OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 6

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0:00 The author makes note of the fact that as early as the 1920s that Japan had their eye on the Philippines, which I find very interesting. They learned how to speak the local language. They had bought farms. They had basically overtaken entire fishing villages.

0:25 And they were kind of mapping out the terrain and basically spying on the Philippines because it was rich in resources to include gold. And that the Japan very early on, like I said, in the 1920s had their eye on the Philippines. And honestly, it's not that far from Japan. So it kind of makes sense. And one other point.

0:56 that many of the Japanese had started creating their own political organizations and creating their own underworld gangs, which kind of when you apply it to modern day America, doesn't bode well. So another kind of weird, interesting facet is that when the Japanese did overtake the island,

1:29 that the Filipinos were oftentimes arrested and questioned and then released. And part of the reason for that is that they didn't want the locals to be as outraged at them because they still had to operate on the island. So basically...

2:00 the slave labor that they used was either the POWs or people they had shipped in from Korea, for the most part. So the activities on the Philippines, now remember we talked about some of the other princes that were in the conquered areas.

2:34 doing the inventories and making lists and getting things shipped out to where they belong. The designated agent in the Philippines was a Prince Takeda, T-A-K-E-D-A. He had a code name, Kimsu Murakusi, but we're going to refer to him as Prince Kakeda.

3:06 So early on when he gets to the Philippines, he basically kind of adopts this 17 or 18 year old kid on the Philippines. So also just to put in relationship for you, Taquita.

3:39 Prince Takeda became the second in command to Prince Chichibu, who's the guy we've been talking about that's in charge of Golden Lily, in directing Golden Lily throughout. So he's like the deputy, the Takeda guy is. But he is the guy calling the shots on the Philippines for the time period that we're going to be discussing.

4:10 He is the guy that worked and directed all of the engineers that set up the 174 sites on the Philippines that are going to be part of Golden Lily. So the author makes note of the fact that he went back and forth to Japan on a fairly regular basis. And also,

4:45 that there was a distinguished emblem that they used on their tunics and official royalty entities, like if their car had the emblem on them. It was a 14-petal chrysanthemum, and it was the emblem of Princes of the Blood.

5:17 So basically the royal family. So Ben, this kid that becomes basically like his aide, his butler, whatever you want to refer to him as, was eventually taken around to 175 sites that were built for the treasure.

5:46 belonging exclusively to Emperor Hiroshito and the imperial family. And hiding it was Kimshu or Takeda's primary responsibility. Each site had a chief engineer, an architect, a mining expert.

6:10 And experts in mixing and molding that particular ceramic that I was talking to you about that they use to kind of patch up all of the holes repeatedly, like hole after hole. So they would have like a long tube of tunnel and then they would cap it off like that was the end of it, like the fake end. And then they put some more in there and there'd be another fake end. So someone who didn't have the overall map never knew where the actual tunnel ended.

6:41 And they had demolition experts to set up all the booby traps in those areas. They also had chemists for mixing the poisons that they were going to put in the little glass vials that they put in the sand and in the concrete that had cyanide in it. That would kill you if you broke it.

7:05 But the plans that he had drawn up in all of these different sites, 175 of them, had a code for where all of those tricks were. I don't know how to say your name, Yida, but thank you for that compliment. Appreciate it. I'm glad you're here. So anyway.

7:34 These plans, they're multi-layer plans for every site. They had color-coded sheets of paper, and they would have compass headings on how to navigate, and every one of them was articulated in a code on where the poisons were embedded in the tunneling system. So Emperor Hirohito directly ordered

8:05 the princess to seal each site with all of the slave laborers and POWs inside to guarantee that its locations would remain secret till the treasure was recovered by the Imperial family, because it was going to be that the Imperial family was the only one that was going to have a set of those plans in order to be able to go back and recover it. So according to Ben,

8:33 The prince was very diligent and meticulous in his duties. Once a Chinese slave escaped from a work crew, just as a vault was about to be sealed. After it became evident that the Japanese could not catch him, Kim Shu ordered the vault emptied and all 270 bronze boxes full of gold bars were taken out and moved elsewhere.

8:58 On another occasion, after inspecting a site, the prince concluded that the drawings and maps given to him were not accurate, that the chief engineer had made crafty alterations to reserve the treasure for himself. The prince ordered the officer beheaded on the spot, and it was carried out instantly. These people are crazy. So over three years, Ben basically went everywhere with him, by plane, by ship.

