Governments Still Heavy-Handed 80 Years After FDR's Gold Confiscation Governments Still Heavy-Handed 80 Years After FDR's Gold Confiscation {{article.article.images.featured.caption}} Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Full Bio The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Loading ... Loading ... This story appears in the {{article.article.magazine.pretty_date}} issue of {{article.article.magazine.pubName}}. Subscribe Executive Order 6102 issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 equiring citizens to surrender their gold for which they were reimbursed. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Of two men walking down Main Street, one with a gold coin in his pocket and the other carrying a bottle of booze, the first was now breaking the law and the second was an upstanding citizen. Or so went the joke in 1933, no funnier than it is today, with the Cyprus deposit-seizure fiasco neatly marking 80 years since President Franklin D.Roosevelt signed his infamous Executive Order 6102 on April 5, 1933.

FDR's gold confiscation meant private owners were obliged to take their coins, bars or gold certificates to a bank, and exchange them for dollars at the prevailing rate of $20.67 per ounce. Over the next year, the president then raised his official gold price to $35 per ounce, effectively cutting 40% off the dollar in a bid to stoke inflation and spur the economy. We hear echoes of this in Japan today. Of course, for FDR, it took WWII to get things moving again, but the national emergency the president invoked in 1933 sounds very familiar here in 2013. The banks were shut, on the verge of collapse. The government, too, after close-fought elections, was struggling to cover its debt repayments. Mass unemployment threatened civil unrest. The radical and shocking solution was to grab private wealth, and use it to try and reboot the system. Could the same thing happen today? The first, disastrous bail-in proposal in Cyprus, followed by the euro zone's first-ever exchange controls, only serve to heighten fears that private wealth can, under certain circumstances, simply be appropriated.

Governments change laws from time to time, and yes it's possible that under the right circumstances some governments might try to confiscate their citizens' gold. But it is important to realize that the motivation for confiscating gold which existed for FDR in 1933 has largely disappeared. Back then the U.S. was still on the gold standard (the U.K. had been forced off 18 months earlier). So seizing private gold and then devaluing the currency was in fact a 1930s version of quantitative easing. Saving our banks from their stupidity still means swelling the money supply, and hurting cautious savers by devaluing their wealth. While gold is still hoarded by governments (and increasingly by fast-growing emerging economies), it is only tenuously tied to our currency system as the "foundation" of sovereign reserves. Gold also makes a disappointing asset to grab, especially in the rich but troubled West. Because few people own it compared for instance to real estate (a sitting duck for local government levies and the new talk of "wealth taxes") or readily-captured financial assets such as pension pots (already so enticing to distressed governments in Argentina , Hungary and Portugal ).

People can also own gold in ways which make it inaccessible to government decree. In our opinion, a good way to own gold is directly (i.e. not through a trust), in allocated physical form, and offshore, in a place with a strong tradition for protecting international investors' property. This makes it a tough target for confiscation by your government, and one that would upset other countries for little reward. BullionVault stores gold in four separate jurisdictions, all of which have a reasonable (if imperfect) tradition of defending private property rights: London, New York , Zurich and Singapore . There are clear potential benefits to diversifying physical property across international jurisdictions. U.S. Executive Order 6102 of 1933 - Gold Coin & Bullion Order Form USA U.S. Executive Order 6102 of 1933 - Gold Coin & Bullion On 5th April 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt banned its citizens from continuing to own gold. requiring them to exchange it at the current price at the Federal Reserve, one of its branch banks, or other qualifying banks.

Under Executive Order of the President Issued April 5th, 1933 all perpsons are reuqired to deliver On or before May 1st, 1933 All gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates now owned by them to a Federal Reserve Bank, branch or agency, or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System. Executive Order Forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates. By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5 (b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended by Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, entitled "An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes," in which amendatory Act Congress declared that a serious emergency exists, I, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and pursuant to said section do hereby prohibit the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations and hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the purposes of this order: Section 1. For the purposes of this regulation, the term "hoarding" means the withdrawal and withholding of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates from the recognized and customary channels of trade. The term "person" means any individual, partnership, association or corporation. Section 2.

All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, except the following: (a) Such amount of gold as may be required for legitimate and customary use in industry, profession or art within a reasonable time, including gold prior to refining and stocks of gold in reasonable amounts for the usual trade requirements of owners mining and refining such gold. Gold coin and gold certificates in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $100 belonging to any one person; and gold coins having a recognized special value to collectors. of rare and unusual coins. (c) Gold coin and bullion earmarked or held in trust for a recognized foreign Government or foreign central bank or the Bank for International Settlements. (d) Gold coin and bullion licensed for other proper transactions (not involving hoarding) including gold coin and bullion imported for reexport or held pending action on applications for export licenses. Section 3.

