Douglas - The CIA Covenant-Nazis in Washington - preterhuman.net

The total number of coins was 20,247 and the approximate value, as of the date of discovery, was$2,998,707. The spot price of gold has increased since that time but all in all, this represented an excellentreturn on an investment.Douglas’ accounting of driving around Europe with a trunk full of gold coins worth severalmillions of dollars, leaving his French-rergistered rental car parked in various public garages and on thestreets of European cities, is an essay in sang froid. The gold was eventually deposited in a French bankand has nearly doubled in value since he put it there.There are still nearly ten million dollars in Nazi concentration loot buried along the north shore ofthe Weissensee, there for the taking if the vigilance of two hotel owners ever slackens.Although it never arose at the time, the moral issue of the actual ownership of the loot is aninteresting one. Aside from those who dug it up, who could be considered the rightful owners? The heirs ofthe late General Globocnik? Various bureaus of the Austrian government? Landowners around theWeissensee? A number of Jews had died in the camps during their existence. Could their heirs or eventheir co-religionists lay a valid claim to the gold? Since there were a large number of Catholic religiousmedals in the treasure, might not the population of Poland enter a claim? Or the Vatican? And surely theRussians would wish to recover the Catherine the Great presentation, cased, pistols which had been lootedby the Wehrmacht during their Eastern Campaign. And who could lay claim to the cases of gold andplatinum wedding rings or, most interestingly, an ancient Jewish torah scroll housed in a beautifully chasedearly 18 th century silver case?In attempting to sort out the validity of any of these claims, it might be better advised to considerthe old couplet: Let him take who is able/Let him keep who can.Douglas’ partner in the first expedition was former Lt. Colonel James P. Atwood, a man with acolorful, if checkered, past. Atwood was heavily involved with various American, Russian and EastGerman intelligence agencies, gleefully selling the same information to everyone and pocketing the money.Atwood was also involved with the international arms business and reaped even more money from thisvenue.Since at least 1981, a worldwide network of independent [i.e., no direct U.S. government ties]companies, including airlines, aviation and military spare parts suppliers, and trading companies, has beenutilized by the CIA and the U.S. government to illegally ship arms and military spare parts to Iran and tothe Contras. These companies were set up with the approval and knowledge of senior CIA officials andother senior U.S. government officials and staffed primarily by ex-CIA, ex-FBI and ex-military officers.These CIA-controlled companies include Aero Systems, Inc., of Miami, Arrow Air, Aero SystemsPvt. Ltd of Singapore, Hierax of Hong Kong, Pan Aviation in Miami, Merex in Georgia, Sur International,St. Lucia Airways, Global International Airways, International Air Tours of Nigeria, Continental ShelfExplorations, Inc., Jupiter, Florida, Varicon, Inc., Dane Aviation Supply of Miami, Parvus, Safir,International Trading and Investment Guaranty Corp., Ltd., Air America, CAA, and Information SecurityInternational Inc.During the Iran Contra affair, General Secord's arms shipments, arraigned through the CIA,transferred weapons destined for Central America to Merex Corporation, (Merex International Arms) ofSavannah, Ga. The Merex address was occupied by Combat Military Ordinances Ltd., controlled byretired military officer James P. Atwood. Atwood, a retired Lieutenant Colonel of U.S. MilitaryIntelligence and later a CIA officer station in their Berlin office, was involved in major arms trades withCIA-sponsored international buyers, specifically Middle Eastern Arab states. Monzer Al-Kassar utilizedthe Merex firm for some of his weapons transactions with the CIA-controlled international weapons cartel.Merex systems was founded by Otto Skorzeny’s associate Gerhard Mertins in Bonn after the warand was considered a CIA proprietary firm. Merex was close to and worked with the BND, the Germanintelligence service evolved from the CIA-controlled Gehlen organization. Atwood was involved withInterarmco, run by Samuel Cummings, an Englishman who ran the largest arms firm in the world.Cummings died in Monaco and also had a country place at Villars in the Swiss Alps. where he resettled in1960 because he had looted his CIA employers and found European residence safer than Warrenton,Virginia.Interarms (formerly Interarmco and officially the International Armaments Corporation) wasthe world's largest private arms dealer, and once had enough weapons in their warehouses to equip fortyU.S. divisions. The sole owner was Sam Cummings, who got his start working with the CIA to procureweapons for the 1954 coup in GuatemalaA most interesting individual was James P. Atwood (April 16, 1930- July 20, 1997).