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January 20th, 1976. Beirut, Lebanon. While militias fought in the streets during Lebanon's brutal civil war, someone blasted through a church wall into the vault of the British Bank of the Middle East and spent an entire weekend looting it. They stole between $50-100 million in cash, gold, jewelry, and securities. Then they simply drove away. No arrests were ever made.
This wasn't a typical bank robbery. The scale, the military precision, the access to explosives—everything suggests this wasn't criminals. This was almost certainly a militia group, possibly the Palestine Liberation Organization itself, using the chaos of civil war as perfect cover to fund their operations.

The British Bank vault was supposed to be impregnable—reinforced steel, time locks, alarms, armed guards. But all that security assumed a functioning state. It assumed police would respond. It assumed normal law and order. By January 1976, none of that existed in Beirut.
The robbery succeeded because Lebanon's collapse removed every obstacle that normally prevents bank heists. The robbers needed military-grade explosives, trained fighters, organizational capability, and freedom of movement through a war zone. Criminal gangs don't have those resources. Militias do.
This is the complete story: how Beirut went from the "Paris of the Middle East" to a lawless war zone, why the church provided perfect access, the evidence suggesting PLO involvement, why the investigation was impossible, and where the missing millions probably went.
No one was ever caught. The money was never recovered. The people who did this took the secret with them.