The Spoils of War and Regime Change
Global Research, March 14, 2014
A Russian Internet news site Iskra (“Spark”) based
in Zaporozhye, eastern Ukraine, reported on March 7, that
“Ukraine’s gold reserves had been hastily airlifted to the United States from
Borispol Airport east of Kiev”.
This alleged airlift
and confiscation of Ukraine’s gold reserves by the New York Federal Reserve
has not been confirmed by the Western media.
At 2 a.m. this morning
[March 7] an unmarked transport plane was on the runway at Borispol Airport
(right) [east of Kiev]. According to airport staff, before the plane came
to the airport, four trucks and two Volkswagen minibuses arrived, all the
truck license plates missing.
 Fifteen people
in black uniforms, masks, and body armor stepped out, some armed with
machine guns. They loaded the plane with more than 40 heavy boxes.
After that a mysterious man arrived and entered the
plane.
All loading was done in a hurry.
The plane took off on an emergency basis.
Those who saw this
mysterious special operation immediately notified the airport officials,
who told the callers not to meddle in other people’s affairs.
Later a returned call
from a senior official of the former Ministry of Revenue reported that
tonight, on the orders of one of the new leaders of Ukraine, the United States had taken custody of all the
gold reserves in Ukraine.”
Сегодня ночью из “Борисполя” в США страртовал самолёт с золотым запасом
Украины, iskra-news.info. Zaporozhye, Ukraine, March 7, 2014,
translated from Russian by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc
(GATA), emphasis added)
Following this
disclosure, GATA’s Secretary Treasurer Chris Powell requested the New
Federal Reserve and the US State Department to indicate whether the NY Fed
had “taken custody” of Ukraine’s Gold.
A spokesman for the New
York Fed said simply: “Any inquiry regarding gold accounts should be
directed to the account holder. You may want to contact the National Bank
of Ukraine to discuss this report.”
GATA’s similar inquiry
of last night to the U.S. State Department has not yet prompted any reply.
Last night GATA called
this issue to the attention of about 30 mainstream financial journalists
and newsletter writers in the admittedly bizarre hope that they might pose
the question as well.
1) The first rule of
mainstream financial journalism and particularly financial journalism
about gold is never to put a specific critical question about the
monetary metal to any of the primary participants in the gold market,
central banks. That is, nearly all gold market reporting is, by design,
irrelevant distraction at best, disinformation at worst.
2) The true location and
disposition of national gold reserves are secrets far more sensitive than
the location and disposition of nuclear weapons.
Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold
Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
While the unconfirmed
report regarding Ukraine’s gold reserves has not been the object of
coverage by the mainstream financial news, the story was nonetheless picked
up by the Shanghai Metals Market at Metal.com. which states, quoting a report
from the Ukrainian government, that Ukraine’s gold reserves had been “moved
on an aircraft from ... Kiev to the United States... in 40 sealed boxes”
loaded on an unidentified aircraft.
The unconfirmed source
quoted by Metal.com, says that the operation to airlift Ukraine’s gold had
been ordered by the acting Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk with a view to
safe-keeping Ukraine’s gold reserves at the NY Fed, against a possible
Russian invasion which could lead to the confiscation of Ukraine’s gold
reserves.
On March 10, kingworldnews, a prominent online financial
blog site published an incisive interview with William
Kaye, a Hong Kong based hedge fund manager at Pacific
Group Ltd. who had previously worked
for Goldman Sachs
in mergers and acquisitions.
The Spoils of War and Regime Change
Of significance in this
interview with William Kaye is the analogy
between Ukraine, Iraq and Libya. Lest
we forget, both Iraq and Libya had their
gold reserves confiscated by the US. According to Kaye, the destination was the New York Fed.
The National Bank of Ukraine (Central Bank) estimated
Ukraine’s gold reserves in February to be worth 1.8 billion dollars.
According to William Kaye:
“That would amount to a very nice down
payment to the $5 billion that Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland
boasted that the United States has already spent in their efforts to
destabilize Ukraine, and put in place their own unelected government.”
(KingsWorldNews emphasis
added). Kaye also confirmed in the interview that Washington was
behind the appointment of the new head of the National Bank of
Ukraine (NBU) Stepan Kubiv:
“This would have been his first major decision to
transport that gold out of Ukraine to the United States. ...Ukraine will ... very likely never see that gold
again.” (Read Complete interview at KingsWorldNews, March
10, 2014, emphasis added)
Acting prime Minister
Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused the Yanukovych government of having stolen
Ukraine’s gold reserves. This statement was made on February 27th,
less than week prior to the report on the alleged airlifting of Ukraine’s
gold to the New York, which is
yet to be confirmed.
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