Firm says stolen software helped bin Laden plot 9/11 (PROMIS CHARGES APPARENTLY CORROBORATED)

The Washington Times ^ | January 6, 2003 | Jerry Seper

[Betty Jo]

Can you explain "Crimes of the Patriots" to me?

[Betty Jo]

Freddy, you better be careful,ya never can tell who may be watching or listening or hacking or backdooring!

Remember the connection to INSLAW and PROMIS and Vincy Foster?

[mgstarr]

There was nothing about 9-11 that required complicated technology. That's why it worked. Take a well thought out plan and exploit some amazingly weak links - the INS and the minimum wage airport security people. This wasn't rocket science.

All this conspiracy nonsense is a bunch of cr@p.

[swarthyguy]

And same cast of banks....BCCI, BNL, Nugan Hand....

The cooperation during the anti Soviet Jihaad now comes back to haunt us.....

[aristeides]

You don't think being able to track U.S. agencies' investigations would have been useful to people planning 9/11?

[swarthyguy]

Kwitny, Jonathan. The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA. New York: W.W. Norton, 1987. 424 pages.
When Frank Nugan was found dead in Australia in 1980, it was accepted as a suicide and the sighs of relief could almost be heard in Langley, on the other side of the globe. But then William Colby's business card was found in Nugan's wallet, and Nugan's partner, Michael Hand, had been a contract agent for the CIA in Vietnam. Australian authorities began tracking Nugan Hand Bank, which developed into the most fun story of Golden Triangle drugs, money-laundering, profiteering, corporate shell games, and financial fraud that has yet surfaced in the CIA's unofficial history.
The most intriguing aspect of Nugan Hand Bank was the list of Yankees who were in on the scam. Theodore Shackley, Richard Secord, Thomas Clines, and Edwin Wilson played peripheral roles, while Gen. Edwin Black ran the Nugan Hand Hawaii office, Gen. Erle Cocke ran the Washington office, Gen. LeRoy Manor ran the Philippine office, Colby was their lawyer, former CIA deputy director Walter McDonald was a consultant, Adm. Earl Yates was president of Nugan Hand, and Robert Jantzen, a former CIA station chief in Thailand, got out of Nugan Hand when he smelled drugs. He needn't have bothered; apart from Kwitny's Wall Street Journal articles in 1982, Nugan Hand received little coverage and no official interest in the U.S., perhaps because evidence was lacking that it was a direct CIA proprietary.
ISBN 0-393-02387-7

[mgstarr]

"You don't think being able to track U.S. agencies' investigations would have been useful to people planning 9/11? "

No - the plan was far too simple. That's why it worked. For all his other attributes, Bin Laden understood what the acronym K.I.S.S. means.