Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold

[Melvin Loh]

Has anybody read this new book by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave yet ? It's all about the fortune plundered by the Japs from thruout their WWII empire and secretly stashed and buried in concealed locations thruout the Philippines (Op 'Golden Lily), then later about how the US govt managed to acquire the treasure and use this 'black gold' to further their own nefarious and dubious ends after the war, such as bribing Tokyo war crimes trial witnesses to falsify their testimonies in the trials of key right-wing Jap govt officials, to pay off members of Unit 731, and for the CIA to finance their covert ops in SE Asia from 1845 onwards. Puts a very different spin on the story of looted treasures from the Pacific War, in much the same war as books written in the 90s did re Nazi wartime looting and the collaboration of the Swiss banks in laundering these ill-gotten gains.