In banks we trust

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From Chase Manhattan's basement to a storefront bank in an Oklahoma shopping center : the hazards of gambling with other people's money

The arrogance of Citibank, or how bankers hoodwink their regulators and endanger the U.S. economy

How lax management invites criminal infiltrators and bank robberies

Nugan Hand: murder and the good old boys of the CIA

Florida's bent bankers, the CIA, mobsters, and offshore havens

Miami: port of entry for cocaine and marijuana; U.S. headquarters of Latin-American terrorists and Cuban-Colombian drug merchants: the country's most fear-haunted city

The banking industry booms in Florida as dope smugglers and related villains need laundries for their cartons of cash: how easy it is for a crook, particularly an alien crook, to buy a bank, and why U.S. law enforcement agencies cannot stop them

The World Finance Corporation, a spectacular scam with a pinstripe name: how a glib Cuban refugee built an international pyramid on money laundering and tax evasion, abetted by the CIA, Fidel Castro, right-wing terrorists, and Arab potentates

Razzle-dazzle banking reaches the Vatican, as Archbishop Marcinkus involves the Holy City in the schemes of Italian fascists, the Sicilian Mafia, and Latin American death squads: an example of the high cost of credulity

The Vatican resists its creditors and throws a chill into world banking

The big commercial banks find that lending money to Third World countries is a habit hard to break: Ronald Reagan rides to their rescue with taxpayers' money

Conclusion