the Legend of Yamashi.tas Gold in the Phillipines circa 1945

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the Legend of Yamashi.ta's Gold in the Phillipines circa 1945

The facts of this story are documented from the days of World War Two, to the Philippine Courts of Justice,to Banks from Switzerland to Hong Kong to the good Old USA.The room for nay-saying this one is gone. It is a fact, the only thing that stands in your way of knowing that is your attitude and some time on google.We are passed the nay-saying. The only response nay sayer will get here,is some exercise for your fingers on your keyboard..First we want to have a post here, where people who are interested in treasure can read, post and ask questions. Please add to the knowledge that we are about to discover about this story, if you do any research please post your sources..urls or annotations, books ect. We will try to do the same.
Welcome all Citizens of the Philippines, Mabuhi Manong- Kumsusta, you are most welcome here..as this story takes place in your homeland..BUT please, this is not a board to look for financing or investors..We know your heart might be pure and your story true,,but we have seen all to many , try to take advantage so I ask you to join us as Treasure Hunters, looking only for the truth, the story, the facts, the goods.
I am currently helping two other Pinoy's with their symbols and codes..since they are based on the Jesuit/spanish codes you may ask and questions and post pictures here..just no obvious landmarks, was we don't want to comprise the security of your site..There are a few very savvy and experienced people here who may want to see your pics and help you decode what they can..You are welcome to do so.
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Yamashi.ta and his gang used Jesuit/Spanish Treasure Codes this I know for sure, I have seen it first hand.The research that I did, showed that in 1932 in Vienna the Japanese High Command send ambassadors to meet with Hitlers minions, one of the things discussed was solutions to the Treasure Codes that the Nazi's had obtained in their looting of Europe. This copy of the what I call the Jesuit Code Book,was used by the Japanese to recover treasures left by the Jesuits and Spanish on the Islands of the Philippines AND rebury that and other loot stolen from Asia during the Japanese reign of terror in South East Asia prior to WW2.

WE also know that the Japanese Military send as many as 100,000 soldiers and civilians to the PR (Republic of the Philippines) 20 years before Pearl Harbor attack. The recovered Jesuit treasure using the codes that the Germans gave them..Digging caves and tunnels in anticipation of the treasure they would loot from the China campaign.

One likely treasure hunter 30 years later, a pinoy living in Northern Luzon, our hero, 'Rog' Roxas is about to "go down the rabbit hole"..Rog happened upon a person who know of some buried Japanese treasure of the yamashi.ta group..well rather than tell the story from memory let me paste the information directly from the court documents..least we raise the ugly head of the dragon who breathes fire when any tiny item is forgotten or left out by mistake. The dragon will stay away as long as we include everything as it happened!

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Rog worked as a locksmith in Baguio City, the Philippines. He was also an amateur coin collector and treasure hunter. In 1961, Roxas met a man named Fuchugami in Baguio City, who claimed that his father had been in the Japanese army and had drawn a map identifying the location of the legendary "Yama.shita Treasure." The treasure purportedly consisted of booty, which had been plundered from various Southeast Asian countries, during World War II, by Japanese troops under the command of General Tomoyuki Yamashi.ta and which was allegedly buried in the Philippines during the final battle for the islands in order to keep it out of the hands of the Americans.

At around the same time, Rog Roxas met Eusebio Ocubo, who claimed to have served as General Yamashi.ta's interpreter during World War II. Ocubo advised Roxas that, during the war, he had been taken to some tunnels controlled by General Yamashi.ta, in order to retrieve silver to pay for food for the Japanese troops. There, he observed boxes of various sizes that contained gold and silver. Shortly thereafter, he also observed a golden buddha statue, which was kept at a convent near the tunnels.

Armed with Fuchugami's description of his father's maps and Ocubo's representations, Roxas organized a group of partners and laborers to search for the treasure and obtained a permit for the purpose from Judge Pio Marcos, a relative of Ferdinand. Judge Marcos informed Roxas that, in accordance with Philippine law, a thirty-percent share of any discovered treasure would have to be paid to the government.

Sometime in 1970, Roxas's group began digging on state lands near the Baguio General Hospital. After approximately seven months of searching and digging "24 hours a day," the group broke into a system of underground tunnels.

Inside the tunnels, the group found wiring, radios, bayonets, rifles, and a human skeleton wearing a Japanese army uniform. After several weeks spent digging and exploring within the tunnels, Roxas's group discovered a ten-foot thick concrete enclosure in the floor of the tunnel. On January 24, 1971, the group broke through the enclosure. Inside, Roxas discovered a gold-colored buddha statue, which he estimated to be about three feet in height. The statue was extremely heavy; it required ten men to transport it to the surface using a chain block hoist, ropes, and rolling logs. Although he never weighed the statue, Roxas estimated its weight to be 1,000 kilograms, or one metric ton. Roxas directed his laborers to transport the statue to his home and place it in a closet.

Roxas also found a large pile of boxes underneath the concrete enclosure, approximately fifty feet from where the buddha statue had been discovered. He returned the next day and opened one small box, which contained twenty-four one-inch by two-and-one-half-inch bars of gold. Roxas estimated that the boxes were, on average, approximately the size of a case of beer and that they were stacked five or six feet high, over an area six feet wide and thirty feet long. Roxas did not open any of the other boxes.

Several weeks later, Roxas returned to blast the tunnel closed, planning to sell the buddha statue in order to obtain funds for an operation to remove the remaining treasure. Before blasting the tunnel closed, Roxas removed the twenty-four bars of gold, as well as some samurai swords, bayonets, and other artifacts. Roxas twice attempted to report his find to Judge Marcos, but was unsuccessful in contacting him.

During the following weeks, Roxas sold seven of the gold bars and sought a buyer for the golden buddha. Roxas testified that Kenneth Cheatham, the representative of one prospective buyer, drilled a small hole under the arm of the buddha and assayed the metal. The test revealed the statue to be solid twenty-two carat gold.(3) Roxas also testified that a second prospective buyer, Luis Mendoza, also tested the metal of the statue, using nitric acid, and concluded that it was "more than 20 carats."

On April 1, 1971, Roxas showed the buddha to a third prospective buyer, Joe Oihara, who was accompanied by another individual, Romeo Amansec. Oihara told Roxas that he was staying at the home of Ferdinand's mother, Josefa Edralin Marcos. Oihara examined the buddha at length, performed another assay, and also closely scrutinized the designs on the statue. He indicated an interest in buying the buddha, promising to return in several days with a partial payment of one million pesos. Rendered suspicious by Oihara's long scrutiny of the buddha, Roxas undertook his own examination and discovered that the head was removable. Inside, he found "more than two handsful" of what he surmised to be uncut diamonds. He placed the diamonds in his closet near the buddha and replaced the head.

2. The raid on Roxas's house

On April 5, 1971, at 2:30 a.m., men purporting to be from the Criminal Investigation Service (CIS) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), two Philippine national security agencies, knocked on Roxas's door, claiming to have a search warrant. When Roxas failed to respond, the men broke two of Roxas's front windows and pointed the barrels of their rifles inside. They informed Roxas that if he did not open the door within three minutes he would be shot.

Roxas opened the door, and eight men wearing military uniforms entered the house, accompanied by Oihara. They briefly displayed a document that they claimed was a search warrant. Before they snatched it away, Roxas was able to determine that it contained language regarding a "violation of [a] Central Bank regulation and illegal possession of firearms" and that it was signed by Judge Marcos. The men beat Roxas's brother with their rifles and ordered Roxas's family and his two bodyguards to lie down on the floor. When they left, they took the buddha, the diamonds, the remaining seventeen bars of gold, the samurai swords, a piggy bank belonging to Roxas's children, and his wife's coin collection.

Roxas reported the raid to the media and the local police. Subsequently, he went to Judge Marcos's home. Roxas asked Judge Marcos why he had signed the search warrant. Judge Marcos responded that he had had no choice because "the principe" ("the prince") had ordered the confiscation. When Roxas asked who "the principe" was, Judge Marcos responded that it was Ferdinand. Judge Marcos also advised Roxas that it was Oihara's companion, Amansec, who had initially applied for the search warrant, claiming to have seen a gun in Roxas's house. Judge Marcos appeared angry that Roxas had reported the case to the police and the media and stated that, as a result, the CIS and the NBI would likely kill Roxas. Roxas interpreted Judge Marcos's remarks as a threat; nevertheless, on April 7, 1971, Roxas returned to the police station and signed a complaint.

Roxas and his family traveled to Cabantuan City to enlist the aid of Provincial Governor Joson, who provided Roxas with four bodyguards. Roxas then went into hiding in Cabantuan City. Soon thereafter, on April 19, 1971, the military deposited a buddha statue with the City Court in Baguio City.

While he was in Cabantuan City, Roxas was approached by Rosario Uy and Anita Igna. They offered Roxas three million pesos to publicly affirm that the buddha statue held by the court was the same one that he had found. They also told him that they represented Ferdinand's mother. Roxas refused the offer. Later, Uy reached him by telephone and renewed the offer, assuring Roxas that he need not be afraid to accept because Ferdinand would be the one paying him. Roxas again refused.

