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Inflation/Currency Emergency Alert. Editor presumes reader is capable of parsing true
economic intelligence data from fiction. Translation from German newspaper unverified.
Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany): The U.S. CIA is printing US currency to fund intelligence
operations and diluting the value of US currency. Allegation from German newspaper Feb. 2010.


Is the CIA counterfeiting dollars and blaming it on North Korea?

"Super notes" -- forged U.S. dollars of such high quality that even experts have trouble
detecting them -- have taken on an almost mythic status among national security
watchers. Supposedly, they're part of a plot to undermine confidence in the U.S. economy,
and at times they've been called an act of war.

Their origins have tended to shift with the political winds; it was said that they originate in
Iran, some have speculated that they come from the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon (where they
were supposedly produced by Syria) and lately the consensus has been that they're part of
a sinister North Korean plan. Others have accused Israel of printing them.

But according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine, a respected German paper, their source may
in fact be far closer to home than most people suspected [Translation by Watching America] …

The American secret service, the CIA, could be responsible for manufacturing the
nearly-perfect counterfeit 50 and 100-dollar-notes that Washington pins on the terror
regime of North Korea. The charge comes after an extensive investigation in Europe and
Asia by the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung of Frankfurt,
and after interviews with counterfeit money experts and leading representatives of the
high-security publishing industry. […]

The administration of George W. Bush officially accused Pyongyang of the deed in the
autumn of 2005, derailing Six-Party Talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. Since
then, tensions on the Korean Peninsula have increased considerably. America charges that
North Korea is financing its rocket and nuclear weapons program with the counterfeit
"Supernotes."

North Korea is one of the world's poorest nations and lacks the technological capability
to produce notes of such high quality. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeinen
Sonntagszeitung, North Korea is at present unable to even produce the won [the North
Korean currency]. The sources, which do not wish to be identified, allege that the CIA prints
the falsified "Supernotes" at a secret facility near Washington to fund covert operations
without Congressional oversight.

U.S. officials have not responded to the story.

http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/joshua/46471

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