OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10

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0:35 We're going to go ahead. The feed should be coming over any minute to Rumble. And I'm going to go ahead and start. The chapter 10 in our book, Gold Warriors, is called The Umbrella. If y'all can hear me on the channel.

1:11 please check in and let me know that you can. So I want to make sure that that gets over to the, it's still showing my intro video. So I want to make sure that y'all can hear me before we go too far into the book. You're live. All right. I was going to say, I don't know why it's still showing my intro book or my intro.

2:05 film on my side. So, all right, we're going to go ahead and get started then. So, um, just the, um, hi SR71, glad you're here. Um, just kind of the, um, background. Remember where we left off? Um, we had, uh, the, the last chapter dealt with, um,

2:39 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 basically tried to claim that he was a legend and basically.

3:07 He has a family, actually. So he wasn't just a legend. He actually existed. He had a brother. He had several mistresses and multiple children. So people knew that he was for real. And the authors have visited his actual tombstone where he's buried.

3:31 There's eyewitnesses accounts. There's all kinds of documents, marriage licenses. So anybody that when you tell them this, they say, hey, you know, that's just a myth or it didn't exist. It actually did exist. So indisputable evidence for more than 60 years that he was a real life person and that his fortune of cash and gold bullion sleeps in banks all over the world.

4:01 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 over as the new gatekeeper.

4:23 After Santee completed his recoveries in 1947, there was a lull of 20 years before Marcos began making similar ones. Now keep in mind, Santee only discovered a few of the 175 existing underground vaults of golden lily stashes. During the late 1950s, small groups of Japanese returned quietly to the Philippines to recover gold under various pretexts.

4:51 They were seeking the remains of dead soldiers for Shinto reburial in Japan. That was one of the excuses they used. Tokyo offered to help the Filipinos repair war damages with free infrastructure projects, including irrigation systems, roads that took unlikely routes, like right through one of the gold recoveries, through the mountains.

5:16 Japanese salvage firms offered to remove the hulks of ships that were in Manila Bay, which happened to have been sunk with the Golden Lily treasure on it. They often offered to dredge different places, coincidentally, where the Golden Lily treasure was. In the course of this work, their salvage ships had been scuttled at the docks with the bullion aboard.

5:44 Japanese corporations built factories in odd locations throughout the Philippines, requiring really deep excavation for foundation work. Wink wink. When these factories were completed, Filipino workers on their assembly lines put together TVs and tape recorders, computers, refrigerators, air conditions, which were then shipped to Japan in remarkably heavy containers.

6:12 According to the CIA source, the agency knew that the gold bullion was being smuggled out of the Philippines this way, but they did not interfere. The first time Marcos recovered gold was an accident when he heard about two Japanese digging in one particular place, the home province of the Marcos family in the northwest corner of Luzon. Imperial Army veterans, they had hidden a small stash of their own. Marcos confiscated this gold.

6:42 It ended up being like little biscuit bars, a very small stash. Marcos heard about Santi's recovery and cultivated him aggressively. Being a lawyer, Marcos had made himself very useful in many ways. Gradually, he began to take over parts of Santi's operation called the Umbrella. When he was elected president in 1965, Marcos was approached directly by Japanese

7:10 underworld fixers, Sasakawa, and he offered to do joint recoveries of the war loot. A crony of Kodama, Sasakawa, knew the location of a number of the major vaults. For a substantial cut, Marcos could grant presidential authorizations for the dig. It was typical of Marcos to scavenge this way rather than do the treasure hunting himself.

7:41 Because everybody knew they were booby trapped. He did not hesitate to grant import permits for canned sardines long past their shelf life, knowing many Filipinos would die from eating them. He was happy to make deals with the Japanese gangsters to enrich himself. Marcos hijacked an extraordinary treasure that few people had ever seen, but it is now world famous in 1971.

8:10 In January of that year, a Filipino locksmith and amateur treasure hunter named Rogelio Roger, which is what he went by, Roxas, R-O-X-A-S. He had crawled into a tunnel dug by a Japanese army and found a magnificent solid gold Buddha weighing one ton. The seated Buddha, 26 inches tall and distinctly Burmese in style.

8:41 had been confiscated from a Buddhist order in Mandalay to whom it was represented the accumulated of wealth over centuries. Roxas after that, what happened to Roxas after that is totally, it's a crazy story and we're going to get into it. The author goes into it based on the record.

9:08 of the Supreme Court of the state of Hawaii. So this is not some phantom or some made up garbage. This was actually adjudicated in a lawsuit after Marcos gets deposed. So he gets basically overthrown when the CIA gets done with him. And he then is exiled to Hawaii. And it's when he gets there that he gets sued.

9:38 And much of what we're going to talk about in this chapter is from that lawsuit. It ended up in the award, the highest, biggest civil award ever in American history. Forty three billion with a B dollars was the civil award.

9:58 The court's finding of fact were assembled from thousands of papers of testimony, transcripts, original documents, photographs, videotape depositions. Neither the Marcos defense attorneys nor Roxas legal team disputed the summary. So Roger Roxas, R-O-X-A-S, he basically was a very poor guy.

10:22 In his spare time, he was president of the Treasure Hunters Association in the Philippines because this is now folklore all over the Philippines that these treasure sites exist. And Roxas, as a young boy, he was told one of the guys, his name is Okuba.

10:52 had told Roxas that as a young boy, he had been an interpreter for General Yamashita. He said Yamashita had taken a large quantity of gold and silver bars from Manila to another city to pay and feed his troops during the last year of the war. Okubo said that indigos were in wooden boxes stacked in a tunnel near

11:21 the general hospital in that particular city. He also told Roxas that he saw solid gold Buddha nearby a convent that Yamashita had used as his residence and headquarters. So one of the another guy told Roxas his Japanese father had left him a treasure map. So this particular family had a vegetable stand in the local market.

11:51 He said his father took him to a tunnel behind the hospital, which had tracks for hand cars, like a tunnel with like the railroad kind of hand car tracks. And that there were boxes of gold that people had witnessed being put in there. Next, just before the guy's father died, he gave him a map. A few years later, Albert started searching but found nothing.

12:20 And in a fit of anger, he had burnt the maps. When his sister found out, she scolded him because she knew that you had to look at the map in the mirror in order for it to make sense. And there were secret codings. We've talked about that in one of the earlier chapters. Roxas had an American friend by the name of John Bollinger, B-A-L-L-I-N-G-E-R.

12:49 who had fought in Luzon during the war with Captain Medina's guerrilla unit. Bollinger, who had photographed the fake hospital ship, Huzi Maru, the one that they had actually added extra stuff to, it was a ship they used to bring in the Golden Lily treasure, but they marked it as a hospital ship so it didn't get bombed.

13:16 So he saw the unloading of bronze boxes at Subic Bay and followed the truck convoy into the mountains where the Japanese had placed the boxes in a cave and sealed the entrance. Later, when Medina's company infiltrated that particular city, Ballinger observed Japanese soldiers carrying heavy boxes into the tunnel near the hospital. The guerrillas attacked with grenades and machine guns, blowing the cave entrance shut and sealing it.

13:46 with some of the enemy inside. Ballinger had since gone back to live in New Mexico, where he and his son, Gene, started a newspaper for amateur treasure hunters. The Ballingers visited the Philippines on one of the trips there. He told Roxas he remembered that the entrance to the tunnel that they had blown shut was near a concrete pill box.

14:10 He could not pinpoint the location because many years had passed and the rainforest had grown around it. So Roxas was sure the tunnel existed, but it took him a long time to find the pillbox. Because it was on public land, he had to apply for a permit to dig, and this is crucial to the story, for the treasure. By the terms of this agreement, the Philippine government was entitled to 30% of the treasure recovered. The permit was granted by a judge.

14:39 who happened to be Marcos's uncle. So in the spring of 1970, Marcos and his team began digging near the pillbox. They found what they thought was a collapsed tunnel entrance, and it took seven months of hard work to reopen it. They were sickened immediately by the gas from the dead bodies because it had been blown up with people in it.

