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

[BROKENMAN]

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

All the evidences regarding the existence of yamashi.ta treasures are all over the internet, its up to you and the others to accept or disregard the argument about it....... bcoz, to us who feel, touch and see cannot be swayed by any of the people you have mentioned including you in locating more of this treasures. In our place of the world we have also people in high places who benefit out of it, but they don't brag to others and there are commoners like me who just whispers their find to the treasure hunting local community, though small, still its part of the yamashita treasure.

 

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[BROKENMAN]

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

thats for you to guess.....

 

[Montana Jim]

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

Hey rangler... You spelled "Philippines" wrong in the topic heading.



Glad I could help out.

 

[rangler]

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

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The National Historical Institute in the Philippines, the Filipino Government, the University of the Philippines and the National Museum of the Philippines say there are no treasures. The proponents of this myth/legend continually fail to provide any plausible evidence to support them.

The Philippine Govt IS the one who is GRANTING the Permits to Recover Treasure Troves, Do you really think that they would believe that there is NO treasure buried, if they are taking the time to write Bills and pass Laws, with percentages clearly spelled out. ( 50% of the Treasure belongs to the Feds if found on Public land and 35% if found on Private land. The recent change to LIMIT Treasure Recovery Permits to Filipino Nationals, also done because there is NO Treasure. Obviously they know something that you dont.

Lets see do I believe a Democratically elected Government of a Nation of 42 million people,faithful allies of the USA inhabiting a Island Archipelago of 7100 Islands occupied by the Japanese, a decade before and during WW2 or do I believe YOU? hmmm lets see..


You see, we all have that built in bit of doubt and healthy skepticism and when we dont have that in it needed capicity, then we soon get it when we dig a 40' pit and there is nothing there...our skepticism, is now fully balanced and we have learned greatly from it..so you see you are depriving the average Treasure Hunter of his/her normal development, therefore you really do a disservice!

Please - Let us all learn this on our own!


it is much much harder to PROVE or BUILD something..just saying no to everything is easy..my ex did that all the time!

Just a quick perusal through your past posts are revealing.... .

... you claim that you are trying to be helpful, well lets see a bit of information from you, that might just help our fellow T-net members to find that treasure. Thus far I have seen no information from your posts, which could in any way be construed to be "helping" to find any treasure, but perhaps you do have something to contribute.

he retorts...
As far as helping to find fictitious treasure(s)...my information is as good as the next guy and equally as good as yours appear to be.
{repy to the post not the poster?}

a posted stated..
Yeah that is what I would expect from you - always trying to help your fellow treasure hunters locate lost treasures. Perhaps if you worded your assistance in a different way, it might not appear to be utterly un-helpful.

... he chortles..Even though your questions were rhetorical, I answered them. I was not obligated to do so, but I did. If you don’t like my response to your absurd questions

still another poster....
-- having to be "right" all the time -- the only thing that is right all the time is (G)od , so if you think your always right --you must think your(G)od.

by the way I've never ever seen you admit an "error" -- if someone points out or proves that your wrong ---you just go "off subject" and never admit their right --- I say if you find out that your never wrong --then you need to start working on your "god complex". because only god is right 100% of the time.[i/]


still another poster totally fed up....

Naysayers like him are just that, if you look at just about every topic he has been on it is just more of the same, the whole idea of having forums like these are for people to reach out and communicate and get some advice and share theories/ideas. It gets pretty old when people like ... just keep adding their negativity. I understand everyone has a right to communicate, negatively or positively here, it just makes you wonder what their agenda is when most of the time all they have is negative comments.


his response......

Other than holding your hand, and leading your to the treasure….{this is really funny..}

I’ve got nothing but my own opinions to offer.

Then again, that is all the others can offer, { this may explain your bias, as you dont think others have any more
insight to treasure signs, or codes or anything that is not found in a footnote or annotation}

one poster sums it up...

Go and actually do some treasure hunting and then you might find yourself in a better mood so you wont be so miserable just sitting there day after day.


I rest my case
auferiously
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


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Jim, you forgot to post any captions about those random pics you posted, that makes us even , I think!

 

[rangler]

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

Marcos digs up some of Yamashi.ta's Gold - despite what the so called "experts" say. Marcos digs up the proof!


SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE: We were there we dug up gold
Posted: Apr 28, 2008

THE PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER

THEY were just in their early 20s in September 1972 when first recruited into the reactivated 16th Infantry Battalion, with the "mysterious" task of digging tons of gold and gemstones for President Ferdinand Marcos.

They were part of the "Task Force Restoration", organized by Armed Forces Chief of Staff Fabian Ver, whose main task was to conduct "massive diggings and excavations" under the cover of fighting the communist insurgency in the countryside during the martial law years.

Dominguez and Caoile were among those sent to the "digging fields". Caoile was then only 20, Dominguez, 25.

Theirs is a story that may be considered the missing link in the mystery of the Marcos gold.

According to the soldiers, the Marcos generals and officers close to the late president knew about the operation, including President Ramos who was in the so-called "Rolex 12" circle and was chief of the Philippine Constabulary.

Ver's elite Presidential Guard Battalion watched and guarded the young soldiers with hawk-like attention while they conducted the digging operations at night. During the day, they slept or did their "standard" work of "restoration" or infrastructure development and other "field operations."

Throughout the 13 years that the members of the Task Force Restoration did their work, only some 30 treasure sites out of 172 were dug up, The rest, as identified by Marcos and with the help of "some Japanese men," who had the maps, were untouched or may have been dug up by "those in the know."

Their first digging operation was in March 1973 near Lake Caliraya in Lumban, Laguna.

"Sometime on early morning of the first week of March 1973, we were secretly tasked to provide manpower for digging operations and security to a huge part of the infamous and legendary Yamash.ita WWII treasures consisting of gold bars and gemstones buried by Japanese soldiers within the plateau in the vicinity of Lake Caliraya Resort, in Cavinti, Laguna," they said.

Their unit stayed in the area up to the last week of April 1973, but a platoon-sized detachment remained to "ward off New People's Army elements operating there." They started the preliminary work - setting up steel sheets around the area and constructing the makeshift field barracks - and then dug the area as instructed. Ver's PGB and high-ranking officers inspected the construction of the makeshift field barracks and the "pounding of long flat steel bars which served as perimeter fence at the treasure site about to be dug up . . ."

Dominguez, who was in the first group, recalled how they prepared to dig a hole in the ground 30 feet wide and 35 feet deep, as instructed by their superior officers. Their stay of several months extended to a year.

They were even told to make offerings - pigs or chickens which were killed at the site to appease "enkantos" who were supposedly guarding the treasures. Otherwise, they could encounter severe difficulty at the digging site. The ground would mysteriously swell with water or some of their things would get lost. Even the soldiers themselves were told to have no "dark intentions" and to be "pure in heart" so they could accomplish their objective, Dominguez said.

President Marcos himself came to visit them at the site whenever there was a glimpse of success. He also made "random visits" aboard a helicopter during the diggings, they said.

"During these operations, members of our unit saw four Japanese nationals together with president Ferdinand E. Marcos, Generals Fabian Ver and Ramon Cannu, Lt. Colonels Lachica and Javier D. Carbonnel, and Capt. Renato Jamora and some members of the elite Presidential Guard Battalion," the soldiers said.

