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Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold (Englisch) Taschenbuch – 17. Januar 2006

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  • Taschenbuch: 365 Seiten
  • Verlag: Verso; Auflage: New Rev (17. Januar 2006)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 1844675319
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844675319
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 12,8 x 3 x 19,8 cm
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  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 102.583 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)

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“The reader will walk away from this book astounded and outraged at the immensity of the fraudulent activities that the world’s governments, banks, and spies are engaged in. Gold Warriors is chilling in its accumulation.”—Counterpunch

“Easily the best guide available to the scandal of Yamashita’s gold.”—London Review of Books

“One is swept up in the high intensity story the Seagraves tell.”—Publishers Weekly

“The Seagraves have uncovered one of the biggest secrets of the twentieth century.”—Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking


In 1945, US Intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These would be combined with treasure recovered inside Japan during the US occupation, and with Nazi loot recovered in Europe, to create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. Overseen by General MacArthur, President Truman, and John Foster Dulles, this "Black Gold" gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years. Drawing on a vast range of original documents and thousands of hours of interviews, Gold Warriors exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century.


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Von savon am 1. Mai 2012
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Berichte von Bergen von Edelsteinen, -metallen und Pretiosen, die das imperiale Japan auf den Philippinen und andernorts ingenieurtechnisch versteckte. Mit den Mrd$, die wiederum die Sieger raubten ohne daran zu denken sie zurückzugeben, wurden dann jahrzehntelang US-hörige parlamentarische Mehrheiten in Japan gekauft. Auch einen Friedensvertrag gabs- ein WWII-Novum. Interessant auch, wer sich alles persönlich bereicherte: Ferdinand Marcos, dessen Militärs, Douglas MacArthur, seine G-2-Entourage, OSS-Schlapphüte ... das meiste davon, wegen der nationalen Sicherheit versteht sich, bis heute 'top secret'. Spannend zu lesen und beeindruckend dokumentiert. Leider kommt manchmal der reisserische Stil des Journalisten durch.
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Earth-Shattering, Faith-Shaking, Well-Documented Deceit 25. September 2003
Von Robert David STEELE Vivas - Veröffentlicht auf
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This book is earth-shattering and faith-shaking, a well-documented tale of deceit at the highest levels of the US government. So controversial and potentially explosive are the findings of this book, to wit, that the White House recovered most of the Nazi and Japanese loot and created a secret slush fund for covert political operations world-wide, that the authors go the extra mile and offer, at a nominal price, two CD-ROMS containing 60,000 pages of supporting documentation including the Japanese treasure maps used by the US to recover the gold and other valuables.
Major players include Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon, both Allen and John Foster Dulles, Douglas MacArthur, John McCloy, and the famous unconventional warrior Edward Lansdale. What we learn from this book is that those writing about "blowback" (the consequences of unwise US actions) have barely scratched the surface. What we learn is that rather than truly seeking to help the Japanese, Chinese, and other looted nations recover in the aftermath of WWII, the most senior leaders of the US government, no doubt with the best of intentions, actually conspired with Nazi bankers and the Japanese imperial family to create a Black Eagle Trust controlled by a very select hand-picked cabal in Washington.
Originally used to fight communism, the Black Eagle Trust, according to the authors and as thoroughly documented by the book and the two CD-ROMS (which I am happy to have in hand), quickly became a global slush fund used to bribe national leaders and manipulate elections around the world. This fund remains in existence today, making the Swiss Holocaust funds seem like loose-change. According to the authors, major banks are "addicted" to the funds and would face collapse if public investigations resulted in a forced return of this gold and related certificates to the rightful owners.
The authors have produced a magnificent work of both scholarship and investigative journalism. They document the extent of Japanese looting of Korea (beginning in 1895) and China as well as the other countries in the "co-prosperity sphere." They document the manner in which Japan hid most of the gold in the Philippines (some in Indonesia), and were forced to leave it there from 1943 onwards, when US submarine interdiction became too effective to risk shipments homeward.
I found the level of detail in this book to be quite gripping. The ingenious nature of the Japanese burial sites, with caverns below the more obvious tunnels, with sea-water protection, with maps created in reverse--and the in-bred cruelty of the Japanese, thinking nothing of burying all of the US and other national slave labor *and the Japanese engineers* alive as the final stage of protecting the looted treasure, leave one stunned.
The authors document the central role played by Lansdale in recognizing the opportunity and then briefing MacArthur and then President Truman. According to the authors, the architects of the Black Eagle Trust were three advisors to President's Roosevelt's Secretary of War, Henry Stimson: John McCloy (later head of the World Bank), Robert Lovett (later Secretary of Defense), and Robert Anderson (later Secretary of the Treasury). They made the case to Roosevelt, and presumably to Truman after Roosevelt died, that it would be impractical to return the looted gold to the rightful owners, in part because many of the looted countries were now under Soviet control.
