Santa Romana person
also: Don Romano, Mike Santa Romano, Romana, Santa Romana, Santa Romano, Santee, Santi, Santo Romano, Serrano Garcia Diaz Santo Romano, Severino Santo Romano
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Claims (59)
Santa Romana did_business_with
Switzerland book_quoted
“in surrogate court for the issuing of an ancillary letter of administration which could give them the rights to the bank account for Citibank, Chase, and Hanover. When Luz pressed her case, however, Peale wrote letters to the head offices o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 46:10
Santa Romana laundered_money_for
CIA host_asserted
“and was using that money for covert operations. The U.S. legal system does not regard an alias as illegal so long as it is not used for fraudulent purposes. They're talking about stage names or author's names. As gatekeeper of the Japanese …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 35:19
Santa Romana did_business_with
United States book_quoted
“It became obvious to their true purpose was to get around laws and to avoid all of us knowing about it. 25 years later, Santa Romana's heirs were also stonewalled, but they too filed a lawsuit to recover the masses of their gold hidden in A…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 11:43
Santa Romana laundered_money_for
Citigroup host_asserted
“He also rented nine safety deposit boxes at the same bank, which Lou said he filled with cash and jewelry. According to the Marcos family source, just before martial law, Santee transferred $800 million out of the Philippines, moving it fro…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 1:06:58
Santa Romana did_business_with
Citigroup book_quoted
“Immediately after Santi's death, Lansdell also was involved in a mysterious movement of gold from Santi's account at Citibank in Manila to Citibank in New York, possibly done to get the assets out of the Philippines before Marcos could take…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 44:35
Santa Romana laundered_money_for
Citigroup host_asserted
“After Marco stole the gold Buddha and had Roxas beaten to a pulp, Santee took Luz Rabano with him to open an account in a Manila bank called the First National City Bank, which is now Citibank. According to her deposition, $43 million in ca…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 1:05:12
Santa Romana laundered_money_for
Federal Reserve host_asserted
“Santee remained the title holder on all of these accounts, yet the assets or their derivatives appear to have been used by various governments through secret earmarking arrangements by the Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 53:29
Santa Romana founded
Ford Foundation host_asserted
“From Manila to World Banking Centers. Santee also set up a trust in Liechtenstein, which we come across often in Operation Gladio. That was one of their favorite money laundering places. It was originally called Santo Romano Foundation. The…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 36:50
Santa Romana did_business_with
Chase Manhattan Bank book_quoted
“tarciana if lansdale had such a power of attorney who was he acting for once these assets left the philippines they joined other gold and cash accounts that documents show santee already had in america in citibank chase bank wells fargo and…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 45:05
Santa Romana relationship_with
Ferdinand Marcos host_asserted
“During the years when Roxas had been persecuted and tortured, President Marcos was pressing Santa Romano to turn over some of his big gold accounts. The relationship between them went back a long way. A family source told us that Marcos and…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 32:25
Santa Romana did_business_with
M-Fund book_quoted
“but to block attorneys from pursuing discovery, which would reveal far more than Santee's financial data. Potentially, it would disclose their entire covert black operations budget to include the Black Eagle Trust and diversions to secret f…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 37:42
Santa Romana funded
M-Fund book_quoted
“The gold recovered by Santee, which is what he went by, became the asset base for many secret funds like the M Fund. He was the gatekeeper of America's Golden Lily recoveries until Ferdinand Marco moved in. He elbowed him aside and took ove…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 4:01
Santa Romana did_business_with
Wall Street book_quoted
“At the end of World War II, Klein was a young OSS analyst in what remained the nationalist China. He then spent three years as the CIA analyst to Korea, dealing with John C. Glibb, Paul Heliwell, and Bill Casey, who by that time had moved o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:28
Santa Romana did_business_with
HSBC book_quoted
“they needed to keep this recovery secret, feeling that she had been stonewalled for so long that it would be absurd to forfeit any of it to taxes. Meanwhile, that sounds like a setup, by the way. Meanwhile, Tarciano, Santee's corporate trea…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 50:38
Santa Romana laundered_money_for
Bank of England host_asserted
