Most bankers spend their days building models on their Excel spreadsheets.
But some of the projects Ed Hale worked on required more gusto.
Hale, the former chairman and CEO of the First Mariner Bank, revealed that he led a double life as a CIA agent from 1991 to 2001 in an interview on WJZ, a CBS affiliate.
“I was the perfect cover because I was all over the world with my vessels and trucking here in America, so I was the perfect person to take somebody and send them out to Afghanistan, Uzbekistan,” he told WJZ.
He even "found himself in the early hunt" for Osama Bin Laden toward the end of his involvement with the CIA, according to WJZ.
“Getting people into places where they could figure out the traces and the pathways of Osama Bin Laden back in the '90s,” Hale said. “I heard his name early on, Osama Bin Laden. I didn’t know who he was. It wasn’t the household name that it became.”
However, Hale's undercover days are long past. He retired from CIA work over 13 years ago, shortly after 9/11.
Aside from banking and CIA work, Hale "is credited with developing the Canton Waterfront" in downtown Baltimore. He owns the Baltimore Blast, a professional indoor soccer team.Makes one wonder who isn't working for the CIA or some intelligence service.
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Former Bank CEO Says He Led A Double Life As A CIA Agent And Hunted Osama Bin Laden
Elena Holodny
1 comment:
this is a local/community bank here in Maryland that went belly up ... BIG TIME...
I'd bet that at one time they had a $1B+ balance sheet...
The bank in Maryland that really seems "connected" is M&T Bank... they have been taking over everything I'm surprised they didnt end up with the remains of 1st Mariner, probably too smart to get involved...
I think some new people have taken over 1st Mariner...
But M&T is knocking it out of the park around here these days...
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