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“Anonymous Source’ ~ DeepBlackLies: THE SPOILS OF WAR
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The Secret Story of WWII Japanese & Nazi Gold
By David Guyatt
copyright 2002 for
The use of suspect gold to launder drug profits is well established. One example copyright 2002 for
of such laundering activities concerns a rogue airline that had the
reputation of flying anything to anywhere. Over a two-year period
between 1989-91, the airline made four flights carrying gold bullion
weighing 160 tonnes with a market value of two billion dollars. Each of
the four flights carried boxes with twelve bars of gold to a box that
overall weighed 41 tonnes per flight. All the boxes were palletised for
easy loading and accompanied by a guard. The flights originated from
Medellin, Columbia, and were airlifted to London and apparently cleared
both ends without customs inspection. [1]
The amount of gold shipped was more than the gold reserves of most central
banks. The question then arises: where did this gold originate? The
likelihood is that it was part of the vast amounts of gold plundered in
WWII by the Axis powers.
The story about what really happened to the loot plundered by the Nazis and
Japanese during WWII remains one of the best-kept secrets of the last
fifty years. Few outside of the charmed circle of initiated insiders
possess any knowledge whatsoever of the true dimensions of what can be
described as the biggest cover-up of all time.
But it is not just public awareness of what exactly “happened” to this plunder in the
post war years that is the cause of supreme unease amongst the powers
that be. It is the sheer magnitude of treasure forcibly confiscated by
the Axis powers that causes trepidation. Were the actual dollar numbers
involved to be revealed, it would lay bare an even more sensitive
secret – one that has endured for a hundred or more years.
A decades long propaganda campaign had served to focus public attention on the
gold stolen from governments – known as monetary gold – as a means of
eclipsing from public view far larger amounts of privately held gold
that was also stolen.
The heavy cloak of disinformation and double-talk had still another layer. By
putting the spotlight on Nazi plunder from the very beginning, public
attention was diverted away from the industrial scale looting undertaken
by Japan’s special plunder teams known as the “Golden Lily.” And it is
here that the real story dwells.
THE PRINCE OF PLUNDER
History should have recorded him as the world’s most ruthless and avaricious
bandit of all time. Instead, it has passed him by virtually unnoticed,
thanks to the onset of the cold war and the well-laid designs of western
elites.
Prince Chichibu was the younger brother of Japan’s Emperor Hirohito and had
been named by the Emperor to head the ultra-secret Golden Lily – a
secretive group tasked with looting China of its wealth – both
government and privately owned hard assets. Beginning in 1937, with the
Rape of Nanking, the plunder teams set to work with a vengeance. The
spoils were far larger than had been imagined. It is believed that
6,000 metric tonnes of gold, plus a bounty of silver and precious
gemstones fell in to the hands of Japan’s imperial treasury as a
consequence. [2]
The phenomenal wealth of East and Southeast Asia had accrued over thousands
of years and Japan wanted it all. Over the next seven years the Orient
was wrung dry of its precious metals, solid gold religious artefacts and
an unbelievable quantity of gemstones.
Most of this was shipped by the Japanese to the Philippines as a collecting point,
for onward shipment to Tokyo. However, by 1943 the sea-lanes had been
cut by US submarines and the decision was taken to bury the plunder
throughout the Philippines. This was based on Japan’s expectation of a
negotiated truce that would leave them ruling the Philippines.
Thereafter, the recovery of the plunder could take place in secret over
many years making Japan one of the wealthiest nations in the world.
That, however, was not to be. The United States had its own well-laid plans to become the imperial
world power of post WWII. These plans had been formulated before the
Second World War by The Council on Foreign Relations an organisation
founded by wealthy Americans in the wake of WWI, in tandem with
England’s Royal Institute of International Affairs, known as “Chatham
House” for short.
