Tuesday, April 9, 2013

FG & Wikileaks documents & Mortymer and Jeff


1/ 08-04-2013
From Twitter - By Mortymer001: "380 Gigs... ": WikiLeaks Special Project K: The Kissinger Cables go live:
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_04_08/WikiLeaks-Special-Project-K-The-Kissinger-Cables-goes-live-920/"


"The anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has gone live with another huge release called the Kissinger Cables, which are part of an even greater effort named the WikiLeaks Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD). Wikileaks says it is the world's largest searchable collection of United States confidential, or formerly confidential, diplomatic communications and that as of April 8, 2013 it holds 2 million records comprising approximately 1 billion words."

2/ 08-04-2013
From Twitter - By Mortymer001: "About released Kissinger files, maybe something "missing" (hot classified) from my reaserch in here: http://anotherfreegoldblog.blogspot.fi/2012/01/us-gov-documents-and-meetings.html"


3/ 09-04-2013
In private conversation between mortymer and Jeff -Jeff made a huge discovery here: By Jeff: http://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/?q=&qfconcept=MONETARY+GOLD

.....Hat tip Jeff! Thank you.

Since discovery I have been reading page after page, cool, nah?

This is quite something... Lets check deeper.
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So here is a collection of the picked docs in timeline
(I will update this according the new discoveries, there are many possible searchwords worth to try)

1973
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PARIS06020_b.html 
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PRETOR04405_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973BONN16051_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973BRUSSE01457_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973BRUSSE06563_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973ECBRU06770_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973LONDON13395_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973LONDON13568_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973LUXEMB00707_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973OECDP17066_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PARIS12302_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PARIS13924_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PARIS21327_b.html 
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PARIS25380_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PARIS30004_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973ROME09110_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973STATE157536_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973STATE167505_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973STATE227277_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973THEHA01721_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973THEHA03402_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973JIDDA01059_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973JIDDA03428_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973JIDDA01059_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PRETOR00846_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973TELAV08901_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973ECBRU04614_b.html


1974
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974THEHA02138_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974BERN03048_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974BERN04676_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974BRUSSE02032_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974BRUSSE02610_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974DUBLIN00533_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ECBRU01808_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ECBRU02208_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ECBRU02457_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ECBRU04422_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA07295_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LONDON06568_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974PARIS10319_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974PARIS11237_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ROME01282_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ROME01613_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ROME01847_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ROME15912_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ROME16949_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ROME17645_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE100622_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE195053_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974TEHRAN10780_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974THEHA00333_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974THEHA02042_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974THEHA03824_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974THEHA05036_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ROME12065_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974DUBLIN00533_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974KUWAIT00706_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974OTTAWA02862_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974KUWAIT00650_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA01884_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA02205_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA02068_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA01884_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LONDON05669_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LONDON06087_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE098647_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LONDON05855_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA05070_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA03834_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LONDON07997_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA05157_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE124905_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LONDON07425_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LONDON06989_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974BONN07155_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ROME07514_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE107528_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE100622_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974BERN04016_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974TEHRAN10963_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974BRUSSE00587_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LUXEMB00130_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974PARIS04616_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LUXEMB00817_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974BONN06880_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LUXEMB00817_b.html
 https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974ROME12065_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974TEHRAN10780_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974BONN07155_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974TOKYO02909_b.html

1975
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975BAGHDA00001_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975BONN17106_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975LONDON10828_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975PARIS00508_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975PARIS24169_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ROME01201_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ROME03818_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ROME06000_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ROME08650_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ROME09990_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ROME11343_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ROME11625_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ROME18898_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE031560_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE205868_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE207433_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE276785_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975THEHA02572_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975PARIS00327_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE085749_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ECBRU11248_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975THEHA00477_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975THEHA03759_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975THEHA05908_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE012823_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975STATE064006_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975JIDDA01981_b.html 
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA07206_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974JIDDA06943_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975JIDDA01818_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975KUWAIT01206_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975BERN01626_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975BERN01716_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ABUDH01276_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ABUDH01295_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975TEHRAN00270_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ECBRU11248_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ROME15988_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975LONDON13939_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975THEHA03029_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ECBRU04758_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ECBRU04046_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ECBRU05218_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975BONN06314_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975ECBRU03437_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1975LUXEMB00195_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LUXEMB00817_b.html


1976
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976TOKYO00963_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976BONN00625_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976JIDDA02509_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976LONDON00905_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976PARIS00481_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976ROME00846_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976STATE082205_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976STATE085145_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976THEHA02355_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976TOKYO00963_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976TOKYO16754_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976STATE302437_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976BERN03913_b.html
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976BERN03745_b.html



This whole list syncs with my previous research documented here:

http://anotherfreegoldblog.blogspot.fi/2012/01/us-gov-documents-and-meetings.html

[Hat tip also for CGV, Milamber, tristramboris, onedayfly and others :o) Thank you.]





