The Secret Documents

1. The Nazi Plot Begins
2. Churchill and the Mandarins
3. Roosevelt Toys with Counterfeiting
4. Bernhard Krueger in Action
5. The Bank is Robbed, and the Swiss Get Pounded
   In 1943 the counterfeits start lapping at the Old Lady's skirts, and even British spies start bringing them home. The Bank's inner circle puts nothing on paper, even though its officials believe that no one can copy their notes. In Switzerland , the pounds start arriving in bulk and the Swiss complain to the Bank of England, to no avail.
   • Bank clerks' ledgers (1, 2)
     B/E 3A56/1 Memorandum Books.
   • Minutes Board of Governors (1)
     B/E G 14/27 Committee of Treasury Files.
   • Bank of England Memo (1)
     B/E C 12/103 Note Issue Files...
   • Dusko Popov the spy (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
     PRO KV 2/854.
   • The Swiss alert their banks (1)
     (Swiss Bankers Assn. Counterfeit Order 961)
   • "Clever forgeries" Woods to Hull (1)
     NARA RG 59 1940-44, box 4969
   • Sholes to Harrison on counterfeit pound notes (1, 2)
     NARA RG 84, American Legation, Bern .
   • Monsieur Gautier visits the Old Lady (1, 2)
     B/E C 12/151 Note Issue Files
   • New Year's resolution, Askwith to Chamberlain (1)
     B/E Note Issue Files 29 February 1944 .
   • The Swiss stop accepting British pounds (1)
     NARA RG 56 International Statistics Division, Germany 1931-1952
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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monsieur Gautier visits the Old Lady (1 of 2)

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