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- Subject: Dr. Beter AUDIO LETTER #58 of 80
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-
- This is the Dr. Beter AUDIO LETTER(R), 1629 K St. NW, Washington,
- D.C. 20006.
-
- Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is September 30,
- 1980, and this is my AUDIO LETTER(R) No. 58.
-
- The fall of 1980 is turning out to be a season of re-runs.
- Television shows which were stale the first time around are being
- shown again, thanks to the actors' strike in Hollywood. And the
- worst acts of all are those of our so-called Presidential
- Candidates.
-
- Administrations come and go, my friends, but the more they
- legislate, the more the country goes to the dogs. Millions of
- Americans are out of work, but inflation refuses to quit.
- Interest rates are heading up again, so say "Good-bye" to that
- new home. Our auto industry is on the ropes, our cities are
- decaying, our armed forces are falling apart, and at the center
- of it all our dollar is shrinking out of existence. The dollar
- is no longer "good as gold" because our gold is gone; and as long
- as it stays gone, all the campaign promises in the world cannot
- save the United States economy. The forces who stole our gold
- are bringing down America's economy, and now they are using our
- own gold to bring down war around our heads.
-
- My friends, it's time to lift our eyes from idle campaign
- promises to cast our vote for America before it is too late.
- It's time for us, the American people, to use the gold weapon
- ourselves. It's time for us to vote for the TRUTH by bringing
- about a public investigation of the FORT KNOX GOLD SCANDAL
- because only in that way can we hope to save our economy from
- utter ruin, and only in that way can we seize a weapon big enough
- to stop those who are dragging us all into the insanity of
- NUCLEAR WAR ONE.
-
- My three special topics this month are:
-
- Topic #1--AMERICAN GOLD AND THE IRAQ-IRAN WAR
- Topic #2--RUSSIA'S FIRST STRIKE AGAINST A TITAN-2 MISSILE
- Topic #3--"STEP THREE" IN WHAT YOU CAN DO.
-
- Topic #1--The world we live in today, my friends, seems more and
- more like a roller coaster. Only a short month ago we were
- hearing about the worldwide oil glut. There were predictions
- that it could easily take one or two years for the oil surplus to
- fade away, but rosy projections like those always seem to set the
- stage for trouble. This month of September got off to a bad
- start as the dollar fell to the lowest level in five years on
- Money Markets world-wide. Something ominous was in the wind.
- You and I were not told about it, but a new crisis was brewing
- between Iran and Iraq.
-
- On September 9 Great Britain shut down its Embassy in Tehran,
- saying it was becoming too dangerous. Iraq and Iran were
- squabbling over their border, and the dispute was heating up.
- Iraqi troops invaded northwestern Iran seizing some 90 square
- miles of Iranian territory. Then on September 17 after the fact,
- Iraq tore up the 1975 Border Treaty with Iran. Next the air war
- erupted between the two countries. On September 22 Iraq and Iran
- bombed each other's air fields, and the very next day two OPEC
- nations, Iraq and Iran, began destroying each other's oil
- installations. The headline in the Washington Post for September
- 24, 1980 said it all: "IRAN BOMBS BAGHDAD. FULL SCALE WAR
- ERUPTS."
-
- The present fighting between Iraq and Iran was started by
- Iraq. For many years we've heard about the status of Iraq as a
- Russian client state; and with the war now under way, we are
- always reminded of this by the controlled major media of the
- United States. But what is not reported to you and me, my
- friends, is Russia's reaction to Iraq's latest actions. The
- Russians have sent very blunt warnings to Iraq that they are not
- pleased, and have shut off arms shipments to Iraq. The Russians
- are saying basically: "We gave you arms to defend yourself
- against Israel--not to invade Iran."
-
- During roughly the past year and a half little noticed changes
- have been taking place in Iraq. Those changes have been
- orchestrated in parallel with those in neighboring Iran. Iraq's
- new strong man, Saddam Hussein, came to power in a bloody coup
- d'etat. At the time all eyes were on Iran instead, but now
- thousands of Iranian military personnel from the Shah's former
- regime are now in Iraq. They are fighting on the side of Iraq,
- hoping to regain power in Iran by military means.
-
- In AUDIO LETTER No. 52 last November 1979, I described how and
- why agents of the Rockefeller cartel brought to ruin the late
- Shah of Iran. The Islamic revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini was
- secretly helped along as a maneuver to oust the Shah. The
- Ayatollah was ushered into power by forces which he did not
- understand; but as I reported in AUDIO LETTER No. 52, those
- forces plan to undo it all. What I told you then was, quote:
- "They plan to martyr the entire Khomeini government as they set
- off thermonuclear war." The real Ayatollah Khomeini himself was
- assassinated last February 1980, as I reported that month in
- AUDIO LETTER No. 54, but he was replaced with a "double" to
- maintain the image of the Ayatollah as an enemy--someone for the
- Americans to hate.
-
- Now by way of Iraq, pressure is being put on Iran. The
- ultimate goal is to make the present government of Iran
- disintegrate in chaos, but you can expect many twists and turns
- along the way.
-
- Like Iran, Iraq is only being used as a part of a larger plan.
