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“U.S. could get into a ‘tight’ gold supply position, if the countries were
to decide to withdraw the gold reserves on which they hold claims. In 1953,
our gold reserve was $23.3 Billions; in 1956 it is down to $21.8 Billions; but
other nations hold claim against our gold totaling $13.8 billions; so in an
emergency, available for our need is a gold reserve of only $8 billions; whereas
we need $12 billions of gold reserve, to backup our currency.”
How could this be when most of the nations in the world owed the United
States billions of dollars? How could there have ever been a claim against our
gold, $13.8 billions over the gold owed the U.S., by the allied nations and
the defeated Germany and Japan? Is the U.S. government covering up the
theft of U.S. gold by misinforming the public?

Let’s support Communism

The answer can be found in a book entitled From Major Jordan’s Diaries,
by George Racey Jordan. There are several other sources which all agree upon
basic facts. Major Jordan recounts in his diary that during a farewell talk
with Russian Colonel Kotikov he was told that a “money plane” had crashed
in Siberia and had to be replaced. Kotikov explained that the U.S. Treasury
was shipping engraving plates, ink, paper, and other materials to Russia so
that they could print the same occupation money for Germans as the United
States was printing.
Colonel Kotikov insisted the equipment had been shipped through Great
Falls, Montana, in May of 1944 in two shipments in five C-47s each. The
shipments had been arranged on the highest level in Washington and the
planes had been loaded at the Washington National Airport.
Years later a Senate investigation into the scandal found and confirmed
the fact that in spite of widespread protests and warnings, Harry Hopkins,
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to Russia
Averell Harriman and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Harry Dexter White
were able to exert enough pressure to see that Russia got the plates. Later
White was exposed as a Russian agent.

Occupation Money Printed in Leipzig, Germany

Official records show that the photographic plates and all the materials
necessary for making high quality plates and high quality reproductions were
shipped from Washington, D.C., on May 24, 1944. A second shipment to