Until otherwise ordered any person becoming the owner of any gold coin, gold bullion, or gold certificates after April 28, 1933, shall, within three days after receipt thereof, deliver the same in the manner prescribed in Section 2; unless such gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates are held for any of the purposes specified in paragraphs (a), (b), or (c) of Section 2; or unless such gold coin or gold bullion is held for purposes specified in paragraph (d) of Section 2 and the person holding it is, with respect to such gold coin or bullion, a licensee or applicant for license pending action thereon. Section 4. Upon receipt of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates delivered to it in accordance with Sections 2 or 3, the Federal Reserve Bank or member bank will pay therefor an equivalent amount of any other form of coin or currency coined or issued under the laws of the United States. Section 5. Member banks shall deliver all gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates owned or received by them (other than as exempted under the provisions of Section 2) to the Federal Reserve Banks of their respective districts and receive credit or payment therefor.

Section 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, out of the sum made available to the President by Section 501 of the Act of March 9, 1933, will in all proper cases pay the reasonable costs of transportation of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates delivered to a member bank or Federal Reserve Bank in accordance with Section 2, 3, or 5 hereof, including the cost of insurance, protection, and such other incidental costs as may be necessary, upon production of satisfactory evidence of such costs. Voucher forms for this purpose may be procured from Federal Reserve Banks. Section 7. In cases where the delivery of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates by the owners thereof within the time set forth above will involve extraordinary hardship or difficulty, the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, extend the time within which such delivery must be made. Applications for such extensions must be made in writing under oath, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury and filed with a Federal Reserve Bank.

Each application must state the date to which the extension is desired, the amount and location of the gold coin, gold bullion and gold certificates in respect of which such application is made and the facts showing extension to be necessary to avoid extraordinary hardship or difficulty. Section 8. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and empowered to issue such further regulations as he may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this order and to issue licenses thereunder, through such officers or agencies as he may designate, including licenses permitting the Federal Reserve Banks and member banks of the Federal Reserve System, in return for an equivalent amount of other coin, currency or credit, to deliver, earmark or hold in trust gold coin and bullion to or for persons showing the need for the same for any of the purposes specified in paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) of Section 2 of these regulations. Section 9.

Whoever willfully violates any provision of this Executive Order or of these regulations or of any rule, regulation or license issued thereunder may be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both; and any officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in any such violation may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both. This order and these regulations may be modified or revoked at any time. Franklin D. Roosevelt Order 3102 was modifed by: Executive Order 6111 on April 20th, 1933. This restricted the export of gold from the U.S.A. Executive Order 6260 on August 28th, 1933. This revoked Orders 6102 and 6111, but effectively extended them, but with revised wording.

Gold Reserve Act of January 30th 1934 This transferred all gold held by the Federal Reserve to the United States Department of the Treasury, and also revalued gold at $35 per troy ounce instead of $20.67 per troy ounce, effectively devaluing the dollar by 40.94%. FDR's Gold Confiscation, 80 Years On - The Daily Reckoning April 10, 2013 FDR's Gold Confiscation, 80 Years On “I, Franklin D Roosevelt…do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and…do hereby prohibit the hoarding of gold…” EXECUTIVE ORDER 6102, issued by US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt 80 years ago, on April 5th 1933, banned private gold ownership in the United States, forcing gold owners to take their bullion to a bank and exchange it for Dollars at the prevailing rate. This order has become notorious among gold investors.

Some fear a similar gold confiscation could happen again — that their government might seek to take away their bullion and ban “gold hoarding” as part of some trumped up solution to a “national economic emergency”. Events in Cyprus, where at one point it looked like the state was going to levy a 6.75% on deposits below €100,000 — despite these coming under the deposit protection scheme — have only served to heighten fears that private wealth can, under certain circumstances, simply be appropriated. Governments change laws from time to time, and yes it’s possible that under the right circumstances some governments might try to confiscate their citizens’ gold. But it is important to realize that the motivation for confiscating gold that existed for FDR in 1933 has largely disappeared. Back then the US was still on the Gold Standard (the UK had been forced off 18 months earlier. The rest of the world would follow by the eve of WWII, never to return).

Gold was the foundation of the American currency and economy; at the time of FDR’s order the Dollar’s value was tied to gold at a rate of $20.67 per ounce — the price at which the government offered to buy and sell physical bullion. Making private “gold hoarding” illegal, FDR in fact nationalized what had been private property, using the bullion turned in to the banks to boost Washington’s finances and imposing 10-year jail terms and $10,000 fines (almost half-a-million dollars at today’s gold price) for disobedience. Only one case relating to the confiscation ever reached court (and only then because the gold owner, Manhattan attorney Frederick Barber Campbell, sued for return of his property) but the threat alone pulled in 60% of privately-circulating gold bullion within six months. Following 6102, Roosevelt was then able to devalue the Dollar against gold by raising the gold price, something the government could now do as it controlled the entire domestic supply, plus a big chunk of the international market, which now poured metal into the US in exchange for ever-more dollars per ounce.

