OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors by Sterling & Peggy Seagrave INTRO

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1:37 Hello, everybody. Need to get us a sound check going. Let me know that y'all can hear me. I want to first talk for a minute about the geography of what we're going to be talking about. So let's do the entire screen share.

2:28 and then i'm going to get to this map so this map is what i want to um talk about for a minute so can y'all hear me all right awesome five by five so here's the map we've got um mongolia all of china going up in to this area right here you've got korea right here you've got japan

3:03 Right here. Down here is Thailand, Burma. And then over here, obviously, we have India, Nepal. And what, you know, we have all of this down here is Indonesia. We've got Malaysia here and here.

3:28 These are all of the areas that we're going to talk about throughout this book. And here's the Philippines. This is going to be kind of the big deal right here, the Philippines. And you can see that from Japan to the Philippines is not that big of a deal. And then you've got Taiwan here, which, of course, back in the day was called Formosa. And I want to kind of set the stage for what's going on.

4:01 And in this area where you've got India and along this border with Burma is where the British were basically invading China and with all of the opium from India. And during this time, you had at the end of the war, you had.

4:35 Chiang. Excuse me. And just for conversation purposes, it's important to understand the dynamics going on. So you've got the Vietnam. Here's the north part. Here's the south part. You've got Cambodia here.

5:00 there's Laos that kind of shares a very long border with Vietnam. And as we go through this entire book, we'll probably be showing that map often because it's going to come up repeatedly. And we have to keep in mind geographically where all of those things are.

5:30 This is a very complicated story, but it's a very important story for lots of reasons, as you will find out. We may not even make it to chapter one. This book has a very long prologue of which puts kind of in context everything that we're going to be talking about. So we're going to spend a little bit of time on the prologue, which I don't normally even cover, but it gives you a good overview of.

6:01 what's going on. So it starts, the prologue starts in the closing months of World War II in the Philippines. There is a Japanese general, Yamashita, who basically was fighting in the mountains of Luzon, and they were basically losing, but he put up a

6:32 Huge fight, probably more so than what you would have normally imagined, given the odds that he was going to lose anyway, because they had already basically taken everything except for mainland Japan. So what most people didn't realize is he was actually taking, while they were continuing the fighting in the Philippines, he was taking that time to bury.

7:01 and inordinate amount of treasure. So they were meticulously with engineers drawing maps of exactly where the treasure was in a coded format. And they were booby trapping all of the caves along the way. So there ended up being 175 of these locations.

7:32 Some of them as big as a couple of football fields underground. So this was an enormous undertaking. And they were doing it to hide the stolen treasures that they had spent years, if not decades, stealing from all of the Asian countries. It's also important to know that Korea had been basically a colony.

8:05 of Japan, not just a conquered country. And they eventually overtook Vietnam and kicked the French out. They had basically defeated Mongolia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia. And in doing so, they went in and basically razed the entire country.

8:33 In some cases, stealing kitchen sinks. Anything that could be used in any form or fashion for the military or for the enrichment of the emperor, they took. So that's all important to this conversation. There were a total of 12 Asian countries that had accumulated wealth over thousands of years that the Japanese stole. And they took the treasures.

9:06 everything in banks everything out of factories private homes pawn shops art galleries and basically took and broke into ordinary middle-class homes and took everything also japanese had what is known as gangsters and they had discovered an entire underworld in asia

9:38 primarily like in Formosa, which we now call Taiwan, where there were a huge amount of riches that were not in banks. As a matter of fact, in many cases, they were buried in people's yards and they systematically dug them all up. They would torture people until they told on their neighbors on whether or not they were wealthy or...

10:08 knot and where they hid, they would actually torture in the middle and upper classes, the servants, in order for them to rat out where the owners had buried treasure in either the basement or in their backyard. The author makes a note that the Japanese were much more thorough than the Nazis in vacuuming up all of the riches. And most of this was moved around by sea, both in submarines and in ships.

10:43 And they made a point of ensuring that they hid all of it. So basically what they were going to do is no matter how the war ended, they were not going to disclose the fact that they had all of these riches at their access because of the maps and the systematic way they went about hiding all of the treasure.

11:12 And we're talking trillions of dollars of treasure when all is said and done. Trillions, not billions. So they had multiple princes, both children and brothers of the emperor that was invested in this vault digging operation in the Philippines. So there was...

11:48 a chief engineer that was assigned to each vault. And keep in mind, there was 175 of them. And they would dig down as far as 220 feet underground. And they numbered the tunnels. And an example that the author gives is tunnel eight was exactly 220 feet underground.

12:18 And after they dug out using prisoners of war to dig these tunnels and slaves that they had enslaved in the Philippines, so local nationals, they would have a great big party. And it says they would drink great quantities of sake. At midnight, General Yamashita...

12:48 And the princes slipped out. Dynamite charges were set off in the access tunnel. And the engineers and all of the workers were entombed in the cave. They were buried alive, who were not killed instantly when the dynamite charges went off. So among all of the gold bars, the gold statues, the diamonds, the money.

13:22 the treasures the antiquities in forms of art and um porcelain and all kinds of different treasures these people would lay dead from having been blown up or suffocated and then the princes would escape back to japan by submarine and when he finally got cornered

13:53 General Yamashito surrendered to the American troops. The hidden treasures was brushed off as a legend of Yamashito's gold. That's what it was referred to. However, there were eyewitnesses to what had taken place at Tunnel 8, which was the last one that they had done. And there was a, at the time he was a boy. He became the valet.

14:24 of one of the prince one of the japanese princes his name was ben van morris v-a-l-m-o-r-e-s and the prince that he was developed valet to was in charge of building inventory and sealing all of the treasure sites in the philippines

14:50 And he kept a meticulous log of every single thing to include drawing all of the maps and basically auditing before they blew it up and killed everybody. So he had meticulous notes. And this little boy basically was drug around everywhere with him to kind of be his butler. So this went on from 1943 to 1945.

15:20 He provided essential clues that eventually enabled the authors to identify which prince it was that he was the valet to. And many of the other princes that were involved in the digging, because they basically had kind of geographically assigned different princes to different areas. But that one prince that this guy valeted for.

15:49 was the final signature on all of the different sites. So Emperor Hirohito was basically in charge of the whole operation. His brother, Prince Chichibu, that's what we're going to call him. So I thought the European names were a little difficult. These Japanese names are crazy.

16:20 Prince Chichibu is what we're going to call him. It's C-H-I-C-H-I-B-U. His organization was codenamed Golden Lily. And that's where the Operation Golden Lily's name comes from. The title of one of the emperor's poems, that's where they got this name from, Golden Lily.