Roxas's story began to appear regularly in the newspapers, radio, and television and to attract the attention of opposition politicians. Roxas met with a number of politicians, as well as with Philippine Secretary of Justice Vicente Abad Santos. Roxas told the Secretary his story, and the Secretary promised to guarantee Roxas's safety for a trip to Baguio City to identify the buddha in the City Court.

On April 29, 1971, Roxas traveled to the courthouse in Baguio City, accompanied by his bodyguards, two prosecutors from the Justice Department, a lawyer whom Roxas had hired, and a number of reporters and cameramen. Upon examination of the statue, Roxas concluded that it was not the same buddha that he had discovered because: (1) its color was different; (2) it had different facial features; (3) the head was not detachable; and (4) there was no hole under the arm where the original buddha had been drilled. On camera, Roxas announced his conclusion to those present. Roxas then brought the group to his house, where he showed them the damage caused by the raiding party and the closet where he had stored the buddha. Roxas later received an invitation to testify before the Philippine senate about the events; he did so on May 4, 1971.

3. Arrest and torture

On May 18, 1971, Roxas was arrested in Cabantuan City by three men in civilian clothing. Roxas testified that the men told him "to go with them to make a negotiation with the President." They also reassured him, "Don't be afraid. We are under Malacanang[(4)] -- you know, we are under Malacanang agent. We can make a negotiation to the President, and nothing more." The men took him to the home of Colonel Ponciano Gonzales.

There, an individual identified as Colonel Olivas punched Roxas in the stomach five times. When Roxas asked him why he was being beaten, Colonel Olivas responded, "You're mentioning the name of the President[.]" One of the men then said, "We must report to the President that Rogelio Roxas is in our custody." Colonel Olivas placed a telephone call, during which he appeared to Roxas to be speaking to Ferdinand, because he addressed the other party as "Mr. President."

Subsequently, Roxas was taken to the constabulary headquarters in San Fernando, Pampanga. Once there, a number of soldiers led him to a dark room, where he was shown a picture of his wife and children and told that he must cooperate if he wanted to see them again. The soldiers ordered Roxas to "pinpoint those senators, that they pay me to implicate the name of the president." Roxas refused to sign such a statement, and the soldiers responded by shocking him with wires attached to a large battery. The soldiers also interrogated Roxas about the location of the remaining treasure; however, he refused to divulge this information. The soldiers continued to shock him for several hours and, on one occasion, burned him with cigarettes.

Roxas was then taken to the residence of a judge, where he was directed to sign an affidavit. However, because of the torture he had endured, he was unable to clasp his hand around the pen, and, therefore, could not sign. The soldiers then transported Roxas to a hotel in Angeles City. There, he was questioned again about the location of the treasure. When he refused to respond, he was beaten with a rubber mallet until he passed out. After the beatings, he noticed a great deal of damage to his right eye and ear, neither of which ever fully healed.

Roxas was kept in a room at the hotel for two weeks, during which time he was repeatedly ordered to sign yet another affidavit. This affidavit averred that the raid in his house had been performed "in a peaceful manner" and that the members of the raiding party had possessed no automatic weapons as had been reported in the press. When Roxas finally signed the affidavit, he was brought back to the city court in Baguio City and ordered to point at the buddha statue while being photographed and to identify gold bars as those taken from his home.

That night, Roxas picked the lock on the window of his room and escaped. After finding refuge at his sister's home, Roxas contacted a senator and was again asked to testify before the senate, which he did on June 30, 1971. In his deposition in the instant case, Roxas testified that, during the June 30, 1971 hearing, he told the senators about being tortured.(5)

After the senate hearing, Roxas returned to Baguio City. Once there, he received a letter from Cesar Dumlao, a finance officer at the Malacanang, requesting a meeting on behalf of Ferdinand. Roxas met with Dumlao and was shown a letter, which indicated that Ferdinand was offering to pay him five million pesos.(6) Roxas was instructed to return the next day; however, he did not report back because he became frightened.

One week after his return to Baguio City, Roxas was arrested for failing to appear at a hearing on an illegal weapons charge that had been pending against him since January 28, 1971. He was brought before a judge, who ordered him incarcerated as a result of his default.

On August 21, 1971, Senator Osmena sent an attorney to bail Roxas out of jail. Roxas traveled with the attorney to Manila to meet with Senator Osmena. Senator Osmena asked Roxas to speak at a political rally that evening. Roxas agreed, but he was unable to speak because the rally was bombed before he could start. Roxas ran away and went into hiding for almost one year.

When Roxas finally returned to his Baguio City home in July 1972, he was immediately arrested by two men, who represented to him that they were from the CIS. These men took Roxas to a naval base in the province of Zambales, where he was confined in the stockade. While there, Roxas was questioned by Provincial Commander Rodolfo Patalinghod about his discovery of the golden buddha.

On September 21, 1972, Ferdinand declared martial law in the Philippines; the order remained in effect until 1983. After the declaration, General Fabian Ver visited Roxas in his cell. General Ver admitted that he had been among the raiding party at Roxas's house. He also told Roxas that there had been "an order to kill [Roxas] by the military," but that the order had been canceled when it was discovered that Roxas was a member of the Church of Christ. He advised Roxas to keep quiet about his case, in light of the fact that martial law had been declared.

In January 1973, Roxas was transferred to a prison camp in Baguio City and tried on the charges of possession of an illegal firearm and unlawfully firing a revolver into the air. He was convicted of both counts by the Third Branch of the City Court of Baguio and sentenced, in connection with the first charge, to an "indeterminate penalty of imprisonment ranging from One (1) year and One (1) day as minimum to Four (4) years as maximum" and, in connection with the second, to a fine. Judgment was entered on January 31, 1973. During his incarceration, Roxas was beaten and questioned about the location of the treasure on two occasions by a man known as Colonel Gemoto -- who identified himself as a member of the "Task Force Restoration" -- accompanied by representatives of the CIS.

4. Military excavations

Roxas was released from prison on November 19, 1974. When he arrived home the next day, he noticed soldiers standing outside tents near the Baguio General Hospital. Sometime in December 1974, some soldiers visited Roxas in his shop and told him that they were members of the Task Force Restoration, which was conducting excavations behind the hospital. They listed their address in Roxas's logbook (which was never produced at trial) as Malacanang Palace. The soldiers asked him to come with them to help with the excavation; he refused. Roxas passed by the site in 1976 and saw that the excavations were still ongoing. In October 1976, Roxas and his family moved to Visayan City, where they stayed for the next ten years without further incident relating to the Yama[prohibited word deleted]a treasure.

Juan Quijon (Juan) and his son, Romulo Quijon (Romulo), corroborated Roxas's testimony regarding the excavations. Juan had worked as a nursing attendant at Baguio General Hospital from 1945 to 1988. He noticed a number of soldiers involved in excavation behind the hospital between 1974 and 1975. Over a one-week period, Juan observed men carrying large wooden boxes out of a tunnel and placing them in trucks. Each box was carried by at least four -- and sometimes six -- men. The soldiers' uniforms bore the initials "PSC," and the trucks had the letters "PMA" painted on them. Juan also observed men removing some steel boxes with the aid of a winch. The soldiers left in August 1975.

Romulo testified that he worked as a cook for the soldiers performing excavations behind the hospital in 1974. Romulo testified that the "PSC" on the soldiers' uniforms stood for "Presidential Security Command," and the "PMA" painted on the trucks stood for "Philippine Military Academy." The soldiers employed civilians to perform most of the digging. Romulo saw these civilians pushing and pulling boxes out of a hole and loading them into trucks. The boxes appeared to be old and in poor condition. Some fell apart while being carried, and gold-colored bars fell out onto the ground. Romulo observed approximately ten boxes per day being loaded into trucks over a period of one year. He testified that the soldiers were "very strict" about keeping the public out of the area and that armed guards were posted at the trucks during the loading.

5. Laundering and sale of the gold

Robert Curtis, an American owner of a mining and refining business in Sparks, Nevada, testified that, in late 1974, he received a number of telephone calls from Norman Kirst, an associate of Ferdinand, inviting him to travel to the Philippines to meet the president. Kirst stated that Ferdinand wanted Curtis's company to resmelt some gold bars and change the "hallmarks."(7) Ferdinand also wanted Curtis to change the chemical composition of the gold while resmelting it so that its origin would not be identifiable. Curtis initially refused the invitation, but finally relented and traveled to the Philippines to meet with Ferdinand.

When he arrived, Curtis met with a number of Ferdinand's aides and generals, including General Ver. He also met with Colonel Lachica, who was "Imelda Marcos' personal security and went with her wherever she went." Colonel Lachica took part in the conversations about resmelting and "rehallmarking and purifying the gold[.]" Finally, after approximately ten days, he met with Ferdinand, Olof Jonsson (another American, see infra), General Ver, and Kirst.