FDR was acting on the advice of Cornell agricultural economist George Warren, whose background observing commodity prices had left him with the belief that the best way of solving a deflationary depression was to inject some inflation and push prices higher. This was the reasoning behind devaluing the Dollar; in the weeks following 6102, FDR and his advisers would sit at the breakfast table and decide what the gold price should be, nudging it higher a bit at a time until they settles on the $35 an ounce that prevailed until Nixon closed the gold window in August 1971. So in a way, FDR gold confiscation and his raising of the gold price was a Gold Standard-era version of quantitative easing, a policy aimed at fighting deflation by raising asset prices at the expense of the monetary unit. Whereas today central banks can simply create the Dollars or Pounds necessary to do this, under the Gold Standard that was not possible. So Roosevelt instead confiscated gold and changed its price, the aim being to raise prices in the economy even though there was no additional gold to back the quantity of currency. The situation that we have today is very different to that faced by Roosevelt in 1933.

Gold is not the foundation of the world’s monetary system. Few people own gold — compared to (for example) real estate and regular financial assets. They also tend to own it in ways that make it relatively inaccessible to governments. The gains to a government from confiscating people’s gold would be much, much smaller than those that accrued to FDR. Nonetheless, one can never say never. In our opinion, a good way to own gold is directly (i.e. not through a trust), in allocated physical form, and offshore, in a place with a strong tradition for protecting international investors’ property. This makes it a harder target for confiscation by your government, and one that could risk upsetting other countries for relatively little reward. Regards, 1933 - The Confiscation of Gold - The NWO Antichrist Beast System 1933 - The Confiscation of Gold (Reading Time: 3 - 5 minutes) 1933 - The Confiscation of Gold Executive Order 6102 is an Executive Order signed on April 5, 1933, by U.S. President Franklin D.

Roosevelt "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates within the continental United States". The order criminalized the possession of monetary gold by any individual, partnership, association or corporation. Executive Order 6102 required all persons to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, all but a small amount of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned by them to the Federal Reserve , in exchange for $20.67 - equivalent to $371.10 today per troy ounce. Under the Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, as amended on March 9, 1933, violation of the order was punishable by fine up to $10,000 - $167,700 if adjusted for inflation as of 2010 or up to ten years in prison, or both. Most citizens who owned large amounts of gold had it transferred to countries such as Switzerland. Much has been said about the confiscation of America's gold supply Did Franklin Roosevelt know the truth behind the financial crisis?

Yes, Roosevelt was a 33rd Degree Mason , Skull and Bones , and Council on Foreign Relations member. Was Congress aware of the Federal Reserves role in the nations gold confiscation? Yes, they were aware, not to the extent of today as we look back in history but they were well aware of the Federal Reserve act and the implications of it. Neither Roosevelt nor Congress had the desire or will power to stop it as they were being cared for indirectly and not in the street at the corner food line. There were bigger powers at play during this time than the US government and although the Federal Reserves policies had not evolved to the level they are today the controlling hand of the Federal Reserve was more than enough to keep the government structure at bay. The fact of the matter is that approximately 500 tonnes of gold were sold to the U.S. Treasury in 1933 at the rate of $20.67 per troy ounce. This left the federal government with a large gold reserve and no place to store it. In 1936, the U.S. Treasury Department began construction of the United States Bullion Depository .

When was the last time you heard any comments from the government or media about the nations gold in Fort Knox? The official statement is that the United States Bullion Depository, adjacent to Fort Knox, Kentucky is reported to hold 4,577 metric tons (5046 tons) of gold bullion. This is roughly 2.5% of all the gold ever refined throughout human history. The depository is second in the United States to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's underground vault in Manhattan, which holds 7,000 metric tons (7716 tons) of gold bullion, how much of that is in trust for foreign nations, central banks and official international organizations is unknown because The Federal Reserve is private. Scoffers of the signing of Executive Order 6102 quickly bring up the myths and conspiracies of the past 80 years as a defense. Yes, there were many conspiracy myths and theories about what happened with the gold confiscated because of Executive Order 6102. There are many who believe that the nations treasures have been plundered and I believe gold was just the beginning.

The resources of North America are top priority and the Federal Reserve is just one arm of the workers who are working hard to clean the branches. Is gold a part of the Federal Reserves fleecing of America? Only the controlling hand behind the Federal Reserve can answer that question and they are not talking, don't plan on getting your share anytime soon though. It only equals out to less that a half troy oz (and falling) and your part of the national debt is over $241,000 (and rising). I believe the Federal Reserve is still Fleecing, how about you? Executive Order 6102 is not the end of the story. Although it was enacted there have been many Executive Orders set in place for a future crisis. One day soon we will awake to a new world with new laws and new controlling factors that will shake the very foundation of every citizen. It is called Martial Law and it is waiting in the background prepared for the day. Executive Order 6102 will be the least of our problems on that day. Here are a few laws that have been set in place for that day. None done by a vote - all done be the mark of a pen.

