September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

considerable portions of Santa Romana's estate by illicit means. The lawyer was Ferdinand Marcos,
who went on to become President of the Philippines and a favourite friend of the United States until his
overthrow in 1986. The acquisition of these assets helped give rise to stories of "Marcos gold"--a
legend that was supplemented by additional later recoveries of WWII gold and other loot using a
Filipino Army battalion under the overall command of Marcos henchman General Fabian Ver."
[Project Hammer Reloaded ,Part 1 of 2, Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 10, Number 5
(August-September 2003), by David G. Guyatt]
"Additional evidence of Marco’s recovering the Golden Lily treasure comes from the Filipino
newspaper, The Inquirer. In 1998 the paper published an article entitled "Soldiers of Fortune." The
article revealed that all members of the 16th Infantry Battalion had signed a joint affidavit declaring
that, together with members of the 51st Engineering Brigade, they had recovered 60,000 metric tons of
gold from thirty sites between 1973 and 1985. Both units operated in strict secrecy under Marcos’
henchman Fabian Ver." [Nazi Gold, Part 10: The Emperor's Golden Lily, Glen Yeadon , Copyright
2001-2004]
There are other versions of this story. From an individual who provided a day of
testimony to the lawyers who went after the gold:
“I was frankly stunned to read, in Lear's own typed wording, that he was supposed to secure the planes
for the gold shipment for a company in Amsterdam called Kindrich International, and that 106 tons of
gold were to be flown from Guam to Taiwan, where it was to be smelted down, and then to Zurich,
Switzerland via Dubai or Abu Dhabi. According to his memo, there were several other people involved
in the operation: Juanita Hanson was the managing director of Kindrich International; Bob Kerkez was
instrumental in some way from West Germany; Hank Warton of Miami, Florida was in charge of the
operation; Vern Peoples in Las Vegas was in charge of coordinating with Lear, and Jack Taggert was
to receive a "10% cut" for setting it up. I couldn't help but wonder what Lear's slice was to be for his
participation in the deal.” [The Marcos Gold Mystery, Lars Hansson]
In the version provided by Paul Manning, many of the details of the “Golden Lily’ are
reconfirmed, and indicate yet another – this time, British – group moved gold to
Switzerland as well.
“In his transfer plan of 1944, Lord Privy Seal Kido was con-fronted with the problem of physically
moving the emperor's gold kilo bars from the Imperial Palace to some safe haven where their value
would be credited to the imperial account in Switzerland. In 1944, when Japanese fighter planes still
con-trolled the air space of northern Asia, this proved a soluble problem. The major Swiss banks, such
as Swiss Bank Corpora-tion, have five key areas throughout the world where gold and silver bars can
be deposited in Swiss controlled vaults, with a credit then telegraphed to the relevant bank in
Switzerland. These key localities are known in the Swiss banking business as "Loco," so once Kido
had dispatched a Japanese imperial courier plane with fighter escort to Hong Kong and Macao and
other sites with imperial kilo bars they quickly became a deposit credit in the Swiss receiver bank. By
the end of the war the deposits on hand were astronomical, and during the postwar rehabilitation of
Japan, the imperial fortune kept increasing from the interest charges for loans to various zaibatsu
companies who were struggling-as were German firms-for a comeback in world markets.
As a result of these tranfers, American SOAP* fiscal investigators found the imperial vaults pretty
nearly bare when they went poking through the recorded assets in the imperial palace following
Japanese surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2, 1945. They found jewelry, gold, silver,
coins totaling 3,010,066 yen, and as the yen at that time was worth about 360 to the U.S. dollar, it was
a token $2 million.” [Martin Bormann – Nazi in Exile, Paul Manning]
“…by 1944 Japan had taken 25 tons of gold from the vaults and mines of various Asiatic countries it
had overrun. Like so many other moveable assets, the 25 tons of gold bullion disappeared in 1944, and
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