The authors, who conducted many interviews in support of the work, including interviews of former CIA deputy director Ray Cline, who they say was involved with Lansdale and the gold in the 1940's and remained involved with the black gold through the 1980's, provide copies of documents showing the redirection of the looted gold to 176 bank accounts in 42 countries. The gold was then used to support the creation of gold bearer certificates that were in turned used to bribe the most senior officials around the world.
The authors tell a shocking tale of how quickly MacArthur chose to collaborate with the very leadership of Japan that declared war on the USA and was responsible for genocide and looting in Asia on a scale rarely achieved by anyone else. Bringing the story up to date, the authors show how prior attempts to investigate the Black Eagle Trust have led to the ruin of individuals such as Norbert Schlei, at one time deputy attorney general to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. While I have no direct knowledge and cannot be certain myself, I believe the authors have provided a sufficiently compelling case to warrant an international investigation concurrently with a General Accounting Office investigation to be chartered by Congress with unlimited supeona powers specifically directed against classified personalities and archives.
If this story is true, and I personally think that it is, then the US government, in active collusion with the very people the American people fought to defeat in WWII, has been guilty of fraud and depravity on a global scale and against the best interests of both the American people, and the against the rightful owners of the looted gold and other treasures. The authors may well have uncovered the last really big secret of the post-WW II era, and in so doing, opened the way for a restoration of the balance of power among diverse nations, and a sharp delimitation of the abuses that appear to characterize American leadership when it thinks it can rely on secret gold and stolen oil to engage in imperial adventures and domestic improprieties. As an American citizen and voter, and as a person of faith who believes that we must do unto others as we would have them do unto us, I find this book to be shocking, credible, and a basis for popular outrage and demands for truth and reconciliation.
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Von Shashank Tripathi - Veröffentlicht auf
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I don't know what angers me more: the absolutely startling facts unraveled in this book, or the sad reality that such jaw-dropping research is at a sub-15000 ranking in terms of sales on Amazon and has garnered only 3 reviews.
I happened to buy this book perchance while casually browsing the non-fic section at an airport. Now I recall my hair standing on its end as I read it on my flight. The only other book I recall seething with anger with while reading was "The Rape of Nanking".
"Gold Warriors" is more than a nail in the coffin of Japan's "serious, sober and deliberate" plundering of Asia's treasure from 1895 until 1945, and its collusion after the war with American officials to recover and use the loot as a secret political action slush fund to denounce communism. It is in fact a journey into the darkest recesses of history and the human soul.
The authors are not afraid to name names, and the excruciatingly detailed research is a marvel. The sheer scale and limits of the underlying deceit are mind blowing.
Some very minor observations. The authors may know their Philippines well, but their statements on Japan could be corrected. The book has some minor errors (that I could figure out) --
(1) The Japanese ship they repeatedly call the "Huzi" should actually be "Fuji"
(2) The important Japanese Sea port is "Maizuru" not "Maisaru"
(3) "Tairiki" is not a Japanese word: they probably meant "Tairiku Ronin", i.e., a Continental adventurer (in reference to Chinese carpetbaggers)
(4) Their mysterious "Lord Ichivara" should most likely be "Ishihara" (Ichivara is somewhat implausible)
Anyway, these are minor cavils. I highly recommend this book for any one interested in the shenanigans of power, it will leave you aghast. If this piques your interest, click over to the website and download two CD full of documents etc.
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Gold Warriors: Why the POWs in Asia were Betrayed! 15. Oktober 2003
Von Federico Baldassarre - Veröffentlicht auf
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In 1947, Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordered the immediate termination of all investigations of Japanese war crimes and the immediate suspension of the arrest of any suspected war criminals.
In June 2000, Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) said, "You mean our federal government can just say, 'To hell with you, Bataan Death Marchers, and you people who were mistreated (by the Japanese), we are just going to waive all your rights.'"
As disturbing and painful as it may be to read, this is a book all victims of the Japanese, and their next of kins, must read. It's documentation and research is beyond reproach. For many of us, this book will be our 'fall from innocence', if that is still possible.
Fred Baldassarre
Son of a Bataan Survivor
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Critical to understanding post Cold War politics 29. Oktober 2004
Von R. C. O'Brien - Veröffentlicht auf
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Absolutely astonishing book - and while one fellow above bashed the supporting references, I note that he didn't delve into the 2 CDs of supporting material (such as scans of maps made by the Japanese military showing where the gold was hidden in the Phillipines & all the boobytraps).