The CFR plan called for a “Grand Area” that was to come under US control. Included
was the Western Hemisphere, Western Europe, the Far East and the former
British Empire. The latter was being actively dismantled for this
purpose. Also listed was the Middle East, whose colossal oil resources
were eyed with great passion. In fact, if it was possible to achieve,
the entire planet was to come under US domination. [3]
In this scheme, Japan and Germany were assigned the role of the “great
workshops” of productivity. In short, there was no place for a separate
imperial power and Japan (and Germany) had to be thoroughly defeated.
Roosevelt’s call for “unconditional surrender” of the Axis powers not
only smashed Japan’s comfortable view of what would be, but also sealed
the fate of the post WWII world.
In addition to the Philippines, treasure plundered by the Japanese is believed to
have been stashed in Indonesia and, probably Korea, too. But the
Philippine Islands were the key. Here treasure sites were excavated –
usually using prisoners of war as slave labour. The plunder was then
stashed in these sites and booby traps were set to deter would be
treasure hunters. With the prisoners of war still inside the sites were
sealed and disguised – leading hundreds to die a grisly death in the
name of greed and secrecy.
THE BLACK EAGLE FUND
The quantity of gold and other treasures buried was phenomenal. Japanese
cartographers made maps of each site and trusted accountants marked them
with three digits signifying the Yen values of the gold, diamonds and
other assets buried in each.
A site bearing the designation “777” was valued at 777 billion yen. With 1945
exchange rates fluctuating between 3.50 and 4.00 yen to the dollar, just
one triple seven site was worth almost US$200 billion – a king’s ransom
by any measure. There were many triple seven (“777”) sites as well as
triple nine and lesser sites.
Not only were these figures based on 1945 values — when a dollar was really a dollar –
but also when the price of gold was $35.00 an ounce. Today the price
of gold is closer to $300 an ounce. But add to this the fact that in
the Philippines alone there were over 170 burial sites, and a picture
forms of a wealth so unimaginable that it almost defies belief. [4]
With the defeat of Japanese forces in the Philippines in 1945, a project of the
utmost secrecy was launched to recover the buried Golden Lily plunder.
This project was placed under the day-to-day control of Captain Edward
Lansdale and OSS operative Severino Garcia Santa Romana. In 1945,
Lansdale had been ordered to Manila as part of General Willoughby’s G2
military intelligence team. On arrival, Lansdale met up with Santa
Romana and set to work. The CIA would later recruit both officers.
Over the next few years numerous plunder sites were located and the stolen assets
recovered. The gold, gemstones and other treasure were deposited in
over 170 bank accounts spread across more than forty countries – all of
whom were signatories of the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement.
Collectively, the recovered loot came to be known as the Black Eagle
Trust or fund.
Even to this day the mere mention of the Black Eagle Fund causes unease, and the
entire subject remains cloaked in official secrecy. For example, during
a 1999 discussion on this subject, one highly placed banker familiar
with the existence and arrangements of this slush fund cautioned: “if
you wish to discuss certain aspects of military program finance on the
internet, you may be doing so in contravention of several statutes and
regulations, both in the United States and in any NATO-member
jurisdiction.”
A RARE LIE
According to official figures, the present volume of above ground gold stocks is
approximately 142,000 metric tonnes. This, it is claimed, accounts for
all the gold mined over six thousand years. [5]
In contrast to these figures, just one of the many “777” Golden Lily
sites would have held, using a conservative estimate, upwards of 90,000
metric tonnes. [6]
Clearly, official figures don’t remotely begin to mesh with the volumes of “black
gold” stolen by the Axis powers. One major reason for this is simply
that the official statistics have never included gold production in
China, Southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union.
Since the latter was the world’s second largest gold producer after South Africa,
this was bound to distort the accuracy of official statistics.
Curiously, despite the end of the cold war no apparent effort has been
made to “update” these figures following access to strategic information
of the former Soviet Union, who is now a member of the powerful G8
group of nations. Meanwhile, China and the Orient have had a love
affair with gold dating back 6,000 years. This obviously had to come
from somewhere.
