Fugitive Nugan Hand CIA Banker (Was) Alive & Well in Idaho Falls

Based on the extant corruption and criminality that defines the United States financial system, and revelations that the US government has been factually/verifiably involved in illegal arms-for-drug running operations via the DEA-CIA and Justice Department for many years, let’s note that Michael Jon Hand (alias Michael Jon Fuller) of the failed Nugan Hand CIA drug-running bank, was alive and well in Idaho Falls, until 2020. US internet searches provide no context for Hand’s death, probably because the US government provided Hand with the new identity of “Fuller” after he fled Australia in 1980.

The foregoing is not news, known about for years. And unlike Assange, Michael Jon Hand aka “Fuller” had nothing to worry about. That’s because the number one “eye” of the Five Eyes happily ignores crimes of CIA men who tear apart Vietnamese people during a filthy war – for which Hand incredibly received a DSC – a war provoked by an unelected US ‘president’ who should have never been, and a war which should have never been.

Peter Butt’s brilliant investigatory work led to identifying Hand’s whereabouts, as far back as 1991:

Link: https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/nugan-hand-bank-mystery-michael-hand-found-living-in-the-united-states-20151108-gkthas.html

Coincidentally, 1991 was the year investigative reporter Danny Casolaro was murdered for what he discovered about crimes of “the Octopus”, or what we call the Deep State today. Of many connections, Danny is reported to have claimed that Nugan Hand bank and BCCI bank had verifiable links and connection.

A link between BCCI and Nugan Hand likely existed in the form of Marc Rich (now deceased) who was involved in illegal arms deals to Iran during the 1970’s, illegal arms deals which both Nugan Hand and BCCI were involved in.

Link https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jun/26/marc-rich-commodities-trader-fugitive-dies

[Marc Rich was pardoned by Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001, just hours before Clinton left office. If any more proof is needed that the US Executive is simply cover for governmental criminal operations on behalf of Oligarchs and Plutocrats who bankroll its federal candidates – of either political party – start there. ..ed.]

By 1991 Danny Casolaro probed many of the moving parts of this covert machine, notably related to Iran contra criminals such as Richard Secord and covert CIA banker Thomas Clines, both notorious CIA financial criminals. The connection between Nugan Hand’s drug-running for the CIA funded arms supplied to South Africa’s Botha regime. Later Secord setup STTGI (Stanford Technology Trading Group International) which funded illegal weapons sales via Israel to Iran, re Iran’s war with Iraq during the 1980’s with BCCI as the go-between bank.

Link: https://irp.fas.org/offdocs/walsh/chap_08.htm

As for Danny Casolaro, his work died with him when his manuscript and notes disappeared at the time of his murder in 1991. But fragments have survived. Casolaro discovered that BCCI and Nugan Hand were connected to CIA drug deals for arms, arms supplied to rogue regimes. This author’s belief is that BCCI and Nugan Hand had identical business models, but direct links between the two banks cannot be proven. If Casolaro found a link between BCCI and Nugan Hand banks, that knowledge died with him.

Even so, material on Iran contra and the Iran hostage crisis exists, but little has been written about how those covert ops were financed. That’s precisely analogous to 911, where the Zelikow 911 commission refused to consider how the New York attacks were financed.

While Casolaro concentrated on the factual INSLAW/PROMIS software theft by the US Department of Justice, Casolaro linked George Wackenhut, the DEA, CIA and Cabazon tribe too, via informant Robert Booth Nichols. Nichols was factually linked to corrupt political operatives/ contractors as key accessories, to the poisonous contract Security State that has evolved over decades. That construct has become the toxic and exceedingly dangerous US Security State of today, and notably Casolaro was killed for the connections he ultimately uncovered/discovered regarding it, decades before.

So let’s step back and consider the plight of the US security state at the time of its defeat in Vietnam, when Nugan Hand and BCCI banks were founded. After the Vietnam defeat, the CIA and US covert operations suffered from bad morale, a bad reputation, and an unusually inquisitive Congress in the form of the Church Committee. The Church Committee’s brief was to investigate the CIA’s bungling and atrocities, such as the Lamumba affair, Laos, Korea, Bay of Pigs (JFK killing), U2 debacle, Arbenz, Allende assassination (Chile), Vietnam, and many more.

Back then, the CIA’s criminal enterprises were covered by the notorious liar and cheat Dick Helms, who lied and deceived Congress during those difficult years, to cover for the Agency’s wayward ways. So, funding of CIA assassinations, regime change, illegal arms deals and covert ops was not as easy then as it is now. Today a compliant and equally corrupt US Congress will acquiesce to any Security State demand, no matter how Machiavellian, vile, corrupt, or criminal.

But at that time, federal-sponsored covert weapons and drug deals had nowhere to go without funding; the Federal Reserve would not simply create billions of dollars out of thin air to fund covert arms deals and black ops, as it does now. Likewise, the US military had to be involved in the criminality somehow, and that was the template for BCCI and Nugan Hand financing.

During the difficult years for the CIA, the CIA funded its heinous acts by trading arms for drugs, particularly related to the Laos war, but also in Burma, Thailand, ie the “Golden Triangle’ …to fund covert operations. The CIA factually ran drugs to Australia, the USA, and Europe to fund and supply arms for the various covert and insanely nefarious regime change criminal enterprises the CIA was involved in, and has always been involved in, throughout its sordid, tawdry history. We see the tragic results today where the entire world is on the verge of nuclear war, and generation shave been ruined by drug abuse.

But most importantly, during the 1970’s and 80’s the CIA required the services of banks outside the USA to do their dirty work, since the CIA was under such scrutiny by US Congress. Hence, the evolution of CIA-connected BCCI/Nugan Hand and their financial crimes are epitomized by the collective west’s foul/toxic culture of militarism — then as now. The US government financed — and still finances — illegal weapons deals, where global destabilization is an accepted norm, no longer considered a matter of controversy, as federal governmental duplicity/corruption was considered controversial years ago.

As such, understanding the Nugan Hand/BCCI criminality and its intersection with US military and intelligence services after 1980, provides a context to appreciate US federal government militarist covert operations and their corruption today.

Suicide Frank Nugan and his associate Michael Hand swindled many millions at a time when millions were “worth swindling”, ie during the 1970’s, until 1980. Hand aka Fuller died in 2020, and as a former CIA operative who worked for Bill Colby it’s no wonder US ‘law’ refused to touch him.. An Australian warrant existed, but Hand was considered an US “intelligence asset” and the Australian government as timid about rocking the security state’s boat. The word “Justice” is simply not in the US vocabulary, an eventuality to whit Hand must – may he rest in disgrace – be forever grateful.

Hand – aka Fuller – lived in Idaho Falls for years and was founder/operator of “Top Knives”

Link: https://www.topsknives.com/

Unfortunately, the collective west’s predilection for hegemonic power via militarism, war, terror and destruction is a monopoly the collective west has been proud of for decades. That pride of arms is a deadly sin which has brought the west to the verge of catastrophe, and will eventually spell its own demise.

As for Hand? He lived out his criminal days under the protection of the “Five Eyes” … never having been brought to justice.

Reading: Merchants of Menace by Peter Butt