September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

“Gary Thompson, the newspaper's former managing editor, and journalist Steve Kanigher published
copies of gold certificates from Credit Suisse, deposit records from the Union Bank of Switzerland, the
correspondence of Corazon Aquino and letters to Reagan administration officials documenting witness
accounts that … the CIA and Army Special Forces carted off an unknown quantity of the bullion.”
[Iran-Contra Connections to the Oklahoma Bombing, gathered by Alex Constantine © 2000 Alex
Constantine. All rights reserved]
In both instances of the holocaust victim and Philippine gold, the Swiss banks adamantly
resisted years of effort by the governments of Israel and the Philippines to have the gold
returned to its rightful owners. Interestingly, UBS and other Swiss banks reversed their
position on ‘not returning’ holocaust gold to family survivors in August of 1998, after
several months of negotiations with Edgar Bronfman, a co-investor of Adnan Khashoggi
in Barrick Gold and President of the World Jewish Congress. Surprising, the release of
the holocaust gold plays a key role in understanding why the World Trade Center was
attacked on September 11.
The reason the Swiss banks relinquished in this, after more than 50 years of denial was
not so much a result of newly defined morality, but rather the result of pressure from U.S.
investigators and lawmakers on three separate fronts, and by Swiss lawmakers on a fourth
front:
1. There were claims by the Philippine government that the Marcos family had secreted
away $13.4 billion of the Philippine treasury. In 1991, at the end of the Marcos
presidency in the Philippines, there were a number of reports that Marcos had
secreted away in UBS, large quantities of the Philippine national treasury. There are
reports that these funds came from multiple sources: the looted Japanese treasury,
Nazi gold money-laundering, and embezzlement of US aid. The point that has not
been disputed is that regardless of the source, there was “a lot” of illegal gold and
money moved to Switzerland by Marcos, with the assistance of Adnan Khashoggi.
George Bush Sr., as CIA director, would also be involved in helping Marcos move
bullion out of the Philippines. Investigators from the Philippines starting making
claims on these funds, providing proof the funds were secreted away at the UBS, but
because of the banking laws of Switzerland, the bank would never confirm to the
Philippine government of President Aquino that it had the missing Philippine funds.
2. The U.S. Department of Justice, representing eight U.S. nationals that had won a
lawsuit against the Marcos estate for torture and deprivation of rights, was pressing
for an investigation into the Swiss accounts. A number of human rights groups took
on the Marcos family in US courts for violation of human rights, and won a major,
billion dollar settlement against the Marcos family. Ferdinand Marcos had died in
1989, but the judgment was levied on his estate. After losing the suit, the Marcos
family claimed it did not have the resources to settle the claim. That is when the
Department of Justice was brought in to investigate the accounts identified in the
Swiss banks as Marcos accounts. When the possibility of the estate being hidden in
UBS was exposed by the efforts of the Philippine government, the Department of
Justice began an investigation.
3. The search for holocaust gold was re-activated in 1996 when newly declassified
documents of the Swiss government inadvertently suggested the banks were still
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