Gold Warriors : America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1844675319
ISBN-13
9781844675319
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 17th, 2006
Print length
365 Pages
Weight
310 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.90 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
General & world historySecond World WarInternational relations
Ksh 2,350.00
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Traces more than half a century of secret collaboration between Washington and Tokyo, between the CIA and the underworld in Japan and other countries. This book reveals how former CIA and Pentagon officials, and rogue entrepreneurs, use secret funds to set up private intelligence and security operations to meddle in American foreign policy.
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, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. 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.
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