15:06 They had to let the tunnel air out for a week before they could crawl back inside. Near the entrance, they found army radios, bayonets, rifles, and a human skeleton in a Japanese uniform. After weeks of digging around the cave-in, they penetrated into a main shaft with the tracks for the hand car and wiring for a lighting system, so they were sure that it would take them right into the tunnel.

15:31 Off to the side were branch tunnels beneath a layer of dirt on the floor. They discovered a 10-foot thick concrete slab and began pounding on it. So remember what I was saying. They dug holes in there. They put treasure in it. And then they had a special concrete-like porcelain material that they color-coded and filled in all of the treasure.

15:57 so that it looked like the actual floor of the cave. They did that on the walls where there were like offshoots. They would dynamite that, cover it all up with this porcelain material, and then color it so that it blended in so it didn't look like there was something going off the end. So in January 1971, they broke through and discovered the gold Buddha.

16:25 Although less than three feet tall, it was extremely heavy and it took 10 men to raise it to the floor level using a chain block hoist on a steel A-frame. Even with rolling logs, they had to struggle to drag it outside. Roxas borrowed a truck and one night he moved it to his house and put it in his bedroom and covered it up with a bedspread. Because that's what I would do with a ton Buddha.

16:56 he found a small wooden box on the tunnel floor. He pried it open and found 24 small gold biscuit bars, one inch wide by two inches long and a half an inch thick. The 24 karat gold bars of this dimension would weigh about 30 troy ounces. And in 1971, that would have been about $1,000. So the whole box was worth about $25,000. Nearby, Roxas discovered a man-made chamber.

17:25 six feet wide and 30 feet long, filled with hundreds of neatly stacked wood boxes. Each of these boxes would have gold bars in them. He didn't open any of these because he knew what he would find, and he already had a small fortune in gold biscuits to deal with. Roxas took 24 of the biscuits home, along with some samurai swords, bayonets, and other artifacts.

17:50 He left the big boxes where they were several days later, worried that somebody might come across his discovery. He blew the tunnel mouth shut. He needed to raise money before he could continue excavating in safety to recover the rest of the treasure. He sold seven of the biscuits and started hunting for a buyer for the gold Buddha. That was a big mistake. Word got around quickly. Two prospective buyers arrived and looked at the Buddha.

18:18 They drilled tiny holes in the body, and this is going to be crucial for later on, near the neck, so that they could actually do core samples to determine the quality of the gold. And they verified that it was similar to gold that had been mined in 1940. So this is on April Fool's Day, 1971. A third buyer, a guy by the name of Joe...

18:49 Oihara, came to inspect the Buddha. Oihara, who appeared to be Japanese, told Roxas that he was staying at the home of Ferdinand Marco's mother, who had a reputation of being very crafty and predatory. Oihara examined the Buddha closely and said that he was interested in buying it. He promised to return in several days with a payment of one million pesos.

19:19 Roxas noticed that Oihara had been especially interested in the Buddha's neck. When he left, Roxas and his brother tried to twist the head, placed a plank against it, and pounded with a hammer till it moved. Unscrewing it inside the cavity was like a cookie jar containing handfuls of diamonds. Roxas removed the diamonds and stored them separately, screwing the head back on. So four days later,

19:49 Eight uniformed men with machine guns banged on the front door of Roxas' house, claiming to be criminal investigative services from the National Bureau of Investigations, and they demanded entry. Roxas was afraid to open the door. Two of the men broke the front window of the house, pointed their machine guns in, and told Roxas that he had three minutes to open the door or he would die. He opened the door, and Oihara was there, too. The men flashed search warrants.

20:15 in front of Roxas. He saw something called a violation of central bank regulations, an illegal possession of firearms signed by Marcos's brother, Judge Marcos, who had given him the excavation permit. The warrant ordered that the Buddha and all seized property would be delivered to the custody of the clerk of courts. Roxas was not alone in the house. His brother put up a struggle and was

20:44 beaten with gun butts. Roxas, his family, and two friends who were his bodyguards were told to lie down on the floor while the armed men searched the house. When they left, they took the Buddha, the diamonds, the remaining 17 gold biscuits, the samurai swords, a coin collection, and a child's piggy bank. They also confiscated the broken .22 caliber rifle left at his house by a friend and later charged him for possession of an illegal weapon.

21:13 Sounds awful familiar. They did not deliver the Buddha or anything else to the clerk of court. Roxas reported the robbery to the local press and police. Then he went to see Judge Pio, who asked why he had signed the search warrant. The judge said that he was ordered to do so by his nephew, President Marcos. He added that it was a shame Roxas had gone to the police and the media because now he was probably going to be killed.

21:42 Roxas went back to the police station and signed an official complaint. He took his family out of town and enlisted the aid of a provincial governor who assigned four bodyguards and gave him a place to hide. Another judge in the area where the actual treasure was buried ordered the military to turn the statue over to court custody as specified in the search warrant. The army delayed for two weeks.

22:10 while a Manila artisan quickly cast a Buddha made of brass. The brass statue, its head was not detachable and bared little resemblance to the original Buddha. A few days later, Roxas was tracked down by two agents of the president's mother. They offered him three million pesos to declare in public that the brass Buddha was the one he recovered. At the end of April, his safety personally guaranteed by the Filipino Secretary of Justice, Roxas,

22:40 returned to the city and examined the Buddha. He was accompanied by his four bodyguards, two prosecutors from the Justice Department, a personal attorney, and the number of reporters and cameramen. At the courthouse, he examined the Buddha and bravely or foolishly announced that it was not his. He pointed out the color was different, the facial features was different, and the head was not detachable. There was no signs of the little drill holes that the people had made when they came to inspect it.

23:13 The press went crazy. They were shocked that this simple little man was challenging the Marcos clan. Everybody had heard about the ruthlessness of the president, his thugs, his wife, his mother. Members of the opposition liberal party was excited by a chance to damage Marcos at the poll. They persuaded Roxas to testify before the Senate in an investigation into the gold Buddha affair.

23:43 In May of 1971, Roxas gave a full account before the Senate. President Marcos immediately denounced the inquiry as scurrilous and politically motivated attack. 14 days later, back in hiding, Roxas was again tracked down and this time arrested. His captors were three Marcos agents in civilian clothes. They told him they were taken to see the president. Instead, he was taken to the home of a Filipino.

24:12 a constable or a national police officer, where he was beaten and kicked. Then they took him to the constable's headquarters in San Fernando, north of Manila, in a dark windowless cell. They showed him a picture of his wife and children and told him that if he ever wanted to see them again, he needed to make a list of the senators who were encouraging him and must reveal the location of the remaining treasure.

24:42 Roxas refused. He was then subjected to electric shocks on all parts of his body and they burned him all over with cigarettes. They moved him next to a hotel near Clark Air Base where the torture resumed. He was beaten about the face and head with large rubber mallets until he passed out. His right eye was permanently blinded and so misshapen that from then on he looked like Quasimodo.

25:10 For two weeks, he was kept in that hotel room and told repeatedly to sign affidavits on the rate of his house that had been peaceful and that the soldiers were unarmed. He refused to do so, and they continued to torture him. One day, he was taken back to that city's court where he was photographed with the brass Buddha. That night, he picked the lock on his hotel window and escaped.

25:39 seeking refuge at the home of his sister. He phoned a senator to tell him what had happened and again was asked to testify before the Senate, which he did on June 30th, 1971, reporting all that had befallen him since his last appearance, including the torture. When he returned home, a man came with a letter summoning him to the palace. At the palace, Roxas met a guy by the name of Cesar

26:13 D-U-M-L-A-O. He was a finance officer who said President Marcos was now willing to pay him 5 million pesos for his Buddha. Roxas was to come back to the palace that afternoon to get the money, but he became afraid for his life and didn't go back. He was arrested for failing to appear for a hearing on the illegal weapons charge, which no one had told him about.

26:41 because he had been in hiding. So they ordered him back to jail. However, he was bailed out by an attorney sent by one of the local senators. He happened to be the leader of the opposition liberal party, whose father once had been president of the Philippines. Roxas was flown to Manila in a private jet and taken to Plaza Miranda, where...

27:10 This particular senator had asked him to speak at a political rally that evening. Organized by the opponents of Marcos, the rally drew a huge crowd and many prominent opposition leaders. Excuse me. Minutes later, two grenades were thrown into the crowd. 10 people were killed, 66 wounded, including the senator and seven other senatorial candidates.