Ferdinand told Curtis that he had recovered an enormous amount of gold from the Yamashi.ta treasure, which he had found at various sites, and that he needed help because the "International World Court had . . . passed a ruling that any . . . World War II treasures that were recovered would revert back to the countries from . . . whence they were taken." Ferdinand told him that he had so much gold that selling it could have a large effect on the world economy or even "start World War III."

Curtis also testified that General Ver had brought him to a basement room in the Marcoses' Miravelles summer palace, where the gold bars were kept. Curtis entered a room "about roughly 40 by 40," stacked to the ceiling with bars of gold. He estimated the ceiling to be ten feet high. Two or three four-foot wide aisles ran through the stacks of gold. The bars were in a standard seventy-five kilogram size. He noticed that the bars had oriental markings" on them. Later, Ferdinand showed Curtis a solid gold buddha statue with a removable head, which Curtis identified from the pictures taken at Roxas's house as the same buddha that Roxas had discovered.

On cross-examination, Curtis testified that his study of the Yamashi.ta treasure had suggested that the treasure contained eighteen buddhas and was distributed among 172 sites. He also testified that Ferdinand had told him that the gold that Curtis had seen had come from a site in the Luzon region. Moreover, in 1975, while Curtis was working with Ferdinand, another site was discovered in the town of Teresa, and more gold was retrieved.

Curtis and others began the work of designing and building a refinery in the Philippines to fulfill Ferdinand's requests. However, on July 5, 1975, General Ver took him to a military cemetery at Fort Bonafacio, walked him to a freshly-dug hole, and put a gun to his head, saying "[W]e're good friends but[,] I'm sorry, I have to do this." Curtis was able to talk General Ver out of shooting him and then quickly left the Philippines. He did not return to the Philippines as long as Ferdinand remained in power.

Olof Jonsson also testified that he had seen stacks of gold bars. Jonsson testified that he had first traveled to the Philippines at the invitation of a colonel stationed at Clark Air Force Base. He was brought there to use his powers as a psychic to locate gold that the colonel believed to be buried there. Jonsson described his psychic powers as including telekinesis, clairvoyance, telepathy, and the power to dematerialize objects with his mind.

While he was in the Philippines, Jonsson was asked to meet Ferdinand. He was brought to Ferdinand's office in the Malacanang Palace. Ferdinand invited Jonsson to stay at a guest house on the palace grounds. After several weeks, Jonsson left the Philippines, but he returned in 1975 with Curtis when the latter had traveled to the Philippines in order to discuss resmelting gold with Ferdinand. On this occasion, Jonsson met again with Ferdinand and General Ver. General Ver showed him a basement room in the guest house outside Malacanang Palace and another room in the summer palace, both filled with gold. He was also shown a golden buddha in the summer palace that was too heavy for him to move. Jonsson described the basement room in the guest cottage as being approximately twenty feet wide, forty feet long, and twelve feet high. He estimated the room in the summer palace as measuring "probably 40 feet by 25 or something" and twelve feet in height. Both rooms were filled with two-foot-long bars of gold stacked to the ceiling. Jonsson testified that it was possible that the bars were four inches wide and four inches thick, but that he could not recall exactly.

A number of witnesses also testified regarding Ferdinand's alleged attempts to sell his gold surreptitiously. Two Australian citizens, Michael O'Brien and John Doel, testified that they were partners in an Australian real estate venture. In 1983, O'Brien and Doel were seeking capital to finance their project. The partners met a Malaysian, Andrew Tan Beng Chong (Tan), who asked the partners to serve as brokers for the sale of ten thousand metric tons of gold in exchange for commissions on the sale. When O'Brien asked Tan the identity of the owner of such a large amount of gold, Tan stated only that the gold was available and could not be sold by regular means because of the source. O'Brien and Doel agreed to assist and created a company, designated "Remington," to carry out the transactions. The partners found buyers for the gold, and Doel subsequently traveled to the Philippines on April 20, 1983 at Tan's instruction. Doel met with Colonel Eike Manois, who claimed to represent the principal seller in the transaction but refused to disclose the seller's identity. At a subsequent meeting, however, a man identified as "Doming" Clemente, an associate of the colonel's, told Doel that Ferdinand was the owner of the gold. Clemente also stated that Imelda was aware of the transaction, but that Ferdinand was handling the details.

During the time that Doel and O'Brien were working on completing the transaction, Clemente relayed an offer from Ferdinand to sell Doel a one-ton golden buddha that Ferdinand had obtained in Baguio City. Doel refused the offer. Clemente also told Doel that the gold bars, which were the object of their transaction, had been "war booty items" and had been "buried in tunnels behind the hospital at Baguio City."

O'Brien also traveled to the Philippines. At one point, when he expressed doubt as to the existence of so much gold, he was blindfolded and taken to a warehouse. Inside the warehouse was a stack of approximately three hundred to four hundred boxes, each the size of a six-pack of beer. O'Brien opened one and observed that it contained three crudely smelted gold bars, which he described as being pitted "like an orange peel." He tried to lift several other boxes and found them too heavy to move. The partners were successful in having the parties sign contracts for the sale of the gold, but, as of July 1983, only a portion of the contracts were executed to their knowledge.

Norman Dacus, a retired American police officer, testified that he lived in the Philippines between August 1983 and April 1985. Dacus had relocated there because he had been recruited by a friend, Joseph Zbin, to become his partner "in brokering gold for [President] Marcos[.]" Dacus met with O'Brien and Clemente with respect to arranging gold transactions. He also met with Ferdinand, General Ver, and other army officers. Dacus was involved in "educating" Ferdinand about "how gold has a fingerprint on it and how you can tell which gold comes from which country." Ferdinand advised him that the first increments of gold he planned to sell were in ten-kilogram ingots, bearing the stamp of the Central Bank. At a subsequent meeting, Ferdinand stated that some of the gold was in metric ton blocks. On one occasion, Dacus was shown what he estimated to be one hundred metric tons of gold, located in a vault at the Coconut Planter's Bank. Later, Dacus was flown to Ilocas Norte and taken to a shrine constructed for Ferdinand. Inside, he observed an approximately four-foot tall, gold-colored buddha statue and what he estimated to be three hundred to five hundred metric tons of gold comprised of twenty-five kilogram ingots.

Based on portions of the testimony of Robert Curtis, Olof Jonsson, Michael O'Brien, and Norman Dacus, Nelson Colton, a long-time gold trader and manager in the gold refining industry, rendered an opinion regarding the value of the gold that the witnesses had allegedly observed. Colton estimated the volume and value of the gold described by the various witnesses in terms of the price of gold on the world market on various dates, including the time of the alleged conversion and in 1980, when gold was at its highest world price subsequent to the alleged conversion.

6. Move to Hawai`i

On February 25, 1986, after they were removed from power by a popular revolution, the United States government transported Ferdinand and Imelda to Hawai`i. Soon thereafter, Roxas contacted a childhood friend, Felix Dacanay, who had become a Georgia resident, to help him press his claims against the Marcoses. On June 3, 1986, Roxas assigned all of his rights to the Yamashi.ta treasure to GBC, which Dacanay had incorporated in Georgia, in exchange for a minority holding of non-voting shares. Richard Hirschfield, an American attorney, testified that he met the Marcoses in Hawai`i in 1986 or 1987. Ferdinand hired him to arrange for an eighteen million dollar loan from Al-Fassi, a member of the Saudi royal family. Marcos offered to secure the loan with gold bullion, of which he claimed to possess tons. He told Hirschfield that he "had access to this Yamashi.ta Treasure from the General of the Japanese War." Hirschfield also testified that either Ferdinand or Imelda told him that they had taken a golden buddha from the person who discovered the treasure and replaced it with a brass buddha.

7. The Baguio City Court proceeding regarding the buddha


Roxas died on May 25, 1993. On April 20, 1995, his brother, Jose Roxas (Jose), commenced an action in Branch III of the Regional Trial Court of Baguio City, praying for release of the buddha statue being retained by the clerk of court and claiming that "I and our family desire to keep the said buddha as a m[e]mento of our late brother, ROGELIO D. ROXAS." Jose's petition was supported by two of Roxas's sons; however, Jose admitted to the court that Roxas had had a number of children out of wedlock whose names he did not know "because [Roxas] had several mistresses."

At the initial hearing on the petition, conducted on April 28, 1995, Jose testified that he had been present when the raiding party confiscated the buddha. The court directed Jose to inspect the buddha in the clerk's possession and testify whether it was the same one taken from Rogelio Roxas. The court noted from its own observation that it appears . . . that the color is gold but it is superficial, it is only the outer part because there are parts where the color was chipoff [sic] and what you see is silver or white[.]" Jose identified the buddha as the statue confiscated from Roxas's house.

More on this later..in the meantime do some research of your own.[/i]

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In the closing months of World War II, in the Philippines, several of Japan's highest ranking imperial princes hid tons of looted gold bullion and other stolen treasure in caves and tunnels, to recover later. This was the wealth of 12 Asian countries, accumulated over thousands of years.

