Editing Edwin P. Wilson (section)

==Nugan Hand Bank==
Edwin P. Wilson’s connection to [[Nugan Hand Bank]] stemmed from his role as a CIA operative and private arms dealer. In 1974, while working for the Office of Naval Intelligence’s Task Force 157, Wilson facilitated a deal through Nugan Hand Bank, a CIA-linked Australian bank, to ship 10 million rounds of ammunition and 3,000 weapons to southern Africa. The bank, co-founded by Michael Hand (a former Green Beret and CIA contractor) and Frank Nugan, served as a front for CIA covert operations, laundering money and funding anti-communist activities. Wilson’s front company, World Marine, Inc., likely used Nugan Hand’s financial channels to obscure these transactions. After the bank’s 1980 collapse amid fraud allegations, investigations revealed its ties to CIA operatives, including Wilson’s associate Ted Shackley. No direct evidence confirms Wilson’s ongoing involvement, but his 1974 deal aligns with the bank’s role in covert arms trafficking. His later Libyan scandal and conviction (overturned in 2003) overshadowed this connection, but Nugan Hand’s collapse exposed the murky nexus of CIA operations and private profiteering in which Wilson operated.