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+category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - NormanCasper
+  - Wackenhut
+  - CastleBank
+  - OperationTradewinds
+  - InternalRevenueService
+  - Bahamas
+  - Informants
+alias:
+  - TW-24
+  - The Friendly Ghost
+summary: "Former Wackenhut detective in Miami who became the paid informant TW-24 of the Internal Revenue Service's Operation Tradewinds and in 1972 approached the president of the Castle Bank in the Bahamas."
+location: "Miami, Florida"
+created: 2026-09-21
+updated: 2026-09-21
+---
+
+Norman Casper was a private detective in [[Miami]], formerly an agent of the [[Wackenhut Corporation]], who worked as a paid informant of the [[Internal Revenue Service]] under the designation TW-24 in [[Operation Tradewinds]], its inquiry into American money in the banks of the [[Bahamas]]. He was known as "the Friendly Ghost." The operation was run in coordination with [[Robert Peloquin]] of [[Intertel]] and [[Henry Petersen]] of the organized crime section of the [[Department of Justice]].[^1]
+
+Casper was used for his "good contacts in the Miami and [[Caribbean]] areas." In October 1972 he met [[Samuel Pierson]], president of the [[Castle Bank and Trust|Castle Bank]], at the Miami airport while posing as a federal narcotics agent. The Castle Bank had been organized by the Miami lawyer [[Paul Helliwell]].[^1]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: Hougan, Jim. *Spooks: The Haunting of America: The Private Use of Secret Agents*. William Morrow, 1978, p. 383 and the chapter on Intertel.