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Federal officials in the United States have drafted a national pandemic influenza response plan that includes a proposal to allow foreign countries to print US money as an emergency response measure in the event of a major flu pandemic. President George W. Bush is expected to approve the plan within a week, The Washington Post reported on April 15. The response plan, assembled by the president's Homeland Security Council, details how the government would respond to a bird flu outbreak [or other national emergency] ... The plan lays out 300 specific tasks for federal agencies ... The Treasury Department is on the verge of signing agreements with other countries to print US currency if the domestic mints cannot operate.
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North Korea says it has
"shocking evidence" of US plot
by Jon Herskovitz
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has charged the United States with counterfeiting its own currency and shifting the blame to Pyongyang ...
A spokesman for the Ministry of People's Security said in a statement the North had obtained "shocking evidence" Washington and Tokyo are producing false material that gives the impression Pyongyang is a criminal state, the North's KCNA news agency said late Wednesday.
"The CIA secretly enlist(s) experts on counterfeiting notes claimed to be the 'most sophisticated in the world' and invite(s) them to issue lots of fake currencies at 'counterfeit notes printing houses of North Korean-style' operating in U.S. military bases in different parts of the world," the spokesman said.
U.S. Treasury officials have briefed various governments about Washington's suspicions that North Korea has for years been producing a high quality copy of its $100 bill. U.S. officials have dubbed the copy the "supernote."
"Although Pyongyang denies complicity in any counterfeiting activity, at least $45 million in such supernotes of North Korean origin have been detected in circulation, and estimates are that the country earns from $15 million to $25 million per year from counterfeiting," the U.S. Congressional Research Service said in a report in March.
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http://www.sniggle.net/counterfeit.php
“Because U.S. currency is universally accepted and trusted,” writes a representative of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, “it is widely counterfeited.” U.S. Secret Service spokesman Carl Meyer acknowledges that the prestige of the greenback is only part of the problem: “U.S. currency is not only the most desirable currency in the world. It is also the most easily counterfeited.”
“Intelligence analysts,” according to a paper from the Henry L. Stimson Center, “traced much of the increase to a group of highly-skilled counterfeiters backed by IRAN and SYRIA, who have produced as much as $1 billion in superb reproductions of the old U.S. $100 bill.” (As a point of comparison, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing makes about $9 billion in bank notes each year).
An unknown nation (variously described as Middle-Eastern or as NORTH KOREA, depending on whom the United States wants to bomb this week) is allegedly sponsoring the mass printing of what worried officials call the Superdollar.
An end-of-the-century raid in the Philippines found a counterfeiter with more than $50 billion in U.S. currency and treasury notes. Another source claims that in 1989 fully 82% of the U.S. hundred-dollar bills circulating in Europe were counterfeits.
Meanwhile, counterfeiters in Colombia are suspected of manufacturing more than a third of the counterfeit notes seized in the U.S. in 1999.
The Treasury Department is proud of the newly designed bills, with their Optically Variable Ink and other high-tech anti-counterfeiting elements, but even these new bills are being faked. (Back to the drawing board, and back to the drawing board again.) “Some have been deceptive enough to get by a clerk in a grocery or retail store,” said Secret Service Special Agent Arnette Heinze, “but in virtually every case they’ve been detected at the bank or through the Federal Reserve system.”
Alas, since most of the economic transactions in the world involve neither a bank nor the Federal Reserve system, the economy remains quite vulnerable to the counterfeiter’s art.
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ARAFAT DIRECTED A COUNTERFEITING OPERATION OF $50 BILLS in US, Israeli and Jordanian currency, guided by veterans of the 1990 Syria-Iran counterfeiting of $100 bills, which caused multi-billion dollar damage to the US economy.
(Richard Chesnoff, NY Daily News, July 9, 2001).
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http://www.hackcanada.com/blackcrawl/patriot/counterfeit.txt
from *The 700 Club Newswatch*, July 21, 1994
According to the House Republican Task Force on Terrorism and
Unconventional Warfare, Iran and Syria are actively engaged in
producing and distributing counterfeit $100 bills. They are
acting in concert to purposefully "destabilize the United States'
economy by undermining confidence in the dollar."
The plan is to flood the world market with bogus American bills.
That would drive down the value of the dollar and weaken the U.S.
economy. Iran and Syria also need hard currency to alleviate
their own financial crises.
"The Iranian deficit is far greater than... predicted, therefore
they need more hard currency to balance the budget," says Yossef
Bodansky, director of the task force. In 1992, the Iranian
foreign debt was estimated at $34 billion. Bodansky says the
Iranians made up for the shortfall by printing high quality $100
bills at their government mint.
According to the task force report, bogus bills are passed
through a Lebanon-based drug network. Safe shipment of the
counterfeit money is facilitated by Syrian Military Intelligence.
The counterfeit dollars are then distributed through Africa via
Cairo, Egypt, and Nairobi, Kenya, and on to Europe via Albania,
Bosnia and Italy.
Bodansky says the Iranian counterfeit money is laundered with
drug profits by the Italian Mafia. He says the Italians have
enlisted the help of the Russian[-Jewish] mafia. According to
the task force report, more than half the foreign [US] currency
in circulation in Central Asia may be counterfeit.
