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.
Este libro desvela una página oculta de la historia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y uno de los secretos más celosamente guardados de la guerra fría. El ejército japonés llevó a cabo un gigantesco saqueo de las riquezas de los países ocupados, que fueron atesoradas en lugares secretos. Unas riquezas que desaparecieron al término de la contienda, cuando los norteamericanos incluyeron en el tratado de paz un artículo que liberaba a los japoneses de pagar indemnizaciones por sus saqueos y destrucciones o por el trabajo esclavo de los prisioneros de guerra, alegando que no estaban en condiciones de hacerlo. A cambio los ocupantes participaron en los beneficios del botín de guerra, reuniendo sumas considerables que nunca fueron declaradas públicamente y que sirvieron para costear las operaciones encubiertas de la guerra fría, desde financiar elecciones a contratar asesinos. La trama de corrupción y de crimen revelada en este libro es tan escandalosa que parecería novelesca, si los autores no nos ofrecieran una amplia documentación para verificarla.
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.
In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the New York Times bestseller The Soong Dynasty, and his wife and longtime collaborator, Peggy, present the controversial, never-before-told history of the world’s longest-reigning dynasty–the Japanese imperial family–from its nineteenth-century origins through today. In the first collective biography of both the men and women of the Yamato Dynasty, the Seagraves take a controversial, comprehensive look at a family history that crosses two world wars, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American occupation of Japan, and Japan’s subsequent phoenix-like rise from the ashes of the Second World War. The Yamato Dynasty tells the story of the powerful men who have stood behind the screen–the shoguns and financiers controlling the throne from the shadows–taking readers behind the walls of privilege and tradition and revealing, in uncompromising detail, the true nature of a dynasty shrouded in myth and legend
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