9:30 to all of the different islands, all 175 sites. Ben saw a ship strangely camouflaged with live trees that grew in big planter boxes. Heavy boxes were stacked on the deck and guarded by German soldiers. The prince's officers told Ben that it was a German ship. They watched all the boxes that were unloaded and taken into a cave on the island.

10:00 Ben was not sure what was in the boxes, but they appeared to be very heavy. During that period of time, Japanese cargo submarines were taking Gold Boyan to the Nazi sub-base at Lorient, L-O-R-I-E-N-T, France, to pay for purchases of uranium. This was part of Japan's secret project to develop its own atomic bomb.

10:31 German U-boats and fast surface raiders delivered the uranium to rendezvous points in Indonesia and the Philippines, where the cargo was offloaded, then the uranium was taken by Japanese submarines to Tokyo. Ben may have witnessed one of these exchanges, in which uranium was offloaded in lead-shielded boxes to await transfer to the Japanese submarines.

10:59 The Prince was the only one who did the final inventories of all 175 sites. Because remember, that's the same thing with the Chichibu guy. He was the only one that could sign off on the final inventories. Ben said that there were other teams involved in the earlier stages. One, he said, was headed by Haruhito's youngest brother, Prince Mikasa.

11:35 Ben insisted that Prince Mikasa was in Luzon for three years, which coincided with the period Mikasa was officially attached to Japanese headquarters in Nanking. Supposedly, they recorded that he was in China, but it looks like he was actually working in the Philippines. And on their duty roster or whatever leisure that they had in the palace,

12:06 Prince Takeda, the guy that's on the Philippines, was assigned to Hanoi, but he was actually in the Philippines the entire time. And that's proven by the testimony of Ben later on, which we will get to. One of the prince's son. Let's see. So all of these people eventually come to.

12:42 the Philippines at some time to oversee or to look or whatever, inspect, whatever it is they're doing. And Ben, because he's the aid to the prince, obviously he's going to be the one hosting them because he's in charge of the Philippines. And Ben gets introduced or not maybe physically introduced to him, but hears them.

13:07 corresponding with each other verbally. And so he knows all of their names. He can identify their face. And later on, when he gets questioned, people kind of slough him off as being like a nobody because eventually he goes back to his village and tries to live a normal life. And when it gets discovered what his role was in carrying these, hey, Lucy, people around.

13:36 they don't believe him. And so they start showing him pictures and he's able to identify every one of them, which allowed for him to establish his credibility. So that was kind of fascinating to the people that came. And he even mentioned, remember when we talked about Chi Chi Bu and him having, coughing up blood occasionally.

14:06 That apparently made a big impression on Ben. And Ben, when he was questioned, volunteered that on his own accord, which kind of shocked the people that were questioning him because they hadn't even mentioned it. He didn't know what it was from. He was just kind of appalled that the guy kept coughing up blood. And I don't think it was ever explained to him what was wrong with Chichibu.

14:37 It does talk about Prince Mikasa coming several times to the island and that witnesses, including Japanese who served on Golden Lily or served with the people that was involved in it, told the authors here that they saw Ben in the company of Prince Mikasa when groups of princes were inspecting major sites. The Japanese source even assumed that Ben was.

15:08 prince macasa's ballet so i guess he got shared around so because much of golden lily's tunnels went straight into hills or mountains and then 20 meters or so deep um and then they dug a great big pit to dump everything in often uh so they're going to have a 20 meter long tunnel and then at the end of the tunnel there will be a giant pit and

15:42 that's where they dump stuff in then they would dump like sand and stuff in top of it and they would seal that off and then all the way back out the 20 meter tunnel is where they kept sealing stuff off so then once they got the pit full they covered it with concrete like that was the actual bottom and they made that concrete look exactly like the walk-in because that was all

16:11 with that special porcelain that was colored. And so when you got to the end of the tunnel, you would think that that was it. It was just that shaft. You wouldn't know that there's an entire pit full of treasure in there. So at one location, they had a very large solid gold Buddha that had been placed in the pit just inside the tunnel's mouth.

16:42 So basically in that one, they had two pits. They had the pit that was out there, but they didn't want to have to carry that big Buddha all the way down to the end. So they dug another pit at the beginning, dumped it in, concreted over it. So one of the particular areas.

