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Subject: Re: The C.I.A.'s Counterfeit Treasury
A responder's interesting comments/observation.
> Those "superbills" - counterfeit high-denomination U.S.
banknotes, indistinguishable from genuine notes - have, in the
past, been blamed on the former East German Secret Police, the
Stasi; and also on Iran, which has been alleged to have bought the
printing plates from the East Germans in the 1980s and manufactured
their own special banknote paper. The paper needed has to be made
out of rag cotton and esparto grass fiber, with tiny red and blue
plastic filaments embedded in it, and it has to be watermarked in
the manufacturing stage. If the North Koreans are printing them, it
could only be with printing plates and paper supplied to them by Iran.
>
> --IN RESPONSE TO:
>
>> Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Germany
>>
>> *Experts Suggest the C.I.A., Not Kim Jong-il, is Counterfeiting
Dollars*
>> "Sources allege that the C.I.A. prints the falsified
'Supernotes' at a
>> secret facility near Washington to fund covert operations without
>> Congressional oversight."
>> By Klaus W. Bender
>> [Translated By Armin Broeggelwirth]
>> January 6, 2006
>>
... Iran, which has been alleged to have bought the printing plates
from the East Germans in the 1980s and manufactured their own
special banknote paper.
That's according to Sherman Skolnick <http://www.greatdreams.com/
political/media04.html>, who has alleged a lot of things ...
According to another allegator in the Big Swamp of covert ops,
"Chip" Tatum (according to his "Pegasus File"), Iran got the plates
from the US -- from the CIA:
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/pegfile2.html
One operation of which Tatum has knowledge concerns the so-called
"Superbills" or "Supernotes" sting. Years earlier, in the late '60s
or early '70s, the CIA had secretly provided to the Shah of Iran a
perfect set of printing plates that could reproduce US$100 bills
without blemish. Also provided was an intaglio printing press. This
special printing press ensures that the etched plate meets paper
with tremendous force, creating the distinctive embossed feel of a
genuine banknote. In addition, the Shah was also given the ink and
banknote-quality paper, enabling him to produce perfect counterfeit
US dollar banknotes. The Shah later fled Iran and left the plates
and press behind in his confusion. The whole caboodle sat in the
mint at Tehran, according to some experts.8
According to Tatum, a deal was arranged in the early to mid-'80s
between VP George Bush, Panama's Manuel Noriega and the Iranian
leadership. A sum of US$8 billion deposited in the Banco Nacional
de Panama on behalf of Colombian cocaine king Pablo Escobar was
"lent" to George Bush. Of this, US$4 billion was shipped by plane
to Iran where it was exchanged at a ratio of one good bill for two
counterfeit bills. On the return trip, the 707 aircraft's cargo
container carried two shrink-wrapped pallets containing $4 billion
each. The 707 arrived at Howard/Albrook Air Force Base in Panama
where the pallets were offloaded under armed guard of the
Panamanian military. The counterfeit notes were re-deposited into
Escobar's account at the Panama central bank. Under no
circumstances could the counterfeit bills be permitted to leave the
bank vault-for fear of devaluing the US currency with forged notes-
and active steps would later be taken to ensure this.
The other half of Escobar's "good" money was placed into the hands
of Nana DeBusia, the grandson of Guyana's first democratic leader.
DeBusia was chosen by the CIA's William Casey to launder the
massive sum into numerous bank accounts under the joint signatures
of VP George Bush and Director Casey.
The next leg of the operation was to retrieve the $4 billion
exchanged with the Iranians for the Superbills. This was
facilitated by the supply of military equipment, arms, ammunition
and replacement parts for weapons systems. This part of the deal
was arranged by Col. Oliver North on behalf of the CIA's William
Casey.
The results of these complex manoeuvres were twofold. On the one
hand the CIA acquired $4 billion via the arms sales, for use in
future black operations, without the need to rely on congressional
oversight or authority. If later caught, Tatum says "...the CIA can
report the source of funds as being from an arms transaction with
Iran". Some of these funds were then used to support the Contras,
whilst the rest disappeared down the ultra-black hole of the
Company's covert finances.