#10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. #10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals, public and private. #10998 allows the government to take over all food supplies and resources, public and private, including farms and equipment. #11000 allows the government to mobilize American civilians into work brigades under government supervision, split up families. #11921 When a state of emergency is declared by the president, congress cannot review the action for six (6) months. For more information on Martial Law and Executive Orders visit here . The UN Plot to Confiscate Civilian Weapons - Weapons Control, your Choices and your Responsibilities FAIR USE NOTICE: Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit for Research and Educational Purposes. Menu is at the Top, Sitemap is Below.

Click here for 42 False Flag Attacks Officially Admitted to by Presidents, Generals etc 42 False Flag Attacks Officially Admitted To by Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Soldiers and Police In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos: (1) Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is known as the Mukden Incident or the Manchurian Incident. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal found : Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], have on various occasions admitted their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the 'Incident' was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army.. And see this .

(2) A major with the Nazi SS admitted at the Nuremberg trials that - under orders from the chief of the Gestapo - he and some other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own people and resources which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland. (3) Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to the German parliament building in 1933, and then falsely blaming the communists for the arson. (4) Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev admitted in writing that the Soviet Union's Red Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939 - while blaming the attack on Finland - as a basis for launching the Winter War against Finland. Russian president Boris Yeltsin agreed that Russia had been the aggressor in the Winter War. (5) The Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin and former Soviet leader Gorbachev all admit that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army officers and civilians in 1940, and then falsely blamed it on the Nazis.

(6) The British government admits that - between 1946 and 1948 - it bombed 5 ships carrying Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust to seek safety in Palestine, set up a fake group called Defenders of Arab Palestine, and then had the psuedo-group falsely claim responsibility for the bombings (and see this , this and this ). (7) Israel admits that in 1954, an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind evidence implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this ). (8) The CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950's to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister.

(9) The Turkish Prime Minister admitted that the Turkish government carried out the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece - also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey - and blamed it on Greece, for the purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek violence. (10) The British Prime Minister admitted to his defense secretary that he and American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime change. (11) The former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people's support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism . As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple.

They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security (and see this ) (Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred). And watch this BBC special . They also allegedly carried out terror attacks in France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK , and other countries. Shooting and killing 28 shoppers in Brabant county, Belgium (1985) (12) In 1960, American Senator George Smathers suggested that the U.S. launch a false attack made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow Castro]. (13) Official State Department documents show that, in 1961, the head of the Joint Chiefs and other high-level officials discussed blowing up a consulate in the Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion of that country. The plans were not carried out, but they were all discussed as serious proposals. (14) As admitted by the U.S.

government, recently declassified documents show that in 1962, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See the following ABC news report ; the official documents ; and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. (15) In 1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper promoting attacks on nations within the Organization of American States - such as Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica - and then falsely blaming them on Cuba. (16) The U.S. Department of Defense even suggested covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United States: The only area remaining for consideration then would be to bribe one of Castro's subordinate commanders to initiate an attack on Guantanamo. (17) The NSA admits that it lied about what really happened in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. manipulating data to make it look like North Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S.

ship so as to create a false justification for the Vietnam war. (18) A U.S. Congressional committee admitted that - as part of its Cointelpro campaign - the FBI had used many provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out violent acts and falsely blame them on political activists. (19) A top Turkish general admitted that Turkish forces burned down a mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their enemy. He explained : In Special War, certain acts of sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus; we even burnt down a mosque. In response to the surprised correspondent's incredulous look the general said, I am giving an example. (20) A declassified 1973 CIA document reveals a program to train foreign police and troops on how to make booby traps, pretending that they were training them on how to investigate terrorist acts: The Agency maintains liaison in varying degrees with foreign police/security organizations through its field stations.. [CIA provides training sessions as follows:] a.

Providing trainees with basic knowledge in the uses of commercial and military demolitions and incendiaries as they may be applied in terrorism and industrial sabotage operations. b. Introducing the trainees to commercially available materials and home laboratory techniques, likely to he used in the manufacture of explosives and incendiaries by terrorists or saboteurs. c. Familiarizing the trainees with the concept of target analysis and operational planning that a saboteur or terrorist must employ. d. Introducing the trainees to booby trapping devices and techniques giving practical experience with both manufactured and improvised devices through actual fabrication. The program provides the trainees with ample opportunity to develop basic familiarity and use proficiently through handling, preparing and applying the various explosive charges, incendiary agents, terrorist devices and sabotage techniques. (21) The German government admitted (and see this ) that, in 1978, the German secret service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a prison and planted escape tools on a prisoner - a member of the Red Army Faction - which the secret service wished to frame the bombing on.

(22) A Mossad agent admits that, in 1984, Mossad planted a radio transmitter in Gaddaffi's compound in Tripoli, Libya which broadcast fake terrorist trasmissions recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya immediately thereafter. (23) The South African Truth and Reconciliation Council found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him to participate in an operation aimed at discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress] by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating officer into the murder incident, thus framing the ANC for the bombing. (24) An Algerian diplomat and several officers in the Algerian army admit that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see this video ; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002, French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit Against Author).