17:10 they talk about is that recent efforts to recover treasure in one of the particular areas that had a lot of rice paddies and that type of vegetation was prohibited initially because there were unexploded bombs in the area, but indigenous water traps that had been devised by the Japanese that would flood the tunnel in seconds.

17:42 as a booby trap. So they really had some imagination with some of these booby traps that we'll get into. Several occasions when the prince did take Ben into a tunnel or a cave, including the one called Mini Monkeys, there was a, this was a curious place in the hillside covered with dozens of giant boulders weighing 10 to 20 tons apiece.

18:15 These cobbles, each several meters across, had been washed down the hillside by typhoons and flash floods over the ages. The jumble of boulders covered with vines and forest canopy created natural vaults between the rocks, which was inhabited by monkeys.

18:42 The monkeys were scared away, and the Japanese engineers burned the foliage and closed two large chambers about 45 meters deep in the hillside. They then reinforced them with concrete, each about 20 feet wide and 30 feet long. These chambers were filled with platinum and gold bars stacked in neat rows,

19:13 urns filled with loose gems which had been pried out of jewelry. Ben was surprised to see the urns filled with thousands of watches confiscated because they were gold studded with gems. The containers were carried down to the chambers by soldiers. A small quarter ton solid gold Buddha was carefully encased in concrete egg then was draped

19:42 or dragged, sorry, by a group of Korean slave laborers into the chambers using a canvas sling. The whole operation of stocking and inventory the site took a week, and Ben saw more than a hundred trucks come up with treasures. It was then ready for the prince to make his final inspection. Ben watched in fascination as the stones, excuse me, as the prince admitted the final

20:13 Earn filled with gems of all colors, deep dipping his hands inside of it. And, you know, basically kind of like playing with it, watching them cascade through his fingers. Oh my gosh. SR 71. You're awesome. I've never had a monthly supporter before. You're my first. Thank you. So.

20:41 Kim Soo and Ben then followed the soldiers and engineers down the rest of the way through the boulders to the bottom of the valley, where they emerged from the hill beside the fast-flowing river. We visited this site with Ben, the authors did, when they made their first trip there, but made no attempt to enter because of the infestation of cobras. I'm sure, I don't know if Liza's here or not, but I'm sure.

21:11 Liza would love that. She likes killing snakes with her gun. So also another site that Ben mentions to the authors when they came to visit was a large vault beneath San Fernando. And it was called Tunnel 8. It was said to be the size of a football field. That's like the big area inside, not the tunnel going in.

21:44 It was connected to two other caverns the size of gymnasiums. One called Tunnel 9, which was directly beneath the Japanese army camp. The third called Graveyard Site, which was directly underneath Bam Bang Cemetery. Tunnel 8 and 9 were about a kilometer apart, while the Graveyard Cavern was more than a kilometer and a half away.

22:15 complex was one of the last to be inventoried and sealed before the war ended. So that kind of gives you an idea of what the size of them are and what the contents are. Ben told the authors that he saw lots and lots of gold and many solid gold statue Buddhas.

22:47 And he said there were at least two that were like the ginormous ones that would have weighed like a ton. And he saw just tons of the smaller ones. 12 gauge on you, Liza. Thank you, Liza, for popping in here. And remind me if we ever go to the Philippines to take you so we don't have to fight the cobras alone.

23:20 Okay, so in the summer of 1944, it was evident that the Allied invasion of the Philippines was imminent and like to recapture it. So General Siganong Corota was relieved of his command in the Philippines and replaced by Tama Yuki.

23:53 So Yamashita Tamayuki is going to be the new general there. Philippines, it was thought that the Philippines had to be protected at all costs because that's kind of what they did was they made the choice to keep all of this treasure. So they were basically going to do, that's going to be Custer's last stand. They were going to give it all they got. So they replaced the general.

24:22 They fortify it and they get ready to defend it. So also they talk about another guy that was also like they called him a dangerous fanatic. Now, we're talking about people who blow people up when they get ready to seal the caves up. Right. These people are.

24:52 beyond nasty. And so if they're talking about this guy being a fanatic compared to all of the rest of them, they're all fairly fanatical to me. He must be really, really bad. He also joins Yamashita in the defense of the Philippines. So Yamashita became a public hero in Japan and he was feared and resented by

25:23 the prime minister there called Tojo, who recalled him and salted him away in Manchuria for the bulk of the war. But by mid-1944, Tojo had been forced out of office and General Yamashita was moved from Manchuria to Luzon in the Philippines to basically defend it.

