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Emperor's Gold Still Powerful? (Conspiracy Nation, 2/10/02) -- Japanese emperor Hirohito inaugurated Operation Golden Lily, during World War II, to covertly bring looted war gold into the Empire of Japan. In the Japanese view at the time, the fake document known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was given some credibility. The Japanese establishment did not hate the Jews; they actually admired their supposed plan to rule the world but believed the Jews had failed in their quest. The fortune in gold obtained via Operation Golden Lily, they hoped, would found the "Cult of Gold" described in the Protocols. Reportedly, authors Sterling and Peggy Seagrave (*The Yamamoto Dynasty*) show how billions of dollars worth of gold had been buried in the Philippines. This Operation Golden Lily treasure never made it to Japan after Japanese reversals in World War II limited their ability to transport it. The Seagraves reportedly claim that Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines stumbled upon a portion of the loot. This recovered Hirohito gold apparently paved the way for Marcos' power in the Philippines. (Others who reportedly appropriated some of the loot were General Douglas MacArthur, President Herbert Hoover, and the OSS/CIA.) Supporting claims that Marcos had indeed lucked upon some Operation Golden Lily treasure is a reported claim by Marcos himself to have discovered, in 1966, a fortune in gold hidden in the Philippine jungle. Yoshikazu Okada, a lieutenant-colonel in the elite Imperial Guard, was close to Emperor Hirohito during World War II. Okada, suggests author Garry Greenwood in the cover story of the Feb. 2002 Fortean Times magazine ("Waiting For The End"), was somehow involved with Operation Golden Lily. Okada was forced to retire from active duty due to poor health, in 1941, but probably maintained his connections with Japan's elite. In 1959 he founded a religious group called Sekai Mahikari Bunmei Kyodan (SMBK). Greenwood links the SMBK group with the infamous Japanese Aum Shinrikyo cult, who launched a deadly Sarin gas attack inside the Tokyo subway in 1995. (Aum Shinrikyo was reportedly behind previous Sarin gas terror in 1994.) Greenwood claims that both SMBK and Aum Shinrikyo had been or are directed by Japanese politician Shintaro Ishihara. In Ishihara's book, *The Japan That Can Say No*, an alliance with Russia is reportedly proposed. The reputed alliance may have allowed Aum Shinrikyo to obtain not only Sarin gas but also military grade anthrax from the waning Soviet empire. The source for the funds needed to purchase the weaponry apparently is the original Operation Gold Lily fortune. Aum Shinrikyo and/or SMBK and/or the stash of Hirohito gold appears to be connected with a mysterious explosion which occurred in Australia in May 1993. The blast, equivalent in force to one-seventh of the 1945 Hiroshima A-bomb, had an epicenter 400 miles northeast of Perth. On that site sits a 500,000 acre rural property which had been purchased just 35 days previously by Aum Shinrikyo operatives. Some very advanced weapon reportedly produced the explosion. Australian geologist Harry Mason concluded the huge blast was caused by "a very advanced electromagnetic weapons system." (New York Times, Jan. 21, 1997. Cited in Greenwood, "Waiting For The End". Fortean Times, Feb. 2002. Number 154) |
