Icke / Tier 4 — The Captured Institutions and Their Instruments / financial
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
Where each worldview places it
The successor of Tibor Rosenbaum's BCI and, per Icke, "a major player in the drug money laundering network" for the Elite elements within the CIA, British Intelligence and "Israel's (or the Rothschild's) Mossad"[1]. It links George Bush and Bill Clinton[2].
- Aliases
- BCCIBank of Crooks and Criminals
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Lineage
- Banque De Credit International → BCCI (its "successor")[1].
- Dates
- formed early 1970s
- 1972 (seed money in Pakistan)
- 1988 (funds Dukakis)
- crashed 1991[1]
- Places
- Key events
- 1972: founded in Pakistan with most of its money from the Bank of America and the CIA
- Jackson Stephens is one of its founders[3]
- 1988: one of the major financiers of the Michael Dukakis campaign[1]
- secretly and illegally takes over the First American Bank of Washington and owns 28% of CenTrust[1]
- 1991: collapses
- the Kerry and Bingham inquiries and the Bank of England cover up[1]
- Members / notable people
- Alfred Hartmann (managing director of its Swiss branch, a Rothschild man) (AT-17-2)Jackson Stephens (founder) (AT-17-2, AT-17-3)Ghaith Pharaon (front man) (AT-17-2)Gaph Feherton (the man behind it, per a contact) (AT-17-2)Clark Clifford and Robert Altman (lawyers)[1]Price Waterhouse (auditors for nearly 20 years) (AT-17-2)Andrew Young (paid to promote it) (AT-17-2)Abu Dhabi (principal owners at the collapse) (AT-17-2)Jeb Bush and James Lake (dealings)[1]Orrin Hatch (supporter) (AT-17-2)
- Author's claims · 6
- 01It financed covert operations, coups, terrorist groups like Abu Nidal, Iran-Contra and Saddam Hussein[1].
- 02According to Sherman Skolnick, "Bush, Saddam Hussein and others, used the BCCI to split $250 billion in oil 'kick backs'"[1].
- 03"BCCI financed the Democratic Party in the United States", the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and Jimmy Carter's charity and foreign travel[1].
- 04George Soros, "the Rothschild 'gofer'", was allegedly involved; Henry Gonzalez identified links between it and BNL[1].
- 05"The involvement of the Rothschilds at the heart of the BCCI was never mentioned"[1].
- 06Banks later connected to it laundered ADFA money in Clinton's Arkansas[4].