25:51 All hopes are on Yamashita at this point. And he becomes involved in Golden Lily only during the final 10 months of the war. So most of the hiding and the sealing of these 175 sites have already been done. So it just so happens that Yamashita is a personal friend of Prince Chichibu.

26:20 There's a lot of correspondence that goes back and forth between those. And Ben, who saw General Yamashita greet Chichibu, relayed what he viewed as how close the relationship actually was. He also said Yamashita didn't bow.

26:52 to the Prince Chichibu, which Ben said was like, he like gasped when he did it because he thought like, because he's watching people's head gets chopped off for disrespecting the royalty. So that was another big shocker for him. So that tells you that Yamashita had a heroic type status among the royal family in Japan.

27:23 However, Ben did note that the Prince Takeda, that was kind of his primary responsibility, didn't have that same kind of rapport with Yamashita. There was like a distance between them, not the same rapport that Chichibu had. So Yamashita had his own driver, Major Kojima.

27:56 He would take him to observe progress at all the different Golden Lily sites as well. Dang, Lucy, thank you. Y'all are being so kind. So U.S. forces then landed on Leyte. So now that's going to be like spazzing because.

28:22 They know that that's like the initial wave and MacArthur is right behind them coming back to the Philippines. So this is going to kick everything in high gear. But Yamashita had over 275,000 men on Luzon. So that's huge.

28:45 The best he could do was to fight a holding action in the mountains and drag it out as long as he could so they could finish hiding all the treasure. It was impossible to defend Manila. That's what Yamashita said. And so he decided to withdraw from the city and declare it open and basically avoided it being completely destroyed. So at the time, though.

29:15 It is still under the control of the Japanese Navy. So let's see. They do want to now keep in mind some of the locations that we talked about in the previous chapter have access to the water. And so they're going to try to do enough damage that they won't be able to get to them from the water access as well.

29:55 They basically are given, the Japanese are given orders to fight to their death. And so during, there's another general there, Iwabaki. And the men under his command that were in Manila went house to house and started killing.

30:31 civilians, including women and children. 100,000 Filipinos were slaughtered and 1,000 Americans. 80% of the city's houses were flattened. In the chaos, Iwabachi himself slipped away through the tunnel networks beneath the intramurals and was never seen again in public. He was declared officially dead.

31:01 However, his remains were never found. There are indications that he escaped from Luzon by submarine and lived to a ripe old age in Japan under a pseudonym. But there's no record of that. And so if he lived under an assumed name, we wouldn't know. But yeah, he basically just annihilated Manila.

31:35 Moving on, Prince, let's see, Prince Takeda went through a noticeable change to Ben. So now Ben's been hanging around him this whole time he's been on the island. And so Takeda makes Ben swear a blood oath to him in a Japanese ritual.

32:05 Ben was forbidden ever to talk about Prince Chichibu, number one. Second, he must never reveal Prince Takeda's secret name, which was that code name, Kimsu. And finally, he must never reveal the locations of any of the treasure sites, not to Americans, to Filipinos, to guerrillas, to Chinese, or even to Japanese. And by that, he means normal Japanese, not the royal family. These sites...

32:35 Kim Soo told him, were reserved for only members of the royal family. Takeda said he was hiding two steel trunks full of gold so that Ben would not forget. He had one of his men tattoo two blue dots on Ben's hand, one for each box. The next day, they went to the Pekinan Bridge underneath a huge mango tree. These two chests were buried.

33:06 And all of the Japanese soldiers and the other people that were there that they hadn't already killed couldn't believe that they were going to let Ben live. And he did because Ben at this point has watched all these people die and he knows that that's probably coming for him. So he, Takeda takes two.

33:37 boxes filled with gold bars and buries them for Ben for when he gets married. So after the war, Ben was to come here by himself to recover the boxes. When he opened the pit, he must pour kerosene over the boxes and burn the powder off because of course they booby trapped him.

34:03 When he opened the lids, he would pour in more kerosene to burn off the powder inside the box. Then he would recover the gold safely. He was given small pieces of indigo instead of whole ones because it would be easier for him to sell them without too much attention. The prince told him to buy land for a very big ranch and to marry the pretty girl they had often watched in the village.

