By John Tiffany
During World War II, Japan conquered a large swathe of the globe, including most of the Pacific islands and all of eastern Asia. Emperor Hirohito, portrayed as an innocent “marine biologist,” in reality directed the looting of the national treasures found throughout this large chunk of the world. These include the wealth of Britain, Netherlands and France, which had moved their gold to Asia “for safety’s sake,” and the national treasures of 13 Asian nations invaded by Japan.
Why they call it Yamashita’s gold is anyone’s guess. In reality, it was the treasure of Hirohito. Yamashita merely worked for Hirohito.
The royal family was put in charge of supervising the whole process, and as much booty as possible was taken to Japan. Many treasure ships were scuttled in Tokyo Bay, with an eye to salvaging the loot when the war was over.
Some of the treasure was first taken to the Philippines. But the Americans began sinking Japanese ships left and right, so the emperor and his family decided to hide much of the treasure in caves in the Philippines, expecting and hoping that the islands would remain in Japanese hands at the end of the war and the loot could then be recovered.
The routine was to select a good cave, fill it with treasure, and then blowup the entrance to the cave, with the workers sealed inside where they would soon die.
After the war, many secret deals were made by the United States government to let Japanese war criminals, especially the top criminal, the emperor, and the royal family, off the hook. In exchange, much of the stolen gold, silver, gems, antiquities etc was secretly taken by U.S. government insiders, particularly the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)/Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and various generals in the military. This is where the secret agency got its first big financing—under the table of course. This secret dealing was itself one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century.
Noted historians and respected investigative journalists Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, in their book Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, documented the multibillion dollar World War II loot, valued at perhaps over 120 billion 1945 dollars.
In December 1937, Japan declared war on China and surrounded the capital city, which at that time was Nanking. Prince Chichibu, younger brother of Hirohito, had been chosen to direct the ultra-secret treasure-looting team. This team was given a code name of “the Golden Lily” after a poem the emperor had written, and 6,600 tons of gold were recovered from Nanking alone, plus silver and precious stones. That was just the beginning of the emperor’s loot-the-world operation....
Yasuhito,
Prince Chichibu of Japan’s royal family, in Singapore, was very pleased
when his men found the treasures of Britain stored in Asian banks.
Another pleasant surprise experienced by Prince Chichibu was the
discovery that the Dutch had moved their treasures to the East Indies.
Not only did Japan have the wealth of the Asian continent, but they were
now rewarded with much of the European treasures as well.
Collection of wealth throughout the conquered lands continued. With over 5,000 years of Asia’s antiquity to pillage, the amounts collected were astronomical. With Shanghai in their hands, the Golden Lily team found themselves stretched to the limit keeping up with the collection and melting down of precious metals....
By
mid-1942 Prince Chichibu was faced with the challenge of where and how
to hide the treasures so that they could not be discovered after the
war. He decided the loot would have to be hidden in caves and tunnel
systems.
As
the Seagraves explain, a pivotal event in the recovery of the Golden
Lily caches was the torture of General Yamashita’s driver, who
eventually confessed the whereabouts of some of the repositories.
After the war, much of the hidden gold and treasure was gathered up by Severino Diaz Garcia Santa Romana, an OSS and CIA agent, known as Santy. Santy worked with U.S. General Edward Lansdale and other corrupt U.S. generals and politicians, to secrete the gold in foreign bank accounts. The stolen loot was utilized for a variety of purposes, in particular the financing of U.S. cloak-and-dagger operations.
The
booty was combined with more treasure stolen from the Nazis to create a
vast slush fund called the Black Eagle Trust, which ultimately became a
source of enormous corruption, luring many individuals into temptation
and, sometimes, death.
This
bloody gold gave the Truman administration access to virtually limitless
unvouchered funds for secret, and usually unconstitutional, operations.
It
also provided an asset base that was used by Washington to beef up the
treasuries of its allies, to bribe politicians and to manipulate
elections.
It is a vast story and in this space we can only point out some highlights. But the purpose of Gold Warriors,
by the Seagraves, is to reveal why so little is known of the massive
Japanese looting of the world, and the devious and unconstitutional role
Washington politicians and bureaucrats played in the taking over of
much of this booty and glossing over horrible Japanese atrocities,
especially by the emperor and royal family, and the cover-up of all of
this, which continues to this day. They have backed up their book with
extensive research, and it is a very important contribution to the field
of authentic, Revisionist history....
John Tiffany is assistant editor of THE BARNES REVIEW
magazine of revisionist history and nationalist thought and has been
interested in diverse ethnic groups and ancient history around the
world. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the
University of Michigan and is the copy editor for AMERICAN FREE PRESS.
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8 comments:
Assuming the account was true, but in the first place, why China and the Asian countries got invaded and looted by the Japanese at that time?
If they were weak, why?
Why did the British colonialists in Sinkieland got fooled by Yamashita and surrendered so fast to the Japanese in 1942?
Fast forward to 2014. Why is the Sinkie opposition not ready to be govt? Why?
The Sinkies here were from the same stock as the peasants in China but thinking very smug that they are better than them today.
They still cannot see the new Chinese is now the second most powerful country and much richer and stronger than this little red dot. Just like they cannot see the imminent fall of the ruling govt.
Ya lor, if a country is weak, it will be bullied and even be invaded and looted what.
If Sinkies cannot change their govt, PAP will continue to increase Sinkies CPF min sum and withhold and delay their CPF withdrawal what.
It's like that one lah, and for thousands of years already.
China shuld simply instruct HK to freeze recruitment of Pinoys and send back those whose conracts have expired. No renewal.
America is the No. 1 trouble maker for centuries. Everywhere they go, it's treachery, subterfuge, destruction, and seizure of esstential assets. And they are the biggest beneficiary in the sale of weapons, outdated or not when conflict arises.
One day they support you, the next day they become your bitter enemies and sell you out to the highest bidder. Trusting them is like being friendly with a rattlesnake.
Is PAP any different ?
Singaporeans also voted for them election after election what !
It is quite credible. There must be a reason why the germans were so condemned by ww2 but not the japanese. However, america can be anyone or any country. Everyone out there is greedy.
Relac lah. Asians as a group are the best educated and wealthiest people in North America.
"Living well is the best revenge" :-)
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