The truth is probably somewhere in between -- but it's relatively
certain that the so-called "superbills" are a product of the CIA's
own top-secret treasury-on-the-fly, using which they have several
times counterfeited foreign currencies as a black-ops strategy
<statements by CIA/Neocon disinfo source Claire Sterling, "THIEVES'
WORLD: The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized Crime,"
suggest that, under Reagan/Bush, the CIA masterminded a counterfeit-
ruble program to destabilize the USSR, aided by the Russian-Israeli
Mafia> -- and now, with the irony of the principle of "what goes
around--", what we're objecting to as a threat to OUR economy is
simply "blowback" from ex-puppets turned enemies, with or without
some blackmail thrown in.
http://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000318.html
Back in the 1970s, long before the revolution that would eventually
topple him from power, the Shah of Iran was one of America's best
friends (he was a dictator who brutally repressed his people, but
he was anti-communist, and that made him OK in our book). Wanting
to help out a good friend, the United States government agreed to
sell Iran the very same intaglio presses used to print American
currency so that the Shah could print his own high quality money
for his country. Soon enough, the Shah was the proud owner of some
of the best money printing machines in the world, and beautiful
Iranian Rials proceeded to flow off the presses.
All things must come to an end, and the Shah was forced to flee
Iran in 1979 when the Ayatollah Khomeini's rebellion brought
theocratic rule to Iran. Everyone reading this undoubtedly knows
the terrible events that followed: students took American embassy
workers hostage for over a year as Iran declared America to be the
"Great Satan," while evidence of US complicity in the Shah's
oppression of his people became obvious, leading to a break in
relations between the two countries that continues to worsen to
this day.
During the early 90s, counterfeit $100 bills began to flood the
Mideast, eventually spreading around the world. Known as
"superbills" or "superdollars" by the US Treasury due to the
astounding quality of the forgeries, these $100 bills became a
tremendous headache not only for the US and its economy, but also
for people all over the world that depend on the surety of American
money. Several culprits have been suggested as responsible for the
superbills, including North Korea and Syria, but many observers
think the real culprit is the most obvious suspect: an Iranian
government deeply hostile to the United States ... and even worse,
an Iranian government possessing the very same printing presses
used to create American money.
If you've ever wondered just why American currency was redesigned
in the 1990s, now you know. In the 1970s, the US rewarded an ally
with a special machine; in the 1990s, the US had to change its
money because that ally was no longer an ally, and that special
machine was now a weapon used to attack the US's money supply,
where it really hurts. As an example of the law of unintended
consequences, it's powerful, and it illustrates one of the main
results of that law: that those unintended consequences can really
bite back when you least expect them.
=================
http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/
Bush_expected_to_approve_national_flu_pandemic_response_plan.shtml
Federal officials in the United States have drafted a national
pandemic influenza response plan that includes a proposal to allow
foreign countries to print US money as an emergency response
measure in the event of a major flu pandemic. President George W.
Bush is expected to approve the plan within a week, The Washington
Post reported on April 15. The response plan, assembled by the
president's Homeland Security Council, details how the government
would respond to a bird flu outbreak [or other national
emergency] ... The plan lays out 300 specific tasks for federal
agencies ... The Treasury Department is on the verge of signing
agreements with other countries to print US currency if the
domestic mints cannot operate.
_______________
North Korea says it has
"shocking evidence" of US plot
Apr 20, 2006
by Jon Herskovitz
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?
type=topNews&storyid=2006-04-20T072328Z_01_SEO10423_RTRUKOC_0_US-
KOREA-NORTH-FRAUD.xml
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has charged the United States with
counterfeiting its own currency and shifting the blame to
Pyongyang ...
A spokesman for the Ministry of People's Security said in a
statement the North had obtained "shocking evidence" Washington and
Tokyo are producing false material that gives the impression
Pyongyang is a criminal state, the North's KCNA news agency said
late Wednesday.
"The CIA secretly enlist(s) experts on counterfeiting notes claimed
to be the 'most sophisticated in the world' and invite(s) them to
issue lots of fake currencies at 'counterfeit notes printing houses
of North Korean-style' operating in U.S. military bases in
different parts of the world," the spokesman said.
U.S. Treasury officials have briefed various governments about
Washington's suspicions that North Korea has for years been
producing a high quality copy of its $100 bill. U.S. officials have
dubbed the copy the "supernote."
"Although Pyongyang denies complicity in any counterfeiting
activity, at least $45 million in such supernotes of North Korean
origin have been detected in circulation, and estimates are that
the country earns from $15 million to $25 million per year from
counterfeiting," the U.S. Congressional Research Service said in a
report in March.
-------------------
http://www.sniggle.net/counterfeit.php
“Because U.S. currency is universally accepted and trusted,” writes
a representative of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, “it is
widely counterfeited.” U.S. Secret Service spokesman Carl Meyer
acknowledges that the prestige of the greenback is only part of the
problem: “U.S. currency is not only the most desirable currency in
the world. It is also the most easily counterfeited.”