16:46 Lesser princes headed off different branches of golden lily across the conquered territories. Japanese sources now have confirmed that Ben's wartime master was Prince Takita Toshiyoshi, first cousin of Emperor Hirohito and a grandson of the Emperor Maijin, who was the emperor prior to Hirohito.

17:17 So to corroborate this, in 1998, we gave Ben a blind test with obscure 1930 photos of many of the princes, photos that we had obtained from a British library. There were photos of princes in army uniforms as they looked on the eve of Pearl Harbor. We removed the names of all of the photos. We mingled them with ordinary soldiers and Ben identified.

17:48 Prince Takita, Hirohito's two brothers, Prince Chichibu and Prince Mikasa, and the elder Prince Asaka, who had commanded British armies at the rape of Nanking. So he was able to, upon being interviewed by the authors, to identify exactly who it was that he had valeted.

18:21 um for and in doing so because there was many meetings he was able to identify some of the other princes so ben tells him that he had spent his time bringing them food and tea and cigarettes all while they inventoried the treasure sites as the treasures were being delivered off the ships and off the submarines ben had grew up a rice farmer who basically

18:49 had never went beyond grade school. When he came across our photo of Prince Takita, he froze. He then began crooning the Japanese folk song, Sakura, Sakura, which is cherry blossoms, which he said Takita often sang to himself. The discovery of Prince Takita's identity provided a missing link in the...

19:22 Yamato dynasty. The authors had been told in October 1945, American intelligence agents learned the location of some of the Japanese treasure vaults in the Philippines and secretly recovered billions of dollars worth of gold, platinum, culture artifacts, and loose gems. This information of true revealed the existence of an extraordinary state secret in the United States government that they had kept secret over half a century.

19:58 And I want to stop because this is a part I'm going to hammer home multiple times. The author does too, but I'm going to put it out here now. I want you to understand that these people that were in prison camps that were used as forced labor, many of them were used as forced labor for industrial companies, just like they did in Germany. Many of them died.

20:29 enslaved labor camps, just like they did in Germany. But keep in mind throughout this entire book review, the American government, namely John Foster Dulles, who was the negotiator in San Francisco when Japan surrendered, put a clause in the surrender documents that forbid any American military or civilian held captive.

21:00 Used as slave labor, tortured from ever receiving any compensation, period, none. And that's going to be extremely important as we go along through this. And we talk about the trillions of dollars that they knew existed. And we're going to prove that they knew that the dollars existed while telling people who nearly died.

21:32 in the Philippines and elsewhere that they would never be compensated by Japan. That's our government. September 2nd, 1945, after receiving official notice of Japan's surrender, General Yamashito and his staff emerged from their mountainous stronghold in the Kiangan pocket and presented their swords to a group of U.S. Army officers led by military police major A.S. Jack Kenworthy.

22:03 who took them to a prison outside of Manila. Because of the gruesome atrocities committed earlier by Admiral Ikebaki Kanji, sailors and Marines in the city of Manila, after Yamashito had ordered them to leave the city unharmed, the general was charged with war crimes. During his trial, there was no mention of the war loot, but there was a hidden agenda.

22:33 Because it was not possible to torture General Yamashita physically without this becoming evident to his defense attorneys, members of his staff were tortured instead. His driver, a Major Koijima Kashi, was given special attention. Since Yamashita had arrived from Mancuria in October 1944 to take over the defense of the Philippines, Koijima had driven him everywhere.

23:03 In charge of Koijima's torture was a Filipino-American intelligence officer by the name of Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana, a man of many names and personalities whose friends called him Santi, S-A-N-T-Y. He wanted Major Koijima

23:31 to reveal each place to which he had taken Yamashita, where the bullion and other treasure were hidden. Supervising Santee, we learned, was Captain Edward Lansdell, who we know ends up in the CIA. He was part of the OSS. Later, one of America's best-known cold warriors was Captain Lansdell. In September 1945, Lansdell was 37 years old and

24:02 Totally insignificant to the big picture. He, interestingly enough, background, was an advertising agent who did copyright for PR campaigns. He was from San Francisco. And when he was hired as part of the OSS, he basically wrote propaganda for them. PR propaganda. In September 1945, Lansdell...

24:37 would end up being ordered as part of the OSS via President Truman to close the organization down. And to preserve America's intelligence assets and its own personal network, OSS Chief William Donovan moved personnel to another government or military post.

25:04 Captain Lansdale was one of the 50 office staff given a chance to transfer to the Army G2 in the Philippines. This is incredibly important because G2 is the intel arm of the U.S. Army. And this man, Lansdale, had no intel experience whatsoever other than writing propaganda. So you could kind of say he did psychological warfare kind of stuff, but basically.

25:32 He worked at an ad agency. That was his resume. Lansdale heard about Santee's torturing of General Yamashito's driver and basically joined in the torture sessions as an observer and participant. So Major Koijima broke down and led Lansdale and Santee to more than a dozen of the Golden Lily treasure vaults in the mountains north of Manila.

26:05 including two that were easily opened. What lay inside astonished everybody. While Santee and his team set to opening the rest of these vaults, Captain Lansdale flew to Tokyo to brief General MacArthur, then on to Washington to brief Truman. After discussions with his cabinet, Truman decided to proceed with the recovery, but to keep it a state secret. The treasure, gold, platinum, and barrels of loose gems,

26:36 was combined with Axis loot recovered in Europe to create a worldwide covert political action fund to fight communism, right? Which is garbage. Let me just say that up front. They had appropriated money from Congress to fight communism. This had nothing to do with fighting communism. This is an excuse. This money was used to create Operation Gladio.

27:07 under the guise of fighting communism. This black gold gave the Truman administration access to virtually limitless unvouchered funds for covert operations, i.e. Operation Gladio. It also provided an asset base that was used by Washington to reinforce the treasures of its allies to bribe political leaders and to manipulate elections in foreign countries.

27:38 And I laugh at the fact that they're talking about they manipulated foreign elections, but not American elections? Right. In the late 1940s, this agenda was seen as entirely justified because of how aggressive the Soviet Union was, except they weren't aggressive at all. They were given all of the territory. They didn't take any additional territory. This was...

28:09 And I'm going to keep reminding people that through this entire book. The authors don't necessarily mention any of this is Operation Gladio. And I want to make that point clear. But if you read why they're doing what they're doing and how they're doing it, it's very easy with your Gladio glasses on where it says they were being used. The funding that they found in these treasure sites was being used.

28:37 as anti-communist and to fight covert or to fund covert operations or black book operations it's very easy to see how timing wise as they're setting up spending five billion dollars of unappropriated money in the italian left elections in 1948 um how

29:01 Easy it is in the funding of the killing of the Congo president, the Iranian president, the Turkish president. None of those things could be done with appropriated money. And this, along with the selling of the drugs, the selling of the weapons, selling of people, all fall into this network, all controlled by the CIA. So you can see how everything overlaps with each other. And that's what I'm here to point out. So.

