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Letter from Arndt Krupp's Swiss law firm, Senn, Christians and Letermeyer, addressed to Herr Clem T. Santiago of the Krupp Heritage & World Peace Foundation. Nicolaud Senn is the Hon. Chairman on the Union Bank of Switzerland, one of the principal banks where Santa Romana gold and other WWII loot was deposited.

It is not without some interest that Santa Romana used a number of assumed names (aka's) when setting upthe numerous Black Eagle bank accounts. The list of these aka's runs to aproximately 30 in total.

One of those he used is none other than Clemente Santiago. I have been told (but cannot yet corroborate) that the late Baron Krupp obtained access to these Santa Romana "Santiago" accounts at UBS by deception.

If that proves to have been the case, it is likely, even probable, that this resulted from a strategem of using the similar name of Clem T. Santiago. The latter is believed to be a relative of Konsehala Candelarin V. Santiago one of the three "most trusted" women of Ferdinand Marcos. Use Such a ploy would also explain how Marcos managed to steal some of Santa Romana's accounts.

That they are not the one and identical Clemente Santiago is established by the simple expediency of comparing their respective birth dates. Santa Romana was born on 29th February 1908 in Cabanatuan City, province of Nueva Poiza, Philippines. The copy of the Clemente T. Santiago passport I have as part of the Krupp documents reveals the birth date to be 26th February 1925, with the place of birth being Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines.

One cannot help wondering if this fraud was achieved through the intermediation of Nicolaus Senn, the Hon. Chairman of UBS? Senn and his law firm partners were, according to another Krupp document (see krupp4) paid a very hansome fee of 3% on US$112 billion to compensate them for their effort. That is to say that each partner of the Zurich law firm were to be remunerated to the sum of $1.1 billion each, for the "services" they rendered to Baron Krupp in this transaction.

It is also of intererest that another aka used by Santa Romana was "General Edward Lansdale" who had worked with Santa Romana in the Philippines. The "real" general Lansdale had also, I understand, tried to obtain, by deception, Santa Romana "Lansdale" UBS accounts - but failed to succeed.