34:34 and have lots of children to help him run the ranch. Ben was speechless. When they had finished filling the pit, they were surprised to see another Golden Lily team drive up the other end of the bridge. It was Prince Chichibu himself, dressed like Kim Su in a white tunic with a red badge. Kim Su, or Takeda, same person, and Chichibu did not bow to each other and showed no emotion.

35:07 Chichibu looked very thin, coughing, and Ben said his handkerchief was red like a battle flag. And in the days and weeks that followed, there was a frenzied bearing of remaining chapter. Yamashita had to abandon another city to the advancing Americans. But he never came to the camp where the prince was, where Ben was. Yamashita had his own separate entrance to an underground bunker.

35:39 of Tunnel 9. He and his staff spent a lot of time below ground in the weeks before they withdrew. And in the meantime, another big cavern was prepared as a hard base for Yamashita and his staff to use during the fight to the death that lay ahead. They had a natural forming cliff formation that was protecting a valley and had lots of water and it was full of caves.

36:10 So it provided the perfect fortress for a defensive purpose for General Yamashita. So May 1945, the American forces were advancing into the mountains so quickly that Yamashita also had to abandon that place. And he pulled his forces back between two other cities, Bam Bang and Bagaback, and began to funnel them.

36:40 through a river embankment. And let's see. Eventually, obviously, they lose. But by the end of May, Kemsu had taken Ben on a secret trip up north. And basically, they went to where Prince Mikasa was awaiting. The two princes and Ben were driven north through a valley to Apari. Then...

37:12 turned right along the coast to a small bay. They boarded a fast patrol boat and made a crossing to the north side of an island where a Japanese submarine was laying low in the water. Kim Su went aboard and made arrangements with the skipper for a rendezvous place next week. Ben and Prince Mikasa remained on the patrol boat. Ben said it was the only time that he was completely alone with Prince Mikasa. He thought Kim Su

37:40 took him along to be sure nothing bad happened to Ben in his absence. In the first four days of June, Yamashita anti-tank units near the Mini Monkey site fought a running battle with the U.S. Tank Battalion and basically ended up having to withdraw. So by the 1st of June, all 175 Golden Lily chief engineers were summoned to a farewell party.

38:12 Yikes. In the underground conference room of Tunnel 8, all remaining treasure had been hidden. Tunnel 8, 9, and the cemetery site were stacked with gold bars, according to Ben, who was with Kim Su that evening. The engineers were drinking large quantities of sake. This is not going to end well. Meanwhile, 200 remaining slave laborers were herded into the cemetery site chamber, where they were kept underground by Japanese soldiers with machine guns.

38:42 Kim Soo, who had built this place, spent an hour with the chief engineers, then took Ben for a final tour of the entire complex. They walked through the tunneling systems for more than an hour, admired all the gold stacked up. Be careful, he warned Ben, and don't step on the wires. You'll get blown up. The wires led to bundles of dynamite all through the tunnel. When they returned to the farewell party, Kim Soo

39:08 gave a rousing speech to the engineers, praising them for all the work they had done, and the red-faced men kept shouting bonsai. When the speech ended, it was near midnight. General Yamashita arrived. He said it was time for Kim Su to come out of the tunnels. Ben, he said, must remain inside. No, Kim Su said. I gave my oath that I would bring him home personally.

39:37 He turned to Ben and told him to get out. He pointed towards the tunnel exit. Yamashita was angry but unprepared to argue with the emperor's grandson. He asked Ben why Yamashita wanted him inside. Oh, sorry. The authors asked Ben why Yamashita wanted him inside. Maybe so nobody will know about this one, Ben replied.

40:06 With Yamashita leading, they walked to the pit elevator and rose to the surface. Without a word, the general stalked away into the night. Kim Su and Ben walked quickly away from the pit. Ben heard a huge bomb and dove to the ground. The explosion shook the ground. When the sun rose the next day, there would be a big sinkhole on the west side of the dirt road.

40:36 where the tunnel had been. We asked Ben if at that moment he knew all the engineers and slaves were trapped beneath. Ben looked at the ground. He said, I was very happy that Kim Su did not allow Yamashito to, and then he kind of trails off and said, I would have been left there. And then he adds that he was afraid of Yamashito. So basically he obviously acknowledged the fact that the general wanted him dead too.

