Noah Colwin

In some instances, it was shown to get to people like Adnan Khashoggi was connected in part to one, at least one I know.

BCCI, the Pakistani bank, is another financial entity that comes into being during this period, or at least rises to prominence and participates in a lot of these deals.

And I think you can look at Jeffrey Epstein and the involvement of somebody like Wes Wexner years down the line and their connections to these kinds of figures as sort of an example of what is happening more generally in this period, in the 1980s, where you have as a matter of the policy shifts.

of the reagan administration and what we think of as sort of you know i i would argue like the beginnings of the neoliberal era involve uh you know allowing for the rise of you know these kinds of entrepreneurs not just of war clearly but also of intelligence and uh who straddle the you know like the the the world above and you know give rides to people like bill clinton but who are and who were able to make their money by you know their adjacency by dint of their adjacency and their relationships

to people who were tied to and ran some of the much darker stuff.

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