“Intelligence analysts,” according to a paper from the Henry L.
Stimson Center, “traced much of the increase to a group of highly-
skilled counterfeiters backed by IRAN and SYRIA, who have produced
as much as $1 billion in superb reproductions of the old U.S. $100
bill.” (As a point of comparison, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and
Printing makes about $9 billion in bank notes each year).
An unknown nation (variously described as Middle-Eastern or as
NORTH KOREA, depending on whom the United States wants to bomb this
week) is allegedly sponsoring the mass printing of what worried
officials call the Superdollar.
An end-of-the-century raid in the Philippines found a counterfeiter
with more than $50 billion in U.S. currency and treasury notes.
Another source claims that in 1989 fully 82% of the U.S. hundred-
dollar bills circulating in Europe were counterfeits.
Meanwhile, counterfeiters in Colombia are suspected of
manufacturing more than a third of the counterfeit notes seized in
the U.S. in 1999.
The Treasury Department is proud of the newly designed bills, with
their Optically Variable Ink and other high-tech anti-
counterfeiting elements, but even these new bills are being faked.
(Back to the drawing board, and back to the drawing board again.)
“Some have been deceptive enough to get by a clerk in a grocery or
retail store,” said Secret Service Special Agent Arnette Heinze,
“but in virtually every case they’ve been detected at the bank or
through the Federal Reserve system.”
Alas, since most of the economic transactions in the world involve
neither a bank nor the Federal Reserve system, the economy remains
quite vulnerable to the counterfeiter’s art.
------------------------
ARAFAT DIRECTED A COUNTERFEITING OPERATION OF $50 BILLS in US,
Israeli and Jordanian currency, guided by veterans of the 1990
Syria-Iran counterfeiting of $100 bills, which caused multi-billion
dollar damage to the US economy.
(Richard Chesnoff, NY Daily News, July 9, 2001).
---------------------------
http://www.hackcanada.com/blackcrawl/patriot/counterfeit.txt
from *The 700 Club Newswatch*, July 21, 1994
According to the House Republican Task Force on Terrorism and
Unconventional Warfare, Iran and Syria are actively engaged in
producing and distributing counterfeit $100 bills. They are
acting in concert to purposefully "destabilize the United States'
economy by undermining confidence in the dollar."
The plan is to flood the world market with bogus American bills.
That would drive down the value of the dollar and weaken the U.S.
economy. Iran and Syria also need hard currency to alleviate
their own financial crises.
"The Iranian deficit is far greater than... predicted, therefore
they need more hard currency to balance the budget," says Yossef
Bodansky, director of the task force. In 1992, the Iranian
foreign debt was estimated at $34 billion. Bodansky says the
Iranians made up for the shortfall by printing high quality $100
bills at their government mint.
According to the task force report, bogus bills are passed
through a Lebanon-based drug network. Safe shipment of the
counterfeit money is facilitated by Syrian Military Intelligence.
The counterfeit dollars are then distributed through Africa via
Cairo, Egypt, and Nairobi, Kenya, and on to Europe via Albania,
Bosnia and Italy.
Bodansky says the Iranian counterfeit money is laundered with
drug profits by the Italian Mafia. He says the Italians have
enlisted the help of the Russian[-Jewish] mafia. According to
the task force report, more than half the foreign [US] currency
in circulation in Central Asia may be counterfeit.
---------------------------
11/28/05
U.S. Allegations Of North Korean Counterfeiting Emerge
By Roman Kupchinsky, Radio Free Europe
http://www.payvand.com/news/05/nov/1269.html
As six-country talks on North Korea's highly controversial nuclear
program continue, it is perhaps understandable that a contretemps
between Washington and Pyongyang with considerably lower stakes has
grabbed few headlines. But years of investigation recently resulted
in a formal accusation by the United States that the government of
North Korea counterfeits $100 bills, or "supernotes," as they are
sometimes known.
The accusation was included in an indictment against the leader of
a breakaway faction of the Irish Republican Army known as the
"Official IRA," 71-year-old Sean Garland, and six co-conspirators.
That document was posted on the U.S. Department of Justice website
(http://www.usdoj.gov) in October. Garland and six others were
arrested in Belfast prior to the indictment's release, and he was
freed on bail soon afterward. He has denied the charges.