But it was only on the evening of April 27, 1973, at around 11 p.m., that the "treasure digging activity finally reached its objective." They had been using two bulldozers, two backhoe "Kato" and a heavy-duty crane when they struck something, the first of the group's find.

"Several steel cylindrical drums measuring approximately three feet long and 1.5 feet in diameter, and an undetermined number of rectangular copper boxes (three feet long, one foot wide and two feet high) entombed in several thick concrete vaults were unearthed at an estimated depth of 35 to 40 feet," they said.

One of the concrete vaults was accidentally hit by the Kato backhoe while the vaults were being dug up. Until that time, the soldiers didn't know what they were sent down there to dig.

Because of repeated strikes, the teeth of the backhoe broke the body of the vault, hitting a steel drum inside it. The soldiers saw "heavy yellow metal gold which gleamed amidst the floodlights concentrated on the big digging area." One of the bars which they saw was a foot long, three inches wide and almost two inches thick.

After more than 30 minutes, three helicopters arrived. Two Huey military-type helicopters came escorting a presidential chopper ferrying Marcos, Ver, Cannu, Felix and some PGB close-in security personnel. They came to inspect the treasure find. Marcos could not contain his excitement, the soldiers said.

The concrete vaults (approximately six feet long, five feet wide and five feet high) were lifted one by one through the use of a heavy crane and were placed aboard three six by six military trucks which were on a 24-hour stand-by near the battalion headquarters command post at the area.

"Before Marcos and his party left the place, we overheard him instructing General Ver apparently on where to transport and hide the gold bars which (task) was carried out by PGB elements," the soldiers claimed.

"Sometime in the fourth week of April 1973, we were pulled out from the area, but a platoon-sized detachment was left and stayed there for almost a year after the site was further improved as new tourist spot into what is called now as Japanese Shrine Sunken Garden," they said.

After the digging at Lake Caliraya in Laguna, the other company elements of the reactivated 16th Infantry Battalion were utilized to provide the same security detail services and conduct treasure digging operations separately in the areas of Montalban, Antipolo, Baras and Teresa all in Rizal province from 1974 to 1981. This led to the activation of the "Task Force Restoration" under Lt. Col. Porferio Gemoto sometime in 1977 and 1978.

Task Force Restoration had then extended its operations to the Intramuros-Manila Cathedral area near where the Palacio del Gobernador was built.

In 1972, before the diggings happened, Marcos' men discovered a vast tunnel "within the Pasig River" along what is now the Napindan flood control project, underground tunnels from the Fort Bonifacio military reservation up to Villamor Air Base and Bicutan-Taguig via Fort Bonifacio Army General Hospital.

These secret tunnels preceded all the other treasure hunting and digging operations. The soldiers said the gold discoveries made by Marcos, as well as their operations, were the real reasons why he started his strongman rule "in the guise of a threatening rebellion by the alleged newly revitalized CPP/NPA (Communist Party of the Philippines, New People's Army) and Muslim secessionism in Mindanao."

In fact, Marcos allegedly had to create the conditions for this to justify martial law and allow the secret diggings done by newly recruited soldiers sent to the countryside allegedly for "field training."

There was a different group who dug, another group in charge of transporting the boxes containing the treasures, and another group who took care of securing these before they were transported outside the country. The trucks which transported the crates of gold bars and other treasures were large six by six trucks heavily covered and boarded up, Caoile said. Some of the WWII gold bars were coated in black hardened tar and asphalt to "discourage innocent finders during these treasure-hunting operations," Caoile said.

The gold bars dug by the soldiers were stored in the vaults of the old Central Bank in Intramuros. Later, in the mid-1970s, Marcos "ordered the construction of a new and modern coin and gold minting and refining plant of the Central Bank along East Avenue in Diliman, Quezon City."

According to the soldiers, this was to "further accommodate voluminous bulk of Yamash.ita gold bars and bullions for remelting" to change their original forms and markings which included the countries where the gold came from. There were orders from Marcos to erase the marks from the gold bars which the soldiers had dug up, Caoile said. This was to prevent the government of the countries which the Japanese had looted from discovering these.

The different gold bars that the soldiers dug up had inscriptions such as "Cambodia" with five star markings; "Sumatra" with four stars; "Burma" with three stars, and other marks identical to the countries of their origin. The Cambodia gold bars weighed 6.3 kilograms each; the Sumatra gold bars weighed 6.2 kg each; and the Burma bars weighed around 6 kg each.

Upon orders from Marcos, the original size and weight of the gold bars were modified to make it appear that these did not come from the Japanese treasure loot; thus, the need to remelt these at the Central Bank, the soldiers claimed.

The soldiers said "crates by crates" of gold bars were shipped out of the country via the Manila International Airport (now the Ninoy Aquino International Airport) using C-130 military aircraft after martial law was proclaimed. This was witnessed by perimeter security personnel of the airport.

"During those years of diggings and excavations, frequent electric power brownouts occurred in the Greater Manila area intentionally done to cover up the series of transport of gold bars from treasure sites to the Central Bank or secret warehouse vaults pre-designated by Marcos thru General Ver," the soldiers claimed.

The soldiers said even before martial rule in 1972, Marcos had already successfully excavated gold bullions and gemstones at the Manila Railroad Company (MRRCO, now PNR) yard complex at Tutuban terminal. This was at the start of his first term as president from 1965 to 1969. He started treasure digging when elected president in 1965 but could not finish it in four years; thus the need to employ soldiers to continue the work under Task Force Restoration when he was re-elected.

The soldiers claimed that in all, they excavated and retrieved more than 60,000 metric tons of gold bars, bullions, and other precious metals such as palladium, platinum, chrome, nickel, zinc and little babbitt bars. There were precious gems such as diamonds, both cut and uncut.

Among the "major" treasure sites which the soldiers had dug up were in Caliraya in Cavinti-Lumban, Laguna; Baras and Teresa in Rizal province; Montalban caves in Montalban, Rizal; Montalban Mascat; Sitio Mayagay, Sampaloc in Tanay, Rizal; Fort Bonifacio Tunnel; Fort Bonifacio hospital; the area of the Manpower and Youth building; Bastion de San Lorenzo in Fort Santiago; Muñoz in Nueva Ecija; Balok bridge, also in Nueva Ecija; site of the Central Luzon State University statue in Muñoz; Sta. Fe in Nueva Vizcaya; Campo 4 in San Jose, Nueva Vizcaya; and San Mateo in Rizal province.

According to them, the Japanese army units had subdivided the treasures they brought into the country and buried them in places classified as major and minor treasure sites. The Japanese allegedly used the Manila Railroad Co. to transport the treasures.

Major or minor treasure sites depended on the "suitability, concealment, permanency and location of man-made, built-up areas, mountainous and/ or rolling hills, terrain with creeks, rivers, dams, big acacia, mango, camachile or duhat trees that serve as references for future retrieval of said treasure deposits," the soldiers' said.

This excludes the four, six, eight or more pieces of gold bars usually found underneath big acacia or mango trees where they had been stashed by low-ranking Japanese soldiers while their superior officers were not looking.

In some of the major treasure sites, the soldiers even found skeletons still wearing their tattered uniforms and helmets, and with their swords beside them.

In Fort Santiago alone, there were more than 100 boxes of treasures which the soldiers found buried under the old torture chamber, Bastion de San Lorenzo, which is just near the Pasig River.

