Editing Frank Nugan (section)

==CIA Connections==
	◦	Nugan’s partnership with Hand, who had worked with Air America and CIA operatives like [[Ted Shackley]] in Laos, linked the bank to U.S. intelligence. Hand’s alleged mission to destabilize Australia’s Whitlam government aligned with CIA interests.

	◦	Edwin P. Wilson’s 1974 arms deal through Nugan Hand directly tied Nugan to CIA logistics. Wilson claimed his later Libyan operations, including shipping 20 tons of C-4 explosives, were CIA-sanctioned, implicating the same networks Nugan Hand served.

	◦	The bank’s role in financing anti-communist operations and its obstruction by the CIA during Australian investigations suggest it was a covert asset.