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Excerpt from The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy:


"Few knew more about Yamashita’s Gold than Naylor did. His own father had served in the Philippines under General MacArthur and, at the end of World War Two, had witnessed the earliest discoveries of Japan’s massive plunder. Naylor had also confirmed that the former president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, had obtained much of his personal fortune from later discoveries." –The Ninth Orphan


In 1942, US General Douglas MacArthur was forced to leave the Philippines as the nation was overrun by Japanese. MacArthur told journalists, “I shall return.”

Over 10,000 American troops stationed in the Pacific had already surrendered to the Japanese and MacArthur had been left without any reinforcements. Fearing for his general’s safety, President Roosevelt had ordered him to leave the Philippines.

MacArthur’s famous words I shall return meant a lot to the Filipino people who clung to the hope they’d eventually reclaim their freedom.

In October, 1944, after leading a series of strategically brilliant air and sea attacks against Japanese forces, General MacArthur stood on Philippine soil once more. “I have returned,” he told emotional Filipinos who had not forgotten his promise.

Unfortunately, like most fairy tales spun during wartime, the true motivations in MacArthur’s case were probably not quite as straightforward or innocent as they appeared to be.

He did return after leading the Allies to defeat the Japanese and kick them out of the Philippines. However, MacArthur may have been so keen to return to collect the riches he knew the Japanese had concealed all over the rugged island nation.

It is said that Charles Willoughby, the general’s Chief of Intelligence, had earlier in the war found evidence of the vast treasures buried throughout the Philippines. According to this theory, Willoughby and his staff had confirmed there were almost 200 Yamashita sites throughout the Philippines, including the all-important Trillion Yen sites.

Various independent researchers have concluded that MacArthur worked closely with the CIA immediately after WW2. Their goal: to locate and retrieve as many of the Yamashita treasure hoards as possible.

Among those independent researchers are prolific authors Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave who wrote in their 2003 book Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold that General MacArthur “used war loot to create a trust fund for Hirohito at Sanwa Bank” and “also set up the secret M-Fund”.

The Seagraves go into convincing detail about the evidence they apparently uncovered, proving MacArthur’s post-WW2 success in secretly recovering the bulk of Yamashita’s Gold for America. The authors also mention MacArthur’s right-hand man Charles Willoughby who they say “paid war criminals to rewrite history and manipulate Japan’s government,” immediately after the war as part of the covert operation.

This is an interesting idea --- is it in tune with another great MacArthur gold story?

I've heard the story I shall relate several times, in identical ways, over periods reaching over decades, so it's an old story. It is a more powerful, richer (much much richer) story than the one you have shared, though it has many of the same elements, for reasons that will soon be obvious. The truth is in there somewhere. Have the truth makers been active reconfiguring this gem?

There is an immense amount of gold in China, indeed, all through the areas that were occupied by the Japanese, including the Philippines it is true, where there must have been a gleaming brooch or two.

The Japanese had been marauding over China pulling the gold teeth out of elderly ladies and babies already for decades before they assaulted the Philippines.

The Japanese, as an island pirate race were a maritime culture, at war, in need of gold reserves.

Since ye olden days of ancient yore common pirates and the Emperor's own had employed a simple elegant strategy for keeping hordes of golden treasure safe.

It was loaded onto a ship. The ship set sail for the home islands. At some point, known to the captain, in an accessible yet remote location, he would scuttle the ship. He would give orders to the first mate who would give orders down the line, and the men would kill each other, the captain finally would kill the mate.

The captain would meet the general. He would tell him where he had scuttled the ship. He would be killed.

Now, only the general knows where the gold is ---

At the end of WWII, Japan was defeated.

Japanese generals were arrested and interrogated.

You can imagine how the conversations must have gone.

Jap Prisoner: "Do not hurt me, I have gold."
Yank Jailer: "Where is it."
Jap Prisoner: I will tell only the Supreme Commander.

MacArthur: "Hey, boy! We're gonna be reaal good friends!"

There was a LOT more gold ripped from vast China over many years than ever was found in the Philippines, I'll wager, I dunno, a slab of tinnies? I might be wrong, what do you think?

What you speak of is Yamashita's Gold, Paul, also known as Yamashita's Treasure - which is exactly what this section of the group is about...

The Mystery of Yamashita's Map



Yamashita's Gold

The first part of this video talks about all the history surrounding Yamashita's Gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Zmd...

The Black Eagle Trust: Is There a Hidden Financial System Based On a Large Gold Treasure? [infographic] https://medium.com/@Informedtrades/th...

America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold After WW2 (Peggy Seagrave) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0mQ...