“Santee remained the title holder on all of these accounts, yet the assets or their derivatives appear to have been used by various governments through secret earmarking arrangements by the Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 53:29
Santa Romana did_business_with
Sydney book_quoted
“I told my Filipino friends there was a way out. If she would agree to hand the money back to the government in the Philippines for a finer fee of say 5%, that would give her more money than she could spend in a lifetime and the government w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 53:03
Citigroup carried_out_attack
Santa Romana book_quoted
“The attorneys also said that they wanted a waiver from Imelda Marcos, implying that the Marcos family might have some claim to the assets. Finally, they said that they needed a waiver from the U.S. Embassy in Manila, apparently meaning a wa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 59:28
Ferdinand Marcos succeeded
Santa Romana book_quoted
“The gold recovered by Santee, which is what he went by, became the asset base for many secret funds like the M Fund. He was the gatekeeper of America's Golden Lily recoveries until Ferdinand Marco moved in. He elbowed him aside and took ove…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 4:01
Douglas MacArthur did_business_with
Santa Romana book_quoted
“and the Black Eagle Trust growing out of them, how General MacArthur and Robert B. Anderson had toured the Golden Lily sites with Santee and Lansdell, and how John McCloy, CIA, had been the key man in setting up the M Fund and other politic…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:01
Ferdinand Marcos appointed
Santa Romana host_asserted
“to keep him in office. Do you see how that works? Two birds with one stone. We're going to knock out a whole bunch of people and scare the hell out of them with a Gladio terrorist event. We're going to blame it on the communist. And then I …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 1:00:14
Tarsiana Rodriguez member_of
Santa Romana book_quoted
“All their efforts to recover his assets from banks have been blocked or evaded. The three main heirs were Santee's corporate accountant, Tarsiana Rodriguez, for the estate, his common-law wife, Luz Rambano, and his adult daughter, Lourdel L…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 35:39
Lourdel Liza relationship_with
Santa Romana book_quoted
“All their efforts to recover his assets from banks have been blocked or evaded. The three main heirs were Santee's corporate accountant, Tarsiana Rodriguez, for the estate, his common-law wife, Luz Rambano, and his adult daughter, Lourdel L…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 35:39
Luz Rambano relationship_with
Santa Romana book_quoted
“All their efforts to recover his assets from banks have been blocked or evaded. The three main heirs were Santee's corporate accountant, Tarsiana Rodriguez, for the estate, his common-law wife, Luz Rambano, and his adult daughter, Lourdel L…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 35:39
Robert Anderson did_business_with
Santa Romana book_quoted
“and the Black Eagle Trust growing out of them, how General MacArthur and Robert B. Anderson had toured the Golden Lily sites with Santee and Lansdell, and how John McCloy, CIA, had been the key man in setting up the M Fund and other politic…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:01
Edward Lansdale relationship_with
Santa Romana book_quoted
“If Lansdale and Santee always had shared control of the big UBS account, Lansdale might have been able to have the UBS transferred to his name. $300 an ounce, this account would have been worth $192 billion, a lot more than the net worth of…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 41:40
Edward Lansdale carried_out_attack
Santa Romana book_quoted
“Immediately after Santi's death, Lansdell also was involved in a mysterious movement of gold from Santi's account at Citibank in Manila to Citibank in New York, possibly done to get the assets out of the Philippines before Marcos could take…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 44:35
Santa Romana did_business_with
Cathay Pacific Airlines book_quoted
“Crates of gold bars were shipped out of the Philippines from Manila's International Airport using C-130 aircraft. They said some of the gold was transported commercially by Cathay Pacific Airlines, and Cathay Pacific Airlines is much like F…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 34:12
Santa Romana did_business_with
American President Lines book_quoted
“Crates of gold bars were shipped out of the Philippines from Manila's International Airport using C-130 aircraft. They said some of the gold was transported commercially by Cathay Pacific Airlines, and Cathay Pacific Airlines is much like F…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 34:12
Santa Romana appointed
Tarsiana Rodriguez host_asserted
“Santi began taking steps to protect himself and to protect his personal accounts from seizure by presidential decree. Some of the people he enlisted was a Filipino woman by the name of Tarsiana Rodriguez. He made her the official treasurer …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 1:02:30
Santa Romana did_business_with