(25) The United States Army's 1994 publication Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces - updated in 2004 - recommends employing terrorists and using false flag operations to destabilize leftist regimes in Latin America. False flag terrorist attacks were carried out in Latin America and other regions as part of the CIA's Dirty Wars . And see this . (26) Similarly, a CIA psychological operations manual prepared by a CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan Contra rebels noted the value of assassinating someone on your own side to create a martyr for the cause. The manual was authenticated by the U.S. government. The manual received so much publicity from Associated Press, Washington Post and other news coverage that - during the 1984 presidential debate - President Reagan was confronted with the following question on national television: At this moment, we are confronted with the extraordinary story of a CIA guerrilla manual for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are backing, which advocates not only assassinations of Sandinistas but the hiring of criminals to assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in order to create martyrs.

(27) An Indonesian fact-finding team investigated violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined that elements of the military had been involved in the riots, some of which were deliberately provoked . (28) Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see this report and this discussion ). (29) As reported by BBC , the New York Times , and Associated Press , Macedonian officials admit that the government murdered 7 innocent immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate Macedonian police, in order to join the war on terror. (30) At the July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, black-clad thugs were videotaped getting out of police cars, and were seen by an Italian MP carrying iron bars inside the police station. Subsequently, senior police officials in Genoa subsequently admitted that police planted two Molotov cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer at the G8 Summit, in order to justify a violent crackdown against protesters.

(31) The U.S. falsely blamed Iraq for playing a role in the 9/11 attacks - as shown by a memo from the defense secretary - as one of the main justifications for launching the Iraq war. Even after the 9/11 Commission admitted that there was no connection, Dick Cheney said that the evidence is overwhelming that al Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein's regime, that Cheney probably had information unavailable to the Commission, and that the media was not 'doing their homework' in reporting such ties. Top U.S. government officials now admit that the Iraq war was really launched for oil. not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction. Despite previous lone wolf claims, many U.S. government officials now say that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but Iraq was not the state which backed the hijackers. (Many U.S. officials have alleged that 9/11 was a false flag operation by rogue elements of the U.S. government; but such a claim is beyond the scope of this discussion. The key point is that the U.S. falsely blamed it on Iraq, when it knew Iraq had nothing to do with it.).

(32) Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax attacks were carried out by one or more U.S. government scientists, a senior FBI official says that the FBI was actually told to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al Qaeda by White House officials (remember what the anthrax letters looked like ). Government officials also confirm that the white House tried to link the anthrax to Iraq as a justification for regime change in that country. (33) According to the Washington Post , Indonesian police admit that the Indonesian military killed American teachers in Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan separatist group in order to get that group listed as a terrorist organization. (34) The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the government probably had a role in the Bali bombings. (35) Police outside of a 2003 European Union summit in Greece were filmed planting Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester (36) Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and fundraising operations.

It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda's ranks, causing operatives to doubt others' identities and to question the validity of communications. (37) Similarly, in 2005, Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate School - a renowned US defense analyst credited with developing the concept of 'netwar' - called for western intelligence services to create new pseudo gang terrorist groups, as a way of undermining real terror networks. According to Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh, Arquilla's 'pseudo-gang' strategy was, Hersh reported, already being implemented by the Pentagon: Under Rumsfeld's new approach, I was told, US military operatives would be permitted to pose abroad as corrupt foreign businessmen seeking to buy contraband items that could be used in nuclear-weapons systems. In some cases, according to the Pentagon advisers, local citizens could be recruited and asked to join up with guerrillas or terrorists... The new rules will enable the Special Forces community to set up what it calls 'action teams' in the target countries overseas which can be used to find and eliminate terrorist organizations.

'Do you remember the right-wing execution squads in El Salvador?' the former high-level intelligence official asked me, referring to the military-led gangs that committed atrocities in the early nineteen-eighties. 'We founded them and we financed them,' he said. 'The objective now is to recruit locals in any area we want. And we aren't going to tell Congress about it.' A former military officer, who has knowledge of the Pentagon's commando capabilities, said, 'We're going to be riding with the bad boys.' (38) United Press International reported in June 2005: U.S. intelligence officers are reporting that some of the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do not appear to have been physically removed; the pistols seem to have come off a production line without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the lack of serial numbers indicates that the weapons were intended for intelligence operations or terrorist cells with substantial government backing. Analysts speculate that these guns are probably from either Mossad or the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent provocateurs may be using the untraceable weapons even as U.S.

authorities use insurgent attacks against civilians as evidence of the illegitimacy of the resistance. (39) Undercover Israeli soldiers admitted in 2005 to throwing stones at other Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful protests by the Palestinians. (40) Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers (and see this ). (41) A 2008 US Army special operations field manual recommends that the U.S. military use surrogate non-state groups such as paramilitary forces, individuals, businesses, foreign political organizations, resistant or insurgent organizations, expatriates, transnational terrorism adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism members, black marketers, and other social or political 'undesirables.' The manual specifically acknowledged that U.S.

special operations can involve both counterterrorism and Terrorism (as well as transnational criminal activities, including narco-trafficking, illicit arms-dealing, and illegal financial transactions.) (42) The former head of Secret Services and Head of State of Italy (Francesco Cossiga) advised the 2008 minister in charge of the police, on how to deal with protests from teachers and students: He should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior. infiltrate the movement with agents provocateurs inclined to do anything.. And after that, with the strength of the gained population consent,. beat them for blood and beat for blood also those teachers that incite them. Especially the teachers. Not the elderly, of course, but the girl teachers yes. (43) At the G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of parliament saw plain clothes police officers attempting to incite the crowd to violence. (44) Egyptian politicians admitted (and see this ) that government employees looted priceless museum artifacts in 2011 to try to discredit the protesters.