An UPDATE: The work on monetary/gold/oil wikileaks docs has finished, the result is combined with USG docs and Timeline I have created. Now those 1973 - 1976 done posts are sitting in closed temp blog. The whole work is just waiting to be published, an access due to the hours spent on it is on demand and thus not on free domain, you can request access via donation if you wish. Later it will be on separate web page - which is in construction.

11 comments:

  1. Hi Mortymer,

    Great blog, I'm a long time lurker.

    Here are some cables which I found very interesting :-)

    In any case, this seems to be a treasure trove of gold articles.

    1. On the UST gold auction https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974LONDON16154_b.html

    LOL, they really must have stared into the abyss :

    "A RECURRING COMMENT BOTH IN CONVERSATIONS WITH THE GOLD DEALERS AS WELL AS IN NUMEROUS TELE-
    PHONE CALLS RECEIVED BY THE EMBASSY IS THAT IF ONE BUYER, OR MORE LIKELY ONE BUYER FROM A PARTICULAR COUNTRY (KUWAIT WAS OFTEN CITED), DECIDES TO PLACE A BID FOR THE ENTIRE 2 MILLION OUNCES OF U.S. GOLD BEING AUCTIONED EITHER AT MARKET PRICES, OR POSSIBLY AT HIGHER THAN MARKET PRICES, THEN THE EFFECT OF THE U.S. AUCTION, WHICH IS INITIALLY VIEWED AS HAVING A STABILIZING FORCE ON MARKET PRICES, WOULD BE
    THE OPPOSITE."

    2. Two tiered gold market (same as you posted later?) https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PARIS30004_b.html


    3. PRESS REACTIONS TO ARAB OIL BOYCOTT (and News reports on a possible Gold for oil deal)
    https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PRETOR04405_b.html

    An excerpt from the last:

    1. SUNDAY EXPRESS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT CITING "SENIOR POLITICIANS AND ECONOMISTS" OUTLINED SA WEAPONS TO FIGHT BOYCOTT.....

    SECOND WEAPON SEEN AS GOLD,EITHER OFFERING GOLD FOR OIL ("THE IDEAL INTRODUCTION TO THE LUCRATIVE
    BLACK MARKET IN OIL") OR WITHOLDING GOLD FROM FREE MARKET TO FORCE UP PRICES TO INTOLERABLE LEVEL THEN OFFERING GOLD AT DISCOUNT
    FOR OIL. ARTICLE REASONS THAT ARAB COUNTRIES REQUIRING HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF PAYMENTS IN GOLD WHICH PLACES THEM LARGELY AT MERCY OF SA GOLD SELLING POLICY.

    Cheers
    BH

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  2. Hello BH, thank you for your appreciation of this small monetary backwater corner. I could not handle off the data and it was too much for fofoa´s blog so it ended up by this. Use as you wish. A great source.

    Thank you for your additions I will implement them.There are quite few which i am looking at the moment and like with the USGov docs i will put relevant in some timeline. The complement those USGov ones.

    Enjoy.

    Concerning the 1. I thinnk it was Greenspan in that time (not sure now) when he was suggesting about trying to sell a bit of gold at one time. There are some official docs about this (I thin ksome meetimg minutes if memory serves good) but not with so much depth.
    2. Yes.
    3. Very interesting.

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  3. 3. done, see: http://anotherfreegoldblog.blogspot.fi/2013/04/monetary-gold-wikileaks-1973pretor04405b.html

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  4. The timeline is great, and thanks for the feedback.

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  5. The timeline has many holes and was left unfinished, anyway it leaves a lot work for future.
    One thought would be to fill it with the files in the right order...
    Well, there is another time-line here:
    http://revisiting-gordon-brown-bottom.blogspot.fi/

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  6. Mortymer,

    Another one I think important to add...

    NIXON- POMPIDOU SUMMIT: AGENDA ITEM II A - INTERNATIONAL MONETARY REFORM

    https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1973PARIS13924_b.html



    2. CONVERTIBILITY. POMPIDOU WILL PROBABLY BEAR DOWN HARDEST ON
    IMPORTANCE OF AGREEING AT EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT ON CONDITIONS
    FOR RESUMPTION OF GENERAL CURRENCY CONVERTIBILITY, AND MORE
    PARTICULARLY OF DOLLAR CONVERTIBILITY. ( SEE, FOR EXAMPLE,
    PARIS 13534.) IN FRENCH VIEW, CONVERTIBILITY ARRANGEMENTS
    SHOULD BE DESIGNED SO THAT SETTLEMENTS OF BALANCES BETWEEN
    CENTRAL BANKS ARE MADE ONLY IN RESERVE ASSETS THAT CANNOT
    BE CREATED AT WILL BY A SINGLE NATION. IN CONNECTION WITH
    RESTORATION CONVERTIBILITY, GOF IS READY EXAMINE METHODS OF
    CONSOLIDATING EXISTING DOLLAR BALANCES. IN DISCUSSING THIS ISSUE,
    WE COULD AGAIN EMPHASIZE: A) LINK BETWEEN CONVERTIBILITY
    ARRANGEMENTS AND OTHER ELEMENTS OF REFORMED SYSTEM, AND B) GREAT
    DIFFICULTY OF RESTORING DOLLAR CONVERTIBILITY BEFORE WE REACH
    BALANCE OF PAYMENTS EQUILIBRIUM.

