Reference Footnotes
David Guyatt's "Project Hammer Reloaded" Footnotes.
[1] Available for free download at www.deepblacklies.co.uk
[2] See Project Hammer part one – “The Project Hammer File” freely available on my website www deepblacklies.co.uk.
[3] Information about Project Hammer has been garnered from numerous sources. Those sources that I am able to will be named in the text. The remainder will remain confidential.
[4] Page 51 of General Cocke’s affidavit. One of the CIA “sources” was the slush fund controlled by Japanese Liberal Democrat Party bosses and known as the “M-fund” after General MacArthur’s economic supremo in Tokyo, General Marquat.
[5] General Cocke’s 67-page affidavit is available for free download on my website www.deepblacklies.co.uk - just click on the Project hammer File link and follow the instructions.
[6] See Jonathan Kwitny’s excellent book “The Crimes of Patriots” – Touchstone Books, New York, 1987 – for a detailed background on the Nugan Hand Bank affair.
[7] See www.deepblacklies.co.uk/cocke-news.html for a copy of the CIA’s letter.
[8] See www.deepblacklies.co.uk/cocke-news.html for a copy of the cover-sheet of John Reed’s affidavit.
[9] See page 43 of Cocke’s deposition at lines 11, 12 & 13.
[10] From Cocke’s affidavit.
[11] See page 40 & 41 of Cocke’s deposition at lines 19 through 21 and 1 through 6.
[12] Ibid – page 41 at lines 9 and 10.
[13] If one includes the inflationary effect over this time period it would reveal that the sale price is, in fact, a great deal less now than it was almost fifty years ago, which is more than curious. Nor does the leasing agreement over this same period seem especially lucrative?
[14] For Crown’s involvement with the Chicago mob, see Linda Minor’s part 2 of the series of articles “Follow The Yellow Brick Road,” http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0204/S00030.htm
[15] 1954 is a year that constantly recurs in this story – see my Secret Gold Treaty for details.
[16] See Seagrave’s “Gold warriors.”
[17] Thanks again to Linda Minor for these connections. See also http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/17th_Issue/rambler3.html
[18] It is not clear from the banking records I have viewed online, but it looks as though the Astor Trust Company was absorbed into an entity that formed part of the Bankers Trust Company.
[19] See Dope Inc, EIR 1992.
[20] Forfaiting is the discounting of bank guaranteed receivables (Aval) on a non-recourse basis.
[21] I use the term “private agreement” under advice – following a recent telephone conversation with a representative of Companies House, who told me that no change of ownership notification had been made for MidAval at that time. MidAval had first been registered as a limited company under the shelf registration name of “Diplema Twenty Nine Limited” in June 1983. A change of name to Midland Bank Aval Limited was formally notified to Companies House in April 1996 – although the firm had been trading in the name of Midland Bank Aval Limited from day one. Following the full buy-out of Midland Bank Plc., by the HSBC Group, MidAval had its name changed to HSBC Forfaiting Limited. The company was dissolved in February 2000.
[22] Italics are mine
[23] Sworn and notarised affidavit of Dan Hughes dated 31st December 1990.
[24] There are believed to have been numerous different “portals” providing access into Project hammer over the period of its life. The Dan Hughes transaction was one of these – albeit a significant and “early” one according to the testimony of General Erle Cocke.
[25] Demitrieus’s Vitae is drawn from that published on the Global Crossing website.
[26] For details concerning the Freeport Board of Directors see internet report entitled “Freeport Sulpher’s Powerful Board of Directors.”
[27] See Phillip Zweig’s massive book “Wriston” – Crown Publishers, New York – 1995 for a comprehensive background on Citibank and Chase.
[28] For details of these three gentlemens involvement of the Black Eagle Trust see Seagrave’s self published book, Gold Warriors – details available on my website www.deepblacklies.co.uk linked under the heading of “The Seagrave Affair” on the main page.
[29] My thanks to Linda Minor for pointing out this interesting connection.
[30] For full details see: http://www.realhistoryarchives.com/collections/hidden/freeport-cuba.htm - thanks go to Linda Minor and Kenn Thomas for this link.
[31] See Danile Hopsicker’s excellent “Barry & the Boys – the CIA, the Mob and A,merica’s Secret History” – The Madcow Press, 2001.
[32] See: http://www.realhistoryarchives.com/collections/hidden/freeport-cuba.htm
[33] Ibid
[34] Ibid
[35] Ibid
[36] See www.deepblacklies.co.uk.
[37] See Cocke’s affidavit page 7 – The Project Hammer File exhibits.