Even in President Ramos' time, there have been secret diggings, they add.

Caoile said Marcos's and other government officials including President Ramos would "never talk about the gold." "Instead, they will deny and torture the minds and belief of the people by telling them that these Marcos gold is nothing but a mere hoax, fiction, fantasies of a fertile and speculative mind," they said.

"They do not want to expose the truth about the Marcos gold because they are expecting to benefit out of it in collaboration and connivance with foreign conspirators both here and abroad," they added.
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take it or leave it, believe it or not..
auferiously
rangler

" one thing you cant hide, is when your crippled inside"....J Lennon

 

[BROKENMAN]

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

....that's why "the court found insufficient evidence that Roxas actually discovered the gold bullion while treasure hunting north of manila in 1971." as quoted by swr from the court rulings in hawaii, b'coz it was the gang of marcos who found it...... what the late Rogelio Roxas discovered is the golden buddha. According to the same rulings of the Amended Judgement of the First Circuit Court of Hawaii it says: "Based on the forgoing analysis, we(1) reverse the portion of the circuit court's amended judgement awarding GBC $22,000,000,000.00 for one 'storage area' of gold bullion......(instead).... (b) awarding GBC $1,400,000,000.00 in damages for conversion of the golden buddha and the seventeen gold bars." The "Conclusion" didn't disprove the existence of the golden buddha and the gold bars.....which is part of the yamashi.ta treasure. *GBC represents Rogelio Roxas.

 

[Montana Jim]

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

Quote from Rangler's source, January 02, 1998

"They do not want to expose the truth about the Marcos gold because they are expecting to benefit out of it in collaboration and connivance with foreign conspirators both here and abroad," they added.

Then why even talk about this at all? I'll tell you why - fuel to the fire.



“Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, and fools do not imitate the successes of the wise” -- Unknown Filipino Selling Fake Maps to the Yamashi.ta Gold

 

[rangler]

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

...from Lost Treasure Magazine


It is often said that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. The twisted tale of Yamashi.ta’s gold, allegedly buried in the Philippine islands, is a story of a great fortune and many crimes that became inseparably intertwined.

The tale begins with Japan’s plundering of its neighbors before and during World War II. As the Germans did in Europe, the Japanese squeezed vast fortunes from their Asian domain, creating a river of riches flowing toward the homeland. The Japanese government intended that loot pilfered from Southeast Asia would finance their war effort.
This was not the haphazard looting of a rampaging army - it was a highly organized effort - perpetrated on a massive scale by some of Japans most prominent citizens; allegedly including Emperor Hirohito and yakuza gangsters such as Yoshio Kodama.
Emperor Hirohito appointed his brother, Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, to head a secret organization called Kin no yuri (”Golden Lily”), to organize the looting.
Golden Lily teams systematically emptied treasuries, banks, factories, private homes, temples, churches, mosques, museums pawn shops and art galleries, and stripped ordinary people of what little they had, while Japan’s top gangsters looted Asia’s underworld and its black economy. The stolen property reportedly included gems, golden Buddhas, coins, and precious metals of immense value.

THE TREASURE ROUTE
Not since the Spanish conquered the Incan Empire in 1532 had the world seen such an aggressive looting campaign. This sort of enterprise took careful planning and an established network to transport the loot safely and efficiently back to the Japanese homeland.
The hub of the Golden Lilly’s looting network was the Philippine island of Luzon - it’s strategic location and proximity to Japan made it a natural and necessary trans-shipment point.


During the early days of the war the looting network functioned as planned - treasures from all over South East Asia arrived in the Philippines daily - the loot was then transferred to freighters for the trip back to Japan.
But toward the end of World War II. The Allies were gaining control of the Pacific, making it increasingly difficult for the Japanese to transport the stolen treasure. Allied submarines and aircraft took a heavy toll on Japan’s shipping; some of the ships carrying loot to Japan were sunk.
So, instead of shipping the treasure back to Japan, Golden Lilly operatives began hiding the loot in caves and underground complexes throughout the Philippines. The Japanese believed that when the war ended they would be able to keep the Philippine Islands as a concession for peace. They would then be able to dig up the vast wealth hidden there to rebuild their failing empire.

General Tomoyuki Yamashi.ta
Arriving in the midst of this frenzied activity was the Philippines’ new military governor, General Tomoyuki Yamashi.ta, “the Tiger of Malaya” - a nickname he had won by conquering that complacent and ill-defended British colony.
As the Allied forces closed in, General Yamashi.ta kicked the treasure concealment campaign into high gear.
Yamashi.ta dug massive tunels in the mountains outside Manila, some to depths of hundreds of feet, leading to the final ’storage chambers’. Many of these tunnels were excavated just below the water table during the dry season, which meant that they would eventually fill with water – a deterrent to any future salvagers.
And if that were’t enough, most if not all of the tunnels were booby-trapped with 1,000 and 2,000 lb bombs and poisonous gas.

Alied Prisoners were used to dig the intricate tunnel systems and once the gold was safely stashed in the pits, the POWs were executed and buried along with the treasures. In rare cases, Japanese officers even had their own soldiers killed and buried along with the treasure, to protect the secret locations.
Yamashi.ta also blasted caves in coral reefs, and sank entire shiploads of valuables in the sea around the islands. But in the end all this hard work was for nothing – the Americans invaded the Philippines in October 1944.
When the Allied forces landed on Luzon there was still much treasure remaining to be buried, so General Yamashi.ta loaded the remaining loot on trucks and took it with him as his army retreated across the island.

Japanese and American Troop positions
on Luzon Island - Philippines 1945.
Legend says that as Yamashi.ta fled, he broke the treasure into many smaller stashes that were hidden along the line of his retreat, the bulk of the stashes are said to be concentrated in the mountainous area where Yamashi.ta made his last stand against the invading US troops.
Yamashi.ta eventual surrender on September 2, 1945.
According to popular lore, there are said to be 172 documented, official Japanese imperial burial sites (138 on land and 34 in deliberately scuttled ships), not to mention the numerous instances of loot buried by greedy officers and renegade soldiers.

The worth of all this booty is estimated to be as much as $3 billion at 1940 rates – the equivalent of over $100 billion today. According to various post-war estimates, the gold bullion alone totals 4,000 to 6,000 tons!
Many of those who knew the locations of the loot were killed during that final battle, or were later tried by the Allies for war crimes and executed. General Tomoyuki Yamashi.ta himself was executed for war crimes on February 23, 1946 taking the secret of his treasure to the grave.

RECOVERY EFFORTS
Many Yamashi.ta researchers believe that a portion of the treasure has already been recovered by various parties in the sixty years since Yamashi.ta’s Execution. A great many facts have been accumulated, maps have been found, witnesses have sworn their testimonies, but the truth remains shrouded in mystery and lies. Two of the more credible and well researched rumors of recovery are listed below:
Clandestine Operation
The first rumor reads like a Tom Clancy Novel. It’s said that, in October 1945, American intelligence agents learned where some of the Japanese loot was hidden. Agents of the O.S.S. (forerunner of the CIA) watched as Japanese troops buried treasure on the island of Luzon and once the Japanese were defeated they began a clandestine recovery operation that lasted until 1948.
Peggy and Sterling Seagrave’s book, Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashi.ta’s Gold (2003), Is one of the best written on the subject and a great place to start your research on this fascinating tale. The initial edition comes with CD-ROMs containing 900 megabytes of documents, maps and photographs.
There were important reasons for all this secrecy. If the recovery of this huge mass of stolen gold became public knowledge, the countries and individuals that had been plundered could not lay claim to it; and the OSS/CIA had no intention of returning any of the plunder to its rightful owners.
Instead, they set up numerous front companies to launder the secretly recovered gold bullion. This is supposed to have become the basis of the CIA’s ‘off the books’ operational funds during the immediate post-war years, used to create a world-wide anti-Communist network.

