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Bank of Credit and Commerce International (view source)
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The "Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate" led by Senators [[John Kerry]] and Hank Brown noted that a key strategy of "BCCI's successful secret acquisitions of U.S. banks in the face of regulatory suspicion was its aggressive use of a series of prominent Americans," Clifford among them.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/ The BCCI Affair], A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, 102d Congress 2d Session Senate, December 1992.</ref> Clifford, who prided himself on decades of meticulously ethical civic conduct, summed his predicament up when he told a reporter from the ''New York Times'', "I have a choice of either seeming stupid or venal." Indictments against Clifford had been set aside because of his failing health.
The "Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate" led by Senators [[John Kerry]] and Hank Brown noted that a key strategy of "BCCI's successful secret acquisitions of U.S. banks in the face of regulatory suspicion was its aggressive use of a series of prominent Americans," Clifford among them.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/ The BCCI Affair], A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, 102d Congress 2d Session Senate, December 1992.</ref> Clifford, who prided himself on decades of meticulously ethical civic conduct, summed his predicament up when he told a reporter from the ''New York Times'', "I have a choice of either seeming stupid or venal." Indictments against Clifford had been set aside because of his failing health.
==Pakistani nuclear bomb==
BCCI founder Abedi was committed to the development of an [[Islam]]ic [[atomic bomb]], even donating 500 million rupees for the creation of [[Pakistan]]'s Gulam Ishaq Research Institute for [[nuclear]] development.
BCCI paid the lawyer for Dr. Abdul Qader Khan, head of Pakistan's nuclear program, who a Dutch court convicted in 1983 of stealing the blueprints for a [[uranium]] enrichment factory. Three Pakistanis indicted in [[Houston]] in 1984 had tried to buy nuclear triggers using BCCI gold. A Pakistani-born [[Canadian]], indicted in [[Philadelphia]] in 1987 for [[conspiracy]] to export restricted specialty steel and metal to enhance nuclear explosions, paid for the materials through BCCI Toronto.
==See also==
==See also==