A lot of this makes sense, intuitively. For example, where in the heck did Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos get all of that wealth? I've read that they "looted the Phillipine people" - hello? Where did the Phillipine people get billions of dollars (American) to loot in the first place?

Secondly, if you read more about how the world's economy was changed fundamentally after World War II, this book provides some missing pieces. It's a brilliant strategy, really - the USA essentially cornering the market on gold, forcing the rest of the world to adopt gold (and pegging it to the dollar) as the new standard, and thus, you are left with (for all practical purposes) endless funds for covert wars against Communist/ leftist regimes.

Why people are shocked by this is puzzling. In the 1950's and 1960's it wasn't considered any sort of problem to be meddling in the world's politics; and the history of US involvement repressing elections in Latin America is well documented. And we won't even get into some of the covert actions (like Iran-Contra) that we KNOW about, so an educated student of history has to assume there are far more details than we have even been told.

Back to the book, the story about how Nixon eventually surrenders control of the secret gold to the Japanese power structure in exchange for covert funds for his presidential campaign sure sounds like the Nixon we are all familiar with.

This is an extraordinary book, one can only wonder how many more details will surface in upcoming years...
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Why only 1/2 the Story? 14. Oktober 2011
Von TonyG - Veröffentlicht auf
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For all the problems with sources, names, and places, the thesis is supported enough to be believable. My own reference is 5 years in Manila with the US Embassy from 1986 to 1991. So many holes were dug all over the Philippines during this time that the energy could have rebuilt the entire infrastructure of Luzon. Some were pathetic efforts at spending someones else's money for a fantasy. Some were closely held and no one ever heard much about the results, which adds to the continuing mystery of the story.

I have never heard directly about some of the things written by Sterling, but enough of the other things to accept that it will be a long time, likely long after my time, that the massive amount of classified records that exist are able to be released about this story.

My interest in the general topic started while accompanying a group of VIP's on a visit to Corregidor. The museum there was built by the US and contained a photo of crewmen loading gold bars onto the USS Trout, as discussed in the book. The gold and other valuables were from banks and the Philippine Treasury that were transferred to Corregidor with MacArthur. My own research on this part of the story is that the Trout transferred the gold to the cruiser USS Detroit in Honolulu. The Detroit took it to San Francisco where it was taken by train to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. Tongue-in-cheek, I am certain there was complete and accurate accounting and records for each transfer. At this point the ownership of the gold and valuables is a little unclear. Some sources indicate that approximately $30 million was transferred to MacArthur in the late 50's as payment for services as Commander of Philippine forces and as USAFE Commander. Despite diligent searches of available records I have not been able to discern where or when any of the remainder was returned to the Philippines.

The other sources not discussed by Sterling is the very active Navy communications intelligence program. The Navy produced valuable information about ship movements and locations that included names, cargos, port calls, etc. There were active sites in Cavite, Corregidor, China, Guam, and Honolulu. Of course, these resources went to Australia with MacArthur. I am convinced that when these records are able to be released they will confirm, or deny, many of the statements in the book.

The research for the book is astounding. My comment is that there is probably ten times as much information not released, than Sterling was able to locate for his book.
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