Key Players

There were three major official participants identified in the paperwork authorizing the September 1991 release of ESF funding (read as Yamashita/Marcos/Black Eagle Fund) for Bush’s ‘Russian program’,(See Exhibit A) and several others who should have had supportive roles. In the primary roles, with (George H.W. Bush) were:

 Alan Greenspan- who authorized the $240 billion in funding and mailed authorization documents via carrier to John D’Aquisto (a former ball player for George W. Bush’s Texas Rangers, turned financier).

 Robert Rubin – who, with Stephen Friedman, was identified by D’Aqusito as the Goldman Sachs overseers of the bond deal, and to whom D’Aqusito appealed when Goldman Sachs apparently shorted him on his commission. Rubin would move on to become National Economic Policy Advisor, Treasury Secretary and Chairman of Citigroup – with the latter two roles being key to managing the Yamashita/Marcos/Black Eagle Fund. Rubin was the key architect of the deregulation of financial services in 1998 that paved the way for the 2008 crisis.100

 Stephen Friedman- who, with Mark Rubin, was identified by D’Aqusito as the Goldman Sachs overseers of the deal, and to whom he appealed when Goldman Sachs apparently shorted D’Aqusito; Friedman would leave his lucrative position as Chairman at Goldman Sachs in 1994 to become a public servant on the Board of Fannie Mae from 1996-2002, and under George W. Bush would become Chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and would take on “a major role in shaping the chief executive's future economic strategy and policy.”101 In January, 2008 he moved on to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with the latter role being key to managing the Yamashita/Marcos/Black Eagle Fund.

Those who -due to their positions - probably played a supportive role in the September 1991 bond deal would include102:

 Peter Fisher – who as Exchange Desk Manager at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, would have managed the flow of funds through the international banking system. Sworn in on August 9, 2001 as Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Domestic Finance by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, he was the senior advisor to the Treasury Secretary. Fisher would end his government service by working for the Blackrock Group, an investment company controlled by PNC, which acquired Riggs Bank after numerous money laundering scandals at Riggs made its name anathema to foreign government officials requiring discretion for their personal banking.103 Fisher, who has no reported covert operations experience, was a bit of an anomaly, in that he had no obvious connection to the intelligence world. Fisher was ‘fast tracked’ for his job out of college by the NY Federal Reserve Bank through training in Basel, and the question became: ‘how did he get slotted for the role?” His father – Roger D. Fisher -has a long and deep connection to intelligence and neo-conservatism going back to World War II.104 In the most fascinating of coincidences, Roger Fisher wrote ‘reports’ about the activities of Russell Nixon, who in the aftermath of World War II was director of the Division of Cartel and External Assets – the group chartered with hunting down Nazi gold and other assets.105 Nixon and his team were quietly dismantled by bureaucrats who wanted to secure the assets for use by the U.S. government, and later hounded during the McCarthy purge as ‘leftists.’ Russell Nixon was later acknowledged to be an associate by General Earle Cocke, (in what is viewed as his deathbed statement) the fund administrator under multiple Presidents until his death in 2000. Also, amazingly coincidental, Roger Fisher is a noted national security advisor who provided guidance to Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford during the Vietnam War. Clark Clifford, in turn, was the National Security Advisor that advised President Truman of Lansdale’s gold discovery in the Philippines.106 He was also the senior U.S. official in the First American Bank, at the core of the BCCI investigation in the United States.

 David Moffett, at Security Pacific Bank, was Senior Vice President responsible for the international treasury group. Security Pacific is identified as one of the banks in the September 1991 transactions, using both the San Diego and Washington branches.(See Exhibit B) Security Pacific under Moffett’ tenure was also one of five U.S. bank used by BCCI to manage CIA funds.107 Moffet would ultimately move on to be CEO of Freddie Mac and be responsible for funding a lobbyist program that scuttled Congressional efforts to tighten financial controls at Freddie Mac108 After his term with Freddie Mac, he would move to the Carlyle Group.