Expert teams accompanying Japan's armed forces had systematically emptied treasuries, banks, factories, private homes, pawn shops, art galleries, and stripped ordinary people, while Japan's top gangsters looted Asia's underworld and its black economy.

There were 175 ''imperial'' treasure sites hidden throughout the Philippines. When American tanks were close, the chief engineers of those vaults were given a farewell party 67 metres underground in Tunnel 8 in the mountains of Luzon, stacked with row after row of gold bars. As the evening progressed, they drank great quantities of sake, sang patriotic songs and shouted banzai (long life).

At midnight, General Yamashita Tomoyuki and the princes slipped out, and dynamite charges were set off in the access tunnels, entombing the engineers. Their vaults would remain secret. The princes escaped to Tokyo by submarine, and three months later General Yamashita surrendered to American troops. Japan had lost the war militarily, but the princes made certain Japan did not lose financially.

This grisly event has remained unknown until now, and the hidden treasure was brushed off as a fanciful legend of ''Yamashita's Gold''. But an eyewitness to the entombment has taken us there and given us his personal account. During the war, Ben Valmores was the young Filipino valet of a senior prince, who was in charge of closing all imperial treasure sites in the Philippines. A sometimes sentimental man, the prince spared Ben's life and led him out of Tunnel 8 just before the dynamite was detonated.


Japan's looting of Asia was overseen by [then-emperor] Hirohito's brother Prince Chichibu. His organisation was codenamed kin no yuri (Golden Lily), the title of one of the emperor's poems. Other princes headed different parts of Golden Lily across the conquered territories. Eventually, Japanese sources told us that Ben's wartime master was prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi, first cousin of Hirohito and grandson of emperor Meiji.

In 1998, we tested Ben with 1930s photographs of many princes, all the names removed, and he instantly identified prince Takeda, Hirohito's brother prince Chichibu and other princes.

Ben said he had spent time with each of them, bringing them food, tea and cigarettes while they inventoried each treasure site. When he saw our photo of Prince Takeda, Ben froze, then began softly crooning the Japanese folk song Sakura, Sakura (Cherry Blossoms), which he said Takeda often sang to himself.

In the final stages of work on a biography of Japan's imperial family titled The Yamato Dynasty, we were told that in October 1945, American intelligence agents learned where some of the Japanese loot was hidden in the Philippines, and quietly recovered billions of dollars worth of gold bullion, platinum, and loose diamonds. This information, if true, revealed the existence of an extraordinary state secret, something the United States Government kept from its own citizens for more than half a century. There was no time to include this in the biography. It had to be investigated separately. Here is some of what we have since learned:


After surrendering on September 2, 1945, General Yamashita was charged with war crimes over gruesome atrocities committed in Manila under the order of an admiral, while Yamashita had ordered withdrawing troops to leave the city unharmed. During his trial, there was no mention of plundered treasure, or of looting during the war.

But we now know there was a hidden agenda. Because it was not possible to torture General Yamashita physically without this becoming evident to his lawyers, members of his staff were tortured. His driver, Major Kojima Kashii, was given special attention. In charge of the torture of Major Kojima was a Filipino-American intelligence officer named Severino Garcia Santa Romana, whose friends called him Santy. He wanted the major to reveal each place where he had taken Yamashita, where bullion and other treasure was hidden for recovery after the war. Supervising Santy during the torture was Captain Edward Lansdale, later one of America's best known ''Cold Warriors''.

Early that October, Kojima broke and led Lansdale and Santy to more than a dozen Golden Lily treasure vaults in the rugged country north of Manila. What they found astounded everyone from General Douglas MacArthur all the way up to the White House. After discussions with his cabinet, President Harry Truman decided to keep the recovery a state secret.

Santy's ensuing recoveries greatly altered America's leverage during the Cold War. According to senior US government officials and high-ranking US Army officers, the Truman administration set this treasure aside along with Axis loot recovered in Europe, as a secret political action fund to fight communism in the Cold War.

Crudely put, it would be used to bribe statesmen and military officers, and to buy elections for anti-communist political parties. The idea for a global political action fund based on war loot had originated with US secretary of war, Henry Stimson. During the war, Stimson had a brain-trust thinking hard about recovered Axis plunder, and how it should be handled after the war. Their solution was to set up what is informally called the ''Black Eagle Trust'', after the black eagle emblem of Hitler's Reichsbank in Berlin.

The Black Eagle Trust was first discussed in secret during July 1944, when 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to plan the post-war economy. This was confirmed to us by a number of high-level sources, including former CIA deputy director Ray Cline, who knew about Santy's recoveries in 1945, and continued to be involved in attempts in the 1980s and 1990s to hide blocks of Japanese war loot still said to be in the vaults of banks in New York.

In November 1945, General MacArthur strolled down row after row of gold bars stacked two metres tall during a tour of vaults opened by Santy. >From what was seen in these vaults alone, it was evident that over a period of years Japan had looted billions of dollars in treasure from all over Asia.Much of this plunder had reached Japan overland earlier, from China through Korea, but the rest was hidden in the Philippines, unable to be shipped to Japan by sea because of the successful US submarine blockade.


According to Ray Cline and others, between 1945 and 1947 the gold bullion recovered by Santy and Lansdale was moved discreetly to 172 accounts at banks in 42 countries.

There were important reasons for all this secrecy. If the recovery of this huge mass of stolen gold was known only to a trusted few, the countries and individuals that had been plundered could not lay claim to it. Truman recognised that the very existence of so much black gold, if it became public knowledge, would cause the metal's fixed price to collapse. But as long as the gold was kept hidden, prices could be maintained and currencies pegged to gold would be stable. Meanwhile, the black gold would serve as a reserve asset, bolstering the prime banks in each country, and strengthening the anti-communist governments of those nations.

To hide the existence of all this treasure, Washington had to tell a number of lies. Especially lies about Japan, which had stolen most of the gold. America wanted Japan to become its anti-communist bastion in Asia, where the mainland was being overrun by communists. If American conservatives and Japanese conservatives were to ally effectively against communism, they had to begin by enlarging their financial resources for the Cold War.

Above all, the source of much of this hidden wealth must never be acknowledged. Washington had to insist, starting in 1945, that Japan never stole anything, and was flat broke and bankrupt when the war ended. Here was the beginning of many terrible secrets.

Because they remained ''off the books'', these enormous political action funds got into the wrong hands, where they remain to this day. We can reveal that in 1960, then vice-president Richard Nixon ''gave'' one of the biggest of these political action funds, the US$35-billion (about HK$272 billion) M-Fund, to leading members of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In return, he is believed to have sought their support for his presidential campaign that year.

The M-Fund, now said to be worth more than US$500 billion, is still controlled by members of the LDP.

Officially, we are told that Japan's wartime elite the imperial family, the zaibatsu (large industrial business conglomerates), the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and the ''good'' bureaucrats ended the war as impoverished victims of a handful of ''bad'' military zealots. We are told that Japan was badly damaged and impoverished, barely able to feed itself at war's end.


In fact, Japan emerged from the war far richer than before, and with remarkably little damage, except to the homes of millions of ordinary Japanese who did not count, at least in the view of their overlords.

Evidence of Golden Lily loot comes also from straightforward legal actions in America. Such simple things as the probating of the will of Santa Romana (Santy), verification of his tax records, and legal evidence of his fortune deposited in the US, Switzerland, Hong Kong and elsewhere, provide hard proof that the world is awash with clandestine bank accounts growing out of Golden Lily.

Other lawsuits in the US prove that Golden Lily war loot was indeed hidden in the Philippines. Rogelio Roxas, a Filipino locksmith, found a one-tonne solid-gold Buddha and thousands of gold bars hidden in a cave near Baguio only to have it stolen from him by President Ferdinand Marcos. Roxas was subsequently tortured and died in suspicious circumstances. Some believe he was murdered. In 1996, a US Federal Court awarded his heirs a judgment of US$22 billion against the Marcos estate.

As the 1951 Peace Treaty was skewed by secret deals, thousands of Japan's victims have been deprived of any compensation for their suffering. According to Article 14 of the Treaty: ''It is recognised that Japan should pay reparations to the Allied Powers for the damage and suffering caused by it during the war. Nevertheless it is also recognised that the resources of Japan are not presently sufficient.'' To reinforce the claim that Japan was broke, Article 14 noted that ''the Allied Powers waive all reparations claims of the Allied Powers and their nationals arising out of any actions taken by Japan...'' By signing the Treaty, Allied countries concurred that Japan's plunder had vanished down a rabbit hole, and all Japan's victims were out of luck. In return for going along with the Treaty, the Allies received portions of the gold bullion recovered by Santy.

We have evidence from former CIA deputy director Cline that the gold bullion Santy and Lansdale recovered was secretly moved to national treasuries and prime banks in more than 42 countries, including Great Britain. We also have evidence from British archives confirming this.