Diaz and Paroti Enterprises book_quoted
“And we're closing in on $14 trillion by the year 2000. So this account at UBS is not impossible. UBS documents show that the Crown Commodity Holdings, which was the name for it, was a subsidiary of Santee's Crown Enterprises. The group repr…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 43:09
Santa Romana did_business_with
Sanwa Bank book_quoted
“She asked HSBC to verify the existence of the accounts mentioned in his will. After showing them all the necessary codes, passwords, documents, a bank officer told her the accounts had not matured and therefore were inaccessible to come bac…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 51:07
Santa Romana did_business_with
City Trust book_quoted
“The attorneys also said that they wanted a waiver from Imelda Marcos, implying that the Marcos family might have some claim to the assets. Finally, they said that they needed a waiver from the U.S. Embassy in Manila, apparently meaning a wa…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 59:28
Santa Romana did_business_with
Nationalist China book_quoted
“At the end of World War II, Klein was a young OSS analyst in what remained the nationalist China. He then spent three years as the CIA analyst to Korea, dealing with John C. Glibb, Paul Heliwell, and Bill Casey, who by that time had moved o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:28
Santa Romana did_business_with
Hanover Bank book_quoted
“tarciana if lansdale had such a power of attorney who was he acting for once these assets left the philippines they joined other gold and cash accounts that documents show santee already had in america in citibank chase bank wells fargo and…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 45:05
Santa Romana did_business_with
Golden Lily sites book_quoted
“At various different places, all Golden Lily sites. It was their failure to open Teresa 1 in 74 that led to Robert Curtis's successful opening of Teresa 2 the next year. They shifted operations to another location, an old walled city in Man…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 33:46
Santa Romana did_business_with
Golden Lily sites book_quoted
“and the Black Eagle Trust growing out of them, how General MacArthur and Robert B. Anderson had toured the Golden Lily sites with Santee and Lansdell, and how John McCloy, CIA, had been the key man in setting up the M Fund and other politic…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:01
Santa Romana did_business_with
Brentwood book_quoted
“by the Japanese government. Nor is it clear how Klein could have separated what belonged to the U.S. government from what belonged to the Santee's heirs. Although with Klein's close CIA connections, it is likely that he worked out a split. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:02:31
Santa Romana laundered_money_for
Bank of Japan host_asserted
“Santee remained the title holder on all of these accounts, yet the assets or their derivatives appear to have been used by various governments through secret earmarking arrangements by the Federal Reserve Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 53:29
Santa Romana married
Julieta Horarto host_asserted
“Some sources said Luz was actually legally married to him, but divorce does not exist in the Catholic Philippines, so he was technically still married to that Julieta Huerto. Luz brought him to Tarciano's office, figuring that he needed an …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 1:03:20
Santa Romana did_business_with
Bahamas book_quoted
“to city trust in the Bahamas. This would have been the effect of putting the gold outside the jurisdiction of New York courts, blocking any lawsuits from the heirs. Legally, such assets could not be moved out of New York jurisdiction withou…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 59:59
Santa Romana did_business_with
Wells Fargo book_quoted
“tarciana if lansdale had such a power of attorney who was he acting for once these assets left the philippines they joined other gold and cash accounts that documents show santee already had in america in citibank chase bank wells fargo and…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 45:05
Santa Romana did_business_with
Monaco book_quoted
“And we're closing in on $14 trillion by the year 2000. So this account at UBS is not impossible. UBS documents show that the Crown Commodity Holdings, which was the name for it, was a subsidiary of Santee's Crown Enterprises. The group repr…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 43:09
Santa Romana operated_in
Monaco host_asserted
“a controller and sole stockholder of a bunch of front companies, beginning with a company called DNP Enterprises. It stood for Diaz, Nanette, P-I, excuse me, P-O-I-R-R-O-T-T-E was the third name. D-N-P. Registered in.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 35:52
Santa Romana relationship_with
Edward Lansdale host_asserted
“that he maintained. And the way he remembered this is they set up. So remember, he's a protege of Lansdale from the CIA. Lansdale's favorite thing, because he was basically in PR and wrote jingles, was to create a jingle to remember the cod…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 53:01
Santa Romana did_business_with