 Hollis McLoughlin, assistant secretary of the Treasury under President George Bush from 1989 to 1992, would report to David Moffet at Freddie Mac and be responsible for directing the lobbyist effort to scuttle accountability109

 James Gilleran, in 1991 was the chief of the California Department of Financial Institutions, responsible for examination and regulation of California state- licensed banks, state-licensed credit unions, state-licensed trust companies, state- licensed industrial loan companies, state-licensed offices of foreign banks, issuers of travelers checks and payment instruments (money orders) and money transmitters. DFG Inc, the 1991 firm responsible for moving the illegal funding appears to have been a state regulated trust. He would later be appointed Director, Office of Thrift Supervision and play a role in ensuring lax regulation during the subprime debacle.

 William H Webster, who in 1991 was Director of the CIA, returned to public service in 2002 as the SEC’s chief enforcement agent over public accountants 110 Webster would also serve on the Boards of New Bridge and Diligence, mercenary organizations supporting covert operations in the Middle East and Russia.111 While Webster did not have the time in office to exert any influence over policy before he was pressured into resigning for his own accounting scandal, it demonstrates the ongoing effort of the President to insert intelligence collaborators into the financial control of the economy.

 Timothy F. Geithner joined Treasury in 1988 in the International Affairs division, after spending three years with Kissinger Associates, where he earned his covert operations credentials. Kissinger was the individual who wrote the letter to Ferdinand Marcos demanding he relinquish his gold to the U.S.

112 While Geithner was at Kissinger Associates, that firm was involved in Brazilian Ambassador Sergio da Costa’s BCCI scandal, the Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro (BNL), scandal, and helping arm Saddam Hussein by getting bank credits for grain for Iraq, and then swapping those credits and grain for arms.113 (BNL would ultimately be taken over by HSBC in 2006.) After joining Treasury, Geithner became deputy assistant secretary for international monetary and financial policy under Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers. In October 2003, he became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where became Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. There, he would be accused of supporting a cover-up of “"Al Qaeda"money flows from the UAE, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia for possible terrorist-related purposes prior to 9/11.”114

 Gerald Corrigan, in 1991 was President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Vice-Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. In 1996 he became a partner and managing director in the Office of the Chairman at Goldman Sachs, and in 2008 became chairman of Goldman Sachs Bank USA, the bank holding company of Goldman Sachs. Corrigan has been a collaborator with his successor Timothy Geithner on numerous occasions.115 Corrigan developed a ‘personal’ relationship with Boris Yeltsin (Russian President) prior to the 1991 August coup which was a key step of the 1991 deal.

 John Reed was brought into Citibank for one purpose according to General Earl Cocke - running the “Hammer (Yamashita/Marcos/Black Eagle) Fund.” In 1991, he would have been responsible for coordinating release of the funds with Greenspan.116 Reed was indeed ‘fast tracked’ through First National City Bank

coming out of college. His college experience consisted of an undergraduate degree in literature, a graduate degree in metallurgy, and a Masters of Business degree from Sloan. He was hired into the international division and made the protégé of Walter B. Wriston, who became his predecessor as CEO. Within three years, Reed was heading the bank's entire foreign operations. His mentor - Wriston - was a foreign service officer at the beginning of the World War II, and then went into the Army and spent the year 1942 to 1946 in…..the Philippines!

He was stationed on Cebu, a major Yamashita treasure site.117 While in the Philippines, he met Ferdinand Marcos and George Moore (soon-to-be CEO of National City Bank).118 After the war, Wriston joined First National City Bank, where he was groomed to be CEO by George S. Moore (ex OSS). In June 2004 Wriston was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil honor, by President George W. Bush, presumably for his role in ending the Cold War by organizing the funding the 1991 operation. It is worth noting that Leo Wanta –who hales from Appleton, Wisconsin as did Walter Wriston – also used Citibank for his Russian ruble scam operation.119

Those who would subsequently take up roles in the key control points (although not participating in the original bond deal) would be:

 Lawrence Summers who left academia (Harvard) in 1991 and served as Chief Economist for the World Bank (1991–1993) and from 1993 to 2001 in various

posts in the United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton administration. There he became a protégé of Robert Rubin, serving as deputy secretary under Rubin from 1995 until 1999, and then succeeding Rubin as secretary (1999-2001). Unlike the previous four Secretaries of the U.S. Treasury (James Baker III, Nicholas Brady, Lloyd Bentson and Robert Rubin) but like the next three who followed him in that position, Summers apparently is not connected with any covert funding programs. This very significant departure could be interpreted as an indication that the illegal gold in the fund had been laundered by the end of 1998, and that control of the ESF could be returned to the academics and uninitiated. This observation, combined with the revolving door between Goldman Sachs and the Presidential advisory staff, and the forceful ousting of John Reed at Citibank in 2000 all suggest the fund was in the process of being stolen yet again – this time being stolen from the American government by its bankers!

