US Helps Marcos Steal WWII Treasure

Many people still think that there are a lot of treasure buried in the mountains of Baguio.

A few days ago, some people sued the U.S. government for helping former Philippine President Marcos to take trillions of dollars of gold from a Philippine treasure collector. Although this sounds a bit like the ones that can be seen in the movie, Atlanta lawyer Bill Stone said that the US government actually did something unexpected at that time.

The treasure dug out is worth the price

According to the lawsuit materials provided by the court, there is a locksmith named Roger Rojas in Guiyang, a famous tourist destination in the Philippines. He loves treasure hunts, and is the chairman of the Filipino Explorers Association. In 1961, he began to search for the treasures left by the Japanese military commander under Yamashita Feng Wen in the Philippines. These gold and silver treasures were said to have been looted by the Japanese military commander from Southeast Asian countries during World War II.

In 1970, Roxas and his treasure hunt team began excavation work near the General Yaoyao Hospital. From March onwards, Rojas took an old-fashioned detector and conducted a precise and systematic exploration. He knew that the power of one person alone was not enough, so he recruited more than a dozen people. It was this recruitment that caused him to be spotted by the men under Marcos. Due to the guidance of the drawings and the carefulness of Roxas, the treasure-hunting team avoided all kinds of dangers while avoiding the various organs along the way.

About seven months later, they discovered an underground passage. However, in the tunnel, there is a 10-foot (about 3 meters) thick cement wall. On January 24, 1971, Rojas finally managed to open the wall. Then he discovered a large wooden box. Inside the wooden box, there was a golden statue of Buddha nearly 3 feet (about 0.9 meters) high. It was estimated that it weighed about 2,000 pounds (about 907 kilograms). A few of them spent a fortnightly effort to drag the golden Buddha to the ground. It is said that the value of this statue was more than 50 million US dollars at the time. The head of the statue can be removed and the interior of the body contains jewelry.

In addition to the Buddha images, Rojas also found several beer box-sized boxes under the concrete wall, all of which are gold bars. In addition, he also discovered four jade-inlaid gold diamond bracelets with a value of more than 13 million U.S. dollars, and a rare silver sterling silver necklace decorated with sapphires, emeralds, and pearls. After digging these treasures, Rojas used heat transfer probes to detect the authenticity of the diamonds on his hand. The results showed that these diamonds were superb.

According to Philippine law, gold discoverers are eligible to own half of them. So Rojas decided to block the entrance and plan to auction these treasures. However, from 1971 to 1974, Marcos, then president of the Philippines, ordered his government investigators to strictly enforce Rojas and asked him to tell him where the treasures were. Rojas was also jailed for two and a half years. In 1993, Rojas resigned from the world before the case was revisited.

The U.S. government helped Marcos

Atlanta lawyer Stone, who accepted the case, pointed out: According to the forensic materials of his law firm and a San Francisco lawyer, the U.S. government helped the Marcos government to transfer the treasures to other countries and sell them into cash, and the entire incident also received US Central Intelligence. Bureau's full help. It is understood that the Central Intelligence Agency has helped Marcos “sold up” and has continuously dispatched special agents to monitor Marcos.

The Associated Press reported that the current market value of these treasures is about 5.3 trillion US dollars. A statement made by the law firm’s spokesperson on the case recently stated that: At present, the federal court in Atlanta has accepted the case, but the U.S. government has no official comment on this civil action.

In September 2003, two Americans co-published a book titled "The Secret Secrets of U.S. Military Secretaries Excavating the Japanese Army's Bronze Papers." The author accused the U.S. government of sending Edward Lancedale as a secret agent for the CIA agent. Asia performs the task of digging secret gold.

The gold was later deposited in 176 banks in 42 countries. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used the unjust proceeds to buy officials from countries such as Japan, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom. At the same time, the United States also used this treasure to arm Japan after the Korean War.

Japan has 175 treasure points in the Philippines

In fact, there have been a lot of rumors about the secret collection of Japanese troops. On August 26, 2001, Hong Kong’s “South China Morning Post” used a full-page plus 1/5 page space to report that Japan has a total of 175 “Tibetan treasure-gathering points” across the Philippines. Just as American tanks approached Japanese soldiers, these "Tibetan Point" engineers built an "8th tunnel" in the deep mountains of southern Luzon in the Philippines (67 meters from the ground, where there are rows of gold bars There was a grand farewell ceremony in which the engineers were sealed in the cave together with gold.

As a result, these "Tibetan Treasure Point" has always been a secret. In October 1945, U.S. intelligence agencies learned of the location of Japan’s treasure collections in the Philippines. Then, Americans quietly plucked billions of dollars worth of gold and diamonds.