Norman Bailey (government official)
Norman Alishan Bailey is President of the Institute for Global Economic Growth, an international economic consultant, and a former US government official. He is an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics and teaches a course on "Economics for Foreign Policy Makers."[1]
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Employment at the National Security Council
Bailey served as Senior Director of International Economic Affairs for the United States National Security Council (NSC) between 1981 and 1983.[2] During his employment at the NSC, Bailey, whose specialty was monitoring terrorism by tracking finances, was involved in the following events:[3]
The investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which according to Bailey was involved in drug-running and arms-running transactions, as well as terrorism.[4] There were allegations of a link between BCCI and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA,) and Bailey was quoted in Newsweek saying that the CIA was not interested in "blowing the BCCI cover."[5]
- The use of Prosecutor's Management Information System (PROMIS) software to track movements of money through the banking system. According to Salon.com, Bailey was the first to publicly acknowledge that this software had been shared with the National Security Agency and the Department of the Treasury.[6]
Selected publications
- Latin America: Politics, economics and Hemispheric Security
- Latin America in World Politics
- Portuguese Africa
- Operational Conflict Analysis
- The Mexican Time Bomb
- The Strategic Plan That Won the Cold War
References
- ↑ The Institute of World Politics entry for Bailey
- ↑ The Institute of World Politics entry for Bailey
- ↑ History Commons entry for Bailey
- ↑ Beatty, Jonathan, Gwynne, S.C., The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of Bcci,[1], Beard Books (January 2004)
- ↑ "The Bcci-Cia Connection: Just How Far Did It Go?" [2], Newsweek, December 7, 1992
- ↑ History Commons entry for Bailey
External links
- Norman A. Bailey, biography at Institute for Global Economic Growth
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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