The Gold Trail

Marcos gold, grey fleets in the Pacific and the Argentina legend: fortunes that outlived the wars that made them.

3 parts, about 56 min of reading. Start with part 1

1
The House at the End of the Lake: Inalco, Hitler’s Argentina Legend, and the Strange Trail to Glacier National Park
The accepted history says Adolf Hitler died beneath Berlin on April 30, 1945. But almost from the moment the war ended, another story began moving through intelligence files, newspapers, German communities in South America and…
September 21, 202613 min read
2
Project Hammer and the Marcos Gold: The American Legion General, the South African Spies, and the Fortune That Wouldn’t Die
How Ferdinand Marcos’s real hidden fortune became entangled with Yamashita’s treasure, covert finance, apartheid-era intelligence networks, Erle Cocke Jr., Nugan Hand Bank, and the extraordinary claims of Wolfgang Struck.
September 21, 202624 min read
3
The Second Map of the Pacific: From the Spice Islands and Burnham’s Manila to Borneo, Marcos, the Grey Fleets and the Strange Case of Michael Herrera
There are two maps of the Pacific. The first is the familiar political map, covered with national borders and labels—Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Guam. The second map is older, more…
September 21, 202619 min read