General William Donovan, head of the O.S.S., supposedly knew of the gold recoveries, as did General Douglas MacArthur, and former US presidents Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman.
Marcos’ Gold
Perhaps the most credible rumor of recovery involves a young, up and coming Filipino politician named Ferdinand Marcos - who became successively a congressman, senator, president, and finally dictator of the Philippine islands.

Ferdinand Marcos
It was rumored that Marco’s rise in politics was financed in part by Yamashita’s hoard. One of many stories about Marcos places him with a party of Japanese soldiers who hid gold in a tunnel at the end of the war.
Then sometime in the mid 1960’s he recovered $8 billion from a tunnel known as “Teresa 2″, which was located 38 miles south of Manila, in the Rizal province.

An interesting fact about Marcos is that he was the leader of the Ang Maharlika guerrilla force in northern Luzon during World War II. This would have put him in the center of the action as the Japanese made their final stand against Allied forces.

Whether the dictator ever found Yamashi.ta’s gold is pure speculation - but it’s a well documented fact that he searched diligently, freely using his presidential powers and the nation’s armed forces in the hunt. When he declared martial law in 1972, Marcos took full advantage of the clout it conferred to step up his treasure-hunting efforts.
In 1975, Marcos awarded himself a monopoly on underwater recovery efforts, decreeing that all future salvage operations in Philippine waters would require his personal approval.
From time to time, scraps of information leaked from the Marcos inner circle indicating that the dictator did indeed find some sort of treasure. In the 1970s, Marcos hired an American, Robert Curtis, to search for buried treasure and remelt gold bullion to hide its origins.

Curtis later told of seeing bars of gold “stacked from floor to ceiling” in one of the dictator’s provincial palaces. “The ingots”, he said, “were of a distinctive shape used around the time of World War II”.
The ‘gold’ Buddha allegedly returned to Rogelio Roxas by Ferdinand Marcos. Roxas claimed the Buddha he’d found had been solid gold with a cavity in the removable head that contained diamonds
Rogelio Roxas, a Filipino locksmith, is said to have found a one-ton, solid-gold Buddha and thousands of gold bars in a tunnel near Baguio in 1971, only to have them stolen by President Ferdinand Marcos.
In 1986 Roxas sued the Marcos estate for damages, but died from poisioning on the very day he was set to testify.
Marcos was eventually overthrown in 1986; It was reported that when he fled the country, U.S. Customs agents discovered 24 suitcases of gold bricks and diamond jewelry hidden in diaper bags.
In addition, certificates for gold bullion valued in the billions of dollars were allegedly among the personal properties he, his family, his cronies and business partners had surreptitiously taken with them when U.S. President Ronald Reagan provided them all safe passage to Hawaii.

This article is yet one more in a saga that will not be simply dismissed - by those who dont know. More to come.
auferiously
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

" a fool knows more than he is wise, a sensible man is wiser than he knows".......lao tzu

 

[Montana Jim]

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

Well... if someone finds it one day I'll be the first one to think I was wrong.


Thats all.

 

[rangler]

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

When Marcos declared Martial Law in the Phils ,to hide his activities of recovering about 40% of Yamashi.ta's gold caches, he also took advantage of the secrecy to ship vast amount of gold bullion out of the Phils, for his escape plan. Where else but to Switzerland, where gold bullion may be deposited by the ton, with no documentation other than a bill of lading. A secret numbered account is issued and is anonymous! How ever the stigma of the Marcos regime had reached the Vaults of the Swiss Government and they more or less put Ferdinand on hold so to speak, they told him to ship the gold via Air Freight to the Zurich airport, and couriers would pick the pallets of gold up there and transport it to the Central Bank of Credit Suisse.

Marcos shipped the gold and as a added but of diversion , he shipped it under his wifes name,
after Marcos died in Hawaii in '89, Imeldas assets were scrutinized by the new administration and one bit of investigation turned up a surprising bit of Yamashi.ta's Gold at the Zurich Airport in storage!! Under a friend of Ismeldas name

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25 Billion Imeldas Treasure Found
The legendary Gold-Bounty of the Marcos-clan lies in Zurich
AZ - NAMEN & NACHRICHTEN

ZURICH (Switzerland) - More than 20 years ago Ferdinand Marcos soaked the Philippines nation and channeled moneys from economic aid to developing countries and Japanese Reparation (code word for Yama's goodies) to his personal bank account.

After the death of the dictator his widow, Imelda, kept the existence of the treasure a secret. Now the proof is in. 1,240 tons of Marcos gold worth about 25 billion Marks are stored in a duty free storage bin under the Zurich airport.
An unimationary amount. The money could fill an 80 sqm flat with 30cm high in one scoop (1 sqm = 1.196 yd, 1" = 2.5 cm). 287.04 sq feet x 1' high!

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The infamous Yamashi.ta before his hanging.
The debt-ridden state of the Philippines could pay the most urgent part of their debt.
The Marcos gold is from embezzled Economic Aid to Developing Countries and the Japanese War Coffer (the loot from pillaged countries)(yama) which fell into the hands of Marcos after WWII.

After their flight to Hawaii in June 1986, the Marcos clan took all their valuables with them. Left were only the outfits of the beauty Queen, Imelda Marcos, 1,200 pairs of shoes, designer clothing, ludicrous was a bulletproof brassier. But gold and diamonds vanished.
In 1989 Marcos died and since them Imelda is guardian of the treasure.

The government of Corina Aquino tried to bring back the Marcos billions into the country. Manila hired an Australian ex-CIA man, Reiner Jacobi. The treasure hunter whom the government offered 10% finders fee tracked down the precious metals. Walter Mitchel, the supervisor of the Zuricher Freilager, A.G. (storage chamber), told a private investigator, "We have 1,240 tons of gold which belong to the Marcoses".

The gold, according to information to the Austrian "NEWS", is listed under the name of "de Preux", a long time friend of the dictator.
So far, 605 million marks of the Marcoses has been detected and that account frozen. Small peanuts compared to the gold 'treasure'.

On account of Jacobi's knowledge the government of Manila wants to get the gold out of the reach of the widow of Marcos and have all funds frozen. Until now she had no financial problems, "we could stay in contact by phone; buying and selling, without any problems", says Mitchel.


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...this is only the tip of the camels iceberg under the tent lol
more, much more to come!~
auferiously
rangler


"All warfare is based on deception". .......sun tzu

 

[rangler]

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

Why so much buried World War II loot in the Philippines?
The Southeast Asian Treasure Connection

During WWII the Japanese Imperial Army systematically looted all the conquered Asian countries of their national treasures (This included; gold, silver, precious stones/gems, golden statues, etc.). During the earlier part of the war, WWII looted treasures were being shipped back to Japan for badly needed war finances. However, when American patrolling naval vessels made the shipping of these looted treasures to Japan much too risky to continue with due to almost certain loss, another plan was devised.

