The Secret Documents

1. The Nazi Plot Begins
2. Churchill and the Mandarins
3. Roosevelt Toys with Counterfeiting
   The novelist John Steinbeck writes Franklin Roosevelt about counterfeiting Hitler's reichsmarks, the President bucks it to his secretary of the Treasury, who only too happy to discover that the British have already thought about the idea and rejected it. Nevertheless, ordinary Americans have the same brainstorm, and it's still in the CIA's playbook years later.
   • Steinbeck to Roosevelt (1, 2)
     President's Official File NARA/FDR Library President's Official File 3858
   • Gaston memo to Morgenthau (1,2)
     NARA/FDR Morgenthau Diaries vol. 305 pp 16-17.
   • Pinsent memo (1, 2)
     NARA/FDR Morgenthau Diaries vol. 306, 179-82.
   • Cortright letter and comments (1)
     NARA RG 226, entry 9.
   • Letter to Donovan about "a very able Colorado publisher" (1)
     RG 226 OSS Washington Director's Office
   • Buxton letter to president (1, 2)
     NARA RG 226 OSS Washington Director's Office
   • Stay on the lookout for counterfeit dollars (1)
     NARA RG 226.
   • Jack Gurfein memo on forging enemy currency (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
     NARA RG226, entry 92.
   • Central Intelligence Agency (1, 2)
     NARA CIA Crest Database
4. Bernhard Krueger in Action
5. The Bank is Robbed, and the Swiss Get Pounded
6. The Money Launderers
7. Dollars--and the Final Dump
8. "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"

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Compiled and Selected by Lawrence Malkin and Margaret Shannon.

Unless otherwise identified, public documents are credited to the U.S. National Archives (NARA); The British National Archives/Public Record Office (PRO), and the archives of the Bank of England (B/E).

Detailed citations are found in the endnotes to Krueger's Men.

Central Intelligence Agency (1 of 2)

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