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People (3)

  • Norman Casper Former Wackenhut detective in Miami who became the paid informant TW-24 of the Internal Revenue Service's Operation Tradewinds and in 1972 approached the president of the Castle Bank in the Bahamas.
  • Robert Peloquin Justice Department organized crime lawyer who founded the Resorts International subsidiary Intertel in 1970, took over security for Howard Hughes's Nevada casinos that December, and later chaired Resorts International.
  • Stafford Sands Bahamian minister and lawyer who arranged casino exemptions for clients tied to Meyer Lansky, was disgraced by a 1967 royal commission, and was kept as a client by Wackenhut during its Florida war on crime.

Organizations (2)

  • Castle Bank and Trust Bahamian and Cayman bank set up by the Miami lawyer Paul Helliwell, whose depositor list the IRS obtained in 1973 by stealing a briefcase, and whose prosecution the CIA was reported to have stopped.
  • Intertel Private intelligence company formed by Justice Department organized crime lawyers Robert Peloquin and William Hundley as a subsidiary of the Bahamian casino operator Resorts International, staffed from the IRS operation that had investigated the islands.

Programs (1)

  • Operation Tradewinds IRS intelligence operation run from Jacksonville from 1965 against American money in Bahamian banks, which used paid informants in violation of Bahamian law and was called off after the Castle Bank briefcase theft.