Santiago book_quoted
“At various different places, all Golden Lily sites. It was their failure to open Teresa 1 in 74 that led to Robert Curtis's successful opening of Teresa 2 the next year. They shifted operations to another location, an old walled city in Man…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 33:46
Santa Romana did_business_with
UBS book_quoted
“For exceptions, the bank flatly denied even having the accounts like they didn't exist. Whether the account in question was a safety deposit or gold. Union Bank Swiss, UBS, documents reproduced on the author's CDs. Santee's biggest single a…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 39:37
Santa Romana operated_in
Philippines book_quoted
“The Heart of Darkness, where we talked about the M Fund and basically Nixon turning that over to Japan for them to basically money launder back to him for his campaign. So the Filipino government denies that Santa Romana ever existed. They …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 2:39
Santa Romana founded
CIC Enterprises host_asserted
“a controller and sole stockholder of a bunch of front companies, beginning with a company called DNP Enterprises. It stood for Diaz, Nanette, P-I, excuse me, P-O-I-R-R-O-T-T-E was the third name. D-N-P. Registered in.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 35:52
Santa Romana did_business_with
CIC Enterprises book_quoted
“And we're closing in on $14 trillion by the year 2000. So this account at UBS is not impossible. UBS documents show that the Crown Commodity Holdings, which was the name for it, was a subsidiary of Santee's Crown Enterprises. The group repr…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 43:09
Santa Romana laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“that they used occasionally. That was just not their preferred method. The umbrella took care of security. The mafia first became involved after the war with Santis Gold was moved to banks in Italy, including the Vatican Bank. Oh my gosh. S…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 51:57
Santa Romana did_business_with
Black Eagle Trust book_quoted
“and the Black Eagle Trust growing out of them, how General MacArthur and Robert B. Anderson had toured the Golden Lily sites with Santee and Lansdell, and how John McCloy, CIA, had been the key man in setting up the M Fund and other politic…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:01
Santa Romana did_business_with
Manila book_quoted
“At various different places, all Golden Lily sites. It was their failure to open Teresa 1 in 74 that led to Robert Curtis's successful opening of Teresa 2 the next year. They shifted operations to another location, an old walled city in Man…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 33:46
Santa Romana did_business_with
Asia book_quoted
“During 58 to 62, Klein was CIA station chief in Taiwan. A job that he got through the chief of dirty tricks, Frank Wisner. Just before Wisner went insane, the Taipei, in Taipei, Klein was responsible for all the clandestine operations all o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:54
Santa Romana did_business_with
New York City book_quoted
“Immediately after Santi's death, Lansdell also was involved in a mysterious movement of gold from Santi's account at Citibank in Manila to Citibank in New York, possibly done to get the assets out of the Philippines before Marcos could take…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 44:35
Santa Romana did_business_with
Hong Kong book_quoted
“Bearing Santee's photo. The passports match details on the numerous bank accounts. Most transfers had originated in Hong Kong before being moved to other parts of the world. I added up the amounts mentally, so I went along and lost control …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 52:06
Santa Romana operated_in
Liechtenstein host_asserted
“From Manila to World Banking Centers. Santee also set up a trust in Liechtenstein, which we come across often in Operation Gladio. That was one of their favorite money laundering places. It was originally called Santo Romano Foundation. The…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 36:50
Santa Romana did_business_with
Korea book_quoted
“At the end of World War II, Klein was a young OSS analyst in what remained the nationalist China. He then spent three years as the CIA analyst to Korea, dealing with John C. Glibb, Paul Heliwell, and Bill Casey, who by that time had moved o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 1:03:28
Santa Romana did_business_with
Philippines book_quoted
“Crates of gold bars were shipped out of the Philippines from Manila's International Airport using C-130 aircraft. They said some of the gold was transported commercially by Cathay Pacific Airlines, and Cathay Pacific Airlines is much like F…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 34:12
Santa Romana relationship_with
Imelda Marcos host_asserted
“During the years when Roxas had been persecuted and tortured, President Marcos was pressing Santa Romano to turn over some of his big gold accounts. The relationship between them went back a long way. A family source told us that Marcos and…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 32:25