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Beginning in 1945, OSS operatives chased off a Japanese Krupp's involvement in black gold dates back a long way, as "Golden Lily" team and began helping themselves to a triple did his financial accommodations with Adolf Hitler and his seven site. The black market gravy train was thus set in motion. deputy Martin Bormann, who may have survived World War II. By 1984, CIA covert operative General John Singlaub formed a The last Baron Krupp died in the mid-1980s, and, as he fathered venture called Nippon Star. Singlaub was working with former no children, the direct family line of German gunmakers who Reagan NSC staff member Major General Robert Schweitzer— once made mighty cannon for the Wehrmacht came to an abrupt the boss of Colonel Oliver North. This "front" company was end. This is no displeasure to me, nor to a great many others, I expressly founded for the purpose of recovering WWII gold suspect. What happened to his spectacular fortune, however, buried in The Philippines. Others who were later to become remains unknown, so far as I can determine. involved with Nippon Star included former Chairman of the Joint I am fortunate to have an archive of private documents, Chiefs of Staff, General John Vessey, and Ray Cline, the former —_ acquired from a reliable and entirely different source from those CIA Deputy Director of Operations. After some thought, obtained by Bob Curtis. These include confidential documents Singlaub decided that the latter two were too high-profile to be signed by the late Baron, a financial statement prepared by his included as directors of the company. Swiss attorney—whom he referred to as "Mein Leiber Bruder" Essential to Singlaub's plans was Bob Curtis. A former confi- ("My Dear Brother", possibly indicating he remained close to the dant of Ferdinand Marcos, Curtis possessed copies of the 172 Bormann "Brotherhood" of escaped Nazis)—along with a listing treasure maps made by Japanese cartographers. These showed of some of his many bank accounts plus a multibillion-dollar bank locations, stated the values of the booty, draft drawn on a famous German bank. and made clear what booby traps pro- These and many other compelling tected which sites. . documents, including Swiss bank bullion In 1986, according to Curtis, the A former confidant of accounts for infamous former CIA black Trilateral Commission chased Marcos A A operative General Edward Lansdale, are from office. Curtis has a copy of a Ferdinand Marcos, Curtis amongst those reproduced in my book, Trilateral Commission letter to back up possessed copies of the 172 The Secret Gold Treaty (now available his allegation. The Trilateral group for purchase via www.solari.com/ wanted a large hoard of plundered gold treasure maps made by goldtreaty/). Based on four-and-a-half which one of Marcos's army battalions Japanese cartographers. years of gruelling research, the book had spent years recovering in secret. goes into considerable detail about But Marcos disagreed. Three days later, Marcos's gold, the Japanese "Golden Curtis says, he was overthrown. Marcos Lily" plunder operation, and Nazi plans fled The Philippines and headed for to create a Fourth Reich—financed by Hawaii, where US government agents ransacked his aircraft and _ plundered gold—under the leadership of Hitler's deputy, Martin impounded all his confidential papers. Marcos was a wily person Bormann. It also takes the reader deep into the shadows of the and had taken the opportunity to place copies of his important black gold market, showing who controls it and the chilling plans documents with his mistress. Following Marcos's death, she that are in store for us all. handed them over to Curtis, who now boasts an archive of 60,000 It is for the reasons outlined above that GATA, the Gold Anti- documents. Trust Action group, should be supported. They are the only peo- Consequently, Curtis can speak with considerable authority of | ple who are shining a light into the shadows that ordinarily gold-for-cocaine swaps between Marcos and Panama's Majiuel obscure the daily crimes of international bankers and financiers. Noriega. Curtis also speaks of gold-for-oil swaps and has dis- They do so with some notable success, too, although it has to be cussed with me a series of gold deals for a trillion dollars, each of | admitted that the meisters of gold and market manipulation still which involved Baron Krupp of Germany. remain resistant to all known strains of honesty and integrity. 00 Ferdinand Marcos, Curtis possessed copies of the 172 Pt treasure maps made by Japanese cartographers. About the Author: knowledge" of international weapons 2. Von Baronov, Eric, "Will the United States Following a 28-year career in investment financing. He has been a consultant on Manage to Bring on the Apocalypse?", banking (member, AIBD) based in the City Swiss and UK TV documentaries exposing Washington Insider, 26 August 2000. of London, David Guyatt's last position the threat of non-lethal weapons and 3. Tigges, Claus, "US Hedge Fund was Associate Director and Treasurer of the Britain's weapons trail to Indonesia. He is Supposedly Knew About Intervention, forfaiting (an arcane banking term meaning _ presently assisting the US-based law firm — Frankfurter Allegemaine, 27 September 2000. "to discount without recourse") division of Easton & Levy in its lawsuit against the 4 "Top 400", Mother Jones, April 1996. G) (unkeffelr international bank. David, 52, is Vatican for the restitution of the Nazi 5, My sincere thanks go to the "Goddess of married with three children and now pur- Croatian Treasury which was illicitly trans- sues a career in journalism, writing for a ferred to the Vatican and elsewhere at the variety of media and researching and pro- end of World War Il. ducing factual material on a wide range of David has recently completed an in- associated subjects. depth investigation into the black market of In addition to his feature writing, David gold and has published it as an electronic has prepared background papers on Anti- book, The Secret Gold Treaty, now avail- 7. Bernard Gough's e-book, The World's Personnel Electromagnetic Weapons for able at www.solari.com/goldtreaty/ or Biggest Fraud, is available at the International Committee of the Red through David's home page, www.deep- _ http://home.freeuk.net/bagough/. Research" for her unstinting assistance in unravelling some of these connections. 6. Al Martin's book, The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider, is available at www.almartinraw.com. Cross (ICRC), was a contributing member _ blacklies.co.uk. 8. Quigley, Carroll, Tragedy and Hope: A of ICRC's SIrUS Project that sought to History of the World in Our Time, MacMillan, define criteria for judging "abhorrent Endnotes 1966; GSG & Associates Publishers, weapons", and has written for the World 1. Lewis, Michael, Liar's Poker, Coronet, California, p. 324, available at Development Movement on his "insider's UK, 1989. www.gsgbooks.com/html/ books_3.html. 26 - NEXUS i A former confidant of DECEMBER 2000 — JANUARY 2001