Gold Warriors, Peggy Seagrave
Gold Warriors, Peggy Seagrave
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Gold Warriors
America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold

Author: Peggy Seagrave, Sterling Seagrave

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 18 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/08/2020


Synopsis

In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This "Black Gold" gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America's allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years.

About Peggy Seagrave

Peggy Seagrave was a senior researcher and picture editor at Time-Life Books. Along with Sterling Seagrave, Peggy coauthored the bestselling Lords of the Rim and The Yamato Dynasty. She passed away in 2016.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Raza on July 23, 2023

So, consider Japan. Hungry for territory, run by Emp Hirohito & his cabal of militarists, starts acquiring land (Korea, manchuria, china & south east asia). During all this, they loot banks, private vaults & estates that includes gold, silver, platinum, diamonds, gems & art. All this is taken back t......more

Goodreads review by IX on March 23, 2025

This book is incredibly fascinating, especially as someone from the Philippines. The information it presented was entirely new to me—I had never heard or read about these topics before. While it was a lot to take in, I did some additional research just to verify its accuracy, and it led me down quit......more

Goodreads review by Tim on September 22, 2011

Just started this book. I found out about it from a podcast I listen to called "Black Op Radio." The host, Len Osanic, interviewed Sterling Seagraves (the author) and I found it to be a very fascinating story. I had to buy the book. I do think it will be interesting. I have so far just read the intr......more

Goodreads review by Mercurybard on May 06, 2017

The implications of the information revealed in this book are *terrifying*, especially in light of the recent banking crisis. The opening makes this seem like a conspiracy theory, but the last fifth of the book is anotations and citations and the authors offer to ship you a CD of scanned primary docu......more

Goodreads review by Mike on April 16, 2024

It is a very compelling story about the misuse of war booty on a global scale. The book focuses primarily on the theft of national treasures throughout Asia hiding the treasures in vaults throughout the Philippines, then the use of that treasure by the WWII allies, the resurrected Japanese nation, a......more