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 1980s. [1] [2]
Aitken grew up in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. [1] [3] He graduated from Hasbrouck Heights High School in 1963 and played as pitcher for the Florida Southern Moccasins baseball team, graduating from Florida Southern in 1967. [4]
He moved to Vietnam in 1969, during the Vietnam War, to work for American Express. [3] He later moved to Hong Kong. [3]
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. [3]
Aitken has broadcast his religious-themed radio show The Hour of Love since 2004. [3] 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.” [3]