29:42 Basically, they try to sell the narrative that this was going to be used to ensure the capitalist countries survived. Except our country, nor any of the Western powers, were actually capitalists. They hid their monopolies in trust and their criminal syndicate in...

30:15 subordination of countries under hidden subsidiaries in order to create monopolies. I would love to believe that you could take blood money and somehow use it for good, but blood money was used for bloody events, not to ensure capitalist or democracy survived. So basically the author says,

30:44 The purpose of the book is to lift the veil of secrecy on all that went on. So I had a question as we go through this that came up. I have always wondered why so willingly did the United States and the allies give Russia, who prior to the end of World War II, they had already decided.

31:18 They were going to start the Cold War, as Stuart just pointed out. They already decided they were going to enact a Cold War. OK, so why did they give them all of the Eastern European countries? To me, the Hitler had stolen all of the antiquities of all of the countries that he had previously occupied.

31:55 Those are the exact countries, minus Austria and France, that was given to Russia. Was it to hide all of the stuff that they had stolen? Because if you hide these countries behind the Iron Curtain, there's no way to reveal, because you can't talk to the people there. All of the government people were murdered. There's no way to reveal.

32:25 all of the church artifacts that have been stolen, all of the museum artifacts that have been stolen, etc. So that's just always something that I've wondered about because it makes no sense on why they gave them all of those countries like Poland and Hungary and Romania. Those countries, having been around over a thousand years as well,

32:53 had a lot of artifacts that were stolen by Hitler and moved out of the country. So that's just something to think about. So the decision was not Truman's alone. There was a global political action fund based on war loot that actually originated during the Roosevelt administration with the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson. During the war, Stimson had a brain trust thinking hard about

33:24 what to do with the Axis plunder, and how it should be handled when peace came. Much of the war prize was in the form of gold looted by the Nazis from conquered countries and civilian victims. To eliminate any trace of the ownership, the Nazis had it melted down and recast, hallmarked with swastikas and Black Eagle from the Rights Bank.

33:52 There were other reasons why the gold was difficult to trace. Many of the original owners had died because they were murdered. Pre-war governments ceased to exist. Eastern countries were falling under the control of the Soviet Union. So returning the looted gold was basically out of the question. So Stimson's special assistants on the topic were his deputies, John McCloy, who was a very interesting guy. And we'll talk about him a lot later.

34:22 and Robert Lovett, also a guy by the name of Robert Anderson, all clever men with outstanding careers in public service and banking. McCoy later became head of the World Bank. That's a big shocker. Lovett became Secretary of Defense, and Anderson just so happened to become Secretary of the Treasury. You know, the three things you need if you want to hide a bunch of money.

34:49 Their solutions was to set up what is informally called the Black Eagle Trust. The idea was first discussed by America's allies in a secret meeting in July 1944 when 44 nations met at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire. They were to plan the post-war world economy. This included a CIA officer based in Manila who happened to be a

35:17 future CIA Deputy Director Ray Klein. He knew all about Santee's recovery in 1945. As recently as 1990, Klein continued to be involved in attempts to control the Japanese gold still in the bolts at Citibank. And that's going to get to be a very ugly story that we'll get to towards the end of the book. Much of this gold that was recovered, although it's not all been recovered,

35:47 is in American banks, and they will not give it to the rightful owners. And like I said, we'll get into more of that as we get into the book. McCloy, Lovett, and Stimson, as well as others and Captain Lansdale, would go to Tokyo in November 1945 with Robert Anderson, and General MacArthur then would accompany Anderson and Lansdale on a covert flight to Manila.

36:22 where they set out for a tour of the vaults. Santee already had opened. We were told Anderson and MacArthur strolled down row after row of gold bars stacked two meters tall. It's evident that over a period of years, Japan had looted many billions of dollars in treasure from all over Asia. What was seen by Anderson and MacArthur was only the gold that had not reached Japan.

36:56 Japan had also been greatly enriched. Ray Klein and others, between 45 and 47, the gold bullion recovered by Santee and Lansdale was discreetly moved by ship to 176 accounts at banks in 42 different countries. Secrecy was vital. The very existence of so much black gold, if it became public knowledge, would cause the price of gold

37:26 So, all of this needs to be understood in how...

38:03 we ended up being decoupled from the gold and who it was that did it by nixon because that's all going to become very important in this story and it's going to blow your mind so if they kept the gold a secret and the prices stayed at 35 an ounce the gold would remain strong and currencies pegged to the gold would be stable meanwhile the black gold would serve

38:30 as a reserve asset, bolstering the prime banks of allied countries, strengthening the governments of all of those nations. So as a safeguard, the volume was placed in those banks, was carefully controlled, strict limits were placed on the use that could be made of the gold, a process called earmarking. This enabled Washington to bring pressure from time to time on governments and their central banks and prime banks.

39:00 So long as a country and its leaders cooperated and remained allied to the United States, derivatives of the sleeping bullion could be used as patronage in political slush funds. So basically, you know, while we're preserving democracy and the capitalist system, we're doing so by bribing people because that's so democratic.

39:24 In 1945 to 47, very large quantities of gold and platinum were deposited in the world's biggest banks, including Union Bank Swiss, UBS, which is a big money laundering bank, and other Swiss banks, which became major repositories of the Black Eagle Trust, which is from Nazi Germany. So you can see how the banks are all being enriched by all of this. The Swiss banks played a pivotal role.

39:57 because Switzerland had remained neutral during the war and its banks had not been looted, damaged, or depleted. They weren't actually neutral, but we'll go along with that story. So Swiss banking officials showed that very large loans backed by these asset bases were then extended to the British government, the Egyptian government, the Chinese nationalist regime, and the government struggling to recover from the war. And keep in mind...

40:30 When they use the words Chinese nationalist regime, they're talking about Chiang, who was the world's largest drug dealer. They're not talking about China proper. They're talking about their opium king, who was kicked out of China, kicked out of Burma, and basically set up operations in Formosa, changing the name to Taiwan.

40:55 And the KMT was his army that they changed into a political party that is still in control of Taiwan today. Taiwan is a big drug manufacturer, both illegal and prescription drugs. On that tiny little island, there's over 50 pharmaceutical companies producing every kind of crazy drug medication to include opium that you can imagine.

41:26 And they basically were funding all of this with this black gold, black market gold. So the longer this stuff stayed secret, the more the more the abuse began to occur, because that's what happens when you live in secrecy.