- There may well be double-crosses within double-crosses. Almost
- anything can happen, but watch for efforts to lure Russia into
- the Persian Gulf, just as she was lured into Afghanistan.
-
- The main forces which have brought about the Iraqi attack on
- Iran are not those of the United States government itself.
- Instead, the situation in Iraq right now is dominated by the old
- Rockefeller oil interests. These are headed and tightly
- coordinated by John J. McCloy and his associates.
-
- Since the spring of 1979 I have reported that the Rockefeller
- cartel as a whole is now headless and beginning to crumble, but
- that is not yet true of the oil companies within the cartel.
- They still intend to complete their long-range plan to recapture
- undisputed domination over Iran, and they are working closely
- with their private Israeli counterparts here and abroad to
- accomplish this. Their destruction of the Shah's regime was only
- the first half of their plan. The second half is to get rid of
- the interim government now in Iran, the so-called Khomeini
- regime. They want to destabilize the situation in Iran and take
- advantage of the chaos that follows. When the smoke clears, "Big
- Oil" plans again to own Iran lock, stock, and barrel; and at the
- same time the Bolshevik secret government here plans to take
- advantage of the same events to bring us closer to nuclear war.
-
- Ever since 1914, war after war has been fought over oil.
- Governments have been destroyed, others created, and still others
- subverted; and whenever there is war for oil, gold is always the
- trigger. Gold is such an important weapon of war that in early
- 1968 the Joint Chiefs of Staff became very alarmed over the
- depletion of America's gold supply. They visited their then
- President Lyndon Johnson in the White House. In an angry
- confrontation they demanded that Johnson not reduce the gold
- stock still remaining because it was needed for purposes of war.
-
- The Rockefeller interests, now under the control of John J.
- McCloy and associates, arranged earlier this year for eight
- billion dollars ($8,000,000,000)--that's eight thousand million
- dollars--in gold to be paid to the leader of Iraq, Saddam
- Hussein. A very special private underground warehouse in Zurich
- was used in this transfer of gold. This gold was an outright
- bribe. It was to persuade Iraq to attack Iran. Eight billion
- dollars, my friends, is a lot of money, but it was a cheap price
- for the Rockefeller oil cartel, and for two reasons:
-
- First, the gold which was used to bribe Iraq to start the war
- was part of the gold which was stolen from you and me! The bulk
- of the gold taken from America's stockpiles was flown to Europe
- on multinational corporate jets. So, my friends, that $8-billion
- in gold did not cost the oil companies anything except some jet
- fuel, but it cost you and me part of our monetary gold, and it
- has been used to start a war for which you and I will pay even
- more.
-
- Eight billion dollars in gold was a cheap price for the oil
- companies for another reason too. If their plans are successful,
- the Rockefeller oil group will get back complete control over
- Iran's oil and other natural resources, and they won't have to
- pay those untold billions in oil royalties to their new Iranian
- lackeys.
-
- As I explained in AUDIO LETTER No. 52, the time came when the
- oil companies could no longer control their former puppet, the
- Shah--so out he went. They could also not control for long the
- real Ayatollah Khomeini--so he was killed. But if their war on
- Iran by way of Iraq succeeds in its ultimate purpose, the
- Rockefeller oil companies will once again constitute the Iranian
- state.
-
- The oil interests under John J. McCloy are playing ball with
- the invisible Bolshevik government here in the United States.
- For the moment, they both want the same thing in Iran--that is,
- instability and turmoil--so they are working hand in glove to
- create an explosion in the Persian Gulf. But the oil companies
- could end up finding that even they have been used by the
- Bolshevik secret government here in the United States; because if
- the Bolsheviks have their way, all-out war will come before the
- oil cartel can consolidate their gains in Iran.
-
- Last month I revealed that the Bolsheviks here are following
- roughly a three-month cycle in triggering new war plans. The
- coming month of October 1980 is another critical month in that
- timetable; and sure enough, right on schedule, the Iraq-Iran war
- is boiling over. The United States Naval Fleet in the Indian
- Ocean is now being bolstered by units from our Mediterranean
- Fleet. At the same time, the United States is trying to get
- Australia, France (which is very reticent), and Great Britain to
- join in with their navies as well. At the same time, our
- Bolshevik Administration is sending four AWACS airborne battle
- control airplanes to Saudi Arabia. Cargo planes and several
- hundred support personnel are also on the way. The public excuse
- is that this is to keep open the critical Strait of Hormuz to
- keep the oil tankers moving; but, my friends, it may well lead
- instead to an oil cut-off, and that will produce not only higher
- oil prices but also a "national emergency" here in the United
- States as we shift step by step onto a war footing.
-
- Topic #2--Three years ago today on September 30, 1977, I recorded
- AUDIO LETTER No. 26. In that tape I reported that the most
- decisive battle of the 20th Century had just taken place in
- space. It was the "BATTLE OF THE HARVEST MOON", September 27,
- 1977. It was history's first true battle in space, and in a
- stunning upset the United States was defeated by the Soviet
- Union. From that day onward, Russia began evicting the United
- States from the military use of space. The true military balance
- between East and West was turned upside down. Since that time
- the United States has been dealing from weakness on the world
- stage. But our secret Bolshevik government is unwilling to
- abandon its secret plans for world domination; and so out of
- weakness America has shifted to a first-strike nuclear strategy
- against Russia. Lately this dramatic shift in America's military
- posture has started coming to the surface in the news. For
- example, last month "Presidential Directives" 58 and 59 were made
- public. One Directive, No. 59, officially commits the United
- States to a first-strike nuclear posture known as "Counterforce
- Targeting" of our missiles. The other Directive, No. 58, is to
- step up preparations for our Leaders to hide in safe war bunkers
- just before they set off NUCLEAR WAR ONE. And what about you and
- me and our children? We are supposed to just wait patiently
- until the air raid sirens start blaring all around us.