Is it really possible that the official gold mining figures are just so much
flim-flam, designed to hide the real picture? Could a conspiracy so
flagrant and so large be perpetrated under the noses of an unsuspecting
public?
To answer these questions we need do no more than hop across the street to gold’s
sister market — diamonds. Diamonds are said to be rare which accounts
for their value. But like gold, they are not nearly so rare as we have
been told. One example of their abundance is the Argyle mine in
Australia, which was discovered in 1979. The mine was estimated to have
over one billion carats – the majority of which were of gem quality.
This is in stark contrast to South Africa’s entire diamond reserves of
200 million carats noted in a 1980 US Geological Survey.
Diamonds may be a “girls best friend” but that is about as far as it goes. As a true
store of value in a true and unfettered free market, diamonds would be
worth considerably less. What keeps the value high is the restricted
access to gem quality stones which are rigidly controlled by the
“cartel.” The cartel is thought to be controlled by the South African
Oppenheimer family and De Beers, via the London based Central Selling
Organisation or CSO. [7]
Any one person or group that has a stranglehold on gold, platinum and diamonds
also has a strategic stranglehold on world commerce. Industrial
diamonds are the backbone of productive industry and without adequate
supplies of these, production would grind to a halt. Such a situation
came close to happening during WWII.
In a Washington Post article on 18th
October 1988, former director of the CIA accused De Beers and the
Oppenheimer family of refusing to sell the US a large quantity of
industrial diamonds necessary for war production. In a 2nd November 1988 letter, Sir Phillip Oppenheimer retorted angrily to these charges calling them “unsubstantiated.”
Documentary filmmaker and author, Jani Farrel-Roberts, has exhaustively investigated
the diamond trade for many years and undertook to discover what truth,
if any, lay behind Admiral Turner’s astonishing allegations. Access to
government documents under the Freedom of Information Act as well as
extensive interviews with attorneys who had spent years investigating De
Beers on behalf of the US government convinced her that De Beers had
indeed “…rationed diamonds supplies to the United States, depriving it
of essential war tools at a time when De Beers had ample diamonds to
supply all Allied needs. [8]
But more shocks were to come. Unearthed in the mounds of declassified documents
obtained by Farrell-Roberts was a highly sensitive report on a secret
British American investigation detailing how Hitler’s Germany acquired
all the industrial diamonds it needed for its own war effort. Completed
in 1944, the report concluded that the Nazi’s were getting their
diamonds from the same syndicate that supplied the Allies.
Major A. W. Schmidt, the senior US investigating officer, stated in the report that
this trade was protected by senior officials in the British Governments
Ministry of Economic Warfare and accused these officials of being
treasonous and of prolonging the war. [9]
Schmidt additionally reported that measures taken to curtail the flow
of diamonds to Germany were “…sabotaged, not by the British Government,
but by the representatives of the Diamond Trading Corporation in London
through their domination of the Diamond Committee of the MEW [Ministry
of Economic Warfare].” [10]
THE PRIORY OF SION EXPLAINED?
the Minister of Economic Warfare during this period [1942-5] was Lord Selborne.
Amongst his other associations, Selborne was a member of the top level
“circle of initiates” of the secret society formed by South African gold
and diamond magnate, Cecil Rhodes – who founded De Beers. Following
Rhodes death this powerful and secretive group was run by Lord Alfred
Milner with Lord Selborne in the deputy leader slot. [11]
. Following Milner’s death in 1925, he assumed the leadership of the
“group.” Among his other wartime duties he headed Churchill’s Special
Operations Executive (SOE).
Lord Selborne would later come to the attention of millions of readers of “The
Messianic Legacy,” the best selling sequel about the mystery of treasure
hidden in Rennes le Chateau in the French Pyrennes. This story was
first brought to public attention in the smash selling book “Holy Blood –
Holy Grail” by the same authors. Lord Selborne was identified as one
of the principals who in 1956, applied for export licenses of ancient
parchments said to directly relate to the Rennes le Chateau mystery. [12]
Did this mysterious treasure really have ancient roots or was it of a more
contemporary origin? There are good reasons to believe it may rather
have been part of the gold plundered by the Nazi’s that was being
buried, rather than ancient loot being dug up.