41:59 We're going to see numerous documented instances when the underground funds surfaced as huge bribes or were used to buy elections in Italy. See, I told you. Greece, Japan, and elsewhere. Beneficial trusts were set up on behalf of influential people throughout the world. Gold-bearing certificates were used and given as inducements to do whatever they wanted you to do. Bribes.

42:29 The world's biggest banks became addicted to playing with the black gold in their vaults. They basically defrauded the account holders and their heirs, which is exactly what happened with the Holocaust gold in Swiss banks as well. Recovering golden lily treasure vaults and setting up the Black Eagle Trust were the easy parts. Done supposedly for patriotic

43:00 reasons, and supposedly a noble cause. Making intelligence use of illegal money during the Cold War was not so easy. Washington told a number of major diplomats lies, especially about Japan, which had basically stolen the gold. America wanted Japan to be its anti-communist bastion in Asia. So the source of

43:35 Tokyo's hidden wealth must never be acknowledged because a lot of the stolen treasure was shipped and held in banks that were actually owned by the emperor's family and on the compounds of the family. Billions of dollars in addition to what they hid in the Philippines. So the source of Tokyo's hidden wealth must never be acknowledged.

44:08 The most ardent anti-communist in Tokyo happened to be indicted war criminals. So basically, the devoutly undemocratic controlling men were the people that the U.S. was going to use because they were the virulent anti-communist. They also were Gladio operators, as it turns out.

44:37 Washington insisted starting in 1945 that Japan never sold anything, that they were flat broke and bankrupt at the end of the war. And that's the excuse they used to jip all of the American prisoners out of money and reparations. In 1951, the peace treaty with Japan was skewed with deceit.

45:09 So thousands of POWs and civilians who had been forced to perform slave labor in Japanese corporations received no compensation for their suffering. To shield Japan from demands for war reparations, and this is telling the story about John Foster Dulles, which I had already done. According to Article 14 of the treaty, quote, it is recognized that Japan shall pay reparations to the Allied powers for the damage.

45:47 To reinforce the claim that Japan was broke, Article 14 stated,

46:07 countries concurred that japan's plunder had vanished down a rabbit hole and all japan's victims were out of luck the authors also document that washington sent secret shipments of the black gold recovered by santa romana to beef up the allies exhausted central banks because the black eagle trust in the political action funds it spawned um

46:38 Some of these slush funds fell into the wrong hands where they remain today. According to reliable sources in Washington and Tokyo in 1960, Vice President Nixon gave one of the biggest of these funds, the M Fund, like the letter M, to the leaders of Japan's Liberal Democrat Party in return for their promise to kick back to Nixon's campaign for the American presidency.

47:09 This is itself deeply disturbing, but the M Fund, then worth $35 billion and now said to be upwards of $500 billion, has been controlled ever since by the Japanese party kingmakers used to buy elections and keep Japan a one-party dictatorship. It also blocks any meaningful reform because they use that money to do whatever they want to do.

47:38 Secrecy is power. Power corrupts and secret power corrupts secretly. So that explains why the government evolved from its long period of dependence on the United States is so corrupt, inept, and weak in Japan. And let me also point out that election in 1960 is when Nixon ran against JFK and lost. So he gave away the money for nothing.

48:12 And to the people who illegally stole it and not to its rightful owners from all of the countries that it fleeced. And then the authors go on and talk about how this isn't anything new, that basically they had looted Peking before during the Boxer siege, which I'm not going to go into that. But one part I did think was very interesting.

48:46 is they point out the difference between the late 1800s and the Boxer rebellions and that type of thing is that back then it was like drunken looting and smashing. It wasn't a serious overall raping of all resources with deliberate special attentions to books, manuscripts, anything of value in every single country.

49:16 They devoted special attention to looting the Asian underworld, the triads, the sects, the racketeers. Japan flooded China with narcotics, giving gangsters drugs in exchange for gold, basically Chiang, which brought treasure out of every hiding place. Extortion was used to terrorize wealthy individuals. Basically, like I was telling you, they were bribing people to turn in their neighbors on where they could hide.

49:45 put their valuables. They stole artwork, historic artifacts, solid gold Buddhas, and they were taken to underground hiding places in the Philippines. Many of the art and artifacts are in private vaults in Japan. Some of it's in the imperial collections in Tokyo owned by the emperor family. And they have an interesting

50:26 society way of organizing in Japan. And that began to spill over into Korea when it was a colony basically of Japan in that in Japan, instead of having like a mafia, they have a hierarchy of families that

50:57 basically owned monopoly enterprises. So instead of using the word oligarch, where it's like a strong man, this was entire families that owned like Toyota or any of the industries, Mitsubishi in Korea.

51:25 These people were the elite and they were chosen basically to run these companies basically for the government under the guise of them being an independent company. They're not actually per se independent. It's almost like a camouflage, if you will, in the way it's all done. Because nobody gets to do this unless they're picked from the elite.

51:55 Kind of like how the CIA does Google and Facebook and all of those. So, excuse me, the Washington used the excuse of making sure Japan stayed anti-communist. So they worked with the wartime leaders and imperial family and financial elite, ensuring that none of them were held accountable. So basically, even though Japan,

52:29 had a Nuremberg-style trial system as well. All of the Japanese people that should have been held responsible for all of the awful things that they did, not a single one of them were tried either, just like in Germany, where Otto Skorzeny and the banker and all of those other people got off. So did that happen in Japan.

52:55 basically none of the people that were really responsible were held accountable. And that was due in large part because of MacArthur, Truman, and John Foster Dulles. So there is an official report from MacArthur's headquarters that was published in 1950. And here's a quote. Hold on a second. One of the spectacular tasks of the occupation dealt with collecting and putting under guard

53:34 the great hordes of gold, silver, precious stones, foreign postage stamps, engraving plates, all currency not legal in Japan. Even though the bulk of this wealth was collected and placed under the U.S. military custody by Japan officials, undeclared caches of these treasures were known to exist, unquote. MacArthur's staff knew, for example, $2 billion in gold bullion.

54:02 had been sunk in Tokyo Bay in a boat. It was later recovered. Another great fortune discovered by U.S. intelligence services in 1946 was $13 billion in war loot amassed by the underworld godfather, Kadama Yoshio, who, as a rear admiral in the Imperial Navy, worked with Golden Lily in China and Southwest Asia.

54:31 and was in charge of plundering the Asian underworld racketeers. He was also in charge of Japan's wartime drug trade throughout Asia. After the war, to get rid of the Sugamo prison and avoid persecution for war crimes, Kodama gave $100 million to the CIA, which was added to the M Fund's coppers.