27:36 We were told by a member of Marcos' family that the grenades had been thrown in by men from the Presidential Security Command on the orders of Marcos and the security chief, and supposedly the security chief had actually even thrown one of them. Blaming, however, the next day, the President Marcos blames who? The communists.

28:06 So, you know, right away if they're blaming the communists, this is like a full Gladio escapade that we're talking about. So Marcos suspends habeas corpus and jailed many of his opponents that had been at the meeting because the communists, which is the first step in the Philippines towards martial law.

28:34 which Marcos would then declare a few months later in September 1972. Thoroughly frightened by all the carnage, Roxas fled Manila and went into hiding for the next 12 months. He finally went home in July 1972. He was arrested immediately by two national security agents watching his house. They took him to a naval base.

28:58 where he was confined in a stockade. He was questioned by the provincial commander about his original discovery. He was still in prison three months later when Marcos declared martial law. A general came personally to see Roxas in his cell, and this general's name is Ver, V-E-R. He was said to have been in the raiding party that had come to Roxas's house to kidnap the Buddha.

29:25 In January of 73, Roxas was again taken to the courthouse where he was tried on the possession of an illegal firearm. He was convicted and sent to a prison camp where, on at least two occasions, he was beaten and questioned again about where the gold was located. After serving nearly two years there, he was released and returned home. The next month, he was visited by men who said they were part of a task force restoration.

29:55 and wanted to help on treasure excavation near the hospital. Roxas refused. Unable to get him to cooperate, Marcus relied on information his men obtained from torturing one of Rogers' digging teammates, Olympio Magmano. They used pliers on him and pulled out his teeth one by one until he decided to cooperate.

30:23 The army units were sent to probe the grounds beneath the hospital until they found the closed tunnel mouth. Nurses and patients in the hospital had ringside seats to the soldiers who began digging. Now, keep in mind, this was already a permitted mine for Roxas. So Roxas has the rights to everything in it. So they began hauling out heavy wooden boxes one at a time, placing them in trucks, each box.

30:53 required four to six men to carry them because they were that heavy the presidential security command there were cadets from the military academy there were several wooden boxes that had rotten and when they would crumble out would come tons of gold bars so everybody knew what was happening

31:15 So the hospital employees estimated that 10 boxes each day were loaded onto the trucks over a period of one year, which would come to 3,600 boxes or 10,800 bars weighing 75 kilos each.

31:34 During this time, armed guards were posted all around the site, keeping people away. And that's going to be important because this testimony is what determined the multi-billion dollar settlement. Roxas knew the soldiers had found his tunnel. They were stealing the gold that he had discovered, but against a well-armed military force, there was nothing he could do. In 1976, resigned to his fate, at least for the time being.

32:02 He moved to a secret location with his family where they remained for 10 years without further incident. Roxas only surfaced again in 1986 when Ferdinand and Imeldo Marcos were removed from power by the U.S. government and taken to exile in Hawaii. That moment had come when Roxas could finally strike back.

32:25 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 Santi first teamed up in the early 1960s before Marcos became president. The same source insists that Santi was an intimate friend of Imeldo when she was a

32:54 beauty queen from Latte, implying that she had basically been Santee's mistress at some point and that he was the first to introduce her to Ferdinand. Santee was a ladies' man, handsome, vigorous, tall. He had a shaved head, high cheekbones, oriental features, basically. He bore very strong resemblance to Yul Brynner.

33:22 In one of the few photos that we have of him, he was wearing a white suit with white shoes towering over others in the picture. So obviously he was very tall as well. Santi had many identities, of which Serrano Garcia Diaz Santo Romano was only the first. A younger brother who was a judge.

33:51 Mike Santa Romano, now retired and living in a city not far from the capital, used the same family name. When Santee married Evangeline Campton, because remember, she's the one, she's the American from San Francisco, he used her father's other name, Diaz. But in his 1938 marriage license to Julieta,

34:22 he switched to Santa Romana. His business aliases, which he started using in the 40s, appear on bank documents all over the world. These include, and I'm not going to give you them all, but he had like 10 aliases. And that's important when they started trying to track down all of the gold that he... So we need to keep in...

34:51 mind there's like two avenues here you have Roxas who discovered a single gold mine by the hospital and Santo Romano had recovered several of them and then had used them and flew all over and put them in bank accounts all over the world and he did so in basically collusion

35:19 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 plunder recoveries, Santee used his aliases on behalf of the CIA and the Treasury Department,

35:52 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.

36:22 Monaco. Because he was the title holder of Boyan accounts in banks all over the world, one company was not adequate. Others included Nanette Enterprises, Colette Enterprises, Montezuma, Diaz-Campton Enterprise, Perrault Enterprise, Diaz-Perrault Enterprises. These were all shell companies to hide the movement of gold Boyan.

36:50 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. They later changed it to Sandy, S-A-N-D-Y Foundation, or in German, Sandy.

37:18 A-N-S-T-A-L-T. The German variant appears in a cryptic reference in letters from Wall Street firms, including, you're not going to believe this, Sullivan and Cromwell, the law firm of John Foster Dulles. As if this Sandy Anstalt is the name of a client that everybody knows.

37:47 The corporate logo for Santee's flagship DNP Enterprises was an open umbrella, signifying the umbrella organization to all of these shell companies. And remember, back when I first got my driver's license, what was the insurance company with the open umbrella? It was called Travelers. Isn't that weird?

38:15 But it was not just a logo. The umbrella also was the code name for the group Santee relied on to move the gold from the Philippines to foreign banks. The authors had produced a flow chart that had hand-drawn and annotated by President Marcos showing how the umbrella grew by the late 1970s into a powerful network mingling CIA agents, mafia godfathers,

38:46 Filipino Secrets Police, and Marcos Hitman. And what's important about this, again, this book does not recognize Operation Gladio. So what they just described is Operation Gladio, CIA agents, mafia, secret police, and basically paramilitary hitman that had to do with Marcos. One part of the umbrella organization

39:15 was American millionaire ex-convict Wallace Groves, G-R-O-B-E-S. He was the owner of the Grand Bahama Island, whose casino there and in Nassau were operated by mobster Meyer Lansky. And of course, we run across Meyer Lansky in the whole drug network of Operation Gladio. One of Groves' partners in the ownership of the Grand Bahama

39:46 was a Wall Street firm called Allen and Company. We've came across Allen repeatedly. It was in Whitney Webb's book and several other books that we've talked about. The names of the people is Herbert and Charlie Allen, who were also owners of Paramount Pictures. The Allens owned a big chunk of Binet.

40:16 mines in the Philippines, which supposedly were the actual gold mine, not the fake ones like the Japanese golden lily ones. And Herbert was a golfing crony of Marcos. The Allen brothers once said, we trade every day with hustlers, dealmakers, shysters, and con men. That's the way America was built. In a complex deal,

40:47 Groves and Allen swapped a piece of Grand Bahama, the island, to Marcos in return for nearly complete control of the Beignet mine. This allowed the umbrella to move war gold out of the Philippines masquerading as gold from the Beignet mines. Once the gold reached certain banks in Nassau,

41:17 It served as a part of an elaborate money laundering scheme that included washing drug profits through the gross casinos and then converting them into gold bars that they were pulling out of the Philippines. The problem with that is that the gold, if anybody tested it, would not stand up to scrutiny because it was not actually being mined from.

41:44 the Philippines. And I told you earlier in one of our chapters, hold on, I need to plug my computer in, that the gold has basically a fingerprint on it. And it's important to, hold on a second. It's important to remember that part because that's going to be important as part of the story goes on. Okay.

42:23 So let me see where I'm at in my notes. Sorry about that. Santee knew all about the deal and wrote in 1973 during his month-long visit to the CIA and the Enterprise in Washington, D.C., that the Beignet-Bahama deal, a good-grade major company swap, made instant millions for XYZ groups. I don't know who XYZ groups are.

42:57 The umbrella served as a conduit of gold boyan for many banks identified with the CIA's Paul Helliwell, an OSS CIA associate of Bill Casey and Ray Klein. Now, remember, Paul Helliwell is the guy that set up the Castle Bank in Miami. He's the one that was over in Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Thailand area.

