Robert Curtis person
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Robert Curtis operated_in
Philippines host_asserted
“He was excited that he had gotten that done. And he returned to the Philippines in the middle of April 1975. He was counting on making a quick recovery at Santiago. So it was only a matter of weeks or months before he would be a very rich m…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 42:05
Robert Curtis moved_to
Las Vegas host_asserted
“fingerprint the gold so that it looks like it came from the Philippines, showed them where a couple of sites were, and then they tried to kill him. So Robert Curtis, and then of course he went through all the legal troubles where the John B…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 3:18
Robert Curtis did_business_with
Ferdinand Marcos book_quoted
“Next, Kartheit and Freedom had to establish that it was Marcos who stole the Buddha. In Las Vegas, she made contact with Robert Curtis, who eventually gave a long videotape deposition describing how in 1975 he had spent many hours with Marc…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 21:07
Robert Curtis did_business_with
Ferdinand Marcos host_asserted
“Once he joined the Marcos gold hunt, Curtis told the Birch Society board confidentially about the hidden loot. He described his role in the Lieber Group and his participation with Marcos in sanctifying the gold. That explains a lot. Curtis …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 39:13
Robert Curtis discovered
Terese host_asserted
“When Teresa was opened by Robert Curtis in October 1975, his efforts to collect hundreds of dog tags among human remains in the tunnel to identify the victims was thwarted by security men who forced him at gunpoint to leave them at the site…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 5 @ 1:07:55
Robert Curtis operated_in
Nevada host_asserted
“So we're back to Robert Curtis. Everybody remembers who Robert Curtis is. He's the guy that had the mining company in Nevada and almost got killed by Marcos, went over, showed him, took all of his equipment over there. They stole all of his…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 2:49
Fabian Ver recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Marcos put Olaf Johnson to the test. General Ver took Johnson and Curtis on a Coast Guard boat to the sector of Manila Bay where the Japanese heavy cruiser Nachi was sunk November 5, 1944, to see if Johnson could find it with his psychic po…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 30:02
Robert Curtis did_business_with
Ferdinand Marcos host_asserted
“So you can imagine they were intel sharers at the very least. And so Marcos decides that he's going to do the recovery in a smaller island that's just off the outside bay of Manila Bay. And it's a crazy scenario.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 5:20
Jack Anderson published
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Curtis discovered Laxall was one of the main links between Marcos and the White House and one of the chief reasons why so many Marcos cronies had second houses in Nevada. Curtis now had no alternatives but to go public. He contacted the edi…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:23:19
Federal Bureau of Investigation indicted
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“A bullet in the head would have been easier, quicker, and less painful, Curtis said. The FBI, where previously took no interest in Curtis, now ordered an investigation. The Bureau did not seek to indict the Agnews for their part in the sche…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:22:04
Ferdinand Marcos recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Curtis said he thought the best idea for Marcos was to set up his own gold bank in Manila rather than be involved in the hazards of selling to other gold banks. With his own gold bank, Marcos could keep the gold and just lend derivatives, w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 25:38
Ferdinand Marcos did_business_with
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“American mining expert and metal chemist Robert Curtis, who actually recovered $8 billion in gold bars for President Marco from Teresa II, that was the name of one of the 175 mines that they dug and buried this stuff in. After nearly being …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO @ 1:06:54
Ferdinand Marcos recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“were taken ashore to Marco's study where they saw the real Roxas Buddha. Remember the one that they had that had the head that come off and they had jewels all stuck down in it that got stolen from Roxas? Curtis inspected the Buddha closely…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 26:34
Ferdinand Marcos recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“behind the summer palace. He said he wanted Curtis to design underground vaults for that hill, each 80 feet wide and length of a football field where Marcos could store between 200,000 metric tons to 500,000 metric tons of bullion. He said …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 27:33
Ferdinand Marcos recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“So Marcos had to find a private individual who could sanctify the gold and add the right impurities so that he could fake it and pretend like it's Filipino gold. One possibility was a mining expert in Nevada called Robert Curtis. When Marco…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 12:15
Ferdinand Marcos ordered_assassination_of