More than half a century later, the last battle of the Pacific War is being waged in courts in the US and Japan where surviving prisoners of war, slave labourers, comfort women and civilian victims of Japan have filed billion-dollar lawsuits to win compensation so mysteriously denied them after the war. In 1995, it was estimated that there were 700,000 victims of the war who had still received no compensation.

Today, their numbers are dwindling rapidly because of age and illness. Backing them is an extraordinary coalition, including international law firms with years of experience, fighting for compensation from German industries and Swiss banks, for crimes committed and money looted during the Nazi Holocaust.
 

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Kinda falls in with what Fred Funston's nephew has shared with me.
 

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SWR said:
In regards to the Roxas vs Marcos trial, there was never any evidence other than rumors or hearsay presented by the Plaintiffs. The Court found insufficient evidence that Roxas had actually found any treasure. Roxas got nothing. The copy/paste from the appeal in the opening post is the Plaintiffs complaint, which they could not prove.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ctcvlc96.pdf

Thank you!!
 

Re: the Legend of Yamashi.ta's Gold in the Phillipines circa 1945

Note: A turn of events has proven the nay sayers and disbelievers wrong.. way wrong!!

see mikes post (gollum) post over at:

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,167038.0.html

where he shows the smoking gun documents that prove the Marcos found some
of Yamashi.ta gold! Legends turn to fact with research.

Good going Mike! ( God I hate agreeing with Mike!!) hehe

rangler
 

Re: the Legend of Yamashi.ta's Gold in the Phillipines circa 1945

Oddly enough , you ask for documentation, then when Mike produced what can be
considered a smoking gun document, that no one has been able to find.. so you felt
safe in your sanctimonious academic attitude, now you question the document..wow
Believe me , no one is going to take the time to fake a document for your sake!!

This following account has some of the basic information with added information with the other
players,

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When Major Jack Kenworthy*, the Military Policeman who escorted General Yamashi.ta to the American
Headquarters in the Philippines to attend his trail and subsequent hanging by the neck until dead
it set off a chain of events, starting with the uncovering 12 Yama Treasure Vaults in Northern Luzon
and when that happened..it was Act 2 and the new players entered the stage!
* Kenworthy..yes do you suppose that Jack had a son named Chuck after the war? Huh?Really?Naaw!
No way, I am not going there..it's to conspiratorial - or is it a scoop?

The OSS --the wartime forerunner of America’s spy agency, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-- began recovering the bullion plundered from a dozen or so nations. This bullion formed what became known as the "Xxxxx Xxxxx" fund, which was part of a secret agreement eclipsed behind the 1944 Agreement.



Consequently, the metal was placed under the care of OSS (and later CIA) operative Severino Garcia Santa Romana, who put it under the control of numerous corporate entities he formed for the purpose. These entities, in turn, proceeded to establish 176 bank accounts in 42 different countries in which to deposit these assets under private treaty agreement.

Confirmation of this came from General Cocke, after this was put to him:

"I have been advised that a chunk of the Xxxxxx Project funds that were used to trade, to invest and reinvest, came from a large block of assets that CIA put into the bank (deleted)." Cocke replied: "And they pulled that several times from several sources. Nobody is going to confirm it." 4

Santa Romana died in 1974, and following his death his former attorney and trustee was able to "acquire" considerable portions of Santa Romana’s estate by illicit means. The lawyer was Ferdinand Marcos, who went on to become President of the Philippines and a favorite friend of the United States until his overthrow in 1986. The acquisition of these assets helped give rise to stories of "Marcos gold"-- a legend that was supplemented by additional later recoveries of WWII gold and other loot using a Filipino Army battalion under the overall command of Marcos henchman General Fabian Ver.

THE PRINCE OF PLUNDER

History should have recorded him as the world’s most ruthless and avaricious bandit of all time. Instead, it has passed him by virtually unnoticed, thanks to the onset of the cold war and the well-laid designs of western elites.

Prince Chichibu was the younger brother of Japan’s Emperor Hirohito and had been named by the Emperor to head the ultra-secret Golden Lily – a secretive group tasked with looting China of its wealth – both government and privately owned hard assets. Beginning in 1937, with the Rape of Nanking, the plunder teams set to work with a vengeance. The spoils were far larger than had been imagined. It is believed that 6,000 metric tonnes of gold, plus a bounty of silver and precious gemstones fell in to the hands of Japan’s imperial treasury as a consequence. [2]

The phenomenal wealth of East and Southeast Asia had accrued over thousands of years and Japan wanted it all. Over the next seven years the Orient was wrung dry of its precious metals, solid gold religious artifacts and an unbelievable quantity of gemstones.

Most of this was shipped by the Japanese to the Philippines as a collecting point, for onward shipment to Tokyo. However, by 1943 the sea-lanes had been cut by US submarines and the decision was taken to bury the plunder throughout the Philippines. This was based on Japan’s expectation of a negotiated truce that would leave them ruling the Philippines. Thereafter, the recovery of the plunder could take place in secret over many years making Japan one of the wealthiest nations in the world.

That, however, was not to be. The United States had its own well-laid plans to become the imperial world power of post WWII. These plans had been formulated before the Second World War by The Council on Foreign Relations an organization founded by wealthy Americans in the wake of WWI, in tandem with England’s Royal Institute of International Affairs, known as “Chatham House” for short.

The CFR plan called for a “Grand Area” that was to come under US control. Included was the Western Hemisphere, Western Europe, the Far East and the former British Empire. The latter was being actively dismantled for this purpose. Also listed was the Middle East, whose colossal oil resources were eyed with great passion. In fact, if it was possible to achieve, the entire planet was to come under US domination. [3]

In this scheme, Japan and Germany were assigned the role of the “great workshops” of productivity. In short, there was no place for a separate imperial power and Japan (and Germany) had to be thoroughly defeated. Roosevelt’s call for “unconditional surrender” of the Axis powers not only smashed Japan’s comfortable view of what would be, but also sealed the fate of the post WWII world.

In addition to the Philippines, treasure plundered by the Japanese is believed to have been stashed in Indonesia and, probably Korea, too. But the Philippine Islands were the key. Here treasure sites were excavated – usually using prisoners of war as slave labour. The plunder was then stashed in these sites and booby traps were set to deter would be treasure hunters. With the prisoners of war still inside the sites were sealed and disguised – leading hundreds to die a grisly death in the name of greed and secrecy.


THE SPOILS OF WAR

The key to understanding the secrecy that embraces this story is that much – probably most - of gold that was plundered by Japan and Germany was already “black” gold that didn’t officially exist. Consequently, when the United States re-plundered this metal it did so in complete secrecy. Not only was there the fear of crippling the price of gold – and the world economy with it - were it discovered that monumental quantities of gold existed, in addition to official stocks, but the use to which it was to be put, also demanded secrecy.

How can fabulous volumes of gold exist when all the world’s bankers and economists continue to tell us that this metal is so rare? The answer is as prosaic as it is damning.

Mining industry sources reveal that as much as 30% of annual production of gold is quietly filtered into the “private market” and does not, therefore, impact on the official figures. In years past, off-market sales by the mining industry have been reported to be as high as 80%. The reasons for selling into the private market are varied but the central one is the avoidance of tax. In addition, as we have already noted, gold production in the former Soviet Union – the world’s second largest producer after South Africa – and that of China and Southeast Asia have never been included in official gold mining statistics.

Prior to the American Gold Rush of 1848, the amount of gold said to be in existence amounts to a miserly 10,000 tonnes. This, we are told, is the sum total of gold mined throughout the world during the preceding 5,850 years, for which mining records exist (and If you believe that, I have a nice parcel of valuable land set in the attractive Atlantic trench to sell you). Unsurprisingly, when pressed to verify the accuracy of these figures, it was admitted that they were nothing more than industry “estimates.” [32] Never-the-less, this estimate has been incorporated into current day official mining figures and punched out as actual fact. It is not hard, therefore, to conclude that there are, indeed, very substantial volumes of black gold in existence.



The total quantity of gold buried in the Philippines during WWII has been reported to be over 1 million tonnes - or roughly 90% of the worlds “actual” gold stock. [33] During the course of a seven-year investigation into the subject, this writer has accumulated information from a variety of sources suggesting this is indeed, a more accurate figure. In other words, official statistics represent a modest 10% of reality.


Meanwhile, Peter Carrington is also a member of the Trilateral Commission. The Trilateral Commission – which can be said to be the Bilderberg group dressed in another frock (membership critically includes Japan’s elite) - has been deeply involved in black gold, according to several accounts. Prior to the ousting of Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Philippines, representatives of the Trilateral Commission tried to persuade him to turn over 63,000 metric tonnes of gold to them. Marcos didn’t like the terms presented and refused. A few days later his reign as President came to an abrupt end. [40]

But the last word about the involvement of the Trilateral Commission in plundered gold comes from Mr. Goldfinger himself – Severino Garcia Santa Romana. Prior to his death in 1974, Sta. Romana told his wife that he was a senior member (indeed, he claimed to be the head) of the Trilateral Commission that he said “controlled world finance.” He also revealed he was deeply involved with a secret society known as the “Illuminati” which he maintained had set in motion a fifty year plan to “corner the major part of the worlds gold supply” [41]

It is, of course, impossible to verify this claim. But it can be no more an outrageous idea than that propounded by Cecil Rhodes for his secret society. For it to succeed, Rhodes wrote in 1891, to his friend W T Stead, would require “…gradually absorbing the wealth of the world…” [42] Controlling the world’s supply of gold, platinum and diamonds would undoubtedly be one way of achieving this ambition.

