2 Japanese carrying $134 bil worth of U.S. bonds detained in Italy

[Peter Lemkin]

One avenue worth exploring is to write to the US authorities, namely the Department of the US Treasury - probably the Bureau of Printing and Engraving (contact at http://www.moneyfactory.gov/section.cfm/16 ) and ask them directly why the confusion?

I once did this with the UN over a somewhat strange case of what was undoubtedly (imo) a scam. I was eventually partnered with a Press Officer who was, after being sent from pillar to post, directed to the UN legal department who promised an answer. Weeks passed and the PO became increasingly more embarrassed at the lack of response. Eventually he "went on holiday". I never heard from him again and am still awaiting an answer from the UN.

Some things in the world are so convoluted that a direct question is the last thing that can be answered. Sometimes a scam has an official sanction. Sometimes, important and/or well placed bureaucrats are engaged in fleecing their own beds. And sometimes matters are so secret that a bodyguard of lies surround them.

But I don't suppose it would hurt to ask the DEP the question and see what happens?

Btw, one fairly senior official of the DEP I knew who specialized in these areas, was eventually sacked for taking a bribe.

Bribes in that department must be fairly cheap...if one cooks the books on how many bonds were printed, then the cost to the 'giver' is zero - only the risk of being caught. The paper and ink costs little to nothing. I presume no answer would be forthcoming on this. The silence is deafening and I don't understand why financial analysts are not interested - ditto the press. Seems the media/propaganda lobotomies have really worked on most citizens of this Planet. No one thinks [can think] independently - well few, indeed!