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Investigative reports show that a great bulk of World War II treasures reached the Philippines from the latter part of 1943 through October, 1944, at that period when Field Marshall Count Terauchi was In-charge of the Japanese Imperial Forces in the Southeast area of the Pacific. He had ordered Admiral Masaharu (then over-all military commander of the Philippines before Yamash.ita) and several other Admirals and Generals (including Yamash.ita) that all war booties taken from their respective occupied territories comprising Java, Sumatra, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, and Northern India be collected and thereafter transferred to the Philippines..

Japan had always considered the Philippine Islands to be a very important strategic location for military bases in Southeast Asia. Unknown to the rest of the world, the Japanese Imperial Forces had a major plan for post war sovereign and the Philippine Archipelago was included in this elaborate scheme.

( Part of this scheme as that even if they lost the war against America, their fall back position would be to include the Phils as part of that strategy, and investing huge amounts of propaganda, once was called "Asian for Asians" that tried to convince the Filipinos that they (as oppressors) were better to govern them than the liberators, the Americans!) ( In addition - the Japanese send as many as 100,000 soldiers, in civilian clothes, to "invade" the Phils - 20 years before Pearl Harbor! - and move all over the island, looking for the ideal spots to dig pits and tunnels for the future burials of treasure plundered from South East Asia and China) In addition they were there to locate and retrieve Spanish/Jesuit Treasures placed in the Phils starting in the 16th Century, with the aid of the Jesuit Code book, that Yamashi.ta received from the German High Command, in Vienna, in 1932 at the German Embassy) Data in parentheses is the posters'.

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Once the shipping lanes became too dangerous due to American Naval vessels, almost all of the loot that the Japanese had accumulated there afterwards was being channeled to the Philippines and buried. Their ultimate plan was, that when the war was over they were going to withdraw forces from all the other Asian countries but try to maintain their colonial rule over the Philippine islands. Under the banner of "Asia for Asians" they prescribed some reforms in the guise of nationalism. In hopes to win over the Philippine people, in 1943, the Japanese went as far as setting up a 'Philippine Republic', and installing a puppet government with the Judge Jose' Laurel as president. By winning over the hearts of the Philippine people and later even granting them independence, the Japanese Forces hoped that they would be then regarded as 'hero's' by them. This would also allow them to put military bases there as a pretext of 'protection for the Philippine people'. In this way, they could remain in the Philippines for as long as they liked and take their time to re-excavate the stolen WWII loot at their leisure. It was a good plan but in the end it didn't work out - the Americans invaded the Philippines in October 1944.

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However, before this U.S. invasion, the Japanese Imperial Forces were busy hiding and securing its stolen WWII loot. Elaborate tunnels were dug, some down to depths of a few hundred feet, to the final "storage chambers". Many of these tunnels were dug down to just below the water table during dry season, which would also be a deterrent to would-be future salvors. Most, if not all of these tunnels, were booby-trapped and rigged with 1,000 and 2,000 pound WWII bombs and poisonous gas. This trick would also help keep the buried loot from falling into enemy hands. Detailed maps of the sites were drawn up on rectangular rice paper - all written in special treasure codes and the 2,000-year-old Japanese script known as "Kung"'( or Kanji ).

In most cases, POW labor was used to dig the intricate tunneling systems. In all cases, upon completion of securing the gold in the pits - the POW's were all executed and buried along with the treasures. In some rare cases, Japanese officers even had their own soldiers killed and buried along with the treasure to protect their secret locations.

In all there were 172 "documented" Philippine burial sites (138 land and 34 water sites) left by the Japanese Imperial Forces. This is not to even mention the numerous 'private' burials of WWII loot by greedy officers and renegade soldiers. There was still much treasure remaining to be buried when the U.S. abruptly invaded the islands. Japanese Forces took all of this with them up into the mountains in the northern Philippines and other areas during their retreat, where it was all buried at many different locations.

It is estimated that the total worth of this war loot ranged up to 3 billion 1940's dollars - the equivalent of over $100 billion today. According to various post war estimates, the amount of gold bullion alone was 4,000 to 6,000 tons. Ex-president Ferdinand Marcos himself managed to recover several sites and that is how he became so wealthy.
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any idea that Yamashi.ta did not bury the plunder from China and Southeast Asia in the Phils fades to obscurity and is only weakly adhered to by the naysayers, whos jerk knee reaction to deny ALL types of treasure stories, the real as well as the false.
aurferiously
rangler


" nothing you can do that can't be done, nothing you can sing that can't be sung"...J.Lennon

"nothing you can code, that cant be decoded, nothing you can bury , that cant be dug up"

 

[rangler]

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

Malaysia (10/03/97)

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"Ferdinand said with a straight face that in fact he was because he had discovered Yamash.ita's treasure."
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Marcos' Gold Hoard
by Mr. D. Paredes

The trouble with the Marcos millions is that it has been gone over too many times with a fine-toothed comb and everyone of those who have done so have come up with different versions of what it was the Marcos held.
How big was it? The estimates vary. The smallest estimate places the total at about $5.0 billion.
Enrique Zobel says that in Hawaii, Ferdinand Marcos tried to borrow $250 million from him. For payment, Marcos had his nurse bring out a folder of gold certificates for gold stored in various banks all over the world -- Switzerland, Monaco, the Vatican, the Bahamas -- with a total value of about $ 35 billion.

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The smoking gun? A long hidden letter showing transportation of a huge tonnage of gold bars to
Australia, which then - a part of - was forwarded to the Airport storage underneath the Zurich Airport.

Former Governor Orlando Dulay told the PCGG's David Castro that Marcos had found and dug up
$40 billion in (yama's) gold.

From Marcos himself, when he was trying to come home, came the offer to return $15 billion to the Philippine government -- $5.0 billion to be spent for infrastructure projects, $5.0 billion to service the Philippine debt, then at $27 billion and $5.0 billion to the Aquino family for their sufferings during Martial Law.

Later, he revised the amount he was offering to return downwards to $5.0 billion. Then President Cory Aquino's answer must have turned off Marcos because the deal never prospered. She said that Marcos should first return the money; then, with the money already in the Philippines, they could talk terms.

In fact, Marcos indicated that the amount he was talking of returning was actually in the Philippines, buried in some secret site. If this is so, then, the money that we think is in Switzerland is additional treasure.

The Swiss bank accounts started in March 1968, the third year of Marcos in power. Walter Fessler, a representative of Credit Suisse Bank, went to Malacanang where the President signed a form that identified one account under the pseudonym of "William Saunders" under the real name signature of Ferdinand Marcos. Imelda's was "Jane Ryan." At that time, four bank accounts were opened with four checks, totaling $950,000.

In 1991, David Castro of the PCGG announced that 325 tons of gold had been smuggled out of the country during the Martial Law years and that these were on deposit in a bonded warehouse at the Kloten Airport in Switzerland. The gold was stored in the basement of the airport, right under where departing and arriving passengers pass. ( A second confirmation of the Swiss Airport Storage of Yama Gold)

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The golden Buddha of Roxas fame..found by him - stolen by Marcos - confiscated by the court- then a fake returned to Roxas.