But in what is undoubtedly a complex story riddled with many mysteries, there is one additional strand worthy of a brief note. This is the extreme right-wing World Ant-Communist League (WACL). Colonel Philip Corso, who we mentioned earlier, was a member of this group. So to, were the late Ferdinand Marcos, and the CIA’s deputy director of intelligence, Ray Cline. Perhaps the most notorious member was the one time chairman, General John Singlaub, a covert operator of considerable talent.

In 1986, a business company called Nippon Star that had a tangled ownership and shadowy connections, set out to recover some of the gold buried in the Philippines. This was to be used to fund right-wing activities. Sitting behind Nippon Star were a group of former military and intelligence officers. These included the CIA’s Ray Cline; General John Vessey, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; General Robert Schweitzer formerly of the Pentagon and National Security Council and, not least… General John Singlaub. [43]

Whoever now controls the spoils of war buried in the Philippines by the Japanese Golden Lily has arguably “cornered” the major part of world’s gold supply. Whether this was by design or default it would seem that Santa Romana’s boast has come true.

First of 3 articles ( will post the url at the end of the series)
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Odd how all the major players in the world, along with the major powers and conspiracy type organizations are circling the Philippines like buzzards on carrion. The cover story were laid down, long and hard..most bit the story as long as they got from it what they needed ..closure for some, a news story for others, and still other that got the gold, a cover from the relentless press and other treasure hunters.Of course the USA took hundreds of tons, which they used to finance black ops well into the 20th century.

The cover story was so well crafted that, it made a lot of people believe that Yamashi.ta never so much as kicked dirt to cover a coin..let alone bury 600,000 - 1,000,000 tons of gold in the Philippines! All but the knowledgeable and the curious ones took the bait, hook, line and sinker..especially in shallow water.

Now the 'state of the art' with regards to gold in the RP, is this:

There are now 3 layers of gold hidden, monumented, and coded

1.The Jesuit/Spanish................1530-1790
2.The Japanese/Yamashi.ta........1932-1945
3 The Ex-Pres Marcos................1970-1995

From my inside contacts with real big serious treasure hunters, ALL of them are in the Republic of the Philippines and have been for quite some time. Right now, Europeans,Australian's,Japanese,Koreans,New Zealanders,and Filipino's and Americans are crawling all over the what has been call the modern day
Treasure Islands!!

Any serious Treasure Hunter who can be, is IN the RP right now, and I can assure you they are not chasing
something that does not exist. The gold has been coming out of the ground for the last 10 years in the last wave of new technology and investors. We will post some pics of the some of the gold bars taken out in the near future...

rangler


"for some, trying to grasp this is much like trying to grasp your own hand...you can't..it all ready IS."
 

Re: the Legend of Yamashi.ta's Gold in the Phillipines circa 1945

rangler said:
Any serious Treasure Hunter who can be, is IN the RP right now

Yeah right!

The gold has been coming out of the ground for the last 10 years in the last wave of new technology and investors.

Really?? If so, then why are you relying on "documents" to prove your point? Gold and Investors. Hmm....

We will post some pics of the some of the gold bars taken out in the near future.
rangler

So what you really mean is that you haven't found jack squat, you just want people to think your on the brink of finding something right? What really is your purpose?
 

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So what you really mean is that you haven't found jack squat, you just want people to think your on the brink of finding something right? What really is your purpose?

Really what is your purpose in saying that..? I am researching all the data is that is out there
on this story and that most people are too lazy to do for themselves. I have the pics all ready, gold
bars taken form Mindanao area in the '90's but I wanted to post the other two articles in the series.
Nothing more than that..what is your trip..I am not asking you or anyone to invest anything more
the the time it takes to read the articles..What else would my purpose be? I am a treasure hunter, you?

There is so much about the story that is hidden and the cover stories has most everyone snookered
including you..but hey I don't care if you believe it or not..what would it matter to me?

And I would ask you the same thing,, If I want to reveal all the facts that are available on the net and elsewhere
about this story, what would it matter to you??..I am not trying to sell you or anyone else anything..so what is your beef? I don't get it!

Any serious Treasure Hunter who can be, is IN the RP right now

Yeah right!

I am not talking about the coin shooter types, I mean the heavy hitters.

Did you see where the amounts that have been reported are now believed to be only 10% of the real amount!!
That means the old number of 15,000 metric tonnes is overshadowed by the 100,000 tonnes that is the 10% alluded to in the (official) report! I admit it boggles the mind..but now then number is 1Million tonnes!!

It has been taken down now but a few years back a website called "yamashitagold.com" showed the tunnels. the gold bars as they were found in the ground, and hundreds of them laid out on white sheets, with that days newspaper in the background for time line proof.

Why is it the ones that don't believe are the ones who do the least research? As you can see Mike dug deep into the story and with what he found and the people he knew, he was convinced it is true. Something to think about.

It's up to you, meanwhile I am hot on the trail of more reports and articles exposing the true story of Marcos/Yama's Gold.

rangler

"you can lead a horse to water..but he wouldn't drink unless he's thirsty"
 

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rangler said:
As you can see Mike dug deep into the story and with what he found and the people he knew, he was convinced it is true. Something to think about.


Yeah, and Mike also came to the sane conclusion that the Gold is gone, never before to be recovered. Someone already found it. You've even got "pictures" of the gold bars found in the 90's. So why are you searching for something that isn't missing? Why does the size of the treasure keep going up? Why are you looking for it when it's been known that government people have seized it already? Did I miss something? BTW, I never said anything about investors.
 

Re: the Legend of Yamashi.ta's Gold in the Phillipines circa 1945

Rangler wrote;
When Major Jack Kenworthy*, the Military Policeman who escorted General Yamashi.ta to the American
Headquarters in the Philippines to attend his trail and subsequent hanging by the neck until dead
it set off a chain of events, starting with the uncovering 12 Yama Treasure Vaults in Northern Luzon
and when that happened..it was Act 2 and the new players entered the stage!
* Kenworthy..yes do you suppose that Jack had a son named Chuck after the war? Huh?Really?Naaw!
No way, I am not going there..it's to conspiratorial - or is it a scoop?

Sorry Rangler, it is only a huge scoop of conspiratorial psycohbabble. If you would have taken the time to read Charles A. Kenworthy's books from cover to cover, you wouldn't have made such an error. Take a look at page 3 of Kenworthy's book titled "Spanish Monuments & Trail Markers to Treasure in the United States." There you will find a dedication to Charles C. Kenworthy, the father of Charles A. Kenworthy who is the father of Chuck "Tiger" Kenworthy. And that is, "no Jack."

Infosponge
 

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Sorry Rangler, it is only a huge scoop of conspiratorial psycohbabble.

psychobabble? dude you slipped a cog..nothing psychotic about running into a name like Kenworthy,
which in over 20 years of research never ran into that name..then to see it in the story of Yama..and
that the FACT that he was the Security Guard who escorted yama from the jail to the US HQ in the RP

If you would have taken the time to read Charles A. Kenworthy's books from cover to cover, you wouldn't have made such an error.

I dont rely on Kenworthy for my knowledge, I did buy one of his books out of curiosity. But that is a mute point.

Take a look at page 3 of Kenworthy's book titled "Spanish Monuments & Trail Markers to Treasure in the United States." There you will find a dedication to Charles C. Kenworthy, the father of Charles A. Kenworthy who is the father of Chuck "Tiger" Kenworthy. And that is, "no Jack."

Yea Yea Sure..ok..but cousins, uncles, ect ect..a true treasure hunter never overlooks anything AND I was only toying with the idea..!
see what I am saying...Jack?
 

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Another bit  of information about Yamashi.ta and his exploits..seems he might have been the one to actually receive the Jesuit Code
book from the Germans, that I reported elsewhere..more on that  later.
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The following article is copyrighted by © W.BETHGE and belongs to the following url
http://literary-bridge-philippines.de/goldeng.htm

Much in the following article is uncertain and remains–apart from a few reality-shreds - in the atmosphere of wobbling, inconsistent presumptions and speculations. Only the life and career of general Yamashi.ta Actually is more clear. His alleged „gold-treasure" is still fifty years after his death igniting the fantasy of treasure-seekers on the Philippines and gives rise to mysterious treasure-hunting activities again and again. It is like the search for the lost Rhine-gold or reminds to Hitler's alleged treasures of the Reichsbank in the Toplitzsee. Further, the still existing gold-fever was heated up by the film "Yamashi.ta: The tiger's Treasure " that appeared in 2002 in Philippine movie theatres.

