Gold Warriors, The Covert History of Yamashita’s Gold : How Washington Secretly Recovered it to Set Up Giant Cold War Slush Funds and Manipulate Foreign Governments, by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave, originally published 2002 by Bowstring Books, 3rd edition 2010, 617 pages. Available free from Internet Archive or Kindle Unlimited or as free Audiobook. (I have no trouble recommending free access, since the Seagraves are no longer alive.) How did our CIA become so immensely powerful and so immensely corrupt? This book tells a story that feels essentially relevant to me. Nevertheless, it is a story that has not been incorporated into narratives of any of … Continue reading A Grand Unified Theory of Corruption and Treachery