Post by marionumber1 on May 2, 2021 12:12:21 GMT -6
Neither Nugan Hand nor A. Michael Pascal (or a corresponding pseudonym) was ever mentioned in "The Ultimate Evil"
The good Professor has teased about Nugan Hand for over a year now.
Supposedly, Nugan Hand is going to be the jump start for The Professor's new YouTube channel/series in the upcoming weeks. I'm in a wait and see pattern as to how this develops.
All I can say is, I am hoping that this is more than Donna Lauria (and her mother) working in the health care industry, Christine Freund working at a Wall Street firm and A. Michael Pascal as an expert in the security field who wrote a book on hospital security procedures. .
I definitely believe that there were motives behind the Lauria and Freund murders and these were directed "hits"
While I don't know of any concrete links to Donna Lauria or Christine Freund, Maury was purportedly told by his prison informant that the cult was engaged in a heroin trafficking operation that corresponds precisely to what Professor Horan found in his own investigation From p.831-832 of the 1999 edition:
While Camaro specialized in this area, Sisman branched out and handled a fair amount of drug dealing. The Children in Westchester used drugs provided by the R. R.-Sisman link and, to some extent, were part of the dope distribution network. (A Yonkers resident has said he occasionally picked up hard drugs from David Berkowitz's apartment.) This narcotics pipeline, Vinny stated, accounted for the presence of Berkowitz and Michael Carr at Sisman's brownstone.
The drug operation, while not large by organized crime standards, managed to accomplish its purpose. Coke was its prime substance and was said to have arrived in New York from South America, via Florida.
Heroin from Southeast Asia was also shipped, Vinny said. "They used hospital and medical connections. [Name withheld] told me they used a hospital and another company in Hawaii as two places that got the shit ready to come to the U.S.— to New York and maybe other places. The heroin was supposed to go into blood or plasma shipments and other hospital accomplices would then handle it here."
Once again, we were looking at medical links.
Vinny, incarcerated in a New York prison, sent me the names and phone numbers of several Hawaiian locations, including a large hospital and a quarrying company. An FBI agent confirmed via the Bureau's Honolulu office that the addresses and phone numbers were in fact accurate. The list did not originate with Berkowitz.
The drug operation, while not large by organized crime standards, managed to accomplish its purpose. Coke was its prime substance and was said to have arrived in New York from South America, via Florida.
Heroin from Southeast Asia was also shipped, Vinny said. "They used hospital and medical connections. [Name withheld] told me they used a hospital and another company in Hawaii as two places that got the shit ready to come to the U.S.— to New York and maybe other places. The heroin was supposed to go into blood or plasma shipments and other hospital accomplices would then handle it here."
Once again, we were looking at medical links.
Vinny, incarcerated in a New York prison, sent me the names and phone numbers of several Hawaiian locations, including a large hospital and a quarrying company. An FBI agent confirmed via the Bureau's Honolulu office that the addresses and phone numbers were in fact accurate. The list did not originate with Berkowitz.
And the Golden Triangle->Hawaii->mainland US pipeline does match up with what is known about Nugan Hand. From Covert Action Information Bulletin Issue 27, "One Man’s Story: The Australian Heroin Connection" by Jerry Meldon, 1987 summer:
In 1975, Brooklyn-born Edward Hunter decided to relocate his family and his quarter-of-a-million dollar Asian art collection from Bangkok to Hawaii. The decision to move his business was partially based on encouragement from his neighbor, Coby Black, and her husband, retired Army General Ed Black. Two years later, Gen. Black would also move to Hawaii and become president of a Nugan Hand Bank affiliate there.
Hunter knew nothing then about the Australian-based Nugan Hand Bank. He was unaware that Nugan Hand’s vice-chairman, ex-Green Beret Michael Hand, would in 1975 arrange a 500-pound heroin shipment from Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle to the U.S. by way of Australia. 1 Nor did he know about a November 1977 Australian Narcotics Bureau report that would link Nugan Hand to a drug smuggling network that “exported some $3 billion [Aust.] worth of heroin from Bangkok prior to June 1976. ” 2
Therefore, Ed Hunter felt only shock and dismay in May, 1976, when the last of his goods arrived in Honolulu, via Australia. That January, three large containers had come from Bangkok, but when they were opened, important ceramic pieces were missing, and some were damaged. Then four months later, an unexpected fourth container appeared. When a curious Customs inspector opened it and discovered not only Hunter’s remaining goods — more damaged — but also a large amount of low-grade lumber, taking up space and weight, both were alarmed. It was very likely. Hunter later came to realize, that the weight and space occupied by the lumber had been taken up by heroin on the first leg of the journey, from Thailand to Australia, where the heroin was removed and the lumber added.
Hunter knew nothing then about the Australian-based Nugan Hand Bank. He was unaware that Nugan Hand’s vice-chairman, ex-Green Beret Michael Hand, would in 1975 arrange a 500-pound heroin shipment from Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle to the U.S. by way of Australia. 1 Nor did he know about a November 1977 Australian Narcotics Bureau report that would link Nugan Hand to a drug smuggling network that “exported some $3 billion [Aust.] worth of heroin from Bangkok prior to June 1976. ” 2
Therefore, Ed Hunter felt only shock and dismay in May, 1976, when the last of his goods arrived in Honolulu, via Australia. That January, three large containers had come from Bangkok, but when they were opened, important ceramic pieces were missing, and some were damaged. Then four months later, an unexpected fourth container appeared. When a curious Customs inspector opened it and discovered not only Hunter’s remaining goods — more damaged — but also a large amount of low-grade lumber, taking up space and weight, both were alarmed. It was very likely. Hunter later came to realize, that the weight and space occupied by the lumber had been taken up by heroin on the first leg of the journey, from Thailand to Australia, where the heroin was removed and the lumber added.
At the same time, heroin from the Golden Triangle was being imported in through US military bases such as Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento (The Courier News (Blytheville AK), "Military Drug Ring Used AF Planes to Move Drugs", 1976/03/26). Coincidentally, CIA/mob hitman Philip Arthur Thompson was closely associated with various personnel at Mather, murdered (in 1975) Ronald E. Winter who was going to testify about illegal weapons smuggling at Mather, and allegedly ran a medical supplies business handling blood supply shipments. Golden State Killer victim Brian Maggiore was a military policeman at Mather during this time period as well...