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It remains to be seen whether the sanctions-busting objective of radio in the event they were captured by the Nazis. This would the South African end of Project Hammer was a simple case of | immediately alert SOE that the agent was in custody and that certain elites making sure they got all the mineral wealth they German counterintelligence wished to use the agent to feed false needed from South Africa before turning the country over to the —_ information back to HQ. ANC and Nelson Mandela in 1994. What is known is that, In any event, the Banque de France certificate mentioned above beginning in 1995, the price of gold entered a new round of price _ was in the name of Erich Honecker, the then East German head of manipulation which continues to this day. state (see exhibits). Six months later, in a trumpet of media cov- Over the last two years, the Gold Anti-Trust Action (GATA) erage, Honecker was ousted from power. A month after that, the group has demonstrated that the manipulation of the gold price | Berlin Wall—the very symbol of Communism throughout the has been orchestrated by the US Federal Reserve working in col- world—was opened. The opening was abruptly followed by its lusion with leading Wall Street and international banks. Many of — complete demolition at the hands of a euphoric public. Germany, those banks quoted by GATA as being party to the price manipu- which had been divided for over 30 years, was at last reunified. lation conspiracy—for that is what it amounts to—are also major By many accounts, Project Hammer began trading in November players in trading programs. 1989 but was set up a lot earlier than that. Few of those involved In any event, the depressed price of gold has made many South _in the transaction on the periphery know for certain what assets African mines uneconomic to operate, and were used to collateralise it, although black one cannot help but ask if this was by gold has been mentioned in numerous tele- design. Southern hemisphere nations may phone conversations and correspondence. sit on much of the mineral wealth of the But all parties are certain that an element planet, but the northern hemisphere indus- How would G7 of the backing collateral was cash. trialised nations appear intent on continuing governments explain to What we do know is that Citibank had to control and exploit it. e 6 accounts in the name of José Diaz and a cynical public that Severino Santa Romana. These were bul- MORE "BLACK" GOLD decades of drug money lion accounts dating back to the years that Poet Hanne ane abe noeen | and illegal weapons sales |S Ronan, Gena art aml operations geared, in the narrow sense at proceeds had been gold stashed in the Philippines by the least, to generating funds for particular ° . Japanese plunder teams, the Golden Lily. authorised projects. Once the proper laundered with their At some point in history, some of Santa authorisation has been issued, programs blessing (albeit In secret) Romana's gold was converted to cash. such as these s to broaden in scope and . . This, al ith gold and other plunder, such as these seem to broaden in scope an in order to win the Cold is, along with gold and other plunder. greater effort goes towards creating Nae was deposited in well over a hundred War and also to artificially deniable slush funds for use in any bank accounts located in over 40 number of ways as the occasion ae countries throughout the world. prop up a political system that we call Capitalism, demands. When you think about it, These were the deniable assets that this makes considerable sense for made up a particular CIA slush fund, those who engage in the game of which would otherwise known to insiders in the black gold collapse under its own inherent flaws? black operations and political market as the Black Eagle Fund—a manipulation. name that was based on the symbol In addition to its authorisation to of the Nazi eagle. Some of these repatriate dollars dating back to the assets were placed under the control 1940s and 1950s, as explained by of the late Baron von Krupp, whose General Cocke, could Project personal attorney, Carl Hermann Hammer have had other purposes? Letemeyer, of the private Zurich- For example, could it have been used based law firm of Senn, Christians & to finance another project—one that Letemeyer, handled the Baron's had specific East German connotations and which might explain _ estate following his death. the Stasi connection more fully? Documents I published in The Secret Gold Treaty reveal that It is certainly interesting that on 6 February 1989, the French __ out of a fortune of just over US$12 trillion which the late Baron Central Bank, the Banque de France, issued an International controlled, slightly over $110 billion was earmarked for one Certificate of Deposit for 620,000 kilograms of 99.99% pure gold. Clemente Santiago, a relative of Candelaria Santiago who was the At that time, 620 metric tonnes of gold had a market value of "most trusted lady" of the late President Marcos of the about US$7 billion. A king's ransom. Philippines. The certificate is almost identical to dozens I have on file and Baron Krupp's incredible fortune was undoubtedly largely com- which I have written about and also reproduced in my book, The posed of Santa Romana's plunder, later acquired by deception by Secret Gold Treaty. As I explain there, certificates of this nature President Marcos, who had earlier been Santa Romana's lawyer in invariably contain spelling mistakes or other obvious typographi- the Philippines prior to his rise to political office. In reality, sto- cal flaws which can be used to deny the validity of the certificate ries about "Marcos gold" speak of Santa Romana's gold and the in the event it ever reaches public attention. OSS/CIA's gold—although Marcos did recover vast quantities for This was a technique developed by Britain's secretive Special himself via a Philippine Army battalion dedicated to locating and Operations Executive (SOE) in WWII. SOE agents, parachuted —_ recovering WWII plunder. into France and elsewhere in occupied Europe, were taught to . . : ‘ Continued on page 82 insert pre-arranged spelling errors into messages they sent by i collapse under its own inherent flaws? 24 ¢ NEXUS How would G7 WWW.NeXU smagazi ne.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2002