41:07 So, when Ben was looking around at the time the authors were talking to him, he said of the Prince Takeda that he did this because the Emperor gave him a direct order to do it. Many of the members of Takeda's staff, including a Navy captain, had been burned alive with the engineers.

41:39 Only when they reached Ben's house did Kim Soo say that it was time for him and the colonel to leave. So the prince brought Ben back to his house, dropped him off and said, you must go into your papa and he needs you to help with the farm because his dad was disabled.

42:03 And he tells Ben, don't join the gorillas or the Americans. Just stay with your papa and help him plant rice. And then he reminds him, never forget your oath. You will not give the maps. Also, he turned around and gave Ben the satchel that had one copy of the full sets of maps. And he told Ben,

42:35 with their blood oath. Never forget your oath. Do not give these maps to anyone. No American, no Chinese, no Japanese, no Filipino, no guerrillas. Just wait for me. And he said, wait until I come back to get them from you. Wait 30 years. If I have not come back by then, take the maps to Japan. If I am dead, give the maps to my family. So that kind of was his insurance.

43:06 To get back to Japan. And because I think he knew Yamashita wasn't going to be happy with him. And if Yamashita survives. That he'd take the maps. And just say hey something happened to him. So by not bringing them back. Kind of guaranteed him safety back to Japan. So he also gave him a sword and a tunic. And Ben.

43:38 not knowing the value of this royal tunic, ends up wearing it out in the farmland to farm in for years. And obviously he doesn't understand the value of the sword either because it was a hereditarily awarded sword given to Takeda. So because that sword had came from his grandfather, Emperor...

44:10 Miji, who collected fine swords. So that was like of immense value. But Ben used it to cut down rice stalks every year during harvest because he had no idea. So that takes us through chapter six to chapter seven. And chapter seven is called Down the Rabbit Hole because.

44:41 We're going to go find some interesting information in Chapter 7. So we will be back here Sunday night. And we're kind of going to do a combination of things on Sunday night. I'm going to see if I can talk Liza and Bridget into doing another joint.

45:10 disclosure, if you will, we found some very interesting information that I'd like to bring to you guys. And I know Liza and Bridget has done some intensive digging on Haiti, and I want to bring that information to y'all too. And obviously I want to encourage the two of them to share with you the stuff that they have found instead of me doing all the talking.

45:39 So hopefully y'all can let us know in the chat whether or not if you were here on Sunday night, if you like that show, it's one of the most popular shows we've done, actually. If you didn't get a chance to look at it, please do, because we went into the whole Russia terrorist attack and how it has the footprint of basically every Gladio exercise. It did.

46:11 Yayita, your subscription did go through. Thank you very much. So I want to thank Lucy and SR71. That was awesome. At least I thought I saw yours. Let me look back here. So let's see. Love the Gladio glasses. Let me just tell you, I mean.

46:40 That was such the cool thing. And I promise y'all have my new song that Snow did for me in the lead-in intro tomorrow, or whenever our next one is, Sunday, sorry. Unless, of course, something comes up and we do one in the interim. But yeah, thank you very much. And SR71, again, thank you very much for subscribing. I really appreciate that.

47:09 And Lucy, you as well. So, yeah. I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing that. I don't see your subscription coming through, but thank you for even attempting to do that. I really appreciate that. So, you should also subscribe to the Kernel Substack. Yeah, so the Substack.

47:43 We have done a lot of great deep digs into a lot of this stuff. And a lot of it is the material that Bridget and Liza gives to me. Once we do a show on it, it really, because I have to do a whole bunch of notes. I basically turn those notes over to my daughter and she kind of does the narrative forms of them. And so we kind of have a whole family operation going on here.

48:11 To get this information, because I recognize that some people like the videos better and some people like written material better, depending on what you're doing. And we want to make this information available to everyone. And I have done some deep dives into some of the particular investigations or research projects that we've done.

48:43 Yeah. Let me just tell you, SR71, thanks for bringing that up. I really enjoyed breaking history. And I'm going to share with y'all that Liza, I'm going to tell a Liza story. Liza, when I normally, when I do my podcast, have signal open so that Bridget and Liza, if I leave something out.

