The tag 'Norbert Schlei' is associated with 5 posts.

FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang

Recorded May 1, 2005REALAUDIOIn Novem­ber of 2004, author and inves­ti­ga­tor Iris Chang was found dead of an allegedly self-inflicted gun­shot wound. This pro­gram exam­ines the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her death. Ms. Chang was research­ing a book chron­i­cling the expe­ri­ences of sur­vivors of the Bataan Death March—the bru­tal per­se­cu­tion of Amer­i­can POW’s cap­tured in the siege of [...]

FTR #501 Norbert Schlei and the Strange Case of the “57’s”

Nor­bert Schlei, for­mer assis­tant attor­ney gen­eral under JFK, attempted to redeem Japan­ese gov­ern­ment bonds issued against the M-Fund, a slush fund from Japan­ese loot from WWII.

FTR #451 Petals from the Golden Lily

Recorded March 21, 2004
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Pur­su­ing the sub­ject of the fab­u­lous amount of wealth stolen by the Japan­ese dur­ing World War II under Golden Lily (the for­mal name of the Japan­ese loot­ing pro­gram), this broad­cast sup­ple­ments dis­cus­sion pre­sented in FTR#’s 290, 426, 427, 428, 446. Hav­ing secreted over $100-billion (in 1940’s dol­lars) worth of pre­cious met­als and [...]

FTR #426 The Return of the Rising Sun, Part 2

” . . . this pro­gram high­lights the pro­found cor­po­rate con­nec­tions between Amer­i­can finan­cial and indus­trial insti­tu­tions and . . . the giant fam­ily trusts that con­trolled Japan. . . .”

FTR #290 The Japanese Economy and the Kido Organization

The post-war Japan­ese econ­omy is inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the flight cap­i­tal pro­gram set up by Koichi Kido, Hirohito’s prin­ci­pal assistant.

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