43:28 He does the money laundering. He's an attorney. He was on many of the CIA front company books. He had like an insurance company and all this other stuff all ran out of his attorney firm's office in Miami. He's up to his eyeballs in Operation Gladios, the money laundering part of it.

43:54 Bill Casey and Ray Klein was involved in moving the first generation recoveries of Yamashita's gold out of the Philippines, along with Paul Helliwell. In 1951, Helliwell helped set up the Sea Supply Corporation, which was a CIA front company used to run supplies to the nationalists in China. Now, let me reword that and clarify that.

44:24 XYZ Group is a property investment firm based in Brooklyn, New York. Thank you, Donny Vision. And that's important because what we find throughout Operation Gladio is they money laundered their money through banks and then into real estate. So that just fits perfectly. Thank you for looking that up.

44:48 Let's go back to what this says. This says that Paul Helliwell set up the Sea Supply Corporation as a CIA front company for running supplies to nationalists in China. Who are the nationalists? Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek, however you say his name, is the nationalist that they're talking about.

45:15 The Nationalists also ran opium and heroin out of the Golden Triangle for the KMT, which is Tian's army. Paul Helliwell then retired to Nassau, where he set up the Castle Bank and Mercantile Bank and Trust. He became an intimate of Groves, who's running the gold.

45:48 Hellywell's Castle Bank was one of the worldwide network banks identified with the CIA, which allowed black money to move outside of normal banking channels, providing offshore refuge for ill-gotten gains for dictators, warlords, dissident Asian military officers like Tian, Kyan, however you say his name. Castle Bank.

46:15 was closely tied to the Cayman Island firm. I think that's ID Corp, whose sole owner was Japanese American. And I'm going to spell this guy's name. And this is important because this is a Japanese guy. So you see what's happening is the Japanese Yamashita Gold leaves there. It gets money laundered through all of these. And then look, there's another Japanese here down at the other end.

46:47 This guy's name is S-H-I-G, Shig, K-A-T-A-Y-A-M-A. I'm going to try to pronounce that one. He was one of the key facilitators of Lockheed's huge payoff to the Japanese politicians. Remember when Lockheed was fined a huge big fine for giving kickbacks to the Japanese Liberal Democrat Party?

47:17 this is the guy that was involved in that. So you see there's a whole circle here. He's down here on this end of the money and he's back here on this end of the money too. When Castle Bank became notorious, it was then folded and superseded and the next bank that was set up to Shanghai Check. Thank you. Thank you for that phonetic spelling of it.

47:51 Um, so when Castle Bank got too hot, because remember, that's what I was telling you, they go from bank to bank, the BCCI had like $7 billion worth of this hot money, and then it got too hot. So that got folded, they basically kind of rat themselves out. So Castle Bank is starting to raise some eyebrows. So it folds in the follow on bank, Nugent Hand Bank in

48:25 Australia. And then what happened to Nugent Hand Bank? It's strictly a money laundering bank. Do they have regular accounts? Yeah, but it gets failed out. Nugent gets assassinated in his Mercedes Benz with a card of William Colby sitting on the seat of his car, who is the CIA director, right? CIA agent slash director.

48:52 Because William Colby at the time was listed at the Nugent Hand lawyer while he's still in the CIA. So you know that Nugent Hand was a CIA bank. And Hand takes off. Supposedly, he was found in Idaho in hiding, but using his same social security number.

49:23 Nugent Hand Bank, which had a board packed with retired U.S. intel officials and senior Pentagon generals, and it did. When Nugent Hand collapsed following several murders, BCCI moved into the picture, which I just told you about. So we go from Castle, it folds, Nugent Hand, Nugent Hand goes away, BCCI comes into play.

49:51 BCCI collapsed in 1991 when the CIA admitted that it had used BCCI for years for covert operations. And interestingly enough, Saddam Hussein had hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in BCCI. Notice when it folded, 1991. That was Desert Storm 1.

50:22 Did they fold that bank to steal Saddam Hussein's and basically Iraq's gold? Because that's what they did a lot of. That's the first thing I thought when I saw that date. So Santee's role was basically as gatekeeper of all of these different accounts in these banks. CIA needed deniability, so they used people like Santee to do this. And of course, he got to live the lifestyle of a

50:56 mysterious Filipino billionaire. So, you know, yay. Whenever black gold had to be moved around from the Philippines to banks to Hong Kong, Zurich, Buenos Aires, London, documents were created, cargo manifests, wave bills, insurance covers basically show that the gold was moved from Clark Air Base on U.S.

51:25 military aircraft, or from Subic Bay aboard Navy vessels. Manila International Airport also had some flights of gold, and Cathay, C-A-T-H-A-Y, Pacific, was the airline that they used from the regular Manila Airport. They also had an American President passenger ship.

51:57 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. So that was the same as Operation Gladio, which tells me they used Operation Golden Lily money.

52:26 to pay for Operation Gladio. As part of the CIA's effort to keep the Italian, oh, yeah, whatever. Each time a new account was opened, Santi's name or one of his aliases was used as the account holder. Because he used so many aliases, he was referred to by many of the banks as the man with no name. To access any of the bank accounts required proper bank codes, passwords, and sheaves of documents.

53:01 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 codes and the names that he used for each of these different accounts.

53:29 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 of Japan, and several Swiss banks, UBS being the primary one. In return, gatekeeping these accounts, Santee received a generous management fee that was never disclosed.

53:58 basically they figured it was probably a percentage of the account of the net assets. A management fee of 1% per year for $1 billion would yield $10 million. A smaller fee would be basically $1 million, but there were dozens and dozens and dozens of accounts.

54:21 So by the early 1970s, these accounts closely linked to Santee were considered by some to belong to him, basically totaled in a range, and this is just strictly a guess, at least $50 billion. If these accounts were his personal property, he would have been one of the world's richest men, but he never became an international celebrity.

54:49 He visited Washington all the time to visit the CIA. One of those times in 1973, which is what was a year before he died, he continued to be employed up to the time of his death by the CIA. He lived a good life, had homes all over. He never bought a Learjet, did not drive Ferraris or have any.

55:18 outward wealth. He just basically lived kind of a muted, but very rich life. He was unknown outside of the Philippines, except for bankers and CIA agents or spies in general. And he basically didn't party in Manila. Nobody ever wrote a book about him. Nobody ever wrote about him in the newspaper locally.

55:48 His job had only one element to it, and that was as the kind of gopher for all of the gold. So without access to the CIA or U.S. Treasury documents spelling out their relationship more clearly, the internal documents of these banks that had been involved, it was impossible to deduce exactly how much Santee had in each of the accounts.

56:18 What happened inside the Philippines was some of Santee's money helped to get Ferdinand Marcos originally elected as president because he was basically a bought guy. Marcos spent 20 years grooming himself for the post. He finally succeeded in 1965. Along the way, he did favors for the CIA quite a bit and the Pentagon during the Vietnam War.

56:48 When Marcos got a presidential nomination, all members of his campaign team previously had worked for Lansdale. Imagine that. So he's a CIA baby. People referred to him as the America's boy. Marcos convinced the White House that he could help sell the Vietnam War to other Asian leaders by funneling bribes from the Santee's account at banks in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, and Sydney.

57:19 These bribes were not in cash that could be frittered away. They were in the form of derivatives, including gold bearer certificates entitling the holder to interest on large accounts. So long as the recipient behaved, he could continue to draw the interest. If things went sour, the certificate could be declared counterfeit. Where did they get that idea? Oh, that came from Japan's

57:49 57s that were made to look counterfeit and would only be recognized if they said they wanted them recognized. Once he was president, Marcos did support the American war in Vietnam, but not for free. He traded public support of U.S. policy in America for keeping him in the palace. He remained a darling of White House till he fell out with the Reagan administration in 86.

58:14 By the end of his first four years, he was getting terrible press. Imelda was mocked for blowing millions on weekend shopping sprees. And in 68, she spent $3 million in a single weekend on her daughter. At the time, she opened a big account in the Citibank in Manhattan. There was also documents that show Santee had a large stash of cash and gold bullion at that same bank.