-
- Our shift to a first-strike nuclear posture actually began
- over two years ago in secret. I first reported this change in
- AUDIO LETTER No. 36 for July 1978; and the following month in
- AUDIO LETTER No. 37 I gave details of the secret first-strike
- plans then being prepared. In AUDIO LETTER No. 37 I reported
- that America's secret plans for a first strike were producing a
- response in kind by the Kremlin. The Russians had learned about
- the plans of our own secret government for a first strike and so
- they were planning to turn the tables. By allowing the United
- States to start the process, the Russians were planning to obtain
- an excuse for their own first strike against us, but I can now
- report that the Russian first-strike strategy has changed in very
- important ways. My friends, it is already under way!
-
- On both sides the strategic plans for NUCLEAR WAR ONE are in a
- constant state of flux; and as it happens, the changes on both
- sides during the past two years can be illustrated with a single
- weapon. That weapon is America's giant Titan-2 Missile. The
- Titan-2 is an old missile. It began to be deployed some 18 years
- ago in 1962. It is a liquid fuel rocket unlike our newer
- Minutemen which use solid fuel. It is a maintenance headache,
- and we do not have a large number of them, my friends. Only 54
- were deployed originally.
-
- But the Titan-2 has one advantage which has become very
- important to our Bolshevik secret government. That advantage is
- sheer size. It has a pay load capability, called throw-weight by
- the military, which is many times larger than that of a
- Minuteman. That gives the Titan-2 a special value for
- modification to new missions which were not originally planned.
-
- Some two years ago one of these major modification programs
- was carried out on Titan-2 Missiles. As I reported in AUDIO
- LETTER No. 37, they have been modified for fractional orbital
- bombardment. Normally American missiles are aimed over the North
- Pole at Russia, but that is no longer the case with the Titan-2s.
- When war begins, the Titans will be launched in many different
- directions, and they will not follow the normal ballistic
- trajectory of a standard ICBM; instead, they will accelerate all
- the way to orbital speed. They will then race around the globe
- toward Russia. They will approach Russia from all directions,
- not just from the north; and they will arrive at twice the speed
- of other missiles. As they approach their targets, the warheads
- will retrofire out of orbit. From there they will rain
- destruction on their Russian targets--at least that is the plan.
-
- American military planners believe that they can succeed in
- getting at least a few of the Titan-2s launched in spite of
- Russia's Cosmospheres on patrol overhead. They also believe that
- the short flight time of the Titans will keep them safe from
- Russia's manned-killer satellites, the Cosmos Interceptors.
-
- Finally, the secret planners here believe that the Russians
- will find terminal defense impossible. The Titan warheads will
- simply arrive from too many directions for effective anti-missile
- defense, but last February 1980 I reported that Russia does plan
- to have an effective last-ditch defense to shoot down any
- incoming ICBMs. The Russians began work on it in June 1978, two
- months before I recorded AUDIO LETTER No. 37. It is a "Flying
- Anti-Ballistic Missile System." It is made up of Charged
- Particle Beam Weapons carried by Russia's supersonic transport,
- the TU-144. The TU-144s were suddenly removed from service
- without explanation in June 1978, and now I can report to you
- that the TU-144 Flying Anti-Missile System is fully operational
- in Russia.
-
- Meanwhile America's fleet of Titan-2s is beginning to dwindle.
- On August 24, 1978, an accident, supposedly, crippled a freshly
- modified Titan-2 at Rock, Kansas. It made headlines with a
- massive leak which sent poisonous reddish-brown fumes towering
- into the sky. The huge missile was ruined. Scratch one--53
- left.
-
- Now, my friends, the Titan-2s are being modified again. This
- time only the warhead is involved. They are still programmed for
- fractional orbital bombardment, which requires use of a smaller
- warhead than normal, but now compact new generation warheads are
- being installed on the Titan-2s. Each packs a 24-megaton
- wallop--that's over 1000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima
- A-bomb! But the most deadly feature of the new Titan-2 warheads
- is their cobalt jacket. The Titan-2 warhead is a doomsday weapon
- designed to create vast amounts of deadly radiation over wide
- areas for a generation.
-
- The Bolsheviks here are well aware of Russia's vast Civil
- Defense setup. They know that unlike the United States, Russia's
- rulers have tried to insure that as many Russians as possible
- will survive a nuclear attack; but the Bolsheviks here plan to
- make those preparations useless. Even if the Russians stay
- underground for a year, or two years, or five years, eventually
- they will have to come out of their shelters; and if they do so
- after an American cobalt bomb attack, they will still die. And
- so one way or another, the Russians intend to make doubly sure
- that no Titan-2 succeeds in bombarding Russia.
