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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Australia.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Australia
+  - NuganHand
+  - Intelligence
+  - DrugTrafficking
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Australia is the country where Nugan Hand Bank, the CIA-connected financial institution co-founded by Michael Hand and Frank Nugan, operated until its 1980 collapse amid drug trafficking and intelligence connections, after which Hand disappeared with alleged CIA assistance."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Austria.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Austria
+  - UNFDAC
+  - PROMIS
+  - DrugControl
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Austria is a Central European country whose capital Vienna hosts the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC), which was a funding conduit for the purchase of PROMIS software by Middle Eastern drug control agencies."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Cyprus.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Cyprus
+  - Intelligence
+  - DrugTrafficking
+  - 1980s
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Cyprus is an Eastern Mediterranean island nation whose capital Nicosia, through the DEA/CIA front company Euramae Trading, served during the 1980s as a hub for Bekaa Valley heroin transit, PROMIS software sales to Middle Eastern countries, and CIA arms dealer communications."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Fiji.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Fiji
+  - NuganHand
+  - MichaelHand
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Fiji is a Pacific island nation that served as the first destination for Michael Hand's June 14, 1980 flight out of Australia under a false identity after Nugan Hand Bank's collapse."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Hungary.md

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   - SovietUnion
   - 1950s
   - 1960s
+summary: "Hungary is a Central European country and Soviet-bloc satellite state from 1945 to 1989 whose 1956 revolution against Soviet control was crushed by Red Army intervention."
 category: "Country"
 location: "Central Europe"
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Jordan.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Jordan
+  - Banking
+  - MiddleEast
+  - FIDCO
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Jordan is a Middle Eastern country whose capital Amman is home to the Arab Bank Limited, which under Chairman Abdul Majeed Shoman expressed willingness to process multi-billion-dollar reconstruction fund transfers connected to FIDCO and Lebanon-related covert finance operations."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Kuwait.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Kuwait
+  - PROMIS
+  - DEA
+  - MiddleEast
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Kuwait is a Gulf state identified by DEA informant Lester Coleman as one of the Middle Eastern countries where the DEA used Euramae Trading Company to sell PROMIS software to drug abuse control agencies."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Laos.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Laos
+  - CIA
+  - GoldenTriangle
+  - DrugTrafficking
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Laos is a Southeast Asian country that served as the theater for a secret CIA war and intelligence-connected drug trafficking operations in the Golden Triangle, where vault subjects Ted Shackley, Tom Clines, Michael Hand, and Bo Gritz all operated."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Liechtenstein.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Liechtenstein
+  - Banking
+  - FrontCompany
+  - Khashoggi
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Liechtenstein is a small Central European principality known for banking secrecy, where arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi established front companies alongside Swiss entities to handle commissions from Iran-Contra arms deals."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Pakistan.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Pakistan
+  - Arms
+  - Afghanistan
+  - Riconosciuto
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Pakistan is a South Asian country that served as the primary logistical base for CIA-coordinated Mujahideen supply during the Soviet-Afghan War, including Michael Riconosciuto's rocket reconfiguration program at the Pakistan Ordnance Works."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Philippines.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Philippines
+  - Intelligence
+  - SoutheastAsia
+  - RobertBoothNichols
 category: "Country"
 summary: "The Philippines is a Southeast Asian archipelago nation whose Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence Ignacio Paz used Robert Booth Nichols to move large government funds into Swiss bank accounts."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Singapore.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Singapore
+  - SoutheastAsia
+  - BoGritz
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Singapore is a Southeast Asian city-state that Patrick Moriarty paid Bo Gritz to visit as part of a cover business involving CIA-connected oil interests between China and Indonesia."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Switzerland.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Switzerland
+  - Banking
+  - FrontCompany
+  - Khashoggi
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Switzerland is a European country whose banking secrecy laws made it the primary offshore jurisdiction for Iran-Contra arms dealer commissions, BCCI front operations, and Adnan Khashoggi's front companies, before Khashoggi was arrested there in 1988."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Syria.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Syria
+  - DrugTrafficking
+  - MiddleEast
+  - Assad
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Syria is a Middle Eastern country whose Hafez al-Assad government controlled the Bekaa Valley heroin trade, maintained back-channel relations with Washington during the hostage crisis, and appears in this vault through its drug trafficking networks and connections to Lebanon-based intelligence operations."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Taiwan.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Taiwan
+  - CIA
+  - EastAsia
+  - RobertBoothNichols
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Taiwan is an East Asian island state that CIA proprietary runner Art Suchesk repeatedly encountered Robert Booth Nichols in over a two-year period after the Los Angeles FBI dropped its investigation of Nichols."
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60 - PLACES/COUNTRIES/Turkey.md

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+tags:
+  - Country
+  - Turkey
+  - Arms
+  - Riconosciuto
+  - Gunderson
 category: "Country"
 summary: "Turkey is a country that was discussed in the context of a military joint venture to produce specialized ammunition."
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