58:44 The Marcos was salting billions in foreign banks accounts while the salary of the Filipino president was just a couple hundred thousand dollars. So it was obvious he was skimming some of Roxas gold into his own account. In 1969, Marcos won another four year office term by basically ballot stuffing, you know, the kind of stuff the CIA is really good at.

59:13 The Philippines Constitution, according to it, he could not run for third term. Unable to get the Constitution revised in 1972, him and his defense minister launched a phony campaign of anti-communist insurrections to justify declaring martial law so he could stay in office. They've tried everything, guys. This is the precursor.

59:45 exercise, if you will, training exercise to see how that would work. In hindsight, it was quite obvious that this grenade attack that they used on a plaza terrorizing the opposition party and silencing Roger Roxas was the terror event that supposedly was done by communists to declare martial law.

1:00:14 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 get to stay as president because I'm going to declare martial law. Operation Gladio. Extraordinarily ingenious, Marcos persuaded Santee to name him deputy director of the umbrella.

1:00:45 Fatigued by 25 years of doing the same thing over and over, Santee was beginning to drink heavy. He was losing control to Marcos, which depressed him even further. What tipped the scale in the favors of Marcos was the fickle nature of the new people rising to the top of the CIA.

1:01:05 Men who did not share wartime experience in the OSS, memories of the good old days of the China Cowboys, which was the CIA that was basically backing Chiang Kai-shek. I got it. And his move over to Taiwan and setting up the drug network there. So basically the old guard knew Santee firsthand, valued him, but Marcos was going to take, yeah, they used drop boxes.

1:01:36 Marcos knew that some of Santee's accounts had laid dormant for years as new people in the CIA had basically lost track. He leaned hard on Santee to transfer these dormant accounts to him. Marcos was particularly fixated on the Sandy Foundation, which was in Switzerland. Physical violence always was implied.

1:02:05 It was widely known that people were tortured and murdered as part of the palace's black room. Anyone who crossed the president was murdered in a grisly fashion. Corpses was left by the roadside with eyeballs popped out, hanging on stalks. And basically that was all part of General V.E.R.'s signature.

1:02:30 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 of all of his shell companies, putting her in charge of billions in cash, billions in gold and gold certificates and other assets all over the world.

1:03:00 In a deposition prepared for Filipino courts, Tarciana described how she first met Santi in August of 1971 when she was running an accounting firm and a secretarial service. She was introduced to him by her cousin, who was Santi's mistress, during the last three years of his life.

1:03:20 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 accountant and a bookkeeper he could trust. Tarciano came to his suite in the Manila Hilton as his chief accountant, and she realized that he was a significant figure in the financial world.

1:03:52 So he she also figured because he lived in a five star hotel and like one of the only ones in the Philippines that he actually was like a big deal. They just didn't. She just didn't know to what extent. So bankers.

1:04:14 brokers, business associates. He basically kind of took her through the whole setup of all of the things and where he had been and what accounts and the shell companies and blah, blah, blah. Tarsiana did all of the bookkeeping and secretarial chores for Santee's shell companies. If he could afford a year-round suite at the Hilton, she just assumed he must be connected to some pretty

1:04:42 high rollers, but she couldn't explain why he dressed so shabbily. So she discovered that she, she discovered that the patches on his clothes were not actually covering holes. He just, he was disguising himself to fool local Manila street people who watched them come and go from the hotel to make them think that he didn't have anything.

1:05:12 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 cash was deposited in the presence of the bank officer.

1:05:40 which is a guy by the name of James J. Collins. The transaction was unusual in that cash was in small denominations and it took six days for the bank personnel to count it. Not something a banker would forget. When Luce later hired San Francisco attorney Mel Belli to sue Citibank and recover the money,

1:06:04 Collins had his deposition taken in New York City and denied that he had ever been involved in establishing this account. Collins denied that the transaction ever took place and stated that he did remember Severino Santo Romano coming into the bank on one occasion in 71 talking about borrowing money. What was Santee doing with $43 million in small bills? Being a rich eccentric with fake patches.

1:06:33 He may have kept money in the wall safes in offices and homes all over the Philippines. It may have also been currency confiscated from the Japanese army and other Asian banks, which never got back to Tokyo. When Marco scared him, he and Luz put it in a laundry bag and took it to the National City Bank, where they thought it was going to be safe.

1:06:58 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 from First National City Bank Manila to City Bank in New York. He did this none too soon. Santee was brought to the palace.

1:07:26 where in the president's private office, Marcos made him sign a typewritten will and testament. This document said Santee was giving all of his names and for personal reasons and security and the preservation of property and real estate, cash, money, different currencies, and other forms of bank deposits, blah, blah, blah, presented.

1:07:55 In Manila, Hong Kong, blah, blah, blah. This will then named my wife, Julieta Huerto, as my successor of all my properties as listed above. With the full power and attorney upon my death, may appoint other people to act as an administrator on her behalf. This will was reluctantly signed by Santee and witnessed by his business partner, Velazquez. And two Marcos Flunkies.

1:08:25 Although technically it made Giulietta Huerto his sole legal heir, on his death, Marcos easily could make her appoint him the administrator of the estate. A few months later, in March 1973, Santee's had another attack of nerves and moved another $500 million from Manila to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank HSBC, which is owned basically by the UK.

1:08:53 This sum, plus the $800 million transferred to Citibank in New York, meant that he had now moved $1.3 billion out of Manila. During the same period, records showed that he had moved 1,640 metric tons of gold to Hong Kong's bank and was later taken to Japan's Sanwa Bank. Soon afterwards, on a trip to Takobin,

1:09:24 which is an island on Leyte. Santi drank too much and spoke too loudly of his fears for he and Luz was arrested. Martial law allowed Marcos to arrest anyone. Tarciano received a long distance call from Santi saying that they were being held prisoner in a camp on an army base on an island. He told Tarciano that he had been arrested for rumor mongering.

1:09:50 talking about Marcos behind his back. He asked Tarciana to come to Latte as soon as possible. When she arrived, he told her to deliver a letter personally to the Citibank vice president and gave her a safe deposit box key. The letter to Collins authorized Tarciana to open his nine safe deposit boxes. Box one held keys to the eight others. Box two contained cash to which Tarciana was to pay the box rental fees.

1:10:20 Box three contained jewelry, which he wanted her to bring. When Tarciana got to Citibank with the letters, the keys, she was told Collins was out of the country and to come back some other time. Over the years, Santee had been protected by the CIA and by General Lansdale in particular. But by 1973, which Nixon is now in office, the agency was in turmoil. The number of senior people had been sacked.

1:10:51 They had resigned and some were disgusted and had left for other posts. These men were now intent upon setting up their own private covert organization. And basically, so they didn't want the scrutiny of the new administration. So basically what they were doing is they were setting up like a shadow CIA that was off books.

1:11:21 And we've come across this. They referred to it as the enterprise. And it's basically a CIA with people that are not civil service in front companies. And I think that this turmoil that comes in here, because remember, they gave the M Fund to Japan previous to this to get Nixon elected.

1:11:52 And I think what they did to Nixon has something to do with this directly. I've not dug into it enough to understand or looked at the timing of when Watergate happens to what this is happening in the Golden Lily timeframe and Santos dying and all of this other stuff. But there's a correlation there. And then once they could get rid of Nixon, they got rid of Nixon.

1:12:24 In the midst of the turmoil, Santee was invited to Washington as a private guest of the disaffected old guard, including Lansdale, Helliwell, and Klein. For over a month, they told him stories of the OSS days, slapped each other on the back, talked about Mao and how Shang had escaped to Taiwan.

1:12:55 how they turn Claire Chennault's civil air transport into Air America, and brief Santee on the CIA's other black ops in Latin America, Africa, and behind the Iron Curtain. So they're talking about Operation Gladio here. Each night, he went back to the Mayflower Hotel, sat down with a tumbler and a bottle of scotch to make notes. His sloppy handwriting and occasional mistakes in dates and spelling

1:13:24 were attributed by Tarciana to the whiskey. In the note, Santee described in striking detail many of the CIA covert operations that did not become known to Americans for years to come. How the CIA went about setting up proprietary companies like his DNP Enterprises.

