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Nick Deak, known as “the James Bond of money,” founded the company in 1947 with the financial backing of the CIA. For more than three decades the company had functioned as an unofficial arm of the intelligence agency and was a key asset in the execution of U.S. Cold War foreign policy.
From humble beginnings as a spook front and flower import business, the firm grew to become the largest currency and precious metals firm in the Western Hemisphere, if not the world.
Lang had returned. Frances Lauder let out a fearful “Oh—” shortened by two bangs from a .38 revolver. The first bullet missed. The second struck the secretary between the eyes and exited out the back of her skull. Deak, fit and trim at age 80, bounded out of his office. “What was that?” he shouted.
Lang saw him and turned the corner with purpose, aiming the pistol with both arms. When she had Deak in her sights, she froze, transfixed. “It was as if she’d finally found what she was looking for,” a witness later testified. Deak seized the pause to lunge and grab Lang’s throat with both hands, pressing his body into hers.
She fired once next to Deak’s ear and missed wide, before pushing him away just enough to bring the gun into his body and land a shot above his heart. The bullet ricocheted off his collarbone and shredded his organs.
Deak crumbled onto the floor. “Now you’ve got yours,” said Lang.
From Homecoming Queen to Homeless Killer
A witness later claimed she took out a camera and snapped photographs of her victim’s expiring body. The bag lady then grabbed the banker by the legs, dragged him into his office, and shut the door.
One of Deak’s executives, Theana Kastens, remembers dropping by 29 Broadway and seeing a freshman congressman named Chuck Schumer sitting in Deak’s office chair, his feet up on the desk, rifling through papers.
Lang has been in Bedford Hills state prison ever since. Her longtime attorney is deceased. She has grown a beard like a billy goat and ignores all interview requests. Her most recent parole interview was last August. Like every previous date, she failed to attend.
originally posted by: FlyingSquirrel
You're trying to tie Schumer to MK-Ultra brainwashed assassin stories of conspiracy theorist fame because someone remembers stopping by a congressman's office for a reason not given in 1947?
You know that there could've been a million reasons for needing to do so that have nothing to do with it right? Schumer was in on it I'll bet. He arranged for the assassins to go in and kill Epstein while everyone thinks it was the Clintons.
I know a few more things about them,” he said. “But this gets a little dicey. I don’t know how to play that game. I don’t want to be the next target.”
originally posted by: SouthernGift
Some serious synchronicity in that story with recent explorations of my own, and thankfully it’s not the billy goats beard. 🐐
🥂
originally posted by: The GUT
We know that the CIA has long been in the business of implanting their operatives across the political and bureaucratic landscape. Looks like Chuck Schumer is one of them and knows from experience about getting someone “Six ways from Sunday.”
This is a bizarre and extremely fascinating story that starts in the very strange year of 1947…
Nick Deak, known as “the James Bond of money,” founded the company in 1947 with the financial backing of the CIA. For more than three decades the company had functioned as an unofficial arm of the intelligence agency and was a key asset in the execution of U.S. Cold War foreign policy.
From humble beginnings as a spook front and flower import business, the firm grew to become the largest currency and precious metals firm in the Western Hemisphere, if not the world.
…and comes to somewhat of a conclusion in a Wall Street firm in 1985 with the gory blood-spattered bodies of a secretary and CIA bagman extraordinaire Nick Deak.
Lang had returned. Frances Lauder let out a fearful “Oh—” shortened by two bangs from a .38 revolver. The first bullet missed. The second struck the secretary between the eyes and exited out the back of her skull. Deak, fit and trim at age 80, bounded out of his office. “What was that?” he shouted.
Lang saw him and turned the corner with purpose, aiming the pistol with both arms. When she had Deak in her sights, she froze, transfixed. “It was as if she’d finally found what she was looking for,” a witness later testified. Deak seized the pause to lunge and grab Lang’s throat with both hands, pressing his body into hers.
She fired once next to Deak’s ear and missed wide, before pushing him away just enough to bring the gun into his body and land a shot above his heart. The bullet ricocheted off his collarbone and shredded his organs.
Deak crumbled onto the floor. “Now you’ve got yours,” said Lang.
From Homecoming Queen to Homeless Killer
A witness later claimed she took out a camera and snapped photographs of her victim’s expiring body. The bag lady then grabbed the banker by the legs, dragged him into his office, and shut the door.
This is a strange and almost unbelievable spy-tale with MK-ULTRA of all things taking a role. Quite possibly a Starring role.