At that time, the Philippine government had already identified several accounts of the Marcoses. These were sixty-three corporate accounts, seventeen under foundations and twenty-two secret accounts. As far as the Swiss bankers were concerned, they admitted only to $350 million on deposit with them.

Castro identified two additional secret bank accounts of the Marcoses that had, in them, $1.3 billion. Castro's source was the controversial Renner Jacobi, who had been working with the PCGG since 1988 with Chairman Mateo Caparas, who brought him into the agency.

In the course of the investigation into the account by the Swiss courts which had been asked by the PCGG to put a freeze on the new accounts that Renner discovered, Jacobi admitted that his associates had broken into the computers of Credit Suisse and, there, retrieved the information on the hitherto hidden accounts. From that moment on, Jacobi became a hunted man.
His last known dealing with the PCGG was when, under arrest in Hongkong, Jacobi was abandoned by his friend David Castro.

In 1993, Jacobi again revealed to Chairman Magtanggol Gunigundo that Imelda Marcos had signed a power of attorney appointing one Jose T. Calderon to "negotiate, transact, withdraw, transfer, sell or otherwise deal" on anything that is on deposit under her name with banks in Switzerland.
The current new revelation of an additional $13 billion in another Swiss bank apparently also has Jacobi as one of the operators who discovered this, again, obviously through computer hacking.

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More Gold bars recovered from the deep pits dug by Yamashi.ta. and his army.

Is there really a Marcos hoard of gold and/or dollars in Switzerland or elsewhere? Does Jacobi really have anything or, as the Malaya theorized in an editorial, is this all fool's gold?

The former President, after a golf game, once shocked the reporters in Malacanang when, asked about being a rich man, Ferdinand said with a straight face that in fact he was because he had discovered Yamash.ita's treasure. The reporters were expecting that Marcos would come up with a punchline since this was, to them, obviously a joke. Marcos never gave the expected punchline and, straight-faced, went on his way.

Maybe, that was the punchline.
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Indeed it was the punchline of the decade - Marcos just couldn't help himself in bragging about his exploits! Yamsh.ita and Marcos are two of a kind, both greedy, ruthless, and singleminded, the difference was that Yama went to his death without admitting a thing about the treasure, but Marcos a greedy braggart, served to confirm that Yama's treasure was real,
so real it's weighed in TONS of GOLDEN REALITY!

auferiously
rangler


" we sink in decadence amid the perfumes of hints and denials "

 

[rangler]

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

Golden Lilly was the code name for the plunder and rape of Nanking and Southeast Asia. Some have said that it did not exist, very laughable in face of the evidence. The following story written by the noted author and investigative journalist Denis Boneau French journalist, member of the French section of Voltaire Network


The Treasure of Japanese Criminals
Golden Lily Operation
by Denis Boneau*

After the 1930’s, while the Japanese imperial army looted Southeast Asia, Emperor Hirohito launched “the Golden Lily Operation”, aimed at recovering and hiding his war booty. At the end of World War Two, US general McArthur’s troops took hold of the treasure and raised funds to finance the struggle against communism. “Yamash.ita’s Gold”, considered a simple legend for many years, allows you to understand how the Japanese Democratic Liberal Party, despite the great corruption of its elite, kept an exclusive control of the Japanese “democracy” for half a century. This is part three of a series of articles on Japanese war criminals, their links with the Mafia, their political power and the American support they received to commit their misdeeds, under the pretext of fighting against communism. The history of “democracy” advocates.

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8 November 2004

In 1895, Queen Min was burned alive by a group of murderers of the Black Ocean Society, an ultranationalist group led by legendary Mitsuru Toyama. The operation, aimed at destabilizing the Korean government, constituted one of the elements of the conquering strategy used by the Japanese secret service designed in conjunction with the yakusas of Toyama.

The assassination of the Queen gave rise to the “incident” that justified the progressive invasion against Korea. In 1905, the country became a protectorate of Japan. The ultranationalist societies began the looting operations while the underworld chiefs took on key positions. With the support of the imperial government, Ryohei Uchida, chief of the Black Dragon Society, and Toyama’s right hand, put together the militias in charge of extorting money from Korean rich families.

In 1910, Korea was fully annexed. The military chief, general Yamagata, commissioned Terauchi to undertake the secret police activities, which had initially been established by Black Dragon. The kempeitai carefully arranged the plundering of the territory, with the support of the Toyama and Uchida’s militias. Officially, Japan attempted to Project Southeast Asia from the Western settlers, by founding a “sphere of joint prosperity”. The Japanese imperial dynasty really oversaw the ongoing plundering of the country, stealing gold and masterpieces (the valued celadon porcelain), destroying the cultural heritage (Buddhism temples) with the clear intention of doing away with the Korean identity.

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Ryoichi Sasakawa

A similar system was established in Manchuria, under the command of Nobusuke Kishi and the yakusa societies. The annexed territory enabled Japan to control the access by sea to the commercial ports in the North of China. The puppet government was then under the domain of the tairiki ronin -officers, chief warriors, drug traffickers... Entrepreneurial Yakusas made up true private armies to plunder territories on behalf of the Emperor, or they formed an alliance with the Chinese patrons of the Green Band to control the distribution networks of opium and its by-products. Ryoichi Sasakawa [1] and Yoshio Kodama [2] therefore amassed great fortunes, which at the end of the war, would allow them to finance the creation of the almighty Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

The chiefs of these groups of criminals with expeditious methods were Nobusuke Kishi and his clan, which included general Hideki Tojo (chief of the secret policy and future Prime Minister of the Government during the war years), Hoshino Naoki (chief of the opium monopoly), Matsuoka Yosuke (chairman of Mantsetsu corporation) and Aikawa Gisuke (Nissan leader). They planned the looting operations with the complicity of the Emperor.


They founded the Manchues Heavy Industry Company, an organization that coordinated the development of the industry and concentrated the booty that the army and the yakusas had looted from the local population, through the use of different methods such as demanding ransoms, extorting money, robbing banks ...
Plundering was controlled by the Japanese Empire princes: “Golden Lily Operation”

The conquering obsession upset Western leaders, who feared that Japan might interfere in their own colonies and concessions. In 1936, in the midst of the full plundering of Korea, the Japanese strategists hesitated between two choices. One of the tactics was to take control of Siberia, a territory with abundant natural resources, to set up a security area in front of the Soviet Union, main rival in the region.

This “anticommunist” strategy had the merit of pleasing one part of the West elite. For this purpose, the Ambassador to London, Yoshida, attempted to set up an alliance with the British, resorting to the support of the Cliveden group. Several ultraconservatives in the United States, like former President, Herbert Hoover, or the Nazi pilot, Charles Lindberg, and officers close to general MacArthur, favored an understanding with the imperial dynasty.

Prince Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother, traveled to London in 1936 to arrange a potential Anglo-Japanese alliance. It was likely that the possibility to create an anticommunist front seduced the British diplomats; however the advance of the Japanese troops in Asia threatened the European powers’ colonies. Very soon, Chichibu was deprived of every means of negotiation.

The army was totally out of control in China. In 1937, several officers were plotting the Marco Polo incident in China, which resulted in the invasion of the country by the Japanese troops with the unofficial support of the Emperor. Prince Chichibu declined the already obsolete idea of setting up and Anglo-Japanese alliance and flew to Nuremberg where chancellor Adolph Hitler was participating in a meeting [3].