1:13:48 How many of these companies were airlines and transport services, armed suppliers, private mercenary forces, support secret wars like the one in Angola, which we found about the Angola one. This is so crazy to me. So we found out all of the people that were trained in Operation Gladio that went into Angola was trained on Jim Jones's Guyana.

1:14:18 So the Guyana Jonestown had two parts. They had the wooded part and the part that was like the camp for the church where they did MK Ultra experiments. The wooded camp was a Operations Gladio terrorist training camp where they exclusively trained the Angola fighters. So see, if you don't know about Operation Gladio, you read this book.

1:14:48 And you don't understand the significance of everything the book is saying. So people, he said, were paid pensions to maintain silence because they're not official government employees. He commented on the moral dilemma posed by many of the agency's operations. Quote, while ethics of transactions are questionable, conflict of interest laws do not apply to the CIA, unquote.

1:15:18 He also talked about expenditures being done without provisions of any legality at all, bankrolling agents living up their cover. He seemed nervous that Langley headquarters sometimes only has the vaguest notions of the proprietary nature of what it is that they're going to do right up until the last minute.

1:15:42 Santee wrote that the CIA and the Nixon administration were convinced that Asia was as a whole a mess and this justified long-term interference by the United States. Well, they believed that about everything. That's the whole purpose of Operation Gladio. This strongly implied that they were going to continue to provide interventions in all of the third world Asian cartel.

1:16:17 So the old guard wanted Santee, now that they were setting up their own private CIA and their private military forces, they wanted access to some of that black bullion accounts that Washington had lost track of. They knew Santee had also had a number of very large personal accounts that were dormant and they wanted him to make them available. So they're whining and dining him for his money.

1:16:47 Pressed hard by Marcos, by the CIA, and by other new shadow CIAs, Santi decided to take further steps to protect himself and his assets. When he got back to the Philippines and had time to think it over, he phoned Tarciano in August of 1974 and asked her to come see him. When she arrived, he gave her a document officially and formally appointing her national treasurer.

1:17:16 of the DNP enterprise to have custody of and be responsible for all funds, security bonds of the corporation and to deposit in the name and credit of the corporation as advised by DNP national chairperson, Jose Velazquez Jr., his old friend and business partner. He also gave her instructions about what to do with Santee's accounts at Wells Fargo Bank and Hanover Bank.

1:17:43 She asked why he had not chosen a more sophisticated person. He said, you're the only one I can trust. So it was 30 years since he had took charge of the torturing of Major Koyama. And in the anguished period immediately following the turmoil that had happened during the war, in 1947, his recoveries at the Golden Lily Vault were concluded.

1:18:14 he had begun to enjoy big income from his commissions. Because he preferred a simple life, his assets grew until he had far more money than could ever be spent. He became very mellow as the years passed, and the treachery and cruelty of Marcos had taken him by surprise. Although he's the guy that tortured the guy to get the locations of the...

1:18:45 Just crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. And he did horrific things to the major to get him to tell him the locations of even the few sites that he found. Washington had regaled him with the stories of assassinations, atrocities, political kidnappings, and grand deception that made a mockery of humanity. But he was a mockery of humanity himself.

1:19:16 For the first time, Santee began thinking of himself as a paymaster for scoundrels and death squads, and it depressed him. Because he was. And he got ill-gotten gains, too. The whole thing's dumb. So as a safeguard, he and Tarsiana Luce and Jose Velazquez signed specimen signatures, cards at HSBC Manila's branch. They forwarded them to the Hong Kong Central branch.

1:19:46 to open an account that could be assessed by all three. He obliged Luz and Tarciano to memorize all of his aliases, his many companies, where they were registered, and all of the banks where he had accounts. He gave them lists of the account numbers at each bank, code words, phrases, and all the paperwork needed to gain access. And he continued to drink and drink and drink. So on September 13th,

1:20:14 1974, he collapsed. He was admitted to the San Juan Hospital. At his bedside, he told Tarciano it was time to open the safe deposit boxes. He gave her the insurance policies for all of the trust certificates. He handed her a piece of paper about the color code plus the many instruction quotations and stories about his exploits and adventures. In the hospital on September 21st, he wrote out a long

1:20:43 Four-page will. I'm pressed for time, so no matter how incoherent this note seems, please take it in the light that it was given. He makes reference to the terms of the palace will, which he was forced to sign by Marcos. And in this new will, he mentions a number of live bank accounts at HSBC Hong Kong and other city banks.

1:21:11 accounts. He names 14 people as beneficiaries of sums from several bank accounts. From number accounts at Citibank, Manila, he authorized distribution of $65 million. From HSBC Hong Kong branch, he authorized $200 million and another in excess of $80 million. Another $120 million at HSBC was set aside for the people of Latte.

1:21:39 And for all people I've forgotten to mention, there was also a distribution to be made to his personal account at the Citibank branch in the Philippines in San Juan for over 50 million plus another 10 million in pesos. The beneficiaries were his two sons from his first marriage, Peter and Roy Diaz, here called by their Spanish name Pedro and Rolando. This holographic will

1:22:07 has been probated before courts in the Philippines and the U.S. and is reproduced on the CDs that you can get from this book. So after 12 days in the hospital, his daughter, which is also referred to as Liza Ian, discharged her father into her own care. Santi was afraid to leave the hospital, but Liza wanted him to die at home. She took him to his house.

1:22:36 where he died in a bed a few days later. The cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver. According to a source in the Marcos family, Major General Lansdell immediately arranged to move all of Santee's remaining gold bullion at Citibank Vanilla to Citibank's main office in New York City. Exactly how he could do this when he was not on any of the accounts, no one knows. No motive certainly was given.

1:23:06 To get the gold out of Manila before it could. The theory was that they were trying to get it out before Marcos could do something to intimidate the bank to give it to him based on a fake will. Because the will had been superseded. Major General Lansdale immediately. Let's see. With another wave of.

1:23:31 a magic wand. Some of Santee's big accounts at other banks, notably the UBS bank in Geneva, said to contain 20,000 metric tons of gold and listing Santee as the account of record was changed to list Major General Lansdale as the account holder. UBS documents spelled his name with a D. So Lansdale is spelled L-A-N-S-D-A-L-E.

1:24:00 And they spelt it in the bank documents, L-A-N-D-S-D-A-L-E. And we know they do that on purpose. So when you go looking for it, it won't show up. Evidently, as part of the agreed coding, did Lansdell have these accounts moved to bring them under the CIA's control for this new civilian enterprise?

1:24:29 thing that they called the enterprise, including the John Birch Society and the World Anti-Communist League. So is that crazy? There was actually speculation that this money was being used for the John Birch Society and the World Anti-Communist League.

1:25:03 which we know based on going back to how that organization was set up, that it was set up in Taiwan. It was set up basically as an Operation Gladio front for them to have coordination meetings. The moon guy from Korea, the church psychopath that did Operation Gladios was all part of it as well.

1:25:33 That all became part of this front organization or private CIA. And basically Lansdell moved all of the gold to fund this new black CIA off the books thing called the Enterprise. That's crazy. So if Marcos thought Santee's death would give him control of all of these accounts, he was very disappointed. His relationship with the CIA and the White House was becoming very turbulent.

1:26:02 And he thought that he could manipulate them. The White House and the CIA was the ones that was going to be doing the manipulation. And there was going to be a fight over the rest of these accounts. So that's the end of Chapter 10. And we're going to get into some more of this crazy following the money adventure.

1:26:33 And some of the more adventure with the Roxas guy. So that concludes the end of this. We do need to probably do another book review. I'm going to try to squeeze in one tomorrow night. We have, let me just look real quick. We only have a couple of more chapters. So I want to try to.

1:27:04 We're on chapter 11. There's 15 chapters. So hopefully by this Sunday, we can be done with this book. Basically, the reason why I want to kind of speed it up is because Warhamster and I want to basically do an overview of Golden Lily. He's done a lot of digging and he used to work on Wall Street.

1:27:28 So he is an expert on Golden Lily. And I want to bring that to you guys. But I want us to have a foundation for that conversation before we bring him on. So we need to finish our book like good students so we can impress him with all of our knowledge. Anyway, I'm going to run back through all of the comments here real quick and see what we got.