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11/28/05 U.S. Allegations Of North Korean Counterfeiting Emerge As six-country talks on North Korea's highly controversial nuclear program continue, it is perhaps understandable that a contretemps between Washington and Pyongyang with considerably lower stakes has grabbed few headlines. But years of investigation recently resulted in a formal accusation by the United States that the government of North Korea counterfeits $100 bills, or "supernotes," as they are sometimes known.
The accusation was included in an indictment against the leader of a breakaway faction of the Irish Republican Army known as the "Official IRA," 71-year-old Sean Garland, and six co-conspirators. That document was posted on the U.S. Department of Justice website (http://www.usdoj.gov) in October. Garland and six others were arrested in Belfast prior to the indictment's release, and he was freed on bail soon afterward. He has denied the charges.
"Quantities of the supernote were manufactured in, and under auspices of the government of, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)," the indictment reads. "Individuals, including North Korean nationals acting as ostensible government officials, engaged in the worldwide transportation, delivery, and sale of quantities of supernotes."
U.S. authorities allege that North Korea is flooding the market with supernotes for two primary reasons: 1) to earn hard currency in order to continue its nuclear program; and 2) to destabilize the U.S. currency.
In July 2002, three men, including a former KGB agent from Armenia, were convicted by a British court on charges of conspiring to import and distribute counterfeit $100 bills.
During the trial, the three were linked to Garland and a worldwide network with contacts in the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, and Belarus. In Moscow, the group is believed to have used contacts to organized crime gangs established earlier by David Levin, a 36-year-old Armenian former KGB officer who was arrested and sentenced to nine years in prison.
According to Judge John Cavell, the three were engaged in sophisticated "international crime" involving millions of counterfeit dollars circulating in many countries. "The counterfeits themselves were of such exceptional quality that even banks were regularly deceived by them," Cavell told the BBC on 26 July.
An unconfirmed account how the so-called Official IRA became involved with North Korean counterfeit bills was published by the "Daily Ireland." That account claims that the Official IRA collected its first $1 million in fake bills in 1989. Those bills first arrived at the Korean Embassy in Moscow, according to that account, and were then transferred to a "popular holiday destination in Eastern Europe" where they were picked up by "mostly married couples and pensioners" so as to avoid suspicion. They were then taken to Ireland.
The "Daily Ireland" went on to assert: "Just before the group returned, an Official IRA representative in Moscow was involved in a shoot-out with the Russian mafia. This led to the Official IRA losing $100,000 in fake notes that were also bound for Ireland."
Persistent Reports
Suspicions that North Korea was counterfeiting $100 bills have been circulating in the media for years.
One of the most detailed accounts to date appeared in "The Wall Street Journal" on 9 September.
"Criminal syndicates working with the government of North Korea are flooding the U.S., Japan and other countries with counterfeit currency, fake cigarettes and methamphetamines, according to law-enforcement officials in several countries and North Korean defectors," "The Wall Street Journal" reported. "The ventures produce the hard currency North Korea's cash-strapped regime needs to procure weapons technology abroad. The North Korean currency, the won, is virtually worthless outside North Korea."
The indictment in the Garland case asserts that North Korean counterfeits began appearing in Ireland in the early 1990s. After the United States redesigned its $100 bills to enhance security features, "supernotes" reportedly began appearing.
"Pyongyang has found numerous ways to distribute its counterfeit money" the UPI reported on 7 November. "Kim Jong-il's regime also distributes millions of supernotes via Asian criminal organizations. In early August, two FBI operations -- called Smoking Dragon and Royal Charm -- uncovered a Chinese-organized crime network and confiscated $4.5 million in supernotes"
In June 2004, the BBC program "Panorama" broadcast a special program called "The Super Dollar" that dealt with North Korean activities.
According to"Panorama," "in the late 1980s, U.S. intelligence discovered that the North Korean government had acquired a highly sophisticated printing press known as the Intaglio."
The BBC reported: "The police investigation is producing a detailed picture of an international counterfeiting cartel. The surveillance shows that it's all run by a tightly knit group of criminals. They're getting their hands on the superdollars in Moscow. The counterfeit cash is then smuggled to Dublin, from Ireland it's taken to Birmingham and distributed in the criminal underworld. Much of it is then bought in bulk by one man."
Extensive Reach
"Panorama" interviewed the Russian Interior Ministry General Vladimir Uskov, whose men reportedly followed Sean Garland as he visited the North Korean Embassy in Moscow.
"We registered his contacts with the North Korean Embassy," Uskov said. "He visited the embassy several times. The fact [that] he went to the North Korean Embassy, our information was that people working there might have been involved in the transportation of counterfeit dollars."
North Korea is not the only country to have been accused by the United States of counterfeiting $100 bills on a grand scale. The U.S. Public Broadcasting System (PBS) program "Nova" on 22 October 1996 reported that the governments of Iran and Syria had been accused by U.S. Congressional investigators of involvement in the production and distribution of high-quality dollar bills. The Iranian government dismissed the charges, and no indictments were ever filed.
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