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that he wanted to put an end to the conquering «obsession» of Japan, the invading army was getting ready to commit an unprecedented massacre ordered by an imperial prince. As a matter of fact, prince Konoe, a “moderate” Prime Minister, commissioned prince Asaka to head the Nankin army.

The latter ordered his troops not to leave any prisoner in the city. For days, the soldiers followed his orders very strictly. Tens of thousands of Chinese were murdered under horrifying circumstances in the face of many West witnesses. The soldiers «used» men as mannequin to learn how to use the bayonet and officers as a way to practice the beheading rituals.

Women and girls were victims of collective rapes in front of their families. In the mean time, princes Chichibu and Takeda made sure that the booty of the plundering ended up in the hands of the imperial dynasty. The experts audited every banking document while the secret police tortured every suspect of having information on Nankin’s gold and fortune [4].

Japanese prince and general Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother, visited a colony of boy-scouts.

To make sure that the army did not unnecessarily squander the plundered products, Hirohito set up the Golden Lily, an organization that gathered experts in money extortion (accountants, finance professionals ...), yakusa chiefs and powerful industrialists under the command of imperial princes, the only people the Emperor fully trusts in. Prince Chichibu was in charge of supervising the entire group [5].

In 1941, the regime of Philippe Petain authorized Japan to occupy the North of Indochina. Prince Konoe favored a “negotiated peace” but he was unable to convince Hirohito and he resigned. The Emperor, determined to declare war, appointed general Tojo in his place, who was one of the men of the Kishi clan that masterminded the systematic plundering of Manchuria.

The “surprise attack” [6] against Pearl Harbor was a sign that unleashed a Japanese offensive in Southeast Asia. Japan invaded Thailand, Sumatra, Burma, occupied Guam and Hong Kong. Japan also expelled general Macarthur from his feud in the Philippines. The new annexed territories were systematically plundered by the kempetai. Prince Chichibu established the general headquarters of Golden Lily in Singapore where the entire booty was sent to be inventoried by specialists.

In the Philippines, the western banks were the main target of the Golden Lily experts who took possession of the Philippines treasure to benefit Yokohama Specie Bank, whose main shareholder was Hirohito himself, and the Bank of Taiwan, another state bank. Part of the gold was used to finance the war. Swiss, Portuguese, Argentinean and Chilean banks were in charge of the laundering. The fortune stolen by the kempetai and the Golden Lily agents was taken to Singapore, and then to Manila to be eventually sent to Japan.

From Golden Lily to the end of Black Eagle

After the battle of Midway, the balance of military forces in Southeast Asia moved towards the United States. Japan lost control of sea routes. Hirohito and the imperial princes began to think of a potential defeat of the Empire. From then on, Golden Lily operation, headed by Chichibu, who officially underwent a tuberculosis treatment in the base of mount Fuji, consisted of saving the war booty stuck in Manila. Firstly, Chichibu had used the hospital-ships to transport the gold that was later on put in underground deposits built in the Japanese mountains.

In 1943, that solution was not applicable any more since the United States was in a position to impose an effective maritime blockade. The fortune began to pile up in the Manila harbor. Prince Chichibu then put together a group of engineers specialized in the construction of underground nets, and began to conceal the booty in underground hiding places. In Manila, he used the underground systems of Intramurom, an old Spanish city that provided great storage capacity.

A gallery that allowed a discreet transfer of goods connected the harbor directly with Intramuro. Chichibu selected historical places, like churches, universities, and a whole series of places where the bombing risk was minimal.

Prince Takeda used caves and supervised the construction of tunnel nets in the North of Manila. Specialists set up big quantities of ingenious and terribly effective traps: bombs, cyanide capsules, water and sand traps... Another prince, Takahito Asaka, son of the perpetrator of the Nankin slaughter, and general Yama, hero of the Singapore actions were sent to the Philippines to face the imminent US attack and participate in burial operations. Engineers and slaves were constantly buried alive.

When MacArthur began the reconquering of the Philippines, the princes try to quickly hide what they had not been able to bury yet. Ships loaded with gold were sunken with their crews on board. After Japan’s defeat that finished its occupation with the slaughter of civilians in Manila, the princes escaped in submarines.

The American secret services knew about the Golden Lily operation since 1945. John Ballinger, an agent, disguised as a fisherman could observe the unloading of boxes full of gold that had been carried in a hospital-ship. MacArthur arrested its rival Yamash.ita and entrusted one of his own agents the mission to interrogate major Kojima -the Japanese general’s driver.

Severino García Santa Romana obtained numerous pieces of information on Yama’s itineraries and, in this way, he was able to locate several hiding places. “Santy” became then the guardian of “Yamash.ita’s treasure”. He remained at the beginning under the command of MacArthur until the enigmatic Edward Landsale [7], former-agent of the OSS, who had recently joined the G-2 services of general Willoughby [8], took command of the operations.

After submitting the issue to president Truman, they decided that the recovered booty would be used to raise money to create a fund against communism, known as Black Eagle. The project, conceived by an advisor to Roosevelt, consisted of using the gold stolen by Germany, Italy and Japan to finance pro-American governments and, consequently, to manipulate, with the use of money, elections in the core of several “democracies” threatened by the “red danger”.

With the help of Robert Anderson, a money laundering specialist, the gold that Santy had recovered was dispersed in 170 bank accounts, opened in 42 countries. The banking network of the CIA allowed therefore to hide again the fortune stolen from Southeast Asia and to keep the gold prices at a convenient level for the economic interests of the United States [9].

The treasure returns to Japan

The booty seized by the American authorities was deposited in three different secret funds at the beginning. The Yotsuya fund financed the most unthinkable activities of MacArthur’s right hand, the boss of G-2, Charles Willoughby, admirer of general Franco and of the fascist police methods. The second fund, baptized with the name of Joseph Keenan, prosecutor at the Tokyo trial, Japanese equivalent to the Nuremberg trial, had a very precise function: to bribe witnesses to exonerate the members of the imperial dynasty, who had become MacArthur’s allies in the struggle against communism.

The Tokyo trial was a true farce that ended up in the hanging of a handful of scapegoats. Prince Asaka, perpetrator of the Nankin massacres, was not even summoned while general Matsui, accused of a crime in which he didn’t participate, was sentenced to hang. Yamash.ita, general MacArthur’s great rival, had the same fate; he was condemned for slaughtering civilians in Manila. General Tojo was found as main guilty and forced to take on responsibility for the war, instead of Emperor Hirohito.

The most strategic fund was certainly the M-Fund dedicated to the financing of the fight to prevent communists or social democrats from taking over power in Japan. After the war, an ephemeral socialist government was quickly discredited -thanks to the financing of the M-Fund- by the United States’ favorite, Shigeru Yoshida. This fund was also used to finance an official history about the Japanese defeat.

That was the way in which Yoshio Kodama published his memoirs “I was defeated”. The book, financed by the CIA with the M-Fund, was good to exonerate the future Japanese strong men, ultra nationalist supported by general MacArthur, such as Ryoichi Sasakawa and Nobusuke Kishi. The peace treaty is signed in 1951. Article 14 provided that Japan didn’t have the necessary resources to indemnify its victims. The existence of the Golden Lily, which turned into the Black Eagle, had to remain a secret.

