Bruce Aitken

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* Radio host
* author

Bruce Aitken is a radio host and the author of the book Mr Clean - Cash, Drugs and the CIA: The True Story of a Master Money Launderer, in which he writes about laundering money in the 1970s and 80s, including his time as an employee of Nicholas Deak, believed to have been a banker to the CIA.[1][2][3]

## Life[edit]

Aitken grew up in New Jersey.[4] He moved to Vietnam in 1969, during the Vietnam War, to work for American Express.[4] He later moved to Hong Kong.[4]

In 1989, he was arrested in Thailand and sent to the United States on money-laundering and drug-trafficking charges. He was later sentenced to five years in jail and served less than one as part of a plea bargain.[4]

Aitken has broadcast his religious-themed radio show The Hour of Love since 2004.[4] In an article for the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong's The Correspondent magazine in August 2020, he wrote of the show: “On the radio programme, real letters from inmates are received and read live into the public realm.”[5]

Speaking of his broadcast work to the New York Times in 2017, Aitken said: “Maybe I do it for my own personal penance.”[4]

## References[edit]

1. ↑ "Drugs, cash and the CIA: money launderer Bruce Aitken's book Mr Clean". South China Morning Post. May 21, 2022.
2. ↑ "Club Lunch- Money Laundering: Catch Me If You Can!". The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong | FCC.
3. ↑ Zaitchik, Mark Ames, Alexander (December 2, 2012). "James Bond and the killer bag lady". Salon.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Ives, Mike (2017-09-09). "Ex-Inmate Takes to Hong Kong's Airwaves, and Prisoners Tune In". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
5. ↑ "The ex-convict now broadcasting to a captive audience of Hong Kong prisoners". The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong | FCC. Retrieved 2022-05-30.

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