-
- For nearly three years I have reported that Russia's
- levitating weapons platforms, the Cosmospheres, can blast our
- missiles in their silos; and this month on September 19 that is
- exactly what was done! The target was a Titan-2 in its silo near
- Damascus, Arkansas. The Russians were sending a message to our
- Bolshevik secret government. Their war of attrition against
- America's war-making capability is now being stepped up. The
- Russians are now embarking on their own new version of a first
- strike--one target at a time. Russian Intelligence learned
- several months ago about the plan to retrofit the Titan-2s with
- cobalt doomsday warheads. The decision was made to destroy one
- of these retro-fitted missiles in its silo at the first favorable
- opportunity.
-
- The Titans are notorious for their leaks during maintenance.
- It was decided that the first major leak of a retro-fitted
- Titan-2 would be used as a cover for the Russian strike. On
- Thursday September 18 the Russians got the chance that they were
- waiting for. Around 6:45 that evening a retro-fitted Titan-2
- with a cobalt doomsday warhead was being worked on in its silo
- near Damascus, Arkansas. Suddenly, we are told, an accident took
- place which has no parallel since the Titan-2s became operational
- 18 years ago. Supposedly a wrench was dropped, knocking a hole
- in the side of the missile. In any case, the Russians had the
- leak they wanted to provide a cover for what they were about to
- do.
-
- For more than eight hours Air Force personnel worked steadily
- but without great urgency to try to fix the leak. Meanwhile the
- silo door remained closed to avoid attracting attention. The
- main worry at the time was not an explosion but toxicity of the
- fumes. As Air Force Secretary Hans Mark testified to Congress on
- September 24, quote: "The technical experts did not expect any
- explosion at all." As one crew after another entered and left
- the Titan-2 silo in protective suits, a Russian Cosmosphere was
- floating high above in the stratosphere. They waited until after
- most of the nearby residents had been warned and evacuated. Then
- at 3:01 A.M. the Cosmosphere crew received the order to open
- fire. Their Charged Particle Beam weapon had for hours been
- aimed and ready, locked onto the center of the huge silo door.
- The door, made of concrete and steel and weighing 740 tons, was
- designed to withstand a near-miss of a 10-megaton H-bomb; but it
- was no match for the Charged Particle Beam. In a fraction of a
- second the Beam blew a hole through the silo door. As the door
- buckled and twisted, the Beam created a tremendous shock wave
- inside the silo. The fragile outer shell of the missile
- instantly was crushed like an egg shell. The fuel and oxidizer
- tanks ruptured in a thousand places, and the propellants ran
- together. As long as they are kept apart the fuel and oxidizer
- of the Titan-2 offer very little danger of explosion; but they
- are of a type called hypergolic propellants--that is, the moment
- they contact each other they ignite--and that is what happened in
- the missile silo. Huge amounts mixed instantly as the missile
- crumpled inward. The result was a tremendous explosion. It
- threw the already ruined silo door all over the countryside, and
- the mighty Titan-2 launched its doomsday warhead not into Russia
- but into the Arkansas pasture a few hundred feet away.
-
- And so, my friends, there were really two explosions at the
- Titan-2 missile silo. First was the explosion of part of the
- atoms of the silo door itself when it was hit by the Particle
- Beam, and that in turn triggered the second explosion--that of
- the missile itself in the silo. Several eye witnesses described
- this double blast in various ways; but the clearest description
- was given by two injured Air Force personnel--Sergeants Michael
- Hansen and Archie James. Their statements in a September 21 news
- conference were reported the next day in the New York Times. The
- Times said, quote:
-
- "The two men said that they were about 100 feet from the missile
- silo when the first of two explosions occurred. They agreed that
- there had been one smaller explosion first, which knocked them to
- the ground, before a much larger explosion with monstrous force."
-
- After the explosion, the Air Force mystified everyone with its
- nervousness about the warhead. After all, everyone knows an ICBM
- carries a nuclear warhead, so why not admit it? Now, my friends,
- you know why. They were desperately afraid that there might be a
- 'slip of the tongue' by someone about the new doomsday cobalt
- warhead of the Titan-2, and so strict orders were given to say
- nothing at all about it. For our Titan-2 Missile Fleet the score
- is now: scratch two, 52 to go. The Russians are hoping to bring
- about a shutdown of the Titan Missile force by means of public
- outcry if possible; but if not, they intend to make sure in other
- ways that not one is ever launched at Russia. The Titan-2 with
- its new 24-megaton cobalt warhead is a first-strike weapon of our
- Secret Government.
-
- But the Russians too, are making use of cobalt bombs in their
- first-strike strategy against the United States. The Russian
- cobalt bombs are a totally different design--not for use in the
- atmosphere but under ground and under water to generate
- earthquakes.
-
- Two months ago on July 28 an earthquake took place in the
- Midwest that shook 12 states. Geologists in that area were
- mystified, saying that it seemed like an impossible earthquake.
- There are no known faults in the area where it was centered not
- far from Fort Knox, Kentucky, but in AUDIO LETTER No. 56 I
- reported how Russia brought about that seemingly impossible
- earthquake using two underground cobalt bombs.