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“that Marcos was hunting Japanese war loot with the help of several Americans. Marcos suspected that Bob Curtis had leaked the information to Jack Anderson, so he had decided to have Marcos and McAllister murdered the moment the treasure was…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:07:04
Ferdinand Marcos recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Marcos' palace. In one room alone, he calculated that there was 60 million dollars in gold bars. As a banker and a meteorologist, he knew it was real. Marcos went out of his way to be a gracious host. Curtis was impressed by his intelligenc…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 22:40
Ferdinand Marcos offered_payment_to
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Curtis offered to return the copies to Marcos one by one in exchange for installments of the money he owed them under the Lieber Agreement. In October 1980, Marcos replied, offering to buy back all maps by sending him $5 billion in gold as …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:24:12
Ferdinand Marcos targeted_for_regime_change
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“So we're back to Robert Curtis. Everybody remembers who Robert Curtis is. He's the guy that had the mining company in Nevada and almost got killed by Marcos, went over, showed him, took all of his equipment over there. They stole all of his…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 2:49
Ferdinand Marcos did_business_with
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“So we're back to Robert Curtis. Everybody remembers who Robert Curtis is. He's the guy that had the mining company in Nevada and almost got killed by Marcos, went over, showed him, took all of his equipment over there. They stole all of his…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 2:49
John Birch Society targeted_for_regime_change
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“fingerprint the gold so that it looks like it came from the Philippines, showed them where a couple of sites were, and then they tried to kill him. So Robert Curtis, and then of course he went through all the legal troubles where the John B…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 3:18
Ferdinand Marcos funded
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Marcus could dip small quantities into markets over a period of time. If it was sanctified, he could sell them readily to private buyers. After turning Curtis down several times, Curtis changed his mind when he got a long letter from him in…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 17:34
John Birch Society funded
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“on MacArthur's personal staff in Tokyo. Bunker became MacArthur's chief aide and spokesperson in Tokyo for five years, all of which were the witch hunting in Japan that made McCarthy witch hunts in America look bland. The Birch Society mone…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 40:11
John Birch Society sued
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“They were forced into bankruptcy. We had no money for a trial defense and in fact were destitute. Not much threat to Marcos or the gold cartel. Jay Agnew of the John Birch Society took Curtis to court to recover the money they loaned to him…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:21:07
John Birch Society contacted
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Not knowing exactly where to look, the John Birch Society urged them to contact Robert Curtis to see if he was willing to play ball again. That's where we end chapter 13. So we've got two more chapters to do, chapter 14 and chapter 15, and …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 13 @ 1:18:23
John Birch Society targeted_for_regime_change
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“The guys that screwed him before are back again. It was Jay Agnew's son, Dan, who had Foringer recruit Curtis. Foringer's first phone call to Curtis was from the Agnew's attorney's office in Seattle, which is bizarre because it was the Agne…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 38:47
Ferdinand Marcos hired
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“And the whole idea after all of this is over is that Marcos in the Philippines got the idea, and it's probably why he was deposed, but he got the idea that he was going to hire this Robert Curtis to come in and dig up the gold and smelt it.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 5 @ 53:35
Ferdinand Marcos recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“This made him a modestly wealthy man. Norman Curtis asked Bob Curtis, Robert Curtis, if he could fly out to Manila to discuss setting up a refinery for President Marcos. He explained that Marcos wanted Curtis to smelt gold bars, change the …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 16:07
Ferdinand Marcos recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“to escort the presidential yacht. Accurately, Curtis was getting, or actually, sorry, Curtis was getting his first taste of the real Ferdinand Marcos. Now that he knew exactly where the nachos was located, Marcos had no intention of sharing…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 33:43
Ferdinand Marcos funded
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“So he's upfronting a lot of money. Marcos refused to pay the expenses of any Lieber group partners. So Curtis had to pay for everything out of his own pocket. From Marcos's point of view, Curtis was being given a chance of a lifetime, a sur…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 35:42