54:56 then personally financed the creation of two political parties that merged into Japan's ruling Liberal Democrat Party, strongly backed to this day by Washington. Hard evidence of Sante's secret recovery of Japanese war gold comes from straightforward legal actions in America. It's not fake. Things like probating of his will,

55:24 The verification of his tax records in the state of New York at Albany, legal evidence of his fortune deposited in the United States, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and elsewhere provided hard evidence that the world is awash with clandestine bank accounts growing out of Golden Lily. When Santa Romano died in 1974, some of his biggest black gold accounts were quickly transferred to the name of Major General Edward Lansdale.

55:53 the man who participated with Santee in the torture of Major Kojima 30 years earlier. By 1974, Lansdell had been retired from the CIA for over a decade, raising puzzling questions that are only answered by recognizing the role of Lansdell and other former spooks in America's new network of private military and intelligence firms. There are many other famous names tied to this curious story.

56:24 longtime Citibank CEO John Reed was named in some of the lawsuits as a key figure in the movement of Santa Romana's black gold. He actually moved it out of New York City into the Caribbean, and he was not authorized to do that. One of the attorneys handling all of this said, I'm now convinced some very important banks around the world did have deposits of money for Santa Romana.

57:02 In part, the suit against defendant John Reed, the chairman and CEO of Citibank, has spearheaded Citibank's conversion of the gold bullion, which was owned by Santa Romana. Reed and Citibank have systematically sold and are selling said gold bullion to buyers and converting the sale proceeds to their own use. Other lawsuits prove that Golden Lily's war loot was indeed hidden in the Philippines.

57:29 A man by the name of Rogerio Roxas, R-O-X-A-S, a Filipino locksmith, found a one-ton solid gold Buddha and thousands of small gold bars hidden in a tunnel beneath a hospital in one of the cities in the Philippines, which had served as a headquarter for General Yamashita. The moment he heard what Roxas had found, President Marcos sent thugs to confiscate the gold Buddha.

58:00 When Roxas protested, he was arrested and tortured and ultimately poisoned. In 1996, a U.S. court in the state of Hawaii awarded his heirs a judgment of $43 billion with a B against the Marcos estate because they went behind him where he had done all of the legal application to dig at the site, everything, found.

58:28 some of the treasure not all of it marcos not only took the treasure that he found he went back and excavated the entire site and basically embezzled the money that's why they were took they took him to court and they were awarded because if you remember when they gladio marcos and there's a whole story about that that's in this book that will blow your mind um when they basically coo him um

58:58 He is ferried out of the Philippines after having worked with the CIA for a decade, over a decade. And he's taken to Hawaii. And as soon as he gets to Hawaii, he is charged with this lawsuit and eventually found guilty. And the judgment was $43 billion. Documents.

59:26 discovered at the palace show that in 1968, President Marcos sent a team of army officers to Japan to make a deal for joint recovery. According to a member of the team, they met with the prince, a high-ranking Japanese officer, cousin of Emperor Haruhito, who told them that Japan had hidden over $100 billion worth of treasure in the Philippines, and it would take more than a century to recover it all.

59:57 belated legal battle with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Norbert Schley, S-C-H-L-E-I, who had to fight for his survival after being stung by the U.S. Treasury Department for asking too many questions about Japan's secret IMFund. While Schley...

1:00:20 was indicted, prosecuted, bankrupted, and professionally ruined for trying to negotiate a financial certificate based on the M Fund, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, according to eyewitnesses, went to Japan and negotiated a similar certificate successfully with the help of a personal letter from George H. W. Bush. Why one man succeeded while the other was destroyed is a chilling story of financial collusion between Washington and Tokyo.

1:00:49 And we're going to talk a little bit more about that. But basically, they had, in order to leave the gold in one place and still use it to fund their terror networks, they created these specially coded gold certificates. And if anybody ever showed up with them anywhere, some of them were murdered and the certificate stolen.

1:01:19 They made carefully, and we'll talk about this later, but they made careful typos that were all recorded in a ledger and then used the fact that it had a typo if they didn't want to honor the gold certificate to whoever was presenting it as it being a fraud. It's really crazy, this entire story. We have been deeply skeptical about the huge dollar value cited by Golden Lily. Officially,

1:01:54 We were told that about 130 metric tons of processed gold in the world, including bullion coinage and jewelry. Official records maintain that Asia, with more than 75% of the world's population, held less than 5% of the total supply of gold, a statistic that is ridiculous on its face. But in the West, at least, the law of gold is drummed into us like the law of gravity. In fact,

1:02:25 Nobody really knows how much gold there is. We do not know how much was looted by Spain when they came to the New World. We don't know how much was looted by the Nazis. And we have no idea of... He also mentions European banking families, the Fugers, F-U-G-G-E-R-S, and Welsers, W-E-L-S-E-R-S.

1:02:57 We probably need to look into them, Bridget. They may be some of those banking families that stay out of sight because I've always said the ones that you don't know about is way worse than the ones that you do know about. And those are two new names for me. So they basically were the European banking families that financed the conquest of Mexico and Peru. So whatever they did with the gold,

1:03:32 they kept it very secret so we have no actual way of knowing how rich the crups rothschilds oppenheimers warbirds rockefellers are except that they've been able to um basically camouflage their wealth a trillion dollars sounds like a lot but it

1:04:02 Economics tells us that today there is some $23 trillion in the hands of people in offshore private accounts where banking secrecies and local laws keep assets hidden from the tax man. Gold holdings of the great Asian and Middle Eastern dynasty families, trading networks, and underworld syndicates.

1:04:32 Along with Western tycoons may own banks and oil companies and influence or control governments. But wealthy Asians never trusted governments or banks preferring to keep their wealth in small gold and platinum bars and gyms. In China, these absolute distrust goes back thousands of years. And that's why I was telling you they were burying stuff in their backyard because they didn't trust institutions.

1:05:00 So the U.S. government refuses to disclose how much gold it holds. And the last public audit of Fort Knox was in the 1950s. So it appears that gold overall is one of the biggest secrets out there. The huge quantity of war gold remains today in the coffers of international banks, such as Citibank, Chase, HSBC, which we know is...

1:05:30 All of these are big money launderers, UBS and others. We provide photocopies of letters, contracts, waybills, state government tax records, insurance covers, and interviews with brokers who carried out Black Eagle deals. We also document a secret trust that was set up by Japan's Sanwa Bank, jointly held by General MacArthur and his old adversary, Emperor Hirohito.

1:05:59 This account known as the Showa, S-H-O-W-A Trust, after Haruhito's reigns title, was so big that by 1982, it was paying nearly $1 billion interest per year. We also have identified one of the three trustees of the Showa Trust.

