One Trenton Parker, an ex-Marine colonel with CIA connections and claiming to have inside knowledge as to what actually became of the Nazi gold horde following World War II, was Tom Valentine’s guest on his nightly radio show, Radio Free America, on July 29, 1993. Parker is described in the Radio Free America catalog of past programs as follows: July 29, 1993: A veteran CIA operative claiming to be with an especially secretive group known as Pegasus, was guest.
Trenton Parker, a “sheep-dipped” Marine Colonel, told of his role in planning/execution of the “great energy scam” of the 0s when Big Oil drove U. S. independent oil companies out of business, closed/opened the Suez Canal, created lines at gas pumps to drive up price of oil, filched stolen gold into the market by opening the gold window to Americans for 1st time since 1933, sold weapons to Arab states getting rich from the oil scam and sealed the deal with Portland cement from Spain. For further background on Parker, see Rodney Stich’s classic outline of hidden corruption in the U. S. government, Defrauding America {1}. See also Radio Free America’s tape archives of past programs {2}.
By way of background, it may be helpful to re-acquaint ourselves with a few things: (1) Francisco Franco emerged from the Spanish Civil War (circa 1936) as the undisputed dictator of then-fascist Spain. Franco had friendly ties to Hitler’s Germany. (2) ODESSA: an abbreviation of Organisation Der Ehemaligen SS-Angehorigen (German: “Organization of Former SS Members”). The Encyclopaedia Britannica describes ODESSA, in part, as follows: “… clandestine escape organization of the SS underground… A large organizational network was set up to help former SS and
Gestapo members and other high Nazi functionaries to avoid arrest… to escape from prison, or to be smuggled out of the country. The main escape routes were (1) through Austria and Italy, then to Franco’s Spain, (2) to Arab countries of the Middle East, and (3) to South America… ” (3) Martin Bormann: again, quoting in part from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, “[Bormann] became head of the administrative machinery of the Nazi Party, and through intrigue, party infighting, and his shrewd manipulation of Hitler’s weaknesses and eccentricities, he became a shadowy but extremely owerful presence in the Third Reich…
He disappeared shortly after the death of Hitler, and it was presumed that he was either dead or in hiding… Later reports, especially in the 1960s, alleged that Bormann had escaped and had been living in South America, possibly Paraguay. However, early in 1973 a Berlin forensic expert established ‘with near certainty’ that one of two skeletons unearthed during construction in West Berlin in December 1972 was that of Bormann, and on April 11, 1973, West German authorities officially declared him dead. ” As is apparent from the Radio Free America catalog excerpt quoted above, Parker discussed many things during his July 29, 1993 appearance.
What follows is the gist of his explanation of what actually happened to the “lost” Nazi gold horde. For further details I refer interested readers to the tape of his July 29th testimony, available from Valentine Communications (see below). Many of us have heard the story that the Nazi gold was thrown into a deep lake in Switzerland and sank far down, down to the bottom. Parker calls this nonsense. The gold, he says, was never thrown into any lake.
The gold went into Spain, through Martin Bormann’s ODESSA. There it sat, under the watchful eye of Generalisimo Franco. A lot of people have never, ever, asked the obvious question: What deal was struck, in order for Franco to pull out of the Axis powers during the Second World War?… And the deal was: you get to be president; we’re not going to bother you… There was a deal struck… Spain became, in effect, a major access and exit point for a lot of people coming out of Germany at that time. ” How does Parker know all this? One Ortega-Perez served as a staff nterpreter for General Eisenhower. The sister of Ortega-Perez had married one of Franco’s physicians.
So, one of Franco’s physicians passed what he knew to his wife, who passed it to Ortega-Perez, who passed it to Eisenhower and/or others in that group, and from there the information was grabbed hold of by U. S. Intelligence. Parker insists that Martin Bormann did not die in Germany, as West German officials had declared. “I can assure you that Martin Bormann did *not* die in Berlin. He looked very much alive, in March of 1975, in a villa outside of Madrid, Spain, where I went o negotiate the liquidation of various tons of gold which were turned into perfect Krugerrands. That is the second part of the story: what happened to the gold after it got to Spain.
The gold remained in Spain, in care of Francisco Franco, until circa 1975. Then, with Franco about to expire, things began to happen. With Franco nearing his end, other factors occurred at about this same time; said factors coalescing to bring about “Phase II” of “What Happened To The Nazi Gold? ” As Parker tells it, the closing of the Suez Canal and subsequent shortages of “Portland-grade cement” came together as hips to be used by international power brokers in a complicated deal.
The details of said deal are beyond the scope of this article. For further information, again, get hold of the tape of the original, July 29, 1993 broadcast. “If you’ll remember, at this particular point in time, we got rid of American’s not being able to own gold. And the big push was Krugerrands. And you could buy ’em through Merrill-Lynch and Hutton and what have you. It’s easy to counterfeit perfect Krugerrands if you’ve got gold. ” According to Parker, the gold was turned into counterfeit Krugerrands and sold in the biggest otential market of that time: The United States of America.
If you have doubts, then Parker asks you to consider the following: even though Americans were buying a lot of gold at that time, because of the sudden legality that now they were allowed to do so, the price of gold did not climb; it stayed flat. “The only explanation for *that* is that somebody is bringing in a new supply of gold. ” Tom Valentine, host of Radio Free America, summed it up: “Tons of Krugerrands, phony Krugerrands, made from the Nazi Germany gold… This was actually turned into Krugerrands and they put it into the market. “