After his officer-training Yamashi.ta, 1885–1946, was appointed to the Japanese general staff. He visited Germany and Switzerland and became a military-attaché in Vienna. Later in 1936 he is slightly involved into a coup of military and is send as army-commander on the border of the Manchuria. Later he gets the rank-highest position of a general in the imperial air force. World War II breaks out in Europe. For a short time he is as representative of the axis-power Japan on a goodwill-mission in Germany and compares the military potentials. He is not a friend of war declarations against Great Britain and the United States and is nominated in 1941 as commander of the 25 the Army. He conquers swiftly the peninsula of Malacca. In 1942, he succeeds in capering Singapore after a siege of seventy days in a surprise-attack despite the higher number of British soldiers. The losses of the British are high. Now his myth as „Tiger of Malaya "begins to establish. Until 1944, he remains in the Manchuria.

In 1941/42, the invasion of Japanese troops takes place in the Philippines. Under the ideological umbrella „Asia the Asian " the Japanese establish a puppet government under Jose P. Laurel, which doesn't find the wide support of the population despite initially stronger collaboration. The despotism of the Japanese strikes soon fear into the population of the Philippines.

At this time in the conquered areas of Asia a well-directed looting on a large scale through the Japanese troops takes place, at which also the princes of the Japanese emperor-house take part (Organization „Golden Lily"). After an estimate approximately 4000 - 6000 tons of gold well as precious metals, gems, coins, bills, works of art and antiques are confiscated or robbed. The value the treasures robbed in twelve Asian countries is supposed to represent a sum of over 100 billion dollars („Treasure Quest Magazine "). A part of the booty is shipped on direct way to Japan. The war-luck begins however to turn and the ship-passage to Japan becomes more and more dangerous by American submarines. The Japanese government decides on hiding the robbery-properties on the Philippines, still hoping that the Philippines remain after end of war in the Japanese dominion.

Back to general Yamashi.ta. It is not known whether the general was concerned directly with looting and confiscations during his time in Malaya and Singapore Due to the military pressures of the Americans he is engaged in the defence of the Philippines relatively late in October 1944 . A big part of the treasures is already buried on the Philippines already, that's the reason why the name „Yamashi.tas Treasure "is not quite correct. In the battles in Leyte and Luzon the general gets defeated. Six times, he must transfer his headquarters, because Mac Arthur's troops are approaching. He declares Manila as an open city, that should not be defended and went back with the rest of his troops to Baguio. But the subordinated Admiral Iwabuchi Sanji and his soldiers decide to defend Manila however. They cause an extraordinary massacre under the population and the partly destruction of Manila. More than 100.000 Filipinos lose in these days their life.

In September 1945, general Yamashi.ta is seized and delivered up to a war criminal process. It is controversial whether the hastily staged process followed strict legality-principles. General Yamashi.ta defends himself with the argument that he did not have any part in person in the accused war-crimes and that he could not influence anymore the military actions in connection with the defence of Manila. He is declared as guilty and hanged in February 1946 after an useless mercy-attempt. The general does not make any statements with regard to the buried robbery-treasures.

Let's now focus the assumed buried treasures. There are some experts, who doubt fundamentally the existence of the treasure. The archaeologist Eusebio Dizon of the Manila National museum is belonging to this group. After a search for eighteen years, he comes to the conclusion that there is not any evidence for the existence of the treasure. Other authors are thinking that there was no reason for the Japanese in 1943 to bury the treasures in the Philippines. These authors however ignore the testified findings of treasures in the Marcos-era.

Again and again, it is written in literature that 172 (175) treasure-places on water- and countryside are "documented". These „documents" are not accessible for the public and are square maps made of rice-paper and show characters of a two thousand year language („Kungi"), which is nearly unknown today. The cards refer to markers, that are in the environment of the treasure-places. There are also surviving eyewitnesses, for example Ben Valmores, a Philippine servant of a Japanese prince, who informed about the construction of the treasure-tunnels. Mostly prisoners of war (POW´s) were obliged to dig the caves or vaults. After completion they were shot and left behind in the vaults.

The vaults – so the legend - were safeguarded in different manners. The descriptions of the protections are remembering at specific computer-adventure-games like „Tomb Raider "or „Indiana Jones ". There are warnings about water traps, Egyptian-style rock falls, spring-loaded bomb detonators and glass-encased cyanide capsules.

What happened to the treasures after the war? Sterling and Peggy Seagrave claim in their book "Gold Warriors ", that the driver of general Yamashi.ta was tortured by the Americans and that he betrayed more than twelve hiding places. The Americans would have lifted the findings in cloak-and-dagger operations and transferred them to America. President Truman - so this theory - declared the findings as a „state-secret "in order to exclude rights for compensation of other states and private-persons. The treasure would have been used then for financing the fight against the communism in the phase of the cold war. – Another book about Japans „Yamato dynasty ", which is classified as less credible, develops the thesis, that the Japanese would have succeeded in transferring bigger parts of the treasure. With help of the treasure they would have financed their economic miracle in the post-war era. - It is known, that the Japanese TVB Asahi found 1800 gold barts in the value of 150 million dollars near Manila.

There are more numerous proofs, that Filipinos themselves have found parts of the treasure. A Mr Roxas, who was a translator during the war for the Japanese, found in 1970 a tunnel filled with gold and some skeletons. He took at home a three feet high golden Buddha. A short time later president Marcos was informed over the finding. After a torture Mr. Roxas revealed the place of discovery, nevertheless he was thrown into the prison. Mr Roxas took proceedings in 1986 - a short time before his death - against Ferdinand Marcos. The complaint failed however because of joint tenancy of the married couple Marcos.

There are some witnesses, (among others Mr Dominguez / Mr Caoile) that soldiers from the 16th Infantry Battalion exploited over 13 years altogether 30 treasure-positions on order of president Marcos and General Ver. An article in „The Philippine Daily Inquirer " gives the information, that 60.000 (!) tons of gold bars, precious metals and gems would have been lifted. Mrs Marcos herself conceded that parts of the treasure fell into the hands of her husband. But she did not give any information about the places and values. This statement of Mrs Marcos is also considered as a protection-contention in order to cover other raids (development-funds / monopolies). If the Ex-CIA-Agent Reiner, hired by the government Aquino, is telling the truth, than 1240 tons of gold are deposited in a free warehouse in Zurich / Switzerland. The gold is told to be in the property of the Marcos.

The treasure-search on the Philippines goes on. "Death secure" tips are sold, maps exchanged, war-veterans questioned, diviners are called and .... foreigners considered to be rich are taken for a ride by cheaters. Who nevertheless is "faithful" and does not shun a risk.