1:06:22 and we show that President Marcos discovered the existence of this account and used it to blackmail the government of Japan. Santa, Romano, and Lansdale only recovered a portion of the treasure from 1945 to 1947, a decade past before other significant recoveries occurred. Japan began coming back to the Philippines by that time, basically trying to recover some of their hidden treasures.

1:06:54 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 murdered by Marcos and fleeing the Philippines, Curtis became absorbed by the historical importance of documenting the treasure.

1:07:23 In the course of engineering five major Golden Lily recoveries for Marcos, Curtis was able to study many of the sites personally in and around the city of Manila, giving him an unrivaled understanding of the techniques employed by Golden Lily engineers. And it will blow your mind when we get to that. Curtis worked with President Marcos. He photographed 172 of the 175 original treasure maps.

1:07:52 We reproduce several of the maps on our CDs. We also tell the epic saga of Japan's recovery of a captured Dutch passenger liner used by Golden Lily to carry treasure safely to Japan under the Japanese Navy officers near a Navy base in the Philippines with tons of gold and platinum aboard. Her treasure was recovered in the 1990s.

1:08:22 So they actually had taken several of the ships filled with gold and purposely sunk them so they could come back to them, and they marked where they had them. A group of senior U.S. government officials and Pentagon generals hoped to use Golden Lily treasure to create a new private FBI and a military-industrial complex controlled by them in partnership with the John Birch Society, the Moonies, and the far-right tycoons.

1:08:56 Now, what's interesting about this, I don't like the use of the word far right. It's just basically rich people. The Moonies we discovered in our Operation Gladio research in South America are from Korea, and they are elements of the Gladio operation. The chief Reverend Moon guy actually had Gladio operators in several of the South American countries.

1:09:23 as assassins and running the drugs, which I thought was crazy. I thought they were just weirdos at the airport begging for money. Nice undercover or cover story. This is confirmed by tape recordings in 1987 conference in Hong Kong that included retired General, Army General John Singleton and General Robert Schweitzer of the National Security Council under Reagan. So,

1:09:59 Interestingly enough, John Singlet is all over Operation Gladiator. We've come across him in just about every theater that we've looked at. And so he's saying that he is basically going to be at a meeting using this money to basically create an FBI within an FBI, the military industrial complex, and the Gladio operations. And this meeting was held.

1:10:32 of the hierarchy within the Reagan administration. Their group dug a hole 400 feet deep beneath a kitchen near Manila in the misguided belief that the Japanese had dug a similar hole in 1942 to hide gold bullion. And basically, several people, when these people

1:11:03 When some of the government officials, it's kind of a funny story, they had given them wrong maps on purpose. And some of the government, the U.S. government explorations before they latched on to the guy Robert Curtis, who actually kind of tracked down and got copies of all of the real maps, they were digging holes everywhere over there trying to find this treasure.

1:11:33 And everybody over there was laughing at him. So the author then goes on in the last of this, and then we're going to call it a night. I just want to say that, again, there were several lawsuits about people trying to get money from the Japanese.

1:12:00 And it also said in that agreement that John Foster Dulles created under Article 15, that should any country actually ever get money for their people, then it would be open to the U.S. for doing so. And eventually, I mean, decades later, the British actually did do that. So it actually, under the stipulation of that peace agreement, opened it up for them.

1:12:29 But the U.S. government has never done anything with it. And the author points out that several rich Japanese corporations like Mitsubishi, Mitsu, Sumitomo were all part of the slave labor. And it says in a U.S. Senate hearing in June 2000, Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah challenged state and justice attorneys about the legitimacy of their claim.

1:12:59 that the 1951 peace treaty canceled all rights of the victims you mean our federal here's a quote you mean our federal government can just say to hell with you baton death marchers and you people who were mistreated we're just going to waive all your rights constitutionally can our government take away the rights of individual citizens just because they put it in a peace treaty

1:13:25 We're not asking the Japanese government to pay. We're asking the companies that did the acts to pay. Some of these companies are multi-billion dollar companies today, unquote. In September 21st, 2000, the U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled against American POWs and other slave laborers. Walker dismissed their suit, saying it was a dangerous to upset the diplomatic alliance that established between America and Japan since the war's end.

1:13:57 Three former U.S. ambassadors to Japan then published a letter in the Washington Post making an astounding assertion that these American ex-POWs and their attorneys were virtual terrorists. The real issue is conflict of interest. During the Clinton administration, U.S. ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley

1:14:20 was adamant in rejecting compensation for the POWs and other slave laborers, insisting that the peace treaty put aside all claims against Japan. His deputy chief of missions, Christopher LaFleur, echoed this dogma at every opportunity. Foley's wife just so happens to be a well-paid consultant to one of those companies, one of Japan's biggest conglomerates.

1:14:49 the Sumitomo Company, heavily involved in wartime slave labor and a target of a lawsuit. The moment Foley ended his tenure as ambassador and returned to America, he signed on as a paid advisor and lobbyist for Mitchell, B.C., one of the biggest wartime users of slave labor. Also,

1:15:17 LaFleur is married to the daughter of the former prime minister and finance minister of one of three Japanese who secretly negotiated the treaty with John Foster Dulles. So basically, they're all in bed with each other, cheating Americans out of their deserved compensation. So that's it for the prologue. That's a lot of information just in a prologue.

1:15:53 but it kind of sets the tone and I didn't want to not go over that. So let me take a look at some of the comments here and see if there's anything else you want to talk about. Oh, well, Stuart, I'm glad you're here and I'm glad you watched the Alpha Warrior show. I have a lot of fun doing that show. Let's see. Same boardrooms justify perpetual wars, fascists. Yeah, that's exactly right.

1:16:31 Nazis are Fugers. All right. We're going to look into that. Thank you, Liza, for posting those links. I definitely do want to say a few words about them when we come back next time. Golf News, Philippines, Marco Family still founded. Yeah. Just let me go back through some more of these others. Yeah, I don't know if you guys have ever.

1:17:05 read any of the Baton Death March books. Ghost Soldiers is one of the books that I read a long time ago about that whole fiasco, and it was awesome. It was a well-researched book, but a totally awful book to read. I read it

1:17:32 As part of a research project I was doing at Air War College and it's just totally gruesome. And to know what these people went through and so few of them survived and then to have their government stab them in the back, which is what the United States government did, it's disgusting. So anyway, that's it for tonight. Thank you for being here.

1:17:59 We're going to dive into chapter one on our next, and we'll be back here Thursday night at 7 p.m. Hope to see you all then. Thanks for being here. And oh, Bridget will yell at me if I don't say this. Please give us a thumbs up. And if you're not already following us, please do so. I'd really appreciate it. It definitely makes the algorithms of people being able to find our Rumble channel.