49:07 can um or if i forget the name of i mean there's so many things like i couldn't remember that saint hubris uh hunting club for the life of me forever so they're always in the background kind of shoveling the names of things to me um when they see that i'm um hesitating on a particular one because we're kind of that close-knit now and so when we got on um breaking history

49:33 And I almost laughed on camera. She shoots off to me, they're babies. And so I'm like, yes, but they're smart babies. And so during the show, that's exactly what she said. They're very smart. And so it's very enjoyable to talk about this kind of stuff.

50:02 with someone. Um, and that's why Bridget and Liza and I get along so well. We do equivalent amounts of, um, research. I'm just a big mouth and I'm used to talking in front of people. So I got elected to be the spokesperson. Um, and so it's very interesting having conversations out loud with people because, excuse me. One of the things

50:34 that I think people miss is we don't agree on everything. And I think it's healthy for people to disagree in public and actually do it in a respectful manner because we're not always going to agree on everything. And we have our reasonings, you know, just like today we did it out loud. When on X,

51:05 The ghost of Patrick Henry made the comment of calling Republicans communist. And I made the comment, I think they're actually fascist. He goes, yeah, I agree. But I like calling them communist because it pisses them off. And that kind of you shouldn't be afraid or intimidated to offer your opinion on something.

51:31 I mean, he could come back and go, no, I think this is why they're actual communists. And I'm like, OK. And you can have a dialogue, a respectful dialogue in public and disagree on stuff. We do it all the time. Warhamster and I went back and forth on many different issues, although we probably agree on 95 percent of the stuff. There are some things that we don't agree on. And I love him, love and respect him to death.

52:01 I don't expect anybody to agree with me on everything. I'm not always right. But the thing that we're missing the most is intellectual conversations about stuff that matters and doing it in a respectful manner. So that's why I think it's so, so important to have these conversations out loud. So breaking history.

52:31 is on Badlands Media, Lucy. And I have been on both Badlands, on Breaking History, and I will probably do another show with Alpha Warrior on SITREP eventually with CanCon. Really enjoyed that show as well. And of course, I love doing the Alpha Warrior show.

53:00 That's been a lot of fun. And I've got a lot of you here because of the show of Alpha Warrior. So I'm eternally grateful to him. And obviously Ron Partain, we've done a couple of shows together as well. Love him too. Again, I just like having these conversations. But we've kind of stumbled upon a new Ant Hill over the last couple of days.

53:28 And we're going to be bringing that to you in the next couple of shows that I do on a public forum, not on our book review. But again, this weekend, maybe we'll just break our own news and do a live show with some of the information that we kind of stumbled apart upon. And then, you know, on Saturday and Sunday, I will do the show with Alpha Warrior and it will air on Wednesday night and give it to everybody else. So y'all can have kind of first dibs on the information.

53:58 But anyway, so thanks for being here. We will be back Sunday night at seven with chapter seven. See you then.

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Japan operated_in Philippines book_quoted ▶ 0:00

“The author makes note of the fact that as early as the 1920s that Japan had their eye on the Philippines, which I find very interesting. They learned how to speak the local language. They had bought f…”

Japan spied_on Philippines book_quoted ▶ 0:25

“And they were kind of mapping out the terrain and basically spying on the Philippines because it was rich in resources to include gold. And that the Japan very early on, like I said, in the 1920s had …”

Prince Takita Tsuyoshi recruited Benjamin Valmorres book_quoted ▶ 3:06

“So early on when he gets to the Philippines, he basically kind of adopts this 17 or 18 year old kid on the Philippines. So also just to put in relationship for you, Taquita.…”

Prince Takita Tsuyoshi member_of Prince Chichibu book_quoted ▶ 3:39

“Prince Takeda became the second in command to Prince Chichibu, who's the guy we've been talking about that's in charge of Golden Lily, in directing Golden Lily throughout. So he's like the deputy, the…”

Prince Takita Tsuyoshi member_of Operation Golden Lily book_quoted ▶ 4:10

“He is the guy that worked and directed all of the engineers that set up the 174 sites on the Philippines that are going to be part of Golden Lily. So the author makes note of the fact that he went bac…”

Hirohito ordered_assassination_of Prince Takita Tsuyoshi book_quoted ▶ 8:05

“the princess to seal each site with all of the slave laborers and POWs inside to guarantee that its locations would remain secret till the treasure was recovered by the Imperial family, because it was…”