    3. GOLD AND RESERVE ASSETS. GOF HAS COME SOME DISTANCE IN

    PAGE 02 PARIS 13924 191504 Z

    ENDORSING CONCEPT THAT SDR WILL BE MAJOR INSTRUMENT FOR ASSURING
    FUTURE RESERVE GROWTH. THEY STILL STRONGLY BELIEVE, HOWEVER,
    PRACTICALLY AS AN ARTICLE OF FAITH, THAT GOLD SHOULD CONTINUE AS
    ONE OF THE LINCHPINS OF THE SYSTEM. POMPIDOU WILL EXPRESS GRAVE
    DOUBTS THAT SDRS CAN SUCCESSFULLY REPLACE GOLD AS ULTIMATE RESERVE
    ASSET. OUR REBUTTAL COULD EFFECTIVELY STRESS RECENT EVENTS.
    VOLATILE BEHAVIOR OF FREE GOLD MARKET, WHICH IS VERY THIN AND
    DEPENDENT ON SOUTH AFRICAN AND RUSSIAN SUPPLY, CLEARLY ILLU-
    STRATES PROBLEMS IN RETAINING IMPORTANT TRADE COMMODITY AS
    ULTIMATE MONETARY STANDARD.


    PAGE 03 PARIS 13924 191504 Z

    SHORT- TERM CRISES CREATED BY PERSISTENT U. S. BALANCE OF PAYMENTS
    DIFICIT DIVERT ATTENTION OF GOVERNMENTS AWAY FROM LONG- TERM
    PROBLEMS. POMPIDOU WILL BE PESSIMISTIC ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF
    REACHING AGREEMENT, EVEN ON GENERAL PRINCIPLES, BY FALL OF
    1973…
    TO ELICIT CONCESSIONS IN DIRECTION FRENCH VIEWPOINTS ON
    QUESTIONS SUCH AS ROLE OF GOLD WHERE FRENCH ARE VERY MUCH
    ISOLATED. HERE, WE COULD USEFULLY ELABORATE OUR CONCEPT THAT
    MONETARY REFORM CANNOT BE ACCOMPLISHED PIECEMEAL SINCE ALL ELE-
    MENTS OF SYSTEM STRONGLY INTERACT.

    7. …IF WE WISHED TO OBTAIN FRENCH AGREEMENT AT THIS MEETING ON
    SUCH QUESTIONS AS FLEXIBILITY, THE ADJUSTMENT PROCESS, CAPITAL
    CONTROLS, ETC., WE BELIEVE WE WOULD HAVE TO PAY A PRICE IN THE
    FORM OF CONCESSIONS ON CONVERTIBILITY AND THE ROLE OF GOLD
    WHICH WE ASSUME WE ARE NOT PREPARED TO PAY. IRWIN



    Milamber

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  7. Thanks milamber, your link included. I will try to collect here and put them in some order.

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  8. Great work, well done. Thanks to all.

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  9. Links are added based on the time and speed of my reading. Adding based on years. Not all search keywords done, far from that.

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  10. Mortymer,

    Found another one detailing Burns first meeting with Chinese Central Bankers in Oct 29 1976. Oh yes, even as Communists, they knew how the game is played!

    https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976PEKING02229_b.html


    4. IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, THE DISCUSSION CONSISTED
    MAINLY OF QUESTIONS BY THE CHINESE AND ANSWERS BY
    DR. BURNS, ALTHOUGH THE CHINESE VIEW THAT INFLATION
    IS A SYMPTOM OF ECONOMIC WEAKNESS CAME THROUGH CLEARLY.
    THE CHINESE ASKED ABOUT DR. BURNS' VIEWS OF THE IMF
    CONFERENCE AND WERE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE IMF
    GOLD AUCTIONS, AND THE ISSUANCE OF SDR'S. THE CHINESE
    ASKED ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF CONTROLLING THE $200 BILLION
    IN EURODOLLARS, AND GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT THEY
    CONSIDERED THE EURODOLLAR MARKET A THREAT TO EXCHANGE
    RATE STABILITY, WHICH BY IMPLICATION THEY SEEMED TO
    FAVOR. THEY ALSO ASKED ABOUT COMPARATIVE GROWTH RATES
    AMONG THE OECD COUNTRIES. AGAIN, THE CHINESE BANKERS
    WERE WELL INFORMED AND HAD THEIR QUESTIONS WELL PREPARED.



    Milamber

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  11. Hi, interesting. I have noticed there were few docs about China and about several official meetings. Skipped them until now. There were also few about China selling some gold via London. Will add. Thanks.

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