(45) Rioters who discredited the peaceful protests against the swearing in of the Mexican president in 2012 admitted that they were paid 300 pesos each to destroy everything in their path. According to Wikipedia, photos also show the vandals waiting in groups behind police lines prior to the violence. (46) A Colombian army colonel has admitted that his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat. (47) On November 20, 2014, Mexican agent provocateurs were transported by army vehicles to participate in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping protests, as was shown by videos and pictures distributed via social networks. (48) The highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi intelligence - Prince Bandar - recently admitted that the Saudi government controls Chechen terrorists. (49) High-level American sources admitted that the Turkish government - a fellow NATO country - carried out the chemical weapons attacks blamed on the Syrian government; and high-ranking Turkish government admitted on tape plans to carry out attacks and blame it on the Syrian government.

(50) The Ukrainian security chief admits that the sniper attacks which started the Ukrainian coup were carried out in order to frame others. Ukrainian officials admit that the Ukrainian snipers fired on both sides, to create maximum chaos. (51) Britain's spy agency has admitted (and see this ) that it carries out digital false flag attacks on targets, framing people by writing offensive or unlawful material. and blaming it on the target. (52) U.S. soldiers have admitted that if they kill innocent Iraqis and Afghanis, they then drop automatic weapons near their body so they can pretend they were militants (53) Similarly, police frame innocent people for crimes they didn't commit. The practice is so well-known that the New York Times noted in 1981: In police jargon, a throwdown is a weapon planted on a victim. Newsweek reported in 1999: Perez, himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department] cop, was caught stealing eight pounds of cocaine from police evidence lockers.

After pleading guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter sentence by telling an appalling story of attempted murder and a throwdown-police slang for a weapon planted by cops to make a shooting legally justifiable. Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino Durden, shot an unarmed 18th Street Gang member named Javier Ovando, then planted a semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect and claimed that Ovando had tried to shoot them during a stakeout. Wikipedia notes : As part of his plea bargain, Perez implicated scores of officers from the Rampart Division's anti-gang unit, describing routinely beating gang members, planting evidence on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up unprovoked shootings. (As a side note - and while not technically false flag attacks - police have been busted framing innocent people in many other ways , as well.) (54) A former U.S. intelligence officer recently alleged : Most terrorists are false flag terrorists or are created by our own security services. (55) The head and special agent in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office said that most terror attacks are committed by the CIA and FBI as false flags. Similarly, the director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan - Lt.

General William Odom said : By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In '78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism - in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation. (56) Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the benefits of of false flags to justify their political agenda: Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. - Adolph Hitler Why of course the people don't want war. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. - Hermann Goering, Nazi leader. The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror.

[The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened. - Josef Stalin The Gold Confiscation Of April 5, 1933 This Act follows FDR's March 5, 1933 chat on the "Banking Crisis ", and effectively proves our president to be a liar and a thief. Interesting, too, that the gold is to be turned in to the privately-owned Federal Reserve Banks. James Turk furnishes an excellent analysis including the amount of gold actually surrendered by Americans.

The Gold Confiscation Of April 5, 1933 From: President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt To: The United States Congress Dated: 5 April, 1933 Presidential Executive Order 6102 Forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates By virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 5(b) of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended by Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, entitled An Act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking, and for other purposes in which amendatory Act Congress declared that a serious emergency exists, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare that said national emergency still continues to exist and pursuant to said section to do hereby prohibit the hoarding gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States by individuals, partnerships, associations and corporations and hereby prescribe the following regulations for carrying out the purposes of the order: Section 1.

For the purpose of this regulation, the term 'hoarding" means the withdrawal and withholding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates from the recognized and customary channels of trade. The term "person" means any individual, partnership, association or corporation. Section 2. All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1, 1933, to a Federal Reserve bank or a branch or agency thereof or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates now owned by them or coming into their ownership on or before April 28, 1933, except the following: (a) Such amount of gold as may be required for legitimate and customary use in industry, profession or art within a reasonable time, including gold prior to refining and stocks of gold in reasonable amounts for the usual trade requirements of owners mining and refining such gold. (b) Gold coin and gold certificates in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate $100.00 belonging to any one person; and gold coins having recognized special value to collectors of rare and unusual coins.