-
- Last month this Bolshevik Administration announced that
- Russia's leadership is now a No. 1 target in its first-strike
- posture, and Russia is responding in kind, my friends. The real
- headquarters of America's secret government is not here in
- Washington, D.C., but in New York City, and now feverish
- preparations are under way to create an impossible earthquake in
- New York City as part of Russia's new first-strike campaign
- against the United States!
-
- Topic #3--When I recorded AUDIO LETTER No. 57 last month, I
- mentioned that I had not yet received any reports of replies by
- Senator Proxmire to your letters; but since that time many of you
- have let me know that he has answered you, and many of you have
- sent me copies of the letters that he sent you.
-
- My friends, in my two previous tapes I cautioned you to beware
- of any attempts to just brush you off. If you have never written
- to anyone in Congress before, you may have felt that you got a
- very responsive reply from Senator Proxmire. If so, I suggest
- that you stop the tape at this point and restart it with your
- letter from Senator Proxmire in hand. Please follow along word
- for word. I'm about to read to you what you are likely to have
- received. If your letter differs from what I am about to read,
- by all means please send me a copy.
-
- First: The date at the top is likely to be August 27, September
- 4, or September 9. Other dates are also possible, but large
- batches were sent out on those dates.
-
- "Dear (so and so):
- Thanks so much for your recent letter concerning the
- allegations initiated by Dr. Peter Beter concerning massive gold
- thefts from the United States Treasury at Fort Knox, especially
- an unrecorded shipment which occurred in 1965. While this
- precious metal is no longer needed to back up our currency, I can
- certainly appreciate your concern in this issue.
-
- Similar concerns were expressed in 1974 at which time former
- Treasury Secretary Simon invited all members of Congress to
- participate in a personal inspection of the reserves held at Fort
- Knox. Several members joined in the tour at that time. In
- addition at the request of the Congress, the General Accounting
- Office and the Treasury also completed an audit of the gold
- reserves. The General Accounting Office is an investigative arm
- of the Congress as you may know, and participates in the yearly
- audits of the Treasury's gold reserves.
-
- As to the situation which took place in 1965 concerning the
- missing shipment of gold, I am asking the Treasury's Inspector
- General to give me a complete report. Once I have this
- information, I will be in a better position to determine whether
- any future action is warranted.
-
- I appreciate your interest in this important matter.
-
- Sincerely, William Proxmire, Chairman."
-
- The signature, which looks for all the world like a personal
- signature, is "Bill Proxmire." It looks pretty good, doesn't it?
- The tone is friendly, and it looks like a personal letter and
- that is what you are supposed to believe it is; but, of course,
- if your letter coincided with the one I just read, you know now
- that it was not a personal letter. It's just one of many
- identical letters churned out like popcorn by a
- computer-controlled typewriter. Even the signature, which looks
- so real, is made by a special signature-duplicating machine. If
- you have a neighbor who also received a letter, put one on top of
- the other and hold them up to the light and you will find that
- the computerized typing is identical; and you will also discover
- that the signatures are identical, unlike real signatures. They
- may be in slightly different positions on the two letters, but by
- moving them around you will be able to make the two signatures
- coincide.
-
- My friends, the computerized letter is used by Senators and
- Congressmen today for several reasons. For one thing, of course,
- it saves work. For another, it makes constituents feel good
- thinking they have received a personal reply, but most of all it
- helps Senators and Congressmen avoid involving themselves in many
- issues. When you receive a personal letter from a busy Senator
- or Congressman you may wonder, "Am I the only one who wrote about
- this?" Most people, if they think that, will just give up; and
- so the computerized letter is designed to encourage you to feel
- isolated. Notice that the letter I just read you from Senator
- Proxmire sounds as if he is answering you alone. He avoids
- mentioning that many others have written to him about the same
- thing, but you should know that in Congress every letter is
- considered to represent at least 500 people.
-
- Now I invite you to look more closely at the actual content of
- Senator Proxmire's computerized letter to you. It's filled with
- red flags.
-
- First, in paragraph 1 is his statement that gold is no longer
- needed to back up the dollar. That is red flag No. 1. It goes
- against common sense, history, and daily news about gold prices
- and the dollar. Senator Proxmire is parroting the old
- Rockefeller line which was used years ago to calm us, to deceive
- us, while they phased gold out of Fort Knox and into their own
- pockets.
-
- The second paragraph is worded to convey the impression that all
- this has been looked into and found to be untrue. But read it
- carefully, my friends. You will discover more red flags.
-
- For example: He mentions the so-called "tour" of the Fort Knox
- Bullion Depository in 1974, but a tour is not an "inventory", and
- not one of the visitors to Fort Knox in September 1974 was a
- specialist in gold. What is more, the visitors were not even
- told about, much less shown, the actual gold vault itself! This
- is a huge maximum security vault which occupies the central
- portion of the Depository building and extends well below ground.
- Instead, the visitors were allowed to enter only one small
- jail-cell-like compartment to look at some reddish-tinted alleged
- gold bars. In AUDIO LETTER No. 2 for July 1975 I gave details
- about all this. The Fort Knox tour of 1974 cited by Senator
- Proxmire was just a peep show amounting to a total fraud.