1:27:59 SR-71, you crack me up. Yes, now you know how she paid for all of those damn shoes. So that's so funny. Let's see. Wild Bird. Y'all have some crazy names. Good afternoon, Beeman, to you as well.

1:28:25 Honestly, I'm grateful to be educated, but it sickens me to death. You and me both. We're going to get through this together. We're doing it as a team to give ourselves encouragement to actually learn what our real history is. Because it's only when you know the real history and what people are capable of that we can change. All of Operation Gladio lets you know that people.

1:28:51 Nobody should be able to ever will that much power over anyone. I absolutely agree. How does people track it? They hire people. That's true. Let's see. We talk about setting up a parallel economy, yet they've already said that. They set up an evil one. I have a sneaking suspicion Credit Suisse will enter the picture as well.

1:29:24 Maybe. Just have to stick with us and we'll see. There are pictures with the soldiers with Hussein's gold. That's absolutely correct. Let's see what else we got. If you have a subscription, check out his interview with Petro Israel Korta. Okay. Let's see. I wonder if any of this had anything to do with the Foreign Accounts Compliance Act.

1:29:57 I don't know. That'd be a good thing to look into because that would be an interesting corollary. Maybe not related. Airwolf kind of hinted at this organization. Oh, that's interesting. I don't remember Airwolf. Maybe I'm just like having a senior moment. I don't know. Now we know why very few presidents serve a single term. If you play the game, you get eight years. That's definitely true.

1:30:30 Let's see. Never opened up the China relations. Yep. Let's see. Yeah, there's definitely something there to the whole Nixon interface with this whole thing. I just haven't got it settled in my brain yet as to what that is. I'm sure if we keep digging, we're going to find it. Let's see what else we got.

1:31:06 Yes, please, everybody, give us a thumbs up so that we can be found when people do searches for us. And again, thank you all for being active in the chat. I love seeing this. I love seeing that y'all interact with each other and help me out on the pronunciations. I definitely need that. So.

1:31:36 You have to know where you've been to know where you're going. That is absolutely true. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to have to look up that airwolf. I'm sure I probably saw it. I just don't remember it. Okay. Yeah, I think it would be interesting to talk to Patrick Burns about what we all know about this. Yeah, I agree.

1:32:11 SR-71. I definitely earned that eagle. Crazy career. But anyway, I'm earning it again. Again, I'm so happy to be here. We recorded the show with Alpha today. It will air Wednesday night. I will try to be online during the airing. So I hope to see you all then. I'll send out a notice on Wednesday about it.

1:32:39 So I definitely won't do a book review that night, but I am going to try to squeeze in a few more of them here so we can get the book finished so we can lead into a podcast with Warhamster. So again, thank you. If you haven't seen the Warhamster video, I do need to move it out on my channel and I will post when it's there. We did an update this morning on the whole Iran-Iraq thing.

1:33:08 Israel thing. So I'll put that out there as well. So thank you all for being here. I'm going to sign off and I will see you again. I'll put out, if I do one tomorrow, I'll put out the date. Otherwise I will see you on Tuesday night. See ya.

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Santa Romana operated_in Philippines book_quoted ▶ 2:39

“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 deni…”

Santa Romana funded M-Fund book_quoted ▶ 4:01

“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 mov…”

Ferdinand Marcos succeeded Santa Romana book_quoted ▶ 4:01

Japan operated_in Philippines book_quoted ▶ 4:23

“After Santee completed his recoveries in 1947, there was a lull of 20 years before Marcos began making similar ones. Now keep in mind, Santee only discovered a few of the 175 existing underground vaul…”

Masayoshi Akashi relationship_with Yoshio Kodama book_quoted ▶ 7:10

“underworld fixers, Sasakawa, and he offered to do joint recoveries of the war loot. A crony of Kodama, Sasakawa, knew the location of a number of the major vaults. For a substantial cut, Marcos could …”

Ferdinand Marcos did_business_with Masayoshi Akashi book_quoted ▶ 7:10

Roger Roxas located_in Philippines book_quoted ▶ 8:10

“In January of that year, a Filipino locksmith and amateur treasure hunter named Rogelio Roger, which is what he went by, Roxas, R-O-X-A-S. He had crawled into a tunnel dug by a Japanese army and found…”

Tomoyuki Yamashita operated_in Philippines book_quoted ▶ 10:52

“had told Roxas that as a young boy, he had been an interpreter for General Yamashita. He said Yamashita had taken a large quantity of gold and silver bars from Manila to another city to pay and feed h…”

John C. Ballinger lived_in New Mexico book_quoted ▶ 13:46

“with some of the enemy inside. Ballinger had since gone back to live in New Mexico, where he and his son, Gene, started a newspaper for amateur treasure hunters. The Ballingers visited the Philippines…”

Judge Pio relationship_with Ferdinand Marcos book_quoted ▶ 14:10

“He could not pinpoint the location because many years had passed and the rainforest had grown around it. So Roxas was sure the tunnel existed, but it took him a long time to find the pillbox. Because …”

Ferdinand Marcos ordered_assassination_of Roger Roxas book_quoted ▶ 21:13

“Sounds awful familiar. They did not deliver the Buddha or anything else to the clerk of court. Roxas reported the robbery to the local press and police. Then he went to see Judge Pio, who asked why he…”

Presidential Security Command carried_out_attack Plaza Miranda Bombing book_quoted ▶ 27:36

“We were told by a member of Marcos' family that the grenades had been thrown in by men from the Presidential Security Command on the orders of Marcos and the security chief, and supposedly the securit…”

Ferdinand Marcos ordered_assassination_of Plaza Miranda Bombing book_quoted ▶ 27:36

Ferdinand Marcos moved_to Hawaii book_quoted ▶ 32:02

“He moved to a secret location with his family where they remained for 10 years without further incident. Roxas only surfaced again in 1986 when Ferdinand and Imeldo Marcos were removed from power by t…”

Santa Romana relationship_with Ferdinand Marcos host_asserted ▶ 32:25

“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.…”

Santa Romana relationship_with Imelda Marcos host_asserted ▶ 32:25

Santa Romana laundered_money_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 35:19

“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…”

Santa Romana founded CIC Enterprises host_asserted ▶ 35:52

“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-…”

Santa Romana operated_in Monaco host_asserted ▶ 35:52

Santa Romana founded Ford Foundation host_asserted ▶ 36:50

“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 origin…”

Santa Romana operated_in Liechtenstein host_asserted ▶ 36:50

Wallace Groves did_business_with Meyer Lansky host_asserted ▶ 39:15

“was American millionaire ex-convict Wallace Groves, G-R-O-B-E-S. He was the owner of the Grand Bahama Island, whose casino there and in Nassau were operated by mobster Meyer Lansky. And of course, we …”

Allen & Company invested_in Philippines host_asserted ▶ 39:46

“was a Wall Street firm called Allen and Company. We've came across Allen repeatedly. It was in Whitney Webb's book and several other books that we've talked about. The names of the people is Herbert a…”

Wallace Groves did_business_with Allen & Company host_asserted ▶ 39:46

Wallace Groves did_business_with Ferdinand Marcos host_asserted ▶ 40:47

“Groves and Allen swapped a piece of Grand Bahama, the island, to Marcos in return for nearly complete control of the Beignet mine. This allowed the umbrella to move war gold out of the Philippines mas…”

Paul Helliwell member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 42:57

“The umbrella served as a conduit of gold boyan for many banks identified with the CIA's Paul Helliwell, an OSS CIA associate of Bill Casey and Ray Klein. Now, remember, Paul Helliwell is the guy that …”

Paul Helliwell founded Castle Bank & Trust host_asserted ▶ 42:57

Paul Helliwell founded Sea Supply Corporation host_asserted ▶ 43:54

“Bill Casey and Ray Klein was involved in moving the first generation recoveries of Yamashita's gold out of the Philippines, along with Paul Helliwell. In 1951, Helliwell helped set up the Sea Supply C…”

