Word: cryptonym
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...N.C.O. and officers' clubs overseas." One of the New York banks that Morgenthau was investigating was Manufacturers Hanover Trust, whose Wall Street branch handled millions skimmed from Saigon's black market in recent years. The money was deposited in an account designated Pry Sumeen 677, a cryptonym derived from the names of three Indian families involved in black-marketeering in Saigon. The Pry Sumeen account has recently been active again, according to Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Last week he charged that money from a U.S.-backed fund intended to stabilize the Laotian currency (whose basic unit...
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