[38] See Seagrave’s accompanying exhibits to his book Gold Warriors.
[39] Copy of email from Kenn Thomas dated 17th July 2002.
[40] See Prof. Peter Dale Scott’s, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK – University of California Press, 1993.
[41] See Jonathan Kwitny’s Crimes of Patriots for the Butterfield reference.
[42] I know much of the inner workings of MidAval for the simple reason that I was the Treasurer and an Associate Director of that firm until 1991. However, I knew nothing of the Project hammer deal that was strictly handled by the three principal executive directors.
[43] Detailed on page 164 of James’ book.
[44] I am indebted to Linda Minor for her most able research on the Col Crown connections and other aspects of this story.
[45] My thanks to Lois Battuello for permission to use her extensive personal research on Kermit Rooselvelt and Buttes et al.
[46] See www.marcosbillions.com for some additional background on Roberto Benedicto and his willingness to front for Marcos. Additionally I have a two-page Marcos document listing details of the numerous bank accounts he controlled either directly or through others.
[47] See DiFonzo, Luigi. St.Peter's Banker. New York: Franklin Watts, 1983
[48] See William Scott Malone’s "Golden Fleece", Regardies, October 1988.
[49] See part one “The Project Hammer File” for background on van Rooyen and Stander’s involvement in Project Hammer.
[50] See news reports circa 2000 of BoNY involvement in illegal money laundering activities of IMF funds on behalf of Russian criminal and political figures.
[51] See "Everybody's Business, An Almanac - The irreverent guide to Corporate America," edited by Milton Moskowitz, ichael Katz, and Robert Levering, 1980, Harper & Row, San Francisco."
[52] Although this may, of course, just be pure coincidence – it is worth noting.
[53] For a comprehensive account of the MGM/Credit Lyonnais affair see David McClintick’s and Anne Faircloth’s informative “Predator” which is freely available on the internet.
[54] See Peter Johnston’s story contained in my “The Secret Gold Treaty” e-book available for free download at www.deepblacklies.co.uk
[55] See www.marcosbillions.com for further details and also “The Valentine’s Day Caper” published by www.FinanceAsia.com.
[56] According to the Anglo-American website as at November 1998.
[57] See www.cryptome.org/za-disrupt.htm
[58] See The part one – “Project Hammer File” for further details
[59] See Dope Inc page 101.
[60] For a detailed background on the Keswick family and related associations see “Dope Inc” by EIR. See page 115 for the cited reference.
[61] See 2001 article in AsiaWeek Magazine by journalist Alejandro Reyes entitled “The Superman of Hong Kong.”
[62] See “Inside Story: the Bush gang and Barrick Gold Corporation by Anton Chaitkin at www.afrocentric.news.com
[63] See Sunday Express 25th March 2001, for details of this story.
[64] For du Cann’s connection to Lonrho, see Linda Minor’s “Follow the Yellow brick Road part 4 – From Harvard to Enron“ at http://www.newsmakingnews.com/lm4,30,02,harvardtoenronpt4.htm
[65] Their offices are, in fact, right next door to Buckingham Palace.
[66] See “The Privatisation of Violence - New mercenaries and the state” by Christopher Wrigley, March 1999 – published by http://www.caat.org.uk/information/issues/mercenaries-1999.php
[67] For further details see “Rent-a-Spy Inc” at http://www.tijuanaimc.org/news/2002/11/79.php
[68] Minorco held a 14% stake in Salomon Brothers. Anglo American held a 39% stake in Minorco while De Beers held another 21%.
[69] For background on Minorco see “Anglo-American Corporation- A Pillar of Apartheid” published September 1988 by http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/09/mm0988_08.html
[70] See “Rent-A-Spy” for referenced details.
[71] See http://forums.investorbbs.com/myforums.pl?u=&B;=113
[72] See the van Rooyen deposition to German police that forms part of the exhibits of The projec[73] Board directors of Banque Al Saoudi included Shiek Salem bin Laden.
[74] For a more detailed background on YAB/42 see The Secret Gold Treaty appendix headed “Aquino WWII gold.”
[75] See my The Secret Gold Treaty for details of the purposeful typographical mistakes on these certificates – See also Seagrave’s Gold Warriors in which observes the same “deniability” phenomena.
[76] The “Identic Code” for this certificate is “Panama Fusse King.”
[77] My thanks go to Lois Battuello for providing research material on this aspect of the story and for her generous assistance over the years.
[78] Hopsicker’s “Barry & the Boys” – page 112.
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