of those folks in my past. it is just interesting. The book was way ahead for its time.
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  • Philip Lumley
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2014
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    Very interesting reading about corruption and crime in governments,FBI,CIA, In Australia and the USA.
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  • doug hawkins
    5.0 out of 5 stars my view on book so far.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2013
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    finding book excellent so far after only six chapters.extremely well researched and well written,especially in relation to explaining to readers the slight differences between the goverment systems and cultures of australia and america.
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  • Tim H
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2016
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    Thirty years old, still the essential text on the Nugan Hand scandal, along with 'Merchants of Menace".
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  • Don Yarber, Author
    5.0 out of 5 stars Like New
    Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2011
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    Book received within time frame indicated and it was in "like new" condition, no dogeared pages, clean and just like it came off the press.
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  • TLR
    5.0 out of 5 stars A glimpse at the secret government
    Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2013
    Michael John Hand was a Green Beret war hero, CIA operative in Laos and Vietnam, vice-chairman and half-owner of Nugan Hand bank (which he formed with Frank Nugan in Australia in 1973), and friend of drug runners and military officials. He and many of his associates were closely connected with Air America.

    Their bank was very close to criminals, dictators and their dirty money. After Nugan's death, Hand testified that it was all Nugan's fault, but he believed that his partner had been murdered. Hand revealed that the formerly wealthy business was now insolvent. After Nugan's death, Hand and "a team of former US military operatives in Southeast Asia" ransacked his office looking for incriminating files.

    Nugan joined up with Hand around 1970. During this period Hand spent a lot of time in Southeast Asia; he was known as a devout anti-communist. The Nugan Hand Bank was started in 6/1973, and was a prominent operation by 1975. Nugan Hand routinely violated Australia's laws restricting the export of capital from the country. The bank had great references from respectable firms, such as the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., and even the US Commerce Dept.

    Their were four major official investigations of Nugan Hand in Australia; "a royal commission that had been appointed to investigate drug trafficking, but that kept running into Nugan Hand and lacked authority and manpower on its own to open that huge can of worms." They faced stonewalling by US authorities as well. William Colby, through his law firm Reid & Priest, did work for Nugan Hand and was apparently friendly with both men. The Bank never seemed to operate like a real bank, instead sucking in peoples' money and making it disappear. An Australian task force on drug trafficking issued a report on Nugan Hand in 1983, but important passages were censored, including a section called "Nugan Hand in Thailand." A former employee, Neil Evans, later told the press that Nugan Hand was an intermediary between the CIA and various drug rings. Declassified FBI files on Nugan Hand are also heavily censored.
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  • anarchteacher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Jonathan Kwitny's Exceptional Investigative Reporting Masterpiece
    Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2016
    Almost lost within the Iran-Contra scandal which almost brought down the Reagan administration in the 1980s, was this mysterious story of the Nugan Hand Bank, where an international network of U. S. generals, admirals, and CIA men, including former director William Colby, were involved in a vast clandestine operation that engaged in narcotics trafficking, tax evasion, gun running and arms sales, and swindling American citizens and countless others out of millions of dollars.
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  • colin stephenson
    5.0 out of 5 stars History
    Reviewed in Australia on September 10, 2018
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    Factual insight
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  • May Shaw
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2014
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    This is a book about something I know a little about, and wanted to find out more. It gave me that more and posed a few new questions. A real series of events that reads like a fictional thriller.
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  • kiron mittra
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 3, 2016
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    A bit boring for reading,
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