Sea Supply Corporation supplied_arms_to Kuomintang host_asserted ▶ 44:48

“Let's go back to what this says. This says that Paul Helliwell set up the Sea Supply Corporation as a CIA front company for running supplies to nationalists in China. Who are the nationalists? Chiang …”

Paul Helliwell relationship_with Wallace Groves host_asserted ▶ 45:15

“The Nationalists also ran opium and heroin out of the Golden Triangle for the KMT, which is Tian's army. Paul Helliwell then retired to Nassau, where he set up the Castle Bank and Mercantile Bank and …”

Paul Helliwell moved_to Bahamas host_asserted ▶ 45:15

Castle Bank & Trust laundered_money_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 45:48

“Hellywell's Castle Bank was one of the worldwide network banks identified with the CIA, which allowed black money to move outside of normal banking channels, providing offshore refuge for ill-gotten g…”

Shig Katayama did_business_with Lockheed host_asserted ▶ 46:47

“This guy's name is S-H-I-G, Shig, K-A-T-A-Y-A-M-A. I'm going to try to pronounce that one. He was one of the key facilitators of Lockheed's huge payoff to the Japanese politicians. Remember when Lockh…”

Nugan Hand Bank laundered_money_for CIA host_asserted ▶ 48:25

“Australia. And then what happened to Nugent Hand Bank? It's strictly a money laundering bank. Do they have regular accounts? Yeah, but it gets failed out. Nugent gets assassinated in his Mercedes Benz…”

William Colby member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 48:25

BCCI laundered_money_for Saddam Hussein host_asserted ▶ 49:51

“BCCI collapsed in 1991 when the CIA admitted that it had used BCCI for years for covert operations. And interestingly enough, Saddam Hussein had hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in BCC…”

BCCI laundered_money_for CIA documented ▶ 49:51

Santa Romana laundered_money_for Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted ▶ 51:57

“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, i…”

Santa Romana relationship_with Edward Lansdale host_asserted ▶ 53:01

“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, wa…”

Santa Romana laundered_money_for Bank of England host_asserted ▶ 53:29

“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 Res…”

Santa Romana laundered_money_for Federal Reserve host_asserted ▶ 53:29

Santa Romana laundered_money_for Bank of Japan host_asserted ▶ 53:29

Ferdinand Marcos funded Vietnam War host_asserted ▶ 56:48

“When Marcos got a presidential nomination, all members of his campaign team previously had worked for Lansdale. Imagine that. So he's a CIA baby. People referred to him as the America's boy. Marcos co…”

Ferdinand Marcos carried_out_attack Plaza Miranda Bombing host_asserted ▶ 59:45

“exercise, if you will, training exercise to see how that would work. In hindsight, it was quite obvious that this grenade attack that they used on a plaza terrorizing the opposition party and silencin…”

Ferdinand Marcos appointed Santa Romana host_asserted ▶ 1:00:14

“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 t…”

General Ver carried_out_attack Jose Roxas host_asserted ▶ 1:02:05

“It was widely known that people were tortured and murdered as part of the palace's black room. Anyone who crossed the president was murdered in a grisly fashion. Corpses was left by the roadside with …”

Santa Romana appointed Tarsiana Rodriguez host_asserted ▶ 1:02:30

“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 Rodrig…”

Tarsiana Rodriguez relationship_with Luz Rambano host_asserted ▶ 1:03:00

“In a deposition prepared for Filipino courts, Tarciana described how she first met Santi in August of 1971 when she was running an accounting firm and a secretarial service. She was introduced to him …”

Santa Romana married Julieta Horarto host_asserted ▶ 1:03:20

“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 Tarcia…”

Santa Romana laundered_money_for Citigroup host_asserted ▶ 1:05:12

“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. Accord…”

Ferdinand Marcos ordered_assassination_of Jose Roxas host_asserted ▶ 1:05:12

James Collins member_of Citigroup host_asserted ▶ 1:06:04

“Collins had his deposition taken in New York City and denied that he had ever been involved in establishing this account. Collins denied that the transaction ever took place and stated that he did rem…”

Santa Romana laundered_money_for Citigroup host_asserted ▶ 1:06:58

“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 milli…”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana appointed Julieta Horarto book_quoted ▶ 1:07:55

“In Manila, Hong Kong, blah, blah, blah. This will then named my wife, Julieta Huerto, as my successor of all my properties as listed above. With the full power and attorney upon my death, may appoint …”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana moved_to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank book_quoted ▶ 1:08:25

“Although technically it made Giulietta Huerto his sole legal heir, on his death, Marcos easily could make her appoint him the administrator of the estate. A few months later, in March 1973, Santee's h…”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana moved_to Sanwa Bank book_quoted ▶ 1:08:53

“This sum, plus the $800 million transferred to Citibank in New York, meant that he had now moved $1.3 billion out of Manila. During the same period, records showed that he had moved 1,640 metric tons …”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana moved_to Citigroup book_quoted ▶ 1:08:53

Ferdinand Marcos ordered_assassination_of Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana book_quoted ▶ 1:09:24

“which is an island on Leyte. Santi drank too much and spoke too loudly of his fears for he and Luz was arrested. Martial law allowed Marcos to arrest anyone. Tarciano received a long distance call fro…”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana protected_by CIA book_quoted ▶ 1:10:20

“Box three contained jewelry, which he wanted her to bring. When Tarciana got to Citibank with the letters, the keys, she was told Collins was out of the country and to come back some other time. Over …”

CIA funded The Enterprise host_asserted ▶ 1:10:51

“They had resigned and some were disgusted and had left for other posts. These men were now intent upon setting up their own private covert organization. And basically, so they didn't want the scrutiny…”

CIA funded Richard Nixon host_asserted ▶ 1:11:21

“And we've come across this. They referred to it as the enterprise. And it's basically a CIA with people that are not civil service in front companies. And I think that this turmoil that comes in here,…”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana invited_by Edward Lansdale book_quoted ▶ 1:12:24

“In the midst of the turmoil, Santee was invited to Washington as a private guest of the disaffected old guard, including Lansdale, Helliwell, and Klein. For over a month, they told him stories of the …”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana briefed_on Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:12:55

“how they turn Claire Chennault's civil air transport into Air America, and brief Santee on the CIA's other black ops in Latin America, Africa, and behind the Iron Curtain. So they're talking about Ope…”

Operation Gladio trained Angola host_asserted ▶ 1:13:48

“How many of these companies were airlines and transport services, armed suppliers, private mercenary forces, support secret wars like the one in Angola, which we found about the Angola one. This is so…”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana appointed Tarsiana Rodriguez book_quoted ▶ 1:16:47

“Pressed hard by Marcos, by the CIA, and by other new shadow CIAs, Santi decided to take further steps to protect himself and his assets. When he got back to the Philippines and had time to think it ov…”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana tortured Major Koyama book_quoted ▶ 1:17:43

“She asked why he had not chosen a more sophisticated person. He said, you're the only one I can trust. So it was 30 years since he had took charge of the torturing of Major Koyama. And in the anguishe…”

Servino Garcia Diaz Santa Romana died_in San Juan Hospital book_quoted ▶ 1:20:14

“1974, he collapsed. He was admitted to the San Juan Hospital. At his bedside, he told Tarciano it was time to open the safe deposit boxes. He gave her the insurance policies for all of the trust certi…”

Edward Lansdale moved_to Citigroup book_quoted ▶ 1:22:36

“where he died in a bed a few days later. The cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver. According to a source in the Marcos family, Major General Lansdell immediately arranged to move all of Santee's …”

Edward Lansdale secretly_owned UBS book_quoted ▶ 1:23:31

“a magic wand. Some of Santee's big accounts at other banks, notably the UBS bank in Geneva, said to contain 20,000 metric tons of gold and listing Santee as the account of record was changed to list M…”

World Anti-Communist League front_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:25:03

“which we know based on going back to how that organization was set up, that it was set up in Taiwan. It was set up basically as an Operation Gladio front for them to have coordination meetings. The mo…”

Edward Lansdale funded The Enterprise host_asserted ▶ 1:25:33

“That all became part of this front organization or private CIA. And basically Lansdell moved all of the gold to fund this new black CIA off the books thing called the Enterprise. That's crazy. So if M…”