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shipments to <strong>the</strong> U.S. West Coast via Australia. It was a<br />

regular conduit for payments made by Santos Trafficante<br />

Jr., underworld boss and Florida based heir to <strong>the</strong><br />

Luciano drug empire.<br />

Although exposure seemed imminent, Frank Nugan<br />

continued bli<strong>the</strong>ly with his deals as a big spender. He<br />

was closing <strong>the</strong> deal for a $2.2 million country estate for<br />

himself <strong>the</strong> day he was found shot through <strong>the</strong> head in<br />

Jan. 1980. He was in his Mercedes on a country road.<br />

By his side was <strong>the</strong> rifle he supposedly shot himself with,<br />

although in his last moments <strong>of</strong> life he apparently<br />

decided to wipe <strong>of</strong>f all fingerprints. Police investigators<br />

found none on <strong>the</strong> gun. The investigators also decided<br />

that Nugan would have had to be a contortionist to shoot<br />

himself with <strong>the</strong> rifle in his car. Donald Beazley went to<br />

Florida; his o<strong>the</strong>r associates, CIA operatives Michael<br />

Hand and Bernie Houghton, disappeared. They have not<br />

been seen since 1980.<br />

For many years, <strong>the</strong> principal American intelligence<br />

agent in China was Cornelius V. Starr. Born in 1892, he<br />

organized <strong>the</strong> Asia Life Insurance Co. in Shanghai in<br />

1919. He also owned <strong>the</strong> English language newspaper in<br />

China, <strong>the</strong> Shanghai Evening Post, which gave him a<br />

dominant role in propaganda activities. He was chairman<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> board <strong>of</strong> U.S. Life Insurance Co. and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

<strong>com</strong>panies, as <strong>the</strong> leading American businessman in<br />

China. He was also an OSS agent, and his financial<br />

power in China gave <strong>the</strong> OSS and later <strong>the</strong> CIA <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

entree into drug smuggling. After his death, his insurance

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