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The IRA – KGB – North Korea – Triad Connection

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[US investigators described] an extensive criminal network involving North Korean diplomats and officials, Chinese gangsters and other organized crime syndicates, prominent Asian banks, Irish guerrillas and an alleged ex-KGB agent … One of the first places authorities picked up the supernotes’ trail was Ireland … By the early 1990s, so many supernotes were circulating there that Irish banks stopped exchanging American $100 bills. The [US] Secret Service soon homed in on Sen Garland … chief of staff of the Official Irish Republican Army, or Old IRA … his discussions with North Korean operatives eventually turned from a shared rejection of capitalism to a scheme for him to buy bogus $100 bills, perhaps to destabilize the U.S. dollar by flooding the market with fakes.

See also: Operation Bernhard.

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