Reply #132: Time Magazine July 29, 1991 "The Dirtiest Bank Of All" - BCCI

[EVDebs]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,973481,00.html

"B.C.C.I. even accomplished a Stealth-like invasion of the U.S. banking industry by secretly buying First American Bankshares, a Washington-based holding company with offices stretching from Florida to New York, whose chairman is former U.S. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford."

Did those ties ever go away ? What is First American doing nowadays, hmmm ? Largest database in the US and world ? That's very useful for those who want a central place to mess people over, kinda like a one-stop-shop for 'the goods' on anybody you're really after. But stop and think, would a third world terrorist really need to get on First American's database or would he/she avoid it like the plague ? The latter, of course. So if First American's database is mined for TIA by 'intelligence', who's really being terrorized now ? Seems safe to say the lawabiding citizens not the perps.

Ironic huh ?

The dataprocessing end of First American's operations had a Perot link too back in 1991

Perot Systems signs two multi-million clients - Robert Plan Corp., First American Bankshares Inc
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1991_April_8/ai_10575304

but I don't know if things have changed since then...

More research is needed here to get to the bottom of his well.