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There are two revelations in this story that are mysteries in and of themselves :

"....Deep in the vaults of a London bank lay 22 cases stamped with the American golden eagle. They were crammed with US Treasury bonds whose face value was so high that if anyone tried to cash them it would virtually bankrupt the US government...."

The author doesn't indicate the source of this information, or if there was an independently verified accounting of the existence of the twenty-two cases of US Treasury bonds.

Also, this information conflicts with another part of the story in which the author relies upon a police review of the London Bullion Market records. It is claimed that the total of all gold mined and recorded in all of history - through to 1950 - was 63,500 tons.

If in fact the London Bullion Market tracks world-wide gold accumulation, how that institution requires every source in the world to divulge their wealth isn't examined by the author.

These two loose ends are critical aspects of this story, and as such I would suggest this story was heavily censored before going to print.

The shame about information processing is the intentional filtering put into place to deny readers a clear understanding of an issue. Of course, limiting the public's ability to arrive at an informed and independently formulated opinion gives the manipulators an almost absolute control of a community or nation's opinion.

Can't follow the money if the trail is intentionally obscured.

The author doesn't indicate the source of this information, or if there was an independently verified accounting of the existence of the twenty-two cases of US Treasury bonds

you've missed the point- the author doesn't independently confirm the existence the purported criminal- how do we even know the club to which he is a member even exists? how that institution requires every source in the world to divulge their wealth isn't examined by the author.

most non conspiratorial minded types would assume they use techniques similar to those that are used to estimate the extraction of iron, coal, etc.. While the numbers may not be spot on, it's hard to imagine they would be off to the point that a country like taiwan could amass twice the known reserves of the rest of the world.

then again, those masons are tricky fellows. /sarcasm

This is a very strange story. Agree that what is left out is crucial. As written it is very difficult to follow...the logical trail rather than the money trail.

Strangely it dimly echoes part of the plot of Neal Stephenson's wildly popular The Cryptonomicon (deservedly popular IMHO)...

--Boris

But the bonds never reached China. The B-29 plane carrying them crashed shortly after stopping to refuel at Clark Air Base in the Philippines.

"The deadline was met, and the first B-29 mission was flown from India on June 5, 1944, against Japanese-held Bangkok."

I guess the B-29 that they were using took ten years [1934] to make it from the U.S. to the Philippines... ;-)