"Quantities of the supernote were manufactured in, and under
auspices of the government of, the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (North Korea)," the indictment reads. "Individuals, including
North Korean nationals acting as ostensible government officials,
engaged in the worldwide transportation, delivery, and sale of
quantities of supernotes."
U.S. authorities allege that North Korea is flooding the market
with supernotes for two primary reasons: 1) to earn hard currency
in order to continue its nuclear program; and 2) to destabilize the
U.S. currency.
In July 2002, three men, including a former KGB agent from Armenia,
were convicted by a British court on charges of conspiring to
import and distribute counterfeit $100 bills.
During the trial, the three were linked to Garland and a worldwide
network with contacts in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, and
Belarus. In Moscow, the group is believed to have used contacts to
organized crime gangs established earlier by David Levin, a 36-year-
old Armenian former KGB officer who was arrested and sentenced to
nine years in prison.
According to Judge John Cavell, the three were engaged in
sophisticated "international crime" involving millions of
counterfeit dollars circulating in many countries. "The
counterfeits themselves were of such exceptional quality that even
banks were regularly deceived by them," Cavell told the BBC on 26
July.
An unconfirmed account how the so-called Official IRA became
involved with North Korean counterfeit bills was published by the
"Daily Ireland." That account claims that the Official IRA
collected its first $1 million in fake bills in 1989. Those bills
first arrived at the Korean Embassy in Moscow, according to that
account, and were then transferred to a "popular holiday
destination in Eastern Europe" where they were picked up by "mostly
married couples and pensioners" so as to avoid suspicion. They were
then taken to Ireland.
The "Daily Ireland" went on to assert: "Just before the group
returned, an Official IRA representative in Moscow was involved in
a shoot-out with the Russian mafia. This led to the Official IRA
losing $100,000 in fake notes that were also bound for Ireland."
Persistent Reports
Suspicions that North Korea was counterfeiting $100 bills have been
circulating in the media for years.
One of the most detailed accounts to date appeared in "The Wall
Street Journal" on 9 September.
"Criminal syndicates working with the government of North Korea are
flooding the U.S., Japan and other countries with counterfeit
currency, fake cigarettes and methamphetamines, according to law-
enforcement officials in several countries and North Korean
defectors," "The Wall Street Journal" reported. "The ventures
produce the hard currency North Korea's cash-strapped regime needs
to procure weapons technology abroad. The North Korean currency,
the won, is virtually worthless outside North Korea."
The indictment in the Garland case asserts that North Korean
counterfeits began appearing in Ireland in the early 1990s. After
the United States redesigned its $100 bills to enhance security
features, "supernotes" reportedly began appearing.
"Pyongyang has found numerous ways to distribute its counterfeit
money" the UPI reported on 7 November. "Kim Jong-il's regime also
distributes millions of supernotes via Asian criminal
organizations. In early August, two FBI operations -- called
Smoking Dragon and Royal Charm -- uncovered a Chinese-organized
crime network and confiscated $4.5 million in supernotes"
In June 2004, the BBC program "Panorama" broadcast a special
program called "The Super Dollar" that dealt with North Korean
activities.
According to"Panorama," "in the late 1980s, U.S. intelligence
discovered that the North Korean government had acquired a highly
sophisticated printing press known as the Intaglio."
The BBC reported: "The police investigation is producing a detailed
picture of an international counterfeiting cartel. The surveillance
shows that it's all run by a tightly knit group of criminals.
They're getting their hands on the superdollars in Moscow. The
counterfeit cash is then smuggled to Dublin, from Ireland it's
taken to Birmingham and distributed in the criminal underworld.
Much of it is then bought in bulk by one man."
Extensive Reach
"Panorama" interviewed the Russian Interior Ministry General
Vladimir Uskov, whose men reportedly followed Sean Garland as he
visited the North Korean Embassy in Moscow.
"We registered his contacts with the North Korean Embassy," Uskov
said. "He visited the embassy several times. The fact [that] he
went to the North Korean Embassy, our information was that people
working there might have been involved in the transportation of
counterfeit dollars."
North Korea is not the only country to have been accused by the
United States of counterfeiting $100 bills on a grand scale. The
U.S. Public Broadcasting System (PBS) program "Nova" on 22 October
1996 reported that the governments of Iran and Syria had been
accused by U.S. Congressional investigators of involvement in the
production and distribution of high-quality dollar bills. The
Iranian government dismissed the charges, and no indictments were
ever filed.
Copyright (c) 2005 RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
Washington DC 20036.
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