(c) Gold coin and bullion earmarked or held in trust for a recognized foreign government or foreign central bank or the Bank for International Settlements. (d) Gold coin and bullion licensed for the other proper transactions (not involving hoarding) including gold coin and gold bullion imported for the re-export or held pending action on applications for export license. Section 3. Until otherwise ordered any person becoming the owner of any gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates after April 28, 1933, shall within three days after receipt thereof, deliver the same in the manner prescribed in Section 2; unless such gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates are held for any of the purposes specified in paragraphs (a),(b) or (c) of Section 2; or unless such gold coin, gold bullion is held for purposes specified in paragraph (d) of Section 2 and the person holding it is, with respect to such gold coin or bullion, a licensee or applicant for license pending action thereon. Section 4.

Upon receipt of gold coin, gold bullion, or gold certificates delivered to it in accordance with Section 2 or 3, the Federal reserve bank or member bank will pay thereof an equivalent amount of any other form of coin or currency coined or issued under the laws of the Unites States. Section 5. Member banks shall deliver alt gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates owned or received by them (other than as exempted under the provisions of Section 2) to the Federal reserve banks of there respective districts and receive credit or payment thereof. Section 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, out of the sum made available to the President by Section 501 of the Act of March 9, 1933, will in all proper cases pay the reasonable costs of transportation of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates delivered to a member bank or Federal reserve bank in accordance with Sections 2, 3, or 5 hereof, including the cost of insurance, protection, and such other incidental costs as may be necessary, upon production of satisfactory evidence of such costs. Voucher forms for this purpose may be procured from Federal reserve banks. Section 7.

In cases where the delivery of gold coin, gold bullion, or gold certificates by the owners thereof within the time set forth above will involve extraordinary hardship or difficulty, the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, extend the time within which such delivery must be made. Applications for such extensions must be made in writing under oath; addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury and filed with a Federal reserve bank. Each applications must state the date to which the extension is desired, the amount and location of the gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates in respect of which such application is made and the facts showing extension to be necessary to avoid extraordinary hardship or difficulty. Section 8.

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and empowered to issue such further regulations as he may deem necessary to carry the purposes of this order and to issue licenses there under, through such officers or agencies as he may designate, including licenses permitting the Federal reserve banks and member banks of the Federal Reserve System, in return for an equivalent amount of other coin, currency or credit, to deliver, earmark or hold in trust gold coin or bullion to or for persons showing the need for same for any of the purposes specified in paragraphs (a), (c), and (d) of Section 2 of these regulations. Section 9. Whoever willfully violates any provision of this Executive Order or these regulation or of any rule, regulation or license issued there under may be fined not more than $10,000, or,if a natural person may be imprisoned for not more than ten years or both; and any officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in any such violation may be punished by a like fine, imprisonment, or both. This order and these regulations may be modified or revoked at any time.

/s/ President of the United States of America April 5, 1933 Pre 1933 Gold Coins for Sale | Old Gold Coins by CoinAdvisor Pre 1933 Gold Coins Secure Your Piece of History with Numismatic Pre 1933 Gold Coins For Sale 1933 was a historically significant year for Americans. With the Great Depression in full swing, 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law executive order 6102 making it illegal for U.S. citizens to own gold coins pre 1933. Aptly titled “gold hoarding”, the new law required all Americans to turn over their gold coins in exchange for equal value in U.S. dollars. Furthermore, our government threatened 10 years imprisonment and/or $10,000 in fines for those not complying with the "gold hoarding" law. Today's marketplace is fortunate enough to have some surviving pre 1933 gold coins. High quality specimens are even more difficult to acquire and they bring significant premiums. In many cases a single grade difference can mean thousands of dollars.

Pre-1933 gold coins for sale stand today as one of the most desired categories of numismatic products. They have continued to prove themselves as a great hedge from todays financial uncertainties. Our availability on pre 1933 gold coins in changing daily and includes Indian Heads, Eagles, Liberty's and Saint Gaudens. We have a wide selection of NGC and PCGS type and variety options depending on your needs. If you are looking for a particular issue or for other old gold coins, contact our experienced advisors at 1-877-540-2646. Products June 5, 1933: The Dollar’s Day of Infamy - Peter Schiff's Gold News Home / Key Gold Headlines / June 5, 1933: The Dollar’s Day of Infamy June 5, 1933: The Dollar’s Day of Infamy June 4, 2015 by SchiffGold 0 1 Share this: Email After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec.

7, 1941, “A date that will live in infamy.” When it comes to the US monetary system, June 5, 1933 should share that ignoble title, because that date marks the beginning of a slow death of the dollar. Eighty-two years ago, the US went off the gold standard when Congress enacted a joint resolution erasing the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. The move was the culmination of actions taken by Roosevelt that year. In March 1933, the president prohibited banks from paying out or exporting gold. In April of that same year, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102. It was touted as a measure to stop hoarding, but was in reality a massive confiscation scheme. The order required private citizens, partnerships, associations and corporations to turn in all but small amounts of gold to the Federal Reserve in exchange for $20.67 per ounce.

