Naked City, John Silvester
31 August 2022
[Podcast] Mr Clean: The story of an international money launderer When Bruce Aitken headed to an international airport for one of his hundreds of overseas trips, he would always take his golf bag – a fairly normal piece of luggage for a globe-trotting businessman. For a man who wanted to be a professional baseball player, it was the world of golf that helped place millions of dollars at his feet without him ever having to step onto a course.
PR Newswire, Hong Kong
16 June 2022
[Press Release] Mr Clean - Cash, Drugs and the CIA: The True Story of a Master Money Launderer
Bruce Aitken's Crime Memoir, Optioned for TV, Recounts Life and Times of a 'Cleaner' Who Moved Millions for the CIA, Government Officials, Financiers and Drug Lords During the 1970s and 80s.
"Catch Me if You Can' meets 'The Shawshank Redemption"
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
21 May 2022
Drugs, cash and the CIA: international money launderer Bruce Aitken worked for the world’s shadiest characters, revealed in his book Mr Clean From smuggling US dollars into Saigon during the Vietnam war to later missions around Asia with his customised golf bag, Bruce Aitken revelled in his job.
Speakers Connect, Asia
3 June 2019
Bruce Aitken, One of the World’s Most Successful Money Launderers, Available to Speak in Asia Bruce Aitken spent years of his life living on the edge as one of the world’s most successful money launderers. His story moves and motivates all those who hear it.
The New York Times
9 September 2017
Ex-Inmate Takes to Hong Kong’s Airwaves, and Prisoners Tune In Hong Kong - In the tiled corridors of Stanley Prison, a maximum-security complex on a rocky edge of Hong Kong's main island, the chatter among the foreign inmates on Monday mornings tends to revolve around a single question. Did you hear what "Brother Bruce" said last night?
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The Age, Australia
29 July 2022
Mr Clean: The story of an international money launderer For a man who wanted to be a professional baseball player, it was the world of golf that helped place millions of dollars at his feet without him ever having to step onto a course. When Bruce Aitken headed to an international airport for one of his hundreds of overseas trips, he would always take his golf bag – a fairly normal piece of luggage for a globe-trotting businessman.
Asia Times
13 June 2022
[Book Excerpt] Bagman in the Lockheed bribery scandal Excerpt from true-crime memoir Mr. Clean – Cash, Drugs and the CIA: The True Story of a Master Money Launderer.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong
25 August 2020
The ex-convict now broadcasting to a captive audience of Hong Kong prisoners Bruce Aitken, who spent 10 months in jail, broadcasts to prisoners in Hong Kong every Sunday night. Here he looks at how the pandemic is giving people insights into what it means to forfeit freedom.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong
29 May 2018
[Video] Bruce Aitken: Money Laundering: Catch Me If You Can! Bruce Aitken on some of the ways vast sums of cash can be made to disappear … and reappear in a Swiss bank account. He shared observations about international money laundering affairs including the Lockheed Scandal that brought down the government of Prime Minister Tanaka of Japan.
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
28 May 2017
Former money launderer Mr Clean tells of Spanish priest agent, snitches, drug lords and stashing cash in Hong Kong Bruce Aitken recalls how back in the day, he would get the red-carpet treatment in banks, no questions asked, if he walked in with a wad of cash.