Naive scam - or secret CIA counterfeits?

[Nottingham]

Naive scam - or secret CIA counterfeits?

TIM LUCKHURST

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A HAUL of $2.5 trillion dollars worth of United States Federal Reserve notes, dated 1934, bearing the signature of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, packed in sealed tins, some said to be protected by canisters of poisonous gas, does require explanation.
The prosecution alleged a naive scam, and the jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court in London this week believed them.

Michael Slamaj, 56, a Yugoslav-born businessman from Canada, and Graham Halksworth, 69, a retired forensic scientist who once worked for Scotland Yard, were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. Slamaj was also convicted of possessing fake bonds.
The scheme was detected when two men tried to cash £15.5 million of the notes at a Canadian bank. It was noticed that the word "dollar" was printed on the bonds instead of "dollars".
Slamaj was arrested after he asked a solicitor to help him sell £31 million of the bonds. Police later recovered documents with a face value of £93 billion from his safety deposit boxes.
But his defence team offered an alternative explanation for his possession of the bonds, one that just might be true and that delves deep into the murky history of the CIA’s post-war crusade to destabilise communism.

Slamaj claimed the vast haul was recovered from the wreckage of a B29 bomber that crashed on the Filipino island of Mindanao in 1948.
Professor Richard Aldrich, of Nottingham University and the co-editor of the journal Intelligence and National Security, was hired to investigate the claim - and his findings suggest it is plausible enough for Slamaj to have believed it in good faith.

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Slamaj is preparing to appeal. He remains adamant that he truly believed the notes were authentic. If that is the case, Prof Aldrich suspects the CIA expected them to disappear into civil-war China and that their re-emergence has threatened to lift the lid on still classified aspects of economic warfare.
He says: "I cannot prove these FRNs were part of the operation to extract gold from China. But there is absolutely no doubt that such an operation took place.


CIA involved in Economic Warfare! And ya wonder How Rich this guys really are? Put your :tinfoilhat: on

[Ediacara]

1. wait a second...

didn't all these bonds have ZIP codes? ZIP codes didn't get created until like 15+ years after these bonds supposedly were printed. There was a story on this on the BBC yesterday.

[pschoeb]

2. Your right, Also I think the CIA would have got the dollars part right

"But Detective Inspector Roger Cook said the bonds were fake, produced on an inkjet printer with spelling mistakes and included zip codes - not introduced in the US until 1963. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/3116188.stm

Also, I'm not sure the CIA would have needed to print up 2.5 trillion dollars worth.

Patrick Schoeb

[lanlady]

3. I don't remember my dates but--

--I don't believe the CIA existed at the time this all took place.

[pschoeb]

4. CIA founded in 1947

nt

Patrick Schoeb