© W.BETHGE
~~~~~~~~~

The legend of Yamashi.ta continues even now, there are Filipinos that are following chiseled marks on rocks, trying to
discern where the main markers and when discovered, what they are saying and what they lead to.....
The thing that ties me in to the whole story of Yamashi.ta is that in Vienna, while serving as a Military Attache , I believe
that it was Yama himself who received the Jesuit Code Book from the German High Command..we always knew of this
meeting by the Japanese and the Germans 12 years before the bombing of Pearl Harbor..but now to know that Yamashi.ta
HIMSELF was the person who was stationed there..WOW talk about a smoking gun..this is a smoking treasure code book
Yama.used this Code Book to dig up hundreds of Spanish Treasures buried in the Phillippines in the 16th Century...this
treasure along with the enormous about of tonnage of gold taken from his exploits called the 'Rape of Nanking' was reburied
in appox 178 places all over the Republic of the Philippines..which we affectionately call the 'Treasure Islands'

Legends like this, take twists and turns,,layers of facts retold, get distorted, changed and some facts just disappear in the fog
of war and the mist of time..but we are doggedly pursuing this across time and circumstances to reveal the truth as much as
it  may determined! This is just one more piece of the puzzle.

rangler

"Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction."...old west saying.
 

Re: the Legend of Yamashi.ta's Gold in the Phillipines circa 1945

SWR said:
rangler said:
The cover story was so well crafted that, it made a lot of people believe that Yamashi.ta never so much as kicked dirt to cover a coin..let alone bury 600,000 - 1,000,000 tons of gold in the Philippines! All but the knowledgeable and the curious ones took the bait, hook, line and sinker..especially in shallow water.

"The best estimates available suggest that the total volume of gold ever mined up to the end of 2006 was approximately 158,000 tonnes, of which around 65% has been mined since 1950."

http://www.gold.org/faq/answer/76/how_much_gold_has_been_mined

D'oh!

“Anybody can make crap up and post it on the Internet…and they usually do”




"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."


John Adams
US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)
 

Re: the Legend of Yamashi.ta's Gold in the Phillipines circa 1945

Never use simple logic to solve a complex problem

It is a FACT in the history of gold mining, all over the world, all thru time...
that gold miners never never reported all the gold being found.

True in ancient times, true in the 49er days, true in modern times..best estimates
are that only about 20-23% of all gold mined ever got reported..most of the gold mined
all over the world was mined by private individul people, who mine the gold, took it to
the liquor store, bought booze and a little food..that would be the end of any reporting
so your allegation by quotes from the post are NOT the gotcha moment you were looking for.

There is always more to it than causual glances made with inexperienced eyes.

Lots more..basically the tip of the iceberg is what the reported gold to the figures you quote!
Appreciate the effort but you will have to dig deeper than that to discredit the Yama/Marcos legend and montrous tonnes of Gold buried in the Treasure Islands ( Republic of the Philippines)
Mabuhi manong
rangler
ps I am a gold miner since 1980.

"The absense of evidence is not evidence of absense"
 

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Yes.Please stand by while I go back in time and spend about 1000 years and interview about 17 million odd miners accross time and try to get them to remember and admit the amount of gold that they skimmed off the top of a commercial operations or the amount of beer and food all the little guys bought..oh and dont forget the largest share holders of gold all over the world since mining began, the Prosititute..but hey since they were all as honest as the day is long. Their tax records will show that to you, since you have such faith in acedemia and footnotes.This would fall under the bare ass-asertion fallacy!

Please know that in the entire rest of the world your acedemic training is much appreciated..but in the world of treasure hunting and gold mining..this approach is the true fallacy!

Unforuntally you have fallen prey to the liberal professors that for educational purposes only make you all research and foot note your acedemic achievements..it was just that ,,an exercise..in the real world, save the profession of being a Professor or a Tax account.it is useless when applied to non logical..non scientific, non acedemic endevors. Save your strenth for pursuits where your talents are appreciated..they just dont compute in the world of treasure hunters, after all any footnote here woiuld lead the first person to read the account - to the goods..mute point,case closed

if you so believe in notations and footnotes , then why not play into YOUR strong points and you provided the evidence that Yama is not true, that gold is not sphioned off..ect.where are your
bonifieds?
rangler

"easy to be negitive - to tear something down - much harder to be positive and build something"
 

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Much has been said regarding the yamashi.ta's gold, the pros and cons,........ to the detractors of this legend, we're they able to land their foot in one of the island of the Philippines? or its what they call armchair hunting just basing on what they read and hear on many treasure hunting forums books and everything. Many have already sacrificed their lives and wealth in seeking this treasure, some are successful some are not, and many are still trying to try their luck...... and to the treasure hunters out there keep on digging because if we deny the existence of the yamashi.ta's treasure, its like we are denying that there's no japanese occupation during ww2 where many of our country men/guerillas side by side with the Americans lost their lives.
 

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Brokenman
Correct you are , my kababayan! Armchair indeed, theories of academe, all short sighted negative approaches
filled with pessimism and denial. The real question for those of us who recognize this modus operandi, what is their
agenda, is it just the blatant lack of knowledge, or a more insidious plan? If it was mere lack of knowledge, then
it is exacerbated by the arrogance of being lazy and not digging to the volumes of information made available to
the general public these days.

Yes not one of the detractors here, have taken the time to learn these codes or have been on a actual treasure hunt,
let alone take the time and expense of traveling to the Philippines to engage the undertaking of Yamashi.ta and
his minions., I dont understand how a non-treasure hunters can comments with any authority on treasure hunting..
oblivious to reality, the typical produce of the world of academe, where ivory
towered bloated professors teach the young skulls full of mush, that nothing exist in
their armchair world, unless there is a footnote or annotation of someone else's work!
Leaving no chance for independent thinking or a single original thought to come out of their heads.
A shame really, an entire generation lost to the muddled thinking and brain
washing of these Professors of Mind Control and Distorted thinking.

WE know with out a doubt the Yamahshi.ta buried 172 (34 of those underwater in the sea) caches of immense proportions! as well as thousands of
smaller caches by lessor officers and enlisted men. In the free-for-all- Rape of Nanking and the Phillippines were
100,000 Filipino's were killed in just the battle of Manila, when Yama fled to Bagiuo, under the threat
of the American forces advances on his position. All of the smaller Banks, shops and Museums were looted,
robbed and raped by the
remains of Yama forces under a lessor Officer. These thousand caches were buried at Public places that the
Japanese knew the Americans would not bomb, like Churches, Public Parks, Schools, Hospitals, ect,
some were hastily buried in places of Natural wonders, like waterfalls, and cataracts, rivers and
streams, not to mention caves and tunnels.
The balance buried right on the land occupied by the forces themselves. On lot of land picked for the
strategic position or their natural resources, fresh water, fruit trees or farms.

Least we forget that Marcos himself buried over 30 locations of gold stolen from his own
'rape of the treasury' from the Filipinos people as well as reburing some of the Yama gold
he uncovered, with the help of Roxas and others.

Add that to what was left of the original 16th Century and later of the Spanish/Jesuits
caches left on the Islands to and from their trading with China and Japan.

The Filipino's unswerving loyalty to the Allied Forces, their bravery, and spirit to overcome the forces of evil,
should be held in high esteem by all Americans, and any help we can give them, whether moral support or
help with the codes that were used to hide these treasures, I will continue to contribute what I can.

Those treasures are poor compensation for the horror's they endured and the crushing poverty that they
continue to endure - because of WW2,the lack of resources - the Rape by Marcos of his own treasury
in the '80s and economic conditions that now exist worldwide.

We owe them a debt, the least we can do is not to rub their face in it by denying the events of that time.
Mabuyhay
rangler
 

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In behalf of my kababayan's who are in the field, thanks..... the picture i posted above was taken about 20 ft. underground. This is what was being pointed by the picture of a stone carve left foot i posted in one of your topic "mark/sign and symbols and its meaning"...... I'm painstakingly, carefully cleaning the area for any possible death trap before doing more activities. The place is one of the detachment of japanese soldiers during ww2..... maybe the detractors of the yamashi.ta treasure are envious, since hunting parts of the elusive treasure is where the challenge is. Here are some more pictures that was taken at the suspected chambers.
 

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jay wrote....

Yikes, such massively defensive responses suggest more ego sensitivity, than validation of any Yamashi.ta treasure.


Incorrect my good man, more like massively fed up ...with the negative nay saying that swamps
this board at times..and honing in on the source of the mind set and the thinking....
like any good researcher, get to the point, get to the source.

I do admit to being a little (to) adamant.. in retrospect....lol
auferiously
rangler

T5 "For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed - there is nothing buried that will not be raised."
 

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brokenman said....

"In behalf of my kababayan's who are in the field, thanks".....

Your welcome brother, I will do all I can to help you safely recover the goods on your project!

"the picture i posted above was taken about 20 ft. underground. This is what was being pointed
by the picture of a stone carve left foot i posted in one of your topic "mark/sign and symbols and
its meaning"......


Oh ok, so that "foot" pic that you posted WAS indeed 'pointing' toward the intended direction
good work there Brokenman!

"I'm painstakingly, carefully cleaning the area for any possible death trap before doing more activities".

Yes Thank you , caution is extremely important, to you and your family...{Please continue to be
extremely cautious
One tip, I learned from a Pinoy on Luzon, he found a rusty wire, and resisted the temptation to
pull the wire out of the way..slowly and painstaking digging out the wire, it found it to be
connected to ww2 era Japanese land mine......
A few more of the the things to worry about, is any sand layers, that might be mixed with
something that can cause
itching..or much worse. One thing for sure, is to be aware of the what the water table depth
is in your area, at any given time, dry season or raining. The Japanese used the water table
as a water trap, which could catch you unaware and try to drown you , or for sure, to flood
the tunnel or pit.

Usually a cement plug will be right at the water table,
this is the famed 'super hardened cement' that they are famous for..If you run into this ,
you can contact me and I will help you with what solutions may work for you...Dont forget
that on massive burials of large proportions Century ordinance is used, these are 100 pounders..
armed and pointed straight up, waiting for your pick or shovel!

Extreme caution..is advised.


"The place is one of the detachment of japanese soldiers during ww2".....

See if you can find out the size of the detachment, as on my first trip to the RP, I found out that
the larger the number of soldiers in the detachment, the deeper the pit. A brigade level of troops,
the pit could be 180-200 feet deep!. Down to a company of men, to about 20-40 feet.
With of course smaller amounts of goodies to go along with the depth AND the amount of man
power available.

Take excellent notes on your progess. measure and diagram your progress..photograph as
you are doing everything that you uncover, be expecially on the look out for the "flower"
icon carved on a rock as this is one certain death trap sign, that we learned about.

Other Kababayans can help as well, I am sure you know a few, but Gary Baustia is one
who has done a lot of work and he has decoded many signs as well..His pit at last report
is at 80 feet - with dozens of carving and marker rocks on the way down.


"maybe the detractors of the yamashi.ta treasure are envious, since hunting parts of the
elusive treasure is where the challenge is."


exactly! and it is NOT for the faint of heart, arm chair pessimists!!!
aurferiously
rangler


" i guess there's still some people out there who are really limited in their understanding,
which will cause you to be limited IF you listen to their input."......stilldign
 

Re: the Legend of Yamashi.ta's Gold in the Phillipines circa 1945

Why not ask them if they do the actual digging.......
 

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