BCCI - The CIA Bank Of Mujahadeen Heroin, Iran-Contra Cocaine, And Black Market Islamic Nukes

By early 1985, the CIA knew more about BCCI's goals and intentions concerning the U.S. banking system than anyone else in government, and provided that information to the U.S. Treasury and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, neither of whom had the responsibility for regulating the First American Bank that BCCI had taken over. The CIA failed to provide the critical information it had gathered to the correct users of the information -- the Federal Reserve and the Justice Department.

After the CIA knew that BCCI was as an institution a fundamentally corrupt criminal enterprise, it continued to use both BCCI and First American, BCCI's secretly held U.S. subsidiary, for CIA operations.

While the reporting concerning BCCI by the CIA was in some respects impressive -- especially in its assembling of the essentials of BCCI's criminality, its secret purchase of First American by 1985, and its extensive involvement in money laundering -- there were also remarkable gaps in the CIA's reported knowledge about BCCI.

Former CIA officials, including former CIA director Richard Helms and the late William Casey; former and current foreign intelligence officials, including Kamal Adham and Abdul Raouf Khalil; and principal foreign agents of the U.S., such as Adnan Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar, float in and out of BCCI at critical times in its history, and participate simultaneously in the making of key episodes in U.S. foreign policy, ranging from the Camp David peace talks to the arming of Iran as part of the Iran/Contra affair. Yet the CIA has continued to maintain that it has no information regarding any involvement of these people, raising questions about the quality of intelligence the CIA is receiving generally, or its candor with the Subcommittee. The CIA's professions of total ignorance about their respective roles in BCCI are out of character with the Agency's early knowledge of many critical aspects of the bank's operations, structure, personnel, and history.

The errors made by the CIA in connection with its handling of BCCI were complicated by its handling of this Congressional investigation. Initial information that was provided by the CIA was untrue; later information that was provided was incomplete; and the Agency resisted providing a "full" account about its knowledge of BCCI until almost a year after the initial requests for the information. These experiences suggest caution in concluding that the information provided to date is full and complete. The relationships among former CIA personnel and BCCI front men and nominees, including Kamal Adham, Abdul Khalil, and Mohammed Irvani, requires further investigation.

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[phoebus1966]

The 2009 movie THE INTERNATIONAL with Naomi Watts and Clive Owen is a partly fictionalised movie around this BCCI bank and what it did. They name it IBBC. In the dvd extra's the filmmaker explaines how the story was born and elaborates on the BCCI's role in developing the theme of the movie.

[IranContraScumDid911]

@phoebus1966 I'll have to watch that one. This bank has tendrils in drugs, terror, fraud, cocaine, Afghanistan, Iraq, CIA, ISI, UK, MI5, illegal islamic and North Korean nukes, Clinton, Bush, Libya ....... you name it.

[phoebus1966]

@...didit911 I know, came to know about it a couple of years ago. Via Clinton and Mena and Obstruction of Justice vids.

The movie might be a little bit different than what you may expect.

[FreedumbFighter28]

I love your descriptions for these vids...I hope you stick them together in a playlist cause its really well done brother. They need to all be together to keep context and continuity..

Great work..:-)