September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

gold remains; the vaults are empty," said Victor Geraschenko, chief of Gosbank, the Russian Central
Bank.” [Gangster’s Paradise, David Guyatt, 1997]
What Guyatt reports next about the disappearance of this Russian gold is critical – the
gold is reported to have been used as security for a financial scam. This report contends
that this Russian gold was merged with Bush’s Marcos gold to serve as collateral to fund
the oligarch’s take-over of Russian industry, once the Bush/Wanta destabilization
program achieved its goal of cutting off other sources of capital to the Soviet economy.
“In one operation valued at $4 billion, over 300 tons were secretly shipped to Switzerland, some of it
subsequently arriving in London. Unlike Britain, the Swiss authorities do not keep records of gold
imports which makes it a favourite centre for disguising the point of origin - a very effective method of
laundering suspicious transactions. The bullion, some sources now believe, was used as collateral in a
secondary scam that set-out to vacuum-up all the available Rouble bank-notes in existence at the time
and sell them at knock down prices to organised crime syndicates from around the world.” [Gangster’s
Paradise, David Guyatt, 1997]
In 1991 the Soviet Union was totally bankrupt. Yeltsin came to the US in August of 1991
(and again in 1992) for loans to prevent economic and social chaos in the former Soviet
countries. Gorbachev met with Bush on the same subject in Helsinki on September 9.
President Bush, with a failing U.S. economy and an upcoming election was not is
position to publicly offer U.S. taxpayer assistance to the Soviets. The Gramm-Rudmann
Act had forced congress into a public confession that it was unable to balance the budget.
Hence, no representative of the US was going to officially approve loans to the collapsing
Soviet economy because at that time, the U.S. budget had not been balanced. Officially
receiving no ‘announced’ promises of assistance, (it was not until April 1992, that Bush
and Kohl promised a meager $24 billion in loans) Yeltsin returned to Russia where he
graciously announced the US would be the primary partner in the privatization of former
Soviet firms, even though no funding had been publicly “provided” for this opportunity.
“The first detailed statement of Russian economic policy issued by the Yeltsin-Gaidar government was
addressed not to the Russian people but to the IMF in Washington. This was the “Economic Policy
Memorandum” of February 27, 1992. From that point on, Russia was bound by IMF conditions and by
the encroachments on national sovereignty that they implied. With this document, as Nelson and Kuzes
say, “the Russian government was acknowledging the West’s leading role as a participant in Russian
reform planning. The Western approach had prevailed in the Kremlin.” Because the IMF was
recommending fast-track privatizations, the Russian memorandum stressed that the privatization
process would be “considerably speeded up.” Gaidar’s priority was clearly to obtain foreign financial
support, not domestic political backing. But even this task was not successfully fulfilled, since what
Russia got in early 1992 was IMF conditions in exchange for (at least initially) no money.” [The
Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism Against Democracy, Peter Reddaway and Dmitri
Glinski, United States Institute of Peace Press, www.usip.org]
Something however, must have transpired in Washington. On September 11, 1991 Bush
addressed Congress and first spoke a new partnership between the U.S. and the former
members of the Soviet Union. Immediately after Yeltsin’s trip to Washington, on
September 14, 1991 - three days after the bonds were issued - the greatest moneylaundering
machine in Russian history came into existence: Nordex and the International
Foundation for Privatization and Private Investment.
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