{"id":2358,"date":"2005-12-12T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2005-12-12T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T21:30:00","slug":"the-ira-kgb-north-korea-triad-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/12\/12\/17\/30\/the-ira-kgb-north-korea-triad-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRA &#8211; KGB &#8211; North Korea &#8211; Triad Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-fg-counterfeit12dec12,1,789154,full.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage\">[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 &#8230; One of the first places authorities picked up the supernotes&#8217; trail was Ireland &#8230; 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 &#8230; chief of staff of the Official Irish Republican Army, or Old IRA &#8230; 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.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Bernhard\">Operation Bernhard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[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 &#8230; One of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}