1:18:28 easier so i appreciate your uh being here and i will see you on thursday at 7 pm

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Tomoyuki Yamashita operated_in Luzon book_quoted ▶ 6:01

“what's going on. So it starts, the prologue starts in the closing months of World War II in the Philippines. There is a Japanese general, Yamashita, who basically was fighting in the mountains of Luzo…”

Tomoyuki Yamashita carried_out_attack Philippines book_quoted ▶ 6:32

“Huge fight, probably more so than what you would have normally imagined, given the odds that he was going to lose anyway, because they had already basically taken everything except for mainland Japan.…”

Japan trafficked Philippines book_quoted ▶ 7:32

“Some of them as big as a couple of football fields underground. So this was an enormous undertaking. And they were doing it to hide the stolen treasures that they had spent years, if not decades, stea…”

Japan overthrew Malaysia book_quoted ▶ 8:05

“of Japan, not just a conquered country. And they eventually overtook Vietnam and kicked the French out. They had basically defeated Mongolia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia. And in doing so, they went in …”

Japan overthrew Vietnam book_quoted ▶ 8:05

Japan overthrew China book_quoted ▶ 8:05

Japan overthrew Indonesia book_quoted ▶ 8:05

Japan overthrew Mongolia book_quoted ▶ 8:05

Benjamin Valmorres relationship_with Prince Takamatsu book_quoted ▶ 14:24

“of one of the prince one of the japanese princes his name was ben van morris v-a-l-m-o-r-e-s and the prince that he was developed valet to was in charge of building inventory and sealing all of the tr…”

Hirohito headed Operation Golden Lily book_quoted ▶ 15:49

“was the final signature on all of the different sites. So Emperor Hirohito was basically in charge of the whole operation. His brother, Prince Chichibu, that's what we're going to call him. So I thoug…”

Prince Takamatsu member_of Operation Golden Lily book_quoted ▶ 16:20

“Prince Chichibu is what we're going to call him. It's C-H-I-C-H-I-B-U. His organization was codenamed Golden Lily. And that's where the Operation Golden Lily's name comes from. The title of one of the…”

Prince Takamatsu relationship_with Hirohito book_quoted ▶ 16:46

“Lesser princes headed off different branches of golden lily across the conquered territories. Japanese sources now have confirmed that Ben's wartime master was Prince Takita Toshiyoshi, first cousin o…”

Benjamin Valmorres exposed Prince Takamatsu book_quoted ▶ 16:46

Prince Asaka carried_out_attack Nanjing book_quoted ▶ 17:48

“Prince Takita, Hirohito's two brothers, Prince Chichibu and Prince Mikasa, and the elder Prince Asaka, who had commanded British armies at the rape of Nanking. So he was able to, upon being interviewe…”

United States acquired Philippines book_quoted ▶ 19:22

“Yamato dynasty. The authors had been told in October 1945, American intelligence agents learned the location of some of the Japanese treasure vaults in the Philippines and secretly recovered billions …”

John Foster Dulles proposed Japan book_quoted ▶ 20:29

“enslaved labor camps, just like they did in Germany. But keep in mind throughout this entire book review, the American government, namely John Foster Dulles, who was the negotiator in San Francisco wh…”

Tomoyuki Yamashita surrendered A.S. Jack Kenworthy book_quoted ▶ 21:32

“in the Philippines and elsewhere that they would never be compensated by Japan. That's our government. September 2nd, 1945, after receiving official notice of Japan's surrender, General Yamashito and …”

Tomoyuki Yamashita ordered_assassination_of Philippines book_quoted ▶ 22:03

“who took them to a prison outside of Manila. Because of the gruesome atrocities committed earlier by Admiral Ikebaki Kanji, sailors and Marines in the city of Manila, after Yamashito had ordered them …”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana tortured Major Koijima Kashi book_quoted ▶ 23:03

“In charge of Koijima's torture was a Filipino-American intelligence officer by the name of Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana, a man of many names and personalities whose friends called him Santi, S-A-N…”

Edward Lansdale supervised_by Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana book_quoted ▶ 23:31

“to reveal each place to which he had taken Yamashita, where the bullion and other treasure were hidden. Supervising Santee, we learned, was Captain Edward Lansdell, who we know ends up in the CIA. He …”

Edward Lansdale reassigned Counterintelligence Corps book_quoted ▶ 25:04

“Captain Lansdale was one of the 50 office staff given a chance to transfer to the Army G2 in the Philippines. This is incredibly important because G2 is the intel arm of the U.S. Army. And this man, L…”

Major Koijima Kashi led_to Operation Golden Lily book_quoted ▶ 25:32

“He worked at an ad agency. That was his resume. Lansdale heard about Santee's torturing of General Yamashito's driver and basically joined in the torture sessions as an observer and participant. So Ma…”

Edward Lansdale briefed Douglas MacArthur book_quoted ▶ 26:05

“including two that were easily opened. What lay inside astonished everybody. While Santee and his team set to opening the rest of these vaults, Captain Lansdale flew to Tokyo to brief General MacArthu…”

Edward Lansdale briefed Harry S. Truman book_quoted ▶ 26:05

Harry S. Truman funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 26:36

“was combined with Axis loot recovered in Europe to create a worldwide covert political action fund to fight communism, right? Which is garbage. Let me just say that up front. They had appropriated mon…”

United States funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 27:07

“under the guise of fighting communism. This black gold gave the Truman administration access to virtually limitless unvouchered funds for covert operations, i.e. Operation Gladio. It also provided an …”

United States funded Italy host_asserted ▶ 28:37

“as anti-communist and to fight covert or to fund covert operations or black book operations it's very easy to see how timing wise as they're setting up spending five billion dollars of unappropriated …”

Henry Stimson headed Black Eagle Trust book_quoted ▶ 32:53

“had a lot of artifacts that were stolen by Hitler and moved out of the country. So that's just something to think about. So the decision was not Truman's alone. There was a global political action fun…”

Robert A. Lovett member_of Black Eagle Trust book_quoted ▶ 33:52

“There were other reasons why the gold was difficult to trace. Many of the original owners had died because they were murdered. Pre-war governments ceased to exist. Eastern countries were falling under…”

John J. McCloy member_of Black Eagle Trust book_quoted ▶ 33:52

Robert Anderson member_of Black Eagle Trust book_quoted ▶ 33:52

Ray Cline operated_in Philippines book_quoted ▶ 34:49

“Their solutions was to set up what is informally called the Black Eagle Trust. The idea was first discussed by America's allies in a secret meeting in July 1944 when 44 nations met at Bretton Woods in…”

