Experts Suggest the CIA, Not Kim Jong-il, is Counterfeiting Dollars

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Would our glorious CIA do such a thing? I, for one, wouldn't be in the least surprised.


http://www.watchingamerica.com/frankfurterallgemeine000008.shtml

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 U.S.-dollar forgeries designated "Supernotes," which are so good that even specialists are unable to distinguish them from genuine notes, have circulated for almost two decades without a reliable identification of the culprits. Because of their extraordinary quality, experts assume that some country must be behind the enterprise.

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 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.

[musette_sf]

1. oh good

can't wait for "K to the J to the I in the hizzy" on Stephanie Miller, to address this interesting turn of events.

[hughee99]

2. Lacks the technological capability?

I don't know if it's the CIA, NK or someone else, but IMHO, if someone can make a nuke, they can probably figure out how to counterfeit US money.

[peacetalksforall]

3. I'm wondering if this is the worst thing I've ever heard. I'm talking

to myself... going through litanies of atrocities... it means they are in control. they are the ones giving privitazation orders, war orders, slaughter and torture orders, orders to build prisons, orders to jet the victims to the prisons. George AND Dick are both front men. We may be about to crash.

It may mean Germany is about to get bombed in the traditional way ... or not.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. I guess counterfeiting beats drug dealing as a way for the CIA to raise cash

without anyone knowing about it.

[peacetalksforall]

5. How soon will the 'fire extinguishers' be here on DU? nt

[roamer65]

6. This would make sense as to why redesign of the $100 is dead last.

The BEP has yet to redesign the $100 note, even in the face of this counterfeiting. They're even going to redesign the $5 note before the $100. Why redesign when you want counterfeiting to happen?

[Gman]

7. Helluva lot easier than selling arms to Iran

without the hassle.