After 1952, a board, headed by CIA members and the Japanese secret services, became responsible for the M-Fund. Thanks to the fund, Nobusuke Kishi, head of the Manchuria plundering and former Minister of Tojo’s war government, won the election. Eisenhower’s administration liked the extremely anticommunist war criminal.

The M-Fund financed the election of several prime ministers, such as Kakuei Tanaka, Noboru Takaka, Yasuhiro Nakasone and Miyazawa Kichii. Tanaka, to whom Nixon had promised the exclusive administration of the M-Fund, resorted very often to finance elections and dirty maneuvers.

Part of the Golden Lily money was invested in Japan and was squandered by those who decided who was to be the future prime minister selected from the Liberal Democratic Party membership, which monopolized the power during 50 years.

The Marcos clan, new guardian of the Golden Lily

Many hiding places could not be controlled by Santy and MacArthur’s services in the Philippines. Marcos, Washington’s turbulent protégés, won the 1965elections thanks to the “Yamash.ita’s gold”. Since the 1960’s, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos tried to contact Santy, the legendary guardian of the Golden Lily. Knowing that Santy had numerous bank accounts, they thought that some of them might have been forgotten by the CIA and they wanted to control them. When Santy died, in 1974, Marcos became the new unofficial guardian of the Golden Lily and cooperated this way with American and Japanese teams.

To locate the hiding places, the dictator used Ben Valmores, a Philippine peasant that had been prince Takeda’s servant. Marcos was able to accumulate important quantities of gold but the search operations were very complicated. The easiest thing was to ally with Japanese people that knew the location of the hiding places. Marcos resorted to Ryoichi Sasakawa, a war criminal and Mussolini’s admirer who then became part -after the Japanese defeat- of the restricted circle of new masters on Japan. Sasakawa was the ideal partner.

He discreetly withdrew the gold deposited in the Lubang island and probably carried out the money laundering through his Philippine-Japanese Mutual Aid Association. At the beginning, Washington that supported Marcos and Sasakawa’s anticommunist activities, turned a blind eye [10].

However, Marcos sought to work on his own and recruited two partners, a clairvoyant who claimed to have located, thanks to his gifts, the remains of the Nachi ship, and a specialist in metallurgy. Robert Curtis would be in charge of “sanctifying the gold”, in other words, he would have to find the means to adapt the booty so that it could be used in the world market without attracting people’s attention.[i/] To finance his facilities, Curtis resorted to John Birch Society, an extreme right group specialized in anticommunist operations, which had colonel Lawrence Bunker among its members. Bunker, in his capacity as former-collaborator of MacArthur, was aware of the existence of the Golden Lily.

When president Reagan planned to return to the gold standard, he asked Marcos to share part of his reserves. The dictator’s greed would be his misfortune. Paul Wolfowitz (in his capacity as Undersecretary of State) ordered the American secret services to kidnap Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and they were sent to exile in Hawaii [11]. Marcos’s reserves would have been sent to United States.


Many people still continue to covet the booty of the Golden Lily, the result of more than 50 years of systematic plundering of Southeast Asia by Japan. According to Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, since March 2001 the Bush administration (with Paul Wolfowitz as Secretary of Defense) has sent commands to the Philippines to recover part of Marcos’ reserves and to supervise new excavations. The control of what remains of “Yamsh.ita’s gold” is still an extremely important objective for those interested in accepting the full disclosure of the existence of the Golden Lily.

The access to the files on the Black Eagle fund was under the strictest control by the CIA.

The victims of the murders of the imperial army and their heirs that, in an entirely legitimate way, dare to request compensations are, still today, the butt of everyone’s jokes........

[/i]Officially,the cover story is that “Yamash.ita’s gold” is a legend.
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Only the severely uninformed disbelieve - the well informed know all to well the true legacy of the "Tiger of Malaysia": General Yamash.itia .
auferiously
rangler

"The double edged sword of intelligence/ignorance -
the former gets sharper with use, the later, gets duller with misuse"......anonymous

 

[BROKENMAN]

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

Sir Rangler,
As you said "only the severely uninformed disbelieve - the well informed know all too wel the true legacy of the 'Tiger of Malaya'. You may don't know but many of us have high regard on what you are doing defending us the obsessed Yamashi.ta tresure hunters.
With your vast pool of information regarding marks and symbols, harmonizing with the Japanese code we've got, there's no reason to be dismayed. As Mr. Montana Jim said, "if someone finds it one day i'll be the first one to think I was wrong". The same with us here with my group....try to prove the existence of it.
A naysayer may say 'just go and dig'. We did. The picture i've shown is the tunnel that leads you to the chamber and the picture I posted above (post#24) which I called the 'eye' is actually the flat shining wall which I suspect to be the vault. What we are trying to do is to clean painstakingly as you said, clearing for whatever stone trap or poison gas which may endanger us. Its not a picnic ground since we are working more or less thirty feet underground. If only a backhoe can go to the area but it can't be since its far from the available road.
We disregard bombs since we didn't encounter any signs of it along the way, what concern us more is the poison gas in small vials which may be inserted inbetween stones as being experienced by others.
I have been posting in another forum site by the name of 'sayangan' but its only here where I got a sensible information about Yamashi.ta treasure. By coming months I may need an explanation of an engraved mark which the group discovered beside the suspected vault. I hope you will not ceased defending our endeavour. God's willing we can be successful.
thanks,
brokenman

 

[rangler]

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

Brokenman
you had said..
By coming months I may need an explanation of an engraved mark which the group discovered beside the suspected vault. I hope you will not ceased defending our endeavour. God's willing we can be successful.

Fear not sir, I am more than happy to help all I can for the brave pinoys who dig in dangerous
ground for their fathers and grandfathers legacy!
If you can send me that last pic in full res to my email so I can zoom in and see what I can see
for you. Thanks [email protected]
rangler

"pinoys - brave argonauts that descend into the pit of hell to find some piece of heaven."......manoung

 

[BROKENMAN]

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

Sir Rangler,

We just came from the mountain, and we found out that there's a small cave in at the entrance of our tunnel,
at any rate we started to clean to reach the chamber where the vault is ........ I am posting the pictures of what happened inside our tunnel.......

brokenman

 

[Saturna]

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

I am posting the pictures of what happened inside our tunnel.......
brokenman

So, what did happen in the tunnel? I see what appears to be a tunnel shored up with metal pipes and an exotic looking spider....

Am I missing something?

 

[truckinbutch]

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

I am posting the pictures of what happened inside our tunnel.......
brokenman

So, what did happen in the tunnel? I see what appears to be a tunnel shored up with metal pipes and an exotic looking spider....

Am I missing something?

Looks to me like a serious failure of the hanging wall . Metal support is still in place but not supporting anything .
Everything has to be mucked out and resupported a couple of feet at a time . One heck of a setback in any mining operation .

Please correct me if you feel that I have erred.

 

[BROKENMAN]

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

Sir,
You are right, we have to do some cleaning and more timbering, hope a few more days we can reach the chamber where the stone vault is and can take the picture of the marker at the side of it to be interpreted by Sir Rangler.

 

[BROKENMAN]

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

Sir Rangler,

We have found a small marker one and a half inches and about twelve feet away from the portal of our tunnel.
Is the dot relevant with the vault we are trying to reach?

thanks,
brokenman