• 149. The Triads, the CIA, and the Nugan Hand Bank with Peter Butt

  • May 27 2024
  • Length: 1 hr
  • Podcast

149. The Triads, the CIA, and the Nugan Hand Bank with Peter Butt

  • Summary

  • This weak Justin chats with Peter Butt. Peter is an author and award -winning documentary filmmaker. He is the founder of Blackwattle Films and his work has appeared on BBC, National Geographic, The History Channel and elsewhere. Peter has focused particularly on the Cold War, the nuclear arms race and espionage activities, particularly in Australia. Today he discusses his work investigating Frank Nugan and Michael John Hand, founders of the Nugan Hand Bank. Their small financial institution quickly grew and opened branches all over Asia and Australia and financed drug smugglers, arms traffickers, and clandestine intelligence operation, but it all came to a head in 1980 with law enforcement investigations, the death of one of the founders, and the disappearance of the other.

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    Check out Peter's book, Merchants of Menace, here.

    https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Menace-Story-Nugan-Scandal/dp/0992325285

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