As Peter Schiff points out in his Classic Gold Scams report , despite hefty fines and long prison terms, the government did little to enforce the confiscation order: Even in the heat of Roosevelt’s confiscation scheme, government troops did not break into people’s homes… Ironically, all the gold actually collected by the Treasury was willfully surrendered in a wave of misguided patriotism, while many ‘law-breakers’ simply kept their gold.” That’s an important point to keep in mind when coin dealers try to convince you that only their gold coins will remain safe in the next wave of confiscation. Fears of confiscation in today’s world are blown far out of proportion and should not dissuade you from protecting your wealth with highly liquid gold and silver coins. The purpose of Roosevelt’s executive order was to remove constraints on inflating the money supply. The Federal Reserve Act required all notes have 40% gold backing. But the Fed was low on gold and up against the limit. By increasing its gold stores, the Fed could circulate more notes. The very next year, the government raised the price of gold to $35.

President Richard Nixon put the final nail in the coffin when he slammed the “gold window” shut in 1971 , severing the last ties the dollar had to gold. Nixon uncoupled gold from its fixed $35 price and suspended the convertibility of dollars into gold. Roosevelt’s moves in 1933 set off a dollar devaluation that continues to this day. A paper offered during the American Economic Association’s 2013 Annual Meeting by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff reveals the devaluation of dollar after 1933. In 1913, prices were only about 20% higher than in 1775 and around 40% lower than in 1813, during the War of 1812. Whatever the mandates of the Federal Reserve, it is clear that the evolution of the price level in the United States is dominated by the abandonment of the gold standard in 1933 and the adoption of fiat money subsequently.

One hundred years after its creation, consumer prices are about 30 times higher than what they were in 1913.” An article we recently published on the minimum wage illustrates the practical impact of dollar devaluation in our daily lives. In 1964, the minimum wage stood at $1.25. To put it another way, a minimum wage worker earned five silver quarters for every hour worked. Today, you can’t even buy a cup of coffee with those five quarters. But the melt-value of those five silver quarters today stands close to $15!” As David Stockman put it , Roosevelt’s moves culminating in the June 5 congressional resolutions “initiated a process of monetary deformation that led straight to Nixon’s abomination at Camp David, Greenspan’s panic at the time of the 1998 Long-Term Capital Management crisis, and the final destruction of monetary integrity and financial discipline during the BlackBerry Panic of 2008.” The legacy of June 5, 1933 continues today. The dollar continues to devalue. That means over the long-term, the price of gold in US dollars will almost certainly continue to rise.

Get Peter Schiff’s latest gold market analysis – click here for a free subscription to his exclusive monthly Gold Videocast. Interested in learning more about physical gold and silver? Call 1-888-GOLD-160 and speak with a Precious Metals Specialist today! Share this: FAQ About Gold Confiscation | Monetary Gold FAQ About Gold Confiscation Nov 2, 2013 by MonetaryGold Is it true that the Government Confiscated Gold in 1933? Yes, at the height of the monetary and banking crisis during the Great Depression the U.S Government signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 5, 1933 by executive order prohibited the private ownership of gold bars, gold certificates and certain type of gold coins. Did the Government pay for the Gold? Yes, President Roosevelt’s Order required gold owners to trade in all but $100 worth of the gold coins in their possession to a Federal Reserve Bank in exchange for about $20 per ounce. Note, shortly after the government raised the price of gold to $35 per ounce. This effectively devalued the dollar by approximately 42% and raised the price of gold by approximately 75%.

So that means the $20 per ounce you were given now only had a value of about $12. How long was gold illegal? For 40 years any citizen who was caught with gold was penalized up to $10,000 which is about $180,000 today and/or 10 years prison. This is one of the reasons why many Americans are unfamiliar with gold as an asset class and the benefits gold provide. The United States left the gold standard in 1971 (President Nixon) and allowing U.S citizens once again to own gold in 1974. Were there any exceptions on the Government confiscation? The Executive Order that banned private ownership of gold included several exceptions. One exception allowed people to own gold coins having a recognized special value to collectors/investors of rare and unusual coins. Consequently, it is estimated that only about 1% of the gold coins minted prior to 1933 remain in existence today, and those coins now have increased value due to their scarcity.

Also in the years to follow the Treasury Department at various times identified Pre-1933 U.S gold coins and all Pre-1935 foreign gold coins which it considered to be of recognized special value to collectors/investors. Can the Government confiscate gold again? As of now, there are no restrictions on gold ownership. The United States ability to recall gold is limited to times of war/monetary crises and requires Presidential action or an Act of Congress. We can not guarantee if or how the government might prohibit private ownership of gold or silver in the future and no one can say with certainty if a particular gold or silver product would be exempt from any future prohibition. Click and review Section 2b. EXECUTIVE ORDER 6102

Question: In 1933, US President Franklin D Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102 which banned US citizens from hoarding what?
Answer: Gold