Where does Chuck Schumer fit in in saga that spans Lockheed bribe money to the Japanese Yakuza to Columbian Cartels and so. much. more.
One of Deak’s executives, Theana Kastens, remembers dropping by 29 Broadway and seeing a freshman congressman named Chuck Schumer sitting in Deak’s office chair, his feet up on the desk, rifling through papers.
CIA Operative Senator Chuck "Tears of a Clown" Schumer.
Lois Lang Most Recent Pic
Lang has been in Bedford Hills state prison ever since. Her longtime attorney is deceased. She has grown a beard like a billy goat and ignores all interview requests. Her most recent parole interview was last August. Like every previous date, she failed to attend.
This saga is an extremely wild ride that I can’t even begin to convey here and must be read to be appreciated. If you do skip around make sure you don’t miss the MK-ULTRA connections part.
James Bond and the killer bag lady
Nicholas Deak, principal of Deak-Perera, a banking firm in New York specializing in precious metals and foreign exchange in the 1970s, was of Hungarian origin. He worked for OSS (predecessor of the CIA) during World War II out of his base in Switzerland. He has told me that agents operating in enemy territory were issued gold coins. Later in the Vietnam War American airmen were also issued gold coins. In each case the idea was that gold might buy them freedom in case they were captured, something that paper money would be decidedly unable to accomplish.
Deak believed that the top brass at the Fed carried part of their personal savings in the form of gold coins. They certainly appear to understand gold better than Krugman.
One significant organizer of the post-war global drug connection -- between CIA, organized crime, and their mutual interest in drug-trafficking -- was former OSS officer Paul L.E. Helliwell. Helliwell, who was head of the Special Intelligence branch of OSS in Kunming, and later an officer of OPC and the CIA, was simultaneously the owner of the Bank of Perrine in Key West, Florida, "a two-time laundromat for the Lansky mob and the CIA," and its sister Bank of Cutler Ridge. Here we shall see a number of interrelated mob-CIA money-laundering banks in the global drug connection, of which the greatest was undoubtedly the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
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The most common explanation is that the CIA not only used the bank, but had helped develop it. Journalists Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin, the authors of the definitive book on BCCI, speculated that the CIA�s relationship with its founder, Agha Hasan Abedi, might have gone back to before BCCI�s founding in 1972. They observed also that BCCI was only the latest in an overlapping series of money-laundering banks that did services for the CIA � Deak & Company, Castle Bank & Trust, and Nugan Hand.
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The CIA office in Chiang Mai, when the main business of the city was opium trafficking, was on the same floor as the local office of the DEA. According to Jonathan Kwitny, "The DEA receptionist answered Nugan Hand�s phone and took messages when the bank�s representatives were out." Nugan Hand�s representative there, Neil Evans has said he was present when Michael Hand and Ron Pulger-Frame � the former Deak & Company courier who went to work at Nugan Hand � discussed the shipment of CIA money to the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, and Panama. Evans has said Nugan Hand moved $50 to $60 million at a time for the CIA, and also that Nugan Hand was involved in Third World arms deals.
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-- The interlocking finance company Deak & Company, founded by OSS veteran Nicholas Deak, "was reportedly used by the CIA to finance covert operations, including the 1953 overthrow of democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq."
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-- The overthrow of democratically elected Indonesian President Sukarno in 1965 was achieved in part by covert assistance through Lockheed Corporation payoffs, and in part by the intervention of Sasakawa Ryoichi, a CIA agent of influence, along with his friend Kodama Yoshio, with the yakuza in Japan. Sasakawa and Kodama were also recipients of Lockheed payoffs facilitated partly by Deak & Company, and partly on the scene by Shig Katayama, whose ID Corp. in the Cayman Islands conducted mysterious business transactions with Helliwell�s Castle Bank.
“To the acidheads of San Francisco, '___' offered the experience of melted psychological boundaries and the feeling of oneness; to rural communards, the birch-bark crib offered a way to put oneself between industry and nature, and to build an artifact that unified the two realms. In its time, the Apple-I also offered much more than a simple hobbyist’s experiment. It presented a chance to repurpose high technologies and so to extend the individual’s reach into the universe of information.”
Though he didn’t use the term, Roszak also saw this experimentation with technologies of consciousness as a distinguishing characteristic of the counterculture. “If we accept the proposition that the counter culture is, essentially, an exploration of the politics of consciousness,”