Nazi loot would certainly account for Lord Selborne’s interest in these matters
and would also bring in to sharp focus the August 1956, date mentioned
above. Just months earlier in May 1955, the Federal Republic of Germany
had recovered it’s sovereignty, following the cessation of Allied
military rule. Consequently, the outflow of plunder and assets
orchestrated under the Nazi capital flight programme “Operation Eagle’s
Flight,” was put into reverse gear by Reichsleiter Martin Bormann. This
soon resulted in a massive influx of capital into the newly risen
Germany. More than anything else, this is believed to account for
Germany’s miraculous post war recovery. [13]
Behind Bormann’s programme of repatriating Nazi assets was the idea, developed
in 1943, of using them in a confederated post war Europe under Germany’s
covert control in what was even then called a “European Economic
Community” or EEC. [14]
Even though this pre-dated the actual foundation of the EEC in March
1957, it was not a new idea. Half a century earlier in 1899, W T Stead,
a close confidant of Cecil Rhodes, had authored a book titled “The
United States of Europe” along with “The Americanisation of the World.”
[15]
Since these are issues that remain current a century later, one cannot help but
acknowledge the foresight of Stead and Rhodes and also wonder if Bormann
was part of this overall strategy – knowingly or not? Bormann was not a
Rhodes scholar but some influential Germans of that period were, and
others had close affiliations with members of the secret society founded
by Rhodes who formed the ruling elite of England during the war years. [16] Normally regarded as Anglo-American in tone, the Rhodes Trust and Scholars had a rather more “teutonic” flavour. [17]
The secretive nature of Rhodes secret society – arguably fronted by the Rhodes
Scholarships – throws up other curiosities as well. Only 3 of the 47
individuals who had been appointed trustees of Rhodes Trust between the
years 1902 – 1995 – have been Rhodes Scholars. Furthermore, of the 17
Rhodes Trust Secretaries and Wardens of Rhodes House appointed during
these same years, not one has been a Rhodes scholar. This is less than
half a percent overall. Democratic representation seems not to be an
issue. [18]
In the latter months of the war, Bormann looked to SS Major Otto Skorzeny to play a
crucial role in spiriting away Nazi loot before Germany surrendered. [19]
In early 1944, Hitler’s “favourite commando” was sent on a secret
mission to the Corbieres region of the French Pyrennes, on the
instructions of SS leader, Heinrich Himmler. What the purpose of this
mission was remains unknown. [20]
These curiosities multiply even further. Pierre Plantard, the central
character of the Rennes le Chateau mystery and supposed head of the
ancient Order, the Prieure of Sion, is reported to have transferred a
“large quantity of gold to Switzerland in 1952.” [21]
Despite claims that the Priory of Sion has a 1000-year history dating
back to the Order of warrior knights, the Knights Templar – chartered in
1151 – it only surfaced in 1956.
It is said that the founding of the Priory of Sion was an artful ploy by Charles de
Gaulle to conceal the true activities that were taking place in France
at that time. These had more to do with laundering suspect gold bullion
and political intrigue than ancient treasure, religious cults or
biblical bloodlines. The latter were an accrual of old myths and
legends cobbled together to form a diversionary cover story [22]
The selection of Annemasse on the French Swiss border for Priory’s headquarters in
1956 is also interesting. This small border town is reported to be the
centre for the “Gladio” stay-behind units formed to fight behind the
lines in the event the Soviet Union invaded Western Europe. The
prospect of Russia over-running Europe was most unlikely – a fact known
by the US and European military and intelligence community of the day.
The Europe-wide Gladio operation had far darker designs. Its principal
objective was directed at keeping the allegiance of Western European
nations securely in the US economic orbit as well as moving their
political infrastructure further to the right. [23]
RICH KNIGHTS OR POOR KNIGHTS? …
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