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on my website, www.deepblacklies.co.uk. Associate Director and Treasurer of the forfait- ing (an arcane banking term meaning "to dis- Thave also made available, at a small cost, count without recourse") division of a major a full copy of General Erle Cocke's 67-page __ international bank. deposition, together with a copy of the David now pursues a career in journalism, deposition given to German police by Rolf writing for a variety of media and researching van Rooyen, plus a few other relevant doc- and producing factual material on a wide uments which I have named the "The "@"ge of associated subjects. This is his ninth Project Hammer File” ane ae ees aioe most recent ones pub- a" ee . ished in an . Meanwhile, my investigation into Project | addition to his feature writing, David has Hammer and similar projects involving prepared background papers on Anti- covert finance operations continues apace. Personnel Electromagnetic Weapons for the co International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was a contributing member of ICRC's Endnotes SIrUS Project that sought to define criteria for 4. Among the many activities that Stander and judging "abhorrent weapons", and has written van Rooyen were engaged in—including gold for the World Development Movement on his dealing, setting up banks in Switzerland and Latin "insider's knowledge" of international America, trading prime bank debentures plus weapons financing. He has been a consultant numerous other "business" opportunities—they on Swiss and UK TV documentaries exposing were also putting together a deal to sell aconsign- _ the threat of non-lethal weapons and Britain's ment of Glock pistols. weapons trail to Indonesia. He is presently 5. Janine Roberts's incredible and compelling assisting the US-based law firm Easton & Levy book, Glitter and Greed: The Diamond in its lawsuit against the Vatican for the restitu- Investigation, is available for purchase on the tion of the Nazi Croatian Treasury which was Internet via the website www.macha.f9.co.uk/ illicitly transferred to the Vatican and else- dia-suppress.html. where at the end of World War Il. David has recently completed an in-depth About the Author: investigation into the black market of gold and David Guyatt has survived a 28-year career in has published it as an electronic book, The investment banking (member, AIBD), based in Secret Gold Treaty, available through his the City of London. His last position was home page, www.deepblacklies.co.uk. in order to win the Cold War and also to artificially prop up a political system that we call Capitalism, which would otherwise collapse under its own inherent flaws? It took the CIA over six months to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking information on Project Hammer and the Jacobe program. The request was denied under exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3) of the FOI Act. Section (b)(1) of the Act applies to material that is "properly classified pursuant to an Executive Order in the interest of national defense or foreign policy", and exemption (b)(3) applies to the CIA Director's statuto- ry obligation to "protect from disclosure intelligence sources and methods, as well as organization, functions, names, official titles, salaries or numbers of personnel employed by the Agency". Appeals are in progress. For those readers who would like to view some documents relating to Project Hammer, Jacobe and the officially "nonex- istent" gold deposits of Severino Garcia Santa Romana, I have scanned in a half- dozen or so pages that are freely available Endnotes 4. Among the many activities that Stander and van Rooyen were engaged in—including gold dealing, setting up banks in Switzerland and Latin America, trading prime bank debentures plus numerous other "business" opportunities—they were also putting together a deal to sell a consign- ment of Glock pistols. 5. Janine Roberts's incredible and compelling book, Glitter and Greed: The Diamond Investigation, is available for purchase on the Internet via the website www.macha.f9.co.uk/ dia-suppress.html. About the Author: David Guyatt has survived a 28-year career in investment banking (member, AIBD), based in the City of London. His last position was NEXUS = 83 Project Hammer Continued from page 82 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2002 www.nexusmagazine.com