-
- Then he refers to the so-called "audit" of our gold reserves by
- the General Accounting Office and the Treasury. Another red
- flag, my friends, because an audit is not a physical inventory or
- count of the gold itself. An audit is only an examination of the
- books; and from the very beginning my charge has been that those
- books are fraudulent and therefore useless. And to make matters
- worse, the Audit Committee consisted of 13 Treasury personnel
- with only two (2) GAO personnel tagging along to make it look
- good. I described that entire episode in detail in my AUDIO BOOK
- talking tape entitled "THE FORT KNOX GOLD SCANDAL...AND WHAT IT
- MEANS TO YOU" of March 1975.
-
- Paragraph 3 of the Proxmire computer letter is a tradition in
- Congress today. It's called "Pass the buck." But he does not
- even pass it to an objective agency! For example, he could have
- referred it to the General Accounting Office; at least the GAO is
- an arm of Congress itself, as Proxmire himself mentions. But NO,
- you wrote to Proxmire about the Treasury's failure to account for
- a gold shipment worth over $8-billion today. And whom does he
- ask to look into it?--why the Treasury itself!
-
- Actually the only thing resembling concrete action mentioned in
- the letter is Proxmire's request for a report from the Treasury's
- Inspector General. So it seems appropriate to take a few minutes
- to tell you about Proxmire's previous experience with the
- Treasury Inspector General. The occasion was the scandal that
- erupted in December 1978 over missing gold at the New York Assay
- Office. As you may recall, there were news reports at the time
- that some 5,200 ounces of gold could not be accounted for. The
- story was brought to light only because of the determined efforts
- of a dedicated group of employees at the New York Assay Office.
- These employees known as the "Whistle Blowers" tried for years to
- seek redress for corrupt practices there among the top
- management. They contacted various officials within the
- Treasury, the Justice Department, Congress (including Senator
- Proxmire), and the press. For their efforts, some of them
- received severe retribution through their jobs, demotions, and so
- on; but against all odds they succeeded in bringing to light the
- matter of the missing gold. Then, as now, Proxmire turned to the
- Treasury itself for a report on the possible misbehavior of a
- Treasury operation--the New York Assay Office; and on December
- 19, 1978, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Carswell wrote
- to Senator Proxmire and said, quote:
-
- "I must now inform you that there have been significant
- irregularities in Accounting and Management procedures in the New
- York Assay Office that appear to go back a number of years."
-
- Carswell added, quote:
-
- "The full truth may never be known because of the inadequate
- records kept over the years."
-
- In other words, my friends, the records at the New York Assay
- Office were unreliable, just like the records at Fort Knox.
-
- In his letter to Proxmire, Carswell also mentioned that the
- Treasury's new Inspector General had been assigned to the Assay
- Office case. The office of Inspector General was a new office,
- created only three months earlier; and according to the Carswell
- letter to Proxmire, the first investigation handed to the
- Treasury Inspector General was that of the New York Assay Office.
- And so the Treasury's Inspector General began his career in that
- post with a case of missing gold.
-
- Now, according to his computer letter to you, Proxmire has
- asked him to look into another case of missing gold--the 1965
- missing shipment from Fort Knox. The Treasury Inspector General
- took charge of a group of agents detailed from the Secret
- Service, which is another branch of the Treasury! Then he
- directed a so-called investigation of the missing gold at the New
- York Assay Office which, by his own words, quote "consisted of
- interviews" plus a review of security and procedures. No sworn
- testimony, just interviews; and oddly enough no one confessed to
- any criminal activity or theft. So on May 11, 1979, the Treasury
- Inspector General closed the files on his "investigation" of the
- New York Assay Office.
-
- He wrote a memorandum that day to Deputy Treasury Secretary
- Carswell summarizing the results of this great investigation.
- With one exception (a man who had already been sent to jail), he
- said, quote: "No evidence has been developed that any personnel
- were involved in the theft of gold and silver from the New York
- Assay Office." That one exception is not discussed, but you
- might find it revealing. It was an employee who was caught
- trying to carry a bar of gold out the door inside a rolled-up
- newspaper. The reason he was caught, my friends, was that the
- gold bar slipped out of the newspaper and fell on the floor.
-
- The so-called investigation of the Treasury Inspector General
- also succeeded in deciding that less gold was missing than
- originally reported. What we heard in news reports was 5,200
- ounces; but by the time the Treasury Inspector General got
- through, he had whittled that down to a mere 4,100 ounces. He
- also forwarded the sanitized Treasury report on itself to the
- Justice Department for their determination. Not surprisingly,
- the Justice Department wrote back that, quoting the Inspector
- General's memorandum again:
-
- "There is no evidence in the present record that any employee of
- the New York Assay Office personally benefitted from the
- practices described in the report."
-
- And the Justice Department is said to have declined prosecution
- due to, quote "the absence of any motive of personal gain
- relating to the settlement procedures."
-
- There was never another peep out of Senator William Proxmire
- about the strange goings-on at the New York Assay Office.
- Apparently he was well satisfied by the self-serving Treasury
- investigation of itself, so much so that now he is passing the
- buck to exactly the same office of the Treasury in the matter of
- the 1965 missing shipment of gold from Fort Knox.