Ray Cline did_business_with Citigroup book_quoted ▶ 35:17

“future CIA Deputy Director Ray Klein. He knew all about Santee's recovery in 1945. As recently as 1990, Klein continued to be involved in attempts to control the Japanese gold still in the bolts at Ci…”

Edward Lansdale visited Philippines book_quoted ▶ 35:47

“is in American banks, and they will not give it to the rightful owners. And like I said, we'll get into more of that as we get into the book. McCloy, Lovett, and Stimson, as well as others and Captain…”

Robert Anderson visited Philippines book_quoted ▶ 35:47

Douglas MacArthur visited Philippines book_quoted ▶ 35:47

Edward Lansdale laundered_money_for Black Eagle Trust book_quoted ▶ 36:56

“Japan had also been greatly enriched. Ray Klein and others, between 45 and 47, the gold bullion recovered by Santee and Lansdale was discreetly moved by ship to 176 accounts at banks in 42 different c…”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana laundered_money_for Black Eagle Trust book_quoted ▶ 36:56

UBS subsidiary_of Black Eagle Trust book_quoted ▶ 39:24

“In 1945 to 47, very large quantities of gold and platinum were deposited in the world's biggest banks, including Union Bank Swiss, UBS, which is a big money laundering bank, and other Swiss banks, whi…”

Chiang Kai-shek operated_in Taiwan host_asserted ▶ 40:30

“When they use the words Chinese nationalist regime, they're talking about Chiang, who was the world's largest drug dealer. They're not talking about China proper. They're talking about their opium kin…”

Chiang Kai-shek trafficked Taiwan host_asserted ▶ 40:30

Black Eagle Trust funded Japan host_asserted ▶ 42:29

“The world's biggest banks became addicted to playing with the black gold in their vaults. They basically defrauded the account holders and their heirs, which is exactly what happened with the Holocaus…”

Japan operated_in Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 44:08

“The most ardent anti-communist in Tokyo happened to be indicted war criminals. So basically, the devoutly undemocratic controlling men were the people that the U.S. was going to use because they were …”

John Foster Dulles covered_up Japan host_asserted ▶ 45:09

“So thousands of POWs and civilians who had been forced to perform slave labor in Japanese corporations received no compensation for their suffering. To shield Japan from demands for war reparations, a…”

Richard Nixon paid Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) host_asserted ▶ 46:38

“Some of these slush funds fell into the wrong hands where they remain today. According to reliable sources in Washington and Tokyo in 1960, Vice President Nixon gave one of the biggest of these funds,…”

Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) funded M-Fund host_asserted ▶ 47:09

“This is itself deeply disturbing, but the M Fund, then worth $35 billion and now said to be upwards of $500 billion, has been controlled ever since by the Japanese party kingmakers used to buy electio…”

Douglas MacArthur covered_up Japan host_asserted ▶ 52:55

“basically none of the people that were really responsible were held accountable. And that was due in large part because of MacArthur, Truman, and John Foster Dulles. So there is an official report fro…”

Harry S. Truman covered_up Japan host_asserted ▶ 52:55

Yoshio Kodama trafficked Japan host_asserted ▶ 54:31

“and was in charge of plundering the Asian underworld racketeers. He was also in charge of Japan's wartime drug trade throughout Asia. After the war, to get rid of the Sugamo prison and avoid persecuti…”

Yoshio Kodama funded Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) host_asserted ▶ 54:56

“then personally financed the creation of two political parties that merged into Japan's ruling Liberal Democrat Party, strongly backed to this day by Washington. Hard evidence of Sante's secret recove…”

Sante Romano did_business_with Edward Lansdale host_asserted ▶ 55:24

“The verification of his tax records in the state of New York at Albany, legal evidence of his fortune deposited in the United States, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and elsewhere provided hard evidence that …”

John Reid laundered_money_for Sante Romano host_asserted ▶ 57:02

“In part, the suit against defendant John Reed, the chairman and CEO of Citibank, has spearheaded Citibank's conversion of the gold bullion, which was owned by Santa Romana. Reed and Citibank have syst…”

Ferdinand Marcos covered_up Roger Roxas host_asserted ▶ 57:29

“A man by the name of Rogerio Roxas, R-O-X-A-S, a Filipino locksmith, found a one-ton solid gold Buddha and thousands of small gold bars hidden in a tunnel beneath a hospital in one of the cities in th…”

Ferdinand Marcos did_business_with Japan host_asserted ▶ 59:26

“discovered at the palace show that in 1968, President Marcos sent a team of army officers to Japan to make a deal for joint recovery. According to a member of the team, they met with the prince, a hig…”

Alexander Haig did_business_with Japan host_asserted ▶ 1:00:20

“was indicted, prosecuted, bankrupted, and professionally ruined for trying to negotiate a financial certificate based on the M Fund, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, according to eyewitnesses…”

George H.W. Bush did_business_with Alexander Haig host_asserted ▶ 1:00:20

Sanwa Bank founded Showa Trust host_asserted ▶ 1:05:30

“All of these are big money launderers, UBS and others. We provide photocopies of letters, contracts, waybills, state government tax records, insurance covers, and interviews with brokers who carried o…”

Hirohito member_of Showa Trust host_asserted ▶ 1:05:30

Douglas MacArthur member_of Showa Trust host_asserted ▶ 1:05:30

Ferdinand Marcos did_business_with Robert Curtis host_asserted ▶ 1:06:54

“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 b…”

Sun Myung Moon member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:08:56

“Now, what's interesting about this, I don't like the use of the word far right. It's just basically rich people. The Moonies we discovered in our Operation Gladio research in South America are from Ko…”

John Singletary member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:09:59

“Interestingly enough, John Singlet is all over Operation Gladiator. We've come across him in just about every theater that we've looked at. And so he's saying that he is basically going to be at a mee…”

Thomas Foley did_business_with Sumitomo host_asserted ▶ 1:14:20

“was adamant in rejecting compensation for the POWs and other slave laborers, insisting that the peace treaty put aside all claims against Japan. His deputy chief of missions, Christopher LaFleur, echo…”

Thomas Foley did_business_with Mitchell, B.C. host_asserted ▶ 1:14:49

“the Sumitomo Company, heavily involved in wartime slave labor and a target of a lawsuit. The moment Foley ended his tenure as ambassador and returned to America, he signed on as a paid advisor and lob…”

Ghost Soldiers studied_at Bataan Death March host_asserted ▶ 1:17:05

“read any of the Baton Death March books. Ghost Soldiers is one of the books that I read a long time ago about that whole fiasco, and it was awesome. It was a well-researched book, but a totally awful …”

United States covered_up Bataan Death March host_asserted ▶ 1:17:32

“As part of a research project I was doing at Air War College and it's just totally gruesome. And to know what these people went through and so few of them survived and then to have their government st…”