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# The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI

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    Great look inside a scandal that persists to this day
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2020*

I recommend first watching the movie “The Infilitrator” starring Bryan Cranston.  It is available on Amazon Prime Video.  Although the movie lacks some historical accuracy, it does provide a clear sense of the danger and intrigue that Mr. Mazur and his team experienced, as described in Robert Mazur’s book, “The Infiltrator: The True Story of One Man Against (sic) the Biggest Drug Cartel in History”.  The book has many more intimate details of the operation, but watching the movie first really helped me keep track of the players and understand their personalities.  The book gives some interesting background color to Sen. John Kerry’s investigations, as well.After watching and reading both “Infiltrators”, I realized that Mr. Mazur’s story was just a tiny part of the corruption at BCCI (and BNL, or Banco Nazional del Lavoro).  I had lived through those scandals of the Reagan and Bush One administration as a college and law student, but had never gone past reading newspaper and magazine articles and engaging in localized political activism to raise consciousness among fellow voters.  So I decided to take a journey back in time and re-read about the BCCI scandal.  I subsequently purchased and read, in this recommended order, “The Outlaw Bank” by Jonathan Beatty and S.C. Gwynne and then “A Full Service Bank” by James Ring Adams and Douglas Frantz.“Outlaw Bank” is a fascinating look inside the ‘Time’ magazine stories that broke the scandal wide open.  “Full Service Bank” is often a plagiarism of “Outlaw Bank”, but was ‘written’ later, has additional details, and is a good, albeit hastily written book fraught with typos and grammatical errors.  Still valuable, however.I believe I luckily got the order exactly right: First the movie, then Mazur’s book, then “Outlaw Bank” and finally “Full Service Bank”.This leads, of course, to the question of which multi-national bank(s) fill(ed) the void left by BCCI’s collapse, and why no president, congress, or Federal Reserve chairman since has had the integrity or will to correct this.

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    Compelling, disturbing read
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2007*

The events that inspired this book occurred over 15 years ago, but if you want to understand what is going on now in the world politically and economically, especially in terms of US-European-Middle Eastern-Third World relations, this is still very timely.Outlaw Bank is an excellent and far-reaching piece of well-documented investigative reporting that carefully uncovers the BCCI scandal and the ensuing US cover-up attempts. The sheer scope of the corruption, the deception, the narcotics and clandestine weapons trade involving US government agencies, personnel, and very well-known politicians is stunning. Not only is it as bad as you imagined in your wildest dreams, but many of the same people are still exerting influence (James Baker, Jimmy Carter). BCCI may be gone, but after reading this book and then looking around, you will conclude that not a thing has really changed.The book for the most part stays away from hyperbole, and while I found it a little difficult going in some of the explanations of financial transactions, I realized often that's because I just couldn't believe what I was reading!

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    Reads like a spy novel
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020*

Although technically a historical description of the rise and fall of BCCI, it reads like beststelling spy novel. The web of government, crime and finance is amazing. The book is very good at balancing between giving detail but keeping the reader interested. Very recommendable!

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