Santo Romano Recoveries event

“knew more about it than Lansdell. His role at first was strictly as a facilitator, supervising the recovery of some of the gold vaults, inventorying the bullion, having it trucked to warehouses to the U.S. Navy base in Subic Bay or the Air …”

“beefed up by bullion from the Santa Romana recoveries, created a separate pool of black gold that put an extra floor under the post-war economy and gave Washington and its allies covert financial leverage. There were certain similarities be…”