Maurice Bernard Houghton (1920, Texas[1] – 2000[2]) was a US businessman with links to the US intelligence community, including involvement in the CIA-connected Sydney, Australia-based Nugan Hand Bank in the 1970s.
He settled in Sydney in 1967, and founded several bars in Kings Cross, New South Wales, becoming a significant enough local figure to have a bust erected in his honour in 2002.
[1] According to Alfred W. McCoy, Houghton's private guests at the Bourbon included Robert Askin and Abe Saffron as well as John D. Walker, the CIA's Australian station chief from 1973 to 1975.
[1] In 1979 Richard Secord introduced Houghton to Thomas G. Clines, leading to a deal with the support of Ted Shackley to sell Philippine jeeps to Egypt.
[3] Houghton left Australia in mid-1980 (around the same time as Michael Jon Hand), accompanied by Clines, returning in October 1981 when it appeared that the investigations were unlikely to legally endanger him.