-
- My friends, I never told you that what we are trying to do
- would be easy. I do believe that it can be done if we will stick
- with it no matter what; but now you have a small taste of what we
- are up against. In the case of the missing gold at the New York
- Assay Office, Senator Proxmire acted as if he just did not want
- to know, so he relied on the Treasury to investigate itself
- through its office of Inspector General. Now in the case of the
- missing gold shipment from Fort Knox, his initial response
- reflected in his computer letters to you was the same.
-
- My friends, from what I have said so far you may be thinking
- that I'm about to say, "Forget Senator Proxmire. We have to try
- something else." But that is not what I'm saying at all. There
- is more to the story, and a glimmer of hope that Senator Proxmire
- can be persuaded to take meaningful action; but I do believe that
- you must have a realistic understanding of the situation if we
- are to succeed. To that end, I think a few words are in order
- about Senator Proxmire's public background.
-
- E. William Proxmire got his start in politics long ago after
- he married into the Rockefeller family. He ran as a Democrat for
- Governor of Wisconsin in 1952, '54, and '56 and lost each time.
- But his big chance came in a Special Senatorial Election on
- August 27, 1957. It was Proxmire, my friends, who filled the
- Senate vacancy of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy. Proxmire was
- re-elected in 1958 and has been in the Senate ever since.
-
- Throughout his Senate career, Proxmire has been deeply
- involved in the most powerful committees of Congress dealing with
- banking, currency, housing--in other words, our economy.
- Whatever has happened during those years, Proxmire was there.
-
- In 1961 the so-called "London Gold Pool Agreement" was set up.
- It was an informal agreement that was never authorized by
- Congress--I repeat, NEVER AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS; and under that
- agreement, our gold started flowing out of the United States in a
- hemorrhage that lasted nearly 7 years. One courageous
- Congressman, Frank Chelf of Kentucky, spoke repeatedly on the
- floor of Congress about what was happening to our gold. In AUDIO
- LETTER No. 2 for July 1975, I read to you his sworn statement
- about the secret shipments of gold out of Fort Knox during those
- years. But throughout the halls of Congress the warning words of
- Congressman Frank Chelf were totally ignored, and Senator William
- Proxmire was among those who were there--but paid no attention!
- And so we should not be surprised if we encounter resistance by
- Senator Proxmire to leading a public investigation of our gold
- reserves.
-
- Long ago he became entangled with the special interests of the
- Rockefeller group, who in turn spirited away our gold; and
- Proxmire was there, in Congress, when our gold was taken, so he
- could be accused of malfeasance for neglecting to take any action
- up to now to protect our gold. Under the circumstances, Proxmire
- may well look upon a public investigation of our missing gold as
- a "can of worms" for him. But, my friends, we do not want
- Proxmire's hide, WE WANT HIS HELP. He is in the best possible
- position to do it--if he will; and there is an inkling that
- perhaps he can be persuaded to take action.
-
- On September 5 my friend Mr. Edward Durell wrote to Senator
- Proxmire urging him to take up the investigation of our nation's
- gold supplies. Mr. Durell has done this many times before, and
- has been met with a stone wall!! But this time, this time, Mr.
- Durell wrote in the wake of your barrage of letters; and on
- September 11 Proxmire sent this reply, and I now quote:
-
- "Dear Mr. Durell:
- I have your letter regarding an unreported shipment of gold
- which occurred at Fort Knox in 1965 and the possibility that
- there may have been similar unreported incidents. While, as you
- know, the United States is no longer on the Gold Standard, I can
- appreciate your concern in this issue. I have already asked the
- Treasury Department's Inspector General to look into the matter
- and give me a complete report. In view of your correspondence,
- however, I am also asking the Justice Department and the General
- Accounting Office to also investigate the situation you outline.
- The General Accounting Office is an investigative arm of the
- United States Congress. Once I have this information I will be
- in a better position to determine whether any future action is
- warranted.
-
- Sincerely, William Proxmire, Chairman"
-
- My friends, this is still a long way short of agreeing to what
- we have requested--that is, a PUBLIC INVESTIGATION by Proxmire's
- Committee--but it is a step in the right direction, so it's up to
- us to redouble our efforts.
-
- We have to make it clear that there are many of us, that we
- are not going to go away, that we will not be satisfied with
- anything less than a public investigation by his Committee, and
- that he will have our complete support. To do that, I urge that
- you again contact Senator Proxmire and get everyone else to do so
- that you possibly can. And if you are willing to spend a few
- dollars, I urge you to use a MAILGRAM this time for greater
- impact. All you have to do is to call Western Union and they
- will charge it to your telephone bill. A long message is not
- necessary, but I suggest that you tell Senator Proxmire you want
- action--not just comforting form letters. Tell him that you want
- a public, Congressional investigation of our gold supplies by his
- Committee, which has jurisdiction--not more cover-ups by the
- Executive Branch; and repeat your pledge of firm support if he
- will open the investigation which you request.
-
- I also have a second suggestion this month which I think would
- mean more to you after I tell you the following:
-
- The secret gold shipment from Fort Knox on January 20, 1965, took
- place the very day Lyndon Johnson was inaugurated President, as I
- reported last month; and I can now reveal, my friends, that this
- shipment did not end up at the New York Assay Office. It wound
- up, instead, in a ranch in Mexico owned jointly by President and
- Mrs. Johnson!! And President Johnson arranged for the Treasury
- Department to give Mrs. Johnson a Special License to deal in gold
- bullion as a private citizen. Yet, at that time, you and I could
- not even own gold except in jewelry.
