#InternalRevenueService

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People (1)

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.

Organizations (1)

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.

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.