Norman Kirst recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Marcos wanted Olaf to be a leading member of the Lieber group, and he would share generously in the rewards. But he wasn't going to. He was actually going to kill him. In 1974, Curtis received the first of the number of calls from Norman Ki…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 14:47
Dan Agnew recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“The guys that screwed him before are back again. It was Jay Agnew's son, Dan, who had Foringer recruit Curtis. Foringer's first phone call to Curtis was from the Agnew's attorney's office in Seattle, which is bizarre because it was the Agne…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 38:47
Jose Ferreres recruited
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Costa Rica also had gold mines, so he was well informed. He told Marcos that Robert Curtis had developed a process to extract more gold from previously mined ores and also could change gold fingerprints to make it look like it came from oth…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 12:46
Robert Curtis member_of
Lieber Group host_asserted
“Once he joined the Marcos gold hunt, Curtis told the Birch Society board confidentially about the hidden loot. He described his role in the Lieber Group and his participation with Marcos in sanctifying the gold. That explains a lot. Curtis …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 39:13
Robert Curtis member_of
Lieber Group host_asserted
“They agreed to pool their capabilities and resources together in order to search and recover the gold in return for a share of the gold recovered on the Philippine land and waters. As part of the participation, Curtis was told two smelters …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 28:38
Robert Curtis operated_in
Sparks, Nevada host_asserted
“Curtis was a 44-year-old owner of a successful mining and refining business in Sparks, Nevada near Reno. Starting out as a banker in San Francisco, he was fascinated with silver and gold along the California-Nevada border. He had built a fa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 15:10
Robert Curtis operated_in
Sierras host_asserted
“and other precious metals such as platinum and others. Most people did not know that there was platinum to be mined in America because the gold cartel discouraged hunting for platinum in order to control quantities and prices of the metal f…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 15:38
Robert Curtis recruited
Wes Chapman host_asserted
“He pressed Curtis again to engineer the two underground vaults behind the Summer Palace. Curtis gave the job to Wes Chapman, who did engineering drawings for the two tunnels, each 80 feet wide and 300 feet long. Both tunnels were built and …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 44:05
Robert Curtis operated_in
Teresa II host_asserted
“then turned to a major site called Teresa II, which was southeast of Manila. According to Ben's golden lily map, Teresa II contained $8 billion in gold bars in the back of a number of Japanese army trucks that had been driven into the tunne…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 34:42
Robert Curtis sent
Red Series maps host_asserted
“So as long as Marcos and Burr were unable to find them, they would assume that Curtis had hidden them and avoid doing anything to risk losing the maps. Curtis explained to McAllister that he had the photographs of the maps and all of their …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:10:35
Robert Curtis destroyed
Red Series maps host_asserted
“There was a small hibachi used for their grill. At three in the morning, Curtis and McAllister dragged heavy bedspreads out onto the conference room balcony, draped them over the railings, blocking any view from the garden below. Lighting t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:11:33
Robert Curtis hid
Red Series maps host_asserted
“In fact, the maps were there in the penthouse the whole time because he had just sent the copies back in that, not copies, but the pictures, remember? He had actually hid them out weeks earlier. Curtis had confronted with the problem of wha…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:09:10
Robert Curtis operated_in
Santiago host_asserted
“onshore treasure sites. So understand what's going on here. He's only using this guy to scope out where these locations are, and then he has no intentions of actually exploring them while they're still alive. Curtis flew back to Nevada to w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 34:10
Robert Curtis did_business_with
Ferdinand Marcos book_quoted
“Robert Curtis and what they did to him and how they tortured the people. They threatened their families. And the whole time this Philippines has been a gold factory, turning out money for black operations while basically imprisoning all of …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 9:47
Robert Curtis studied_at
San Francisco host_asserted
“Curtis was a 44-year-old owner of a successful mining and refining business in Sparks, Nevada near Reno. Starting out as a banker in San Francisco, he was fascinated with silver and gold along the California-Nevada border. He had built a fa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 15:10
Ferdinand Marcos ordered_assassination_of
Robert Curtis host_asserted
“Curtis told us that while he was working on Teresa II, the gold cartel had approached Marcos with a mafia-style offer. Either kill Curtis and let the cartel do the business of the gold distribution, or Marcos would be in trouble. By gold ca…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:18:05