by David Guyatt
September 2000
from
DeepBlackLies Website
Contents
-
Part 1
-
PART 1.1 - THE
JOHNSTON SAGA UNFOLDS
-
PART 1.2 - SWISS
"GHOSTS"
-
PART 1.3 - GOVERNMENT SHADOWS
-
PART
1.4 - THE MYSTERIOUS DR. DAMANIK
-
Part 2
-
PART 2.1 - BIG
BANG CIRCA 1954
-
PART 2.2 - MARCOS GOLD
-
PART 2.3 - THE BLACK PRINCE
-
PART
2.4 - THE BORMANN-PERON-KRUPP-MARCOS CONNECTION
-
Part 3
-
Part 4
-
PART 4.1 -
TINKER, LAWYER, TRAITOR, SPY
-
PART 4.1a - DEEPER SECRETS
-
PART 4.2 - DEFROCKING THE SECRET TREATY
Related Reports
|
|
INTRODUCTION
My involvement with the following events began on a sunny spring day
in May 1996 with a telephone call from an Australian, Peter
Johnston. He had read an article I had written sometime earlier,
that reviewed the Bank of England’s “whitewash” report into the
collapse of Barings Bank. Peter clearly felt that my critical
examination of the Barings fiasco demonstrated an independence of
mind that he believed was necessary to fairly investigate his own
story.
Within a week, Peter arrived at my house laden with documents and
fears for his future. The prospect of being found guilty in his
upcoming trial was a debilitating thought that visibly played on his
mind. He set about showing me his papers to demonstrate his
innocence of the charge against him. I was quickly impressed by his
openness and honesty and his willingness to field any questions I
threw at him and found it hard not to warm to him. He left an hour
or more later with a promise to mail me copies of the most important
papers and documents from his files. These arrived a week later and
I began contacting some of those involved in his negotiations to buy
the mysterious gold certificates.
Unfortunately for Peter, his story of the Secret Treaty gold proved
too complex for me to reach any real judgments about the validity of
his case in time for his trial. His barrister opted – wrongly in my
view – to defend Peter without submitting as evidence any of the
thousands of pages of correspondence, contracts and other paperwork
that Peter had available in his files. He was convicted and
sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in Ford Open Prison.
Throughout the Winter of 1996, I continued investigating Peter’s
strange story whenever the chance presented itself. I also arranged
to visit him in prison to ask additional questions. I hoped to
interest a TV production company in making a TV documentary to cover
the costs of overseas travel and other necessities that form part of
a detailed investigation. This was not to be, and a shoestring
research budget has been the order of the day throughout these past
four years.
Just before Christmas 1996, Peter arranged for me to pick up all his
files that were available in the UK. These proved of great interest
and enabled me to advance along slightly different avenues of
investigation. Then, after serving twelve months in Ford Open
Prison, Peter returned to his native Australia and, thereafter,
forwarded another large batch of documents for me to examine. These
were crucial to a clearer understanding of this complex story.
Despite a very large volume of daily correspondence, business
contracts and other documents that ran into several thousands of
pages, each of which had to be read and assessed, I was able to cull
a significant batch of what seemed to me to be absolutely explosive
documents.
Meanwhile, a friend who was one of the few to know of my ongoing
research put me in contact with a British businessman who also had
been dealing in gold originating in the Philippines. Gradually, I
learned about the intricacies of the international black market for
gold and discovered it was habituated by shadowy individuals who had
intelligence connections and backgrounds. Others seemed to rub noses
with members of organized crime or to be part of an international
network of scammers and confidence tricksters. The involvement of
the Sicilian Mafia is of considerable importance, also. By and
large, honest businessmen don’t stand a chance in this world, as the
circling sharks are sensitive to every morsel that isn’t properly
anchored and protected and consume it in voracious frenzy.
What follows is the result of over four years of often tedious work.
It is my belief that the Secret Treaty story you are about to read
unveils financial secrets so large that many will find it just too
incredible to believe. But true it is. However, for doubting
Thomas's everywhere, I have left a research trail of footnotes and
other sources and a small but powerful battery of original documents
that should enable anyone who wishes to follow in my footsteps to
reach his or her own conclusion.
The guiding principle that I have adhered to throughout my
investigation into the black market world of gold is an old one:
"follow the money." I first came across this advice in the revealing
book Ratlines by Mark Aarons & John Loftus. With a City [London]
background in international finance, this struck me as an impressive
piece of advice. It suggests that the underlying --and often
concealed -- motive behind almost every major scandal is money.
One of the biggest surprises during my research was my incredible
discovery that the official gold figures are pure nonsense.
Representatives of the gold industry from the Bank of England
through to the London Bullion Market Association and the World Gold
Council kept making the point that only a tad over 100,000 tonnes of
gold had been mined in over six thousand years. In fact, the actual
official figure today is closer to 140,000 tonnes - but still a long
way short of reality. This disparity soon became a sort of
background "hiss" to my investigation. I would phone a source in the
"unofficial" gold market and during the conversation I would be told
how little gold had been mined historically.
This refrain was repeated so often without my asking the question
that I was led to investigate the figures touted by official
sources. It immediately became evident that the pre-American Gold
Rush statistics were badly flawed -- probably designer-flawed. Over
the next few years I concluded that the official figures were
designed to conceal what I believe is one of the biggest secrets of
finance, namely, the sheer abundance of gold. This may not strike
some readers as greatly significant, but it should, for reasons that
I hope will become clear.
The world’s central banks still use gold as a reserve asset and the
obvious dilution of this underlying asset is of the very greatest
significance. Moreover, very large quantities of this "black" gold
have been -- and still are -- controlled and moved around the world
by forces that are fascist or so ultra right-wing as to amount to
the same thing.
There are a thousand important stories "out there" and many of them
don't get the depth of coverage by the media that one might hope
for. Admittedly, a small group of hard-core journalists, writers and
other investigators do expend considerable effort chasing these
stories, but their rewards are sparse. The major media just are not
interested. Often, what appears to be a lack of interest is, in
fact, a case that the financial or monetary interests of the
corporate media often deeply conflict with revelation of the truth
-- as was the case when media magnate, Rupert Murdoch tried to
inhibit critical reports about China in his newspapers that,
clearly, would have impacted negatively on his business
entanglements in that country.
The lack of interest by the media in this subject has led to this
story being privately published in the form of an electronic-dossier
via the medium of a CD. The reasoning for this form of distribution
is simply that publishing the material in hard copy -- and then
airmailing it overseas -- is prohibitively expensive. The United
Kingdom is one of the most expensive places to live in the developed
world and has been, for a great many years, dubbed "Treasure Island"
by transnational companies that double, triple or even quadruple
their prices when selling through UK outlets.
It is appropriate at this point to acknowledge my sincere gratitude
to Carolyn A. Betts of
Solari.com who graciously agreed to act as
editor of this manuscript. Her sharp legal eye and stalwart
attention to detail has proved invaluable. Thanks also go to
Solari’s webmaster, Ozzie, for his patience and considerable
assistance in making the final HTML presentation of a high standard.
It would be remiss of me not to mention my son, Ben, and his cousin,
Stephen, for doing a huge and quite brilliant job - under extreme
time pressure – in designing the HTML layout for this manuscript and
for my related website
www.deepblacklies.co.uk. Not least, thanks
must go to Catherine Austin Fitts, also of Solari, for agreeing to
promote and distribute this work and for her encouragement and
thoughtful patience during those periods when, under the emotion of
frustration, I wanted to rip my hair out.
Lastly, I would very much like to hear from anyone who may be able
to shed additional light on what has become a perennial “work in
progress.”
Go Back
|