Japan trafficked France book_quoted ▶ 10:00

“Ben was not sure what was in the boxes, but they appeared to be very heavy. During that period of time, Japanese cargo submarines were taking Gold Boyan to the Nazi sub-base at Lorient, L-O-R-I-E-N-T,…”

Prince Mikasa operated_in Philippines book_quoted ▶ 11:35

“Ben insisted that Prince Mikasa was in Luzon for three years, which coincided with the period Mikasa was officially attached to Japanese headquarters in Nanking. Supposedly, they recorded that he was …”

Prince Takita Tsuyoshi operated_in Philippines book_quoted ▶ 12:06

“Prince Takeda, the guy that's on the Philippines, was assigned to Hanoi, but he was actually in the Philippines the entire time. And that's proven by the testimony of Ben later on, which we will get t…”

General Siganong Corota removed_from_power Tomoyuki Yamashita book_quoted ▶ 23:20

“Okay, so in the summer of 1944, it was evident that the Allied invasion of the Philippines was imminent and like to recapture it. So General Siganong Corota was relieved of his command in the Philippi…”

Tomoyuki Yamashita moved_to Philippines book_quoted ▶ 25:23

“the prime minister there called Tojo, who recalled him and salted him away in Manchuria for the bulk of the war. But by mid-1944, Tojo had been forced out of office and General Yamashita was moved fro…”

Hideki Tojo removed_from_power Tomoyuki Yamashita book_quoted ▶ 25:23

Tomoyuki Yamashita relationship_with Prince Chichibu book_quoted ▶ 25:51

“All hopes are on Yamashita at this point. And he becomes involved in Golden Lily only during the final 10 months of the war. So most of the hiding and the sealing of these 175 sites have already been …”

General Iwabaki carried_out_attack Philippines book_quoted ▶ 29:55

“They basically are given, the Japanese are given orders to fight to their death. And so during, there's another general there, Iwabaki. And the men under his command that were in Manila went house to …”

General Iwabaki moved_to Japan speculative ▶ 31:01

“However, his remains were never found. There are indications that he escaped from Luzon by submarine and lived to a ripe old age in Japan under a pseudonym. But there's no record of that. And so if he…”

Prince Takita Tsuyoshi recruited Benjamin Valmorres book_quoted ▶ 31:35

“Moving on, Prince, let's see, Prince Takeda went through a noticeable change to Ben. So now Ben's been hanging around him this whole time he's been on the island. And so Takeda makes Ben swear a blood…”

Prince Takita Tsuyoshi paid Benjamin Valmorres book_quoted ▶ 33:37

“boxes filled with gold bars and buries them for Ben for when he gets married. So after the war, Ben was to come here by himself to recover the boxes. When he opened the pit, he must pour kerosene over…”

Tomoyuki Yamashita operated_in Tunnel 8 book_quoted ▶ 35:39

“of Tunnel 9. He and his staff spent a lot of time below ground in the weeks before they withdrew. And in the meantime, another big cavern was prepared as a hard base for Yamashita and his staff to use…”

Tomoyuki Yamashita moved_to Philippines book_quoted ▶ 36:10

“So it provided the perfect fortress for a defensive purpose for General Yamashita. So May 1945, the American forces were advancing into the mountains so quickly that Yamashita also had to abandon that…”

Prince Takita Tsuyoshi moved_to Philippines book_quoted ▶ 36:40

“through a river embankment. And let's see. Eventually, obviously, they lose. But by the end of May, Kemsu had taken Ben on a secret trip up north. And basically, they went to where Prince Mikasa was a…”

Tomoyuki Yamashita carried_out_attack United States Armed Forces book_quoted ▶ 37:40

“took him along to be sure nothing bad happened to Ben in his absence. In the first four days of June, Yamashita anti-tank units near the Mini Monkey site fought a running battle with the U.S. Tank Bat…”

Prince Takita Tsuyoshi built Philippines book_quoted ▶ 38:42

“Kim Soo, who had built this place, spent an hour with the chief engineers, then took Ben for a final tour of the entire complex. They walked through the tunneling systems for more than an hour, admire…”

Prince Takita Tsuyoshi descended_from Emperor Meiji book_quoted ▶ 43:38

“not knowing the value of this royal tunic, ends up wearing it out in the farmland to farm in for years. And obviously he doesn't understand the value of the sword either because it was a hereditarily …”