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- <title>
- Mar. 16, 1992: Spookier Than We Thought
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 16, 1992 Jay Leno
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
- SPOOKIER THAN WE THOUGHT
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- <p>By Jancie Castro/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> The army of investigators probing the corrupt Bank of
- Credit & Commerce has known for months that the CIA kept some
- accounts in First American Bank, B.C.C.I.'s Washington arm. It
- turns out that the CIA and First American were a lot closer than
- that. Government investigators now have proof that First
- American had long been the CIA's principal banker. Some of the
- more than 50 agency accounts uncovered at the bank date back to
- the 1950s. B.C.C.I. owned the CIA's bank for a decade. But since
- Reagan CIA Director William Casey ran a vast back-door operation
- during the 1980s, the full extent of B.C.C.I.'s relationship
- with the intelligence agency may never be known.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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