 William J. McDonough, who served as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from July 1993 to July 2003. He would have needed to play a key role in the September 11th bond dump. While president, he also served as vice chairman and permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), on the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements, and chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. He joined the New York Fed in 1992 as executive vice president, head of the bank's markets group, and manager of the FOMC's open market operations. McDonough earned his covert operations credentials while spending

22 years at First Chicago Corporation and its bank, First National Bank of Chicago, and prior to that at the State Department. There, he was vice chairman of the board and a director of the bank holding company. McDonough left First National Bank of Chicago very shortly after the departure A. Robert Abboud, Vice Chairman, First National Bank of Chicago. Abboud was the Chairman of the US-Iraq Business Forum, and under the joint tenure of Abboud and McDonough, the First National Bank of Chicago was responsible for major financing to Saddam Hussein’s covert weapons program (the same program Kissinger

Associates managed while Timothy F. Geithner was with Kissinger).120 First National Bank of Chicago also bailed out George Bush’s Harken Energy when it’s loans were called in August 1990.121 The Chief Economist at First National Bank of Chicago – Alan Stoga -went to work for Kissinger Associates, and was a key player in the BNL scandal.122 Stoga and McDonough continue to work together. While McDonough was First Chicago, it also served as a BCCI conduit, being one of five U.S. banks used by BCCI.123 First Chicago also was a recipient of Marcos gold.124 Prior to his career with First Chicago, McDonough was with the U.S. State Department from 1961 to 1967 and the U.S. Navy from 1956 to 1961. What McDonough did from 1989 to January 1992 (while Bush and Greenspan were organizing their covert war) is completely off the record, as is any detail about his service in the Navy and State Department prior to that.

 Henry Paulson, Secretary of Treasury since May of 2006, had been at Goldman Sachs from 1974 to 1998 and followed in the footsteps of Rubin and Friedman, a Chairman/CEO of Goldman Sachs, but was co head of Investment Banking of

Goldman’s in September 1991. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Paulson served as Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon (1970 to 1972) and then worked John Ehrlichman from 1972 to 1973 on President Richard Nixon’s staff, where he earned his covert operations credentials, and got connected to the Kissinger crowd. He was a major player in 2004 in getting the reserve ratios of the investment banks reduced.125

Over the next fifteen years, these same individuals would graduate from being Bush’s and Clinton’s personal foreign policy enablers to being the most powerful financial advisors and regulators in the U.S., and the world.

There needs to be a clear understanding that there is a major undercurrent of illegal financing that runs though the American economy that is conducted by country’s top bankers. These bankers control deposits of over 100,000 tonnes of gold no one can admit exists because it makes them vulnerable to innumerable criminal and civil charges. They have committed these crimes at the behest of the country’s top officials, with the probable promise of immunity. While the statute of limitations on the gold theft is 40 years, the gold was continually stolen starting in 1945, and most recently in 1986 – making them vulnerable through 2026. Those involved in its theft, including bankers, are subject to charges of tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, theft, racketeering etc., and then the list of violent crimes gets appended: crimes like murder and treason- for which there is no statute of limitations. It creates an interesting dilemma: admitting to the crimes will get them killed by either the public, or by those fearing exposure. Exposure of even a single thread of illicit financing begins to expose the whole fabric! That is why buildings

6 & 7 of the World Trade Center were brought down.126 The two private sector

institutions most closely aligned with this control of the underground economy based on this illegal gold are Goldman Sachs and the Carlyle Group. These were the two major privateer bankers associated with what Anne Williamson described to Congress as the “Rape of Russia.”