-
- The Fort Knox Gold Scandal of today was predictable long ago
- for those with eyes to see. The famous prophet of the 1929 Stock
- Market Crash, Roger Ward Babson, gave a clear warning of things
- to come while the Fort Knox Bullion Depository was still being
- built. There was an article about his warnings in the Literary
- Digest for August 29, 1936. The article described Babson's
- objections in the words, quote:
-
- "By dumping most of America's gold hoard into a steel and
- concrete strong box in the mountain fortress at Fort Knox,
- Kentucky, Uncle Sam is putting too many of his eggs in one
- basket."
-
- Two very relevant questions posed by Babson were also mentioned:
-
- (1) Is not the United States as liable to have internal
- revolution as to be attacked by foreign nations? And
-
- (2) Are not gold and commodities much safer distributed among
- millions of people than stored in Russian fashion under the
- control of politicians?
-
- The article quoted Babson as he thundered, quote:
-
- "To secure control of nearly one-half the world's total gold
- supply requires only securing control of the White House. The
- key to these great vaults is hanging on the wall of the
- President's private office."
-
- With those prophetic words of 44 years ago in mind, I now
- offer you my second suggestion for this month: We need to use
- every avenue available to begin to make others aware that there
- is a question about our gold reserves, and so I suggest that you
- write a brief letter to the Editor to every newspaper, large and
- small, in your area. Don't try to say a lot, just open up the
- thought that we ought to think about our gold reserves as we
- prepare to elect a president. Here is a sample of what I mean,
- to get you started:
-
- "LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
- All the presidential candidates this year are talking about our
- troubled economy in the old conventional terms, but conventional
- economic cures don't seem to be working. Could it be that the
- illness is not conventional??
-
- Congressional legislation HR-7874 is now pending to look into
- persistent rumors that our monetary gold to back up the dollar is
- depleted or gone. If so, no wonder the dollar is shrinking and
- gold prices mushrooming. When we go to the polls maybe we ought
- to keep in mind that whoever we vote for will have the keys to
- all our gold--that is, if there is any left."
-
- You may succeed in getting only one letter published, or none at
- all; but all of us working together have to think of ourselves as
- scattering seed. A lot of our letters to editors, just like
- seed, will fall on barren land; but if even one letter does get
- published, it can begin to alert thousands of newspaper readers.
- So please do it now, my friends. There is no time to be wasted.
-
- Now it's time to give you my Last Minute Summary. In this
- AUDIO LETTER I've tried to show you a little more clearly the
- connection between gold and war. Our own gold, which has been
- stolen from us, is being used to drag you and me into war! So we
- must seize the gold weapon ourselves and turn it around. By
- breaking open the GOLD SCANDAL, we must wage preventive war--a
- WAR OF TRUTH--in order to prevent a war of missiles, bombs,
- particle beam weapons, and clashing armies.
-
- What happened to the Titan-2 Missile which exploded in its
- silo earlier this month serves to illustrate the stakes in our
- preventive war. The secret Bolshevik government of the United
- States has transformed the Titan-2 into a first-strike doomsday
- weapon against Russia; but the Titan-2 at Damascus, Arkansas, was
- itself the victim of a Russian first strike! For the first time
- the Russians have now demonstrated the ability of their
- Cosmospheres to destroy our ICBMs in their silos. Day by day we
- come closer and closer to the outbreak of all-out thermonuclear
- war!
-
- The Secret Rulers of the United States and the rulers of
- Russia are both embarked on their own separate and very different
- first-strike strategies. The Bolsheviks here want to achieve a
- first strike against Russia that will set off all-out war. The
- Russians, on the other hand, want to achieve the opposite. They
- want to make all-out war impossible by destroying America's
- ability to fight. And so, my friends, the Bolsheviks here keep
- struggling to prepare for a single massive blow at Russia, even
- though America will be destroyed. And to prevent the massive
- American first strike, the Russians are conducting a campaign of
- localized first strikes. One day a Mount St. Helens explodes,
- another day a Titan Missile explodes, and on another day soon a
- major city may seem to explode in a seemingly impossible
- earthquake.
-
- No matter who wins the first-strike tug of war, the Russians
- or the Bolsheviks here, America loses. And, my friends, you and
- I are America, so it is up to you and me to defend our great land
- and ourselves. No one else is going to do it for us, but our
- forefathers left us a CONSTITUTION which grants us the freedom,
- the power, and the responsibility to do the job; and if our Lord
- Jesus Christ wills it, we will succeed.
-
- Two months ago I began giving you my answers to the question
- many of you had started asking me: "What can I do?" Many of the
- things we need to do require little money but time, dedication,
- and perseverance. Even so we must not deceive ourselves.
- Freedom does not always come for "free." The challenge we face
- today is no less than what our forefathers faced 200 years ago;
- so if we want to prevail in this struggle, we can do no less than
- they did. As they expressed it in concluding the Declaration of
- Independence:
-
- "...with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence,
- we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our
- sacred Honor."
-
- Until next month, God willing, this is Dr. Beter. Thank you, and
-