Gold Warriors Pa

by Seagrave,Peggy

• ISBN13: 9781844675319
• ISBN10: 1844675319
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

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 would be combined with treasure recovered inside Japan during the US occupation, and with Nazi loot recovered in Europe, to create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. Overseen by General MacArthur, President Truman and John Foster Dulles, 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. Drawing on a vast range of original documents and thousands of hours of interviews, Gold Warriors exposes one of the great state secrets of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Peggy Seagrave was the senior researcher and picture editor at Time-Life Books. Along with Sterling Seagrave, she is a co-author of the bestselling Lords of the Rim and The Yamato Dynasty.

Sterling Seagrave was a reporter for the Washington Post before becoming a freelance investigative journalist contributing to Time, Life, Atlantic Monthly, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He is the author of The Soong Dynasty as well as other books, and with Peggy Seagrave he co-authored the bestselling Lords of the Rim and The Yamato Dynasty.

Table of Contents

Cast of Main Characters	vii
Authors' Note	x
Prologue Buried Alive	1	(13)
Behind the Mask	14	(9)
Rogue Samurai	23	(9)
The Rape of China	32	(12)
Storming the Indies	44	(14)
Hiding the Plunder	58	(13)
The Eyewitness	71	(17)
Down the Rabbit Hole	88	(15)
Dirty Tricks	103	(17)
Heart of Darkness	120	(20)
The Umbrella	140	(15)
Pointing the Way	155	(13)
Sanctifying the Gold	168	(18)
The Paladins	186	(13)
Loose Cannons	199	(17)
Connect the Dots	216	(19)
Conflict of Interest	235	(9)
Grand Larceny	244	(21)
Epilogue Men in Black	265	(8)
Acknowledgements	273	(2)
Bibliography	275	(16)
Annotations	291	(70)
Index	361