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			Letter #59  
			
			 
			Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is October 31, 1980, and 
			this is my AUDIO LETTER® No. 59.  
			
			 
			Earlier this month millions of baseball fans were preoccupied with 
			the World Series. The World Series is always great fun with plenty 
			of excitement and suspense right to the end; and even if your team 
			loses, it’s not so bad. There’s always next year. Now you and I are 
			caught up in a “world series” of a different sort. Ours is a series 
			of battles to determine what sort of world we will leave to our 
			children, and there will be no rematch next year! If we strike out 
			now, the game is over, so we need to keep swinging until we finally 
			hit that home run we need in order to win.  
			
			 
			My three special topics this month are: 
			
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				Topic #1 -   THE IRAN 
				HOSTAGE RELEASE PLAN FOR WAR   
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				Topic #2 -   SENATOR 
				WILLIAM PROXMIRE AND “ACTION STEP 4”   
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				Topic #3 -   “ACTION STEP 
				5” ON A NEW BATTLE FRONT.   
			 
			
			  
			
			Topic #1 
			
			  
			
			 - During this month of October 1980 
			three issues have dominated the news here in the United States. One 
			has been the continuing war between Iraq and Iran. That has been 
			overshadowed in turn by sudden new rumors about a possible release 
			of our hostages in Iran. And the third issue, riding the waves of 
			other events, has been the up-coming election. These three on-going 
			news stories are all related, and in turn they all reflect a fierce 
			struggle behind the scenes among three (3) different power groups.
			 
			
			 
			One group is that of the Satanic Bolsheviks who now control the 
			United States government. Another group is that of the Rockefeller 
			Oil Cartel now under the control of John J. McCloy. And the third 
			power center is in the Soviet Union whose rulers today are in a 
			battle to the death against the Satanic Bolsheviks. The primary 
			actors right now are the Bolsheviks and the McCloy Oil Group. It is 
			they who have done most of the maneuvering in the Iraq-Iran war, in 
			the hostage release rumors, and in the election build-up. But in all 
			three areas, Russian agents have been joining the fray too. Wherever 
			possible they are trying to interfere with Bolshevik plans even if 
			that helps Big Oil temporarily.  
			
			 
			For most Americans, the rumors about a possible hostage release have 
			become a central issue in recent days. It seems to have sprung from 
			the Iraq-Iran war and talk of trading spare parts to Iran for the 
			hostages. And the prospects for a hostage release are also being 
			watched for their effect on our national election. And so after 
			nearly one year, the Iran hostages are again on center stage. And 
			now as then, my friends, the real stakes in the Iran hostage issue 
			involve the danger of thermonuclear war.  
			
			 
			Last month in AUDIO LETTER No. 58 I explained how the Iraq-Iran war 
			was triggered. It involved a huge bribe to Iraq engineered by the 
			Rockefeller Oil Cartel, and it was paid in gold - $8,000,000,000 
			worth of gold! This was part of the very gold which was stolen years 
			ago from the United States Treasury Depositories. The goal of Big 
			Oil is the one I explained last month. They want to finish what they 
			started by their overthrow of the late Shah of Iran. They want to 
			retake control over Iran with its oil riches on new and more 
			profitable terms, and to do that they want to topple the so-called 
			Khomeini regime one way or another. The war with Iraq is supposed to 
			begin that process, but Iran is not the only arena in which the 
			crumbling Rockefeller Cartel is trying to reassert itself.  
			
			 
			It’s happening also right here in the United States. All of the old 
			faces from the heyday of Rockefeller power under the 
			Nixon Administration are clustered together right now under the 
			Republican banner. The ghost of Nelson Rockefeller is grasping for 
			the White House once again. Meanwhile the Bolsheviks who have seized 
			control of the United States government have no intention of letting 
			go, and the easiest way for them to retain control is simply to keep 
			the same faces on the scene. And so the Bolsheviks here are doing 
			everything they can to prevent a change in the White House.  
			
			 
			Last month I reported that the Rockefeller Big Oil Group had worked 
			hand in glove with this Bolshevik government in the Iraq-Iran war. 
			But here at home, the two are rivals. Last month I said that Big Oil 
			was only setting itself up for double-cross by the Bolsheviks; and 
			sure enough, this month the Bolshevik double-cross began to 
			materialize in the form of a sudden new hostage release plan. By 
			means of this one ploy, the Bolsheviks in the United States 
			Government were hoping to pull the rug out from under the 
			Rockefeller Oil Group, both in the Persian Gulf and in the election 
			here.  
			
			 
			On October 6 the Republican campaign announced the formation of a 
			Special Advisory group. The group was said to be for the purpose of 
			watching for and planning against a so-called “October surprise.” It 
			was feared that something was about to happen to upset the apple 
			cart just before the election. The very next day, October 7, their 
			fears began to be realized. An independent presidential candidate, 
			Barry Commoner, announced that he had received a hostage release 
			proposal from Iran. It was turned over to the State Department, and 
			there began to be flurries of excitement. On October 9 the hostage 
			story warmed up some more. That day State Department spokesmen 
			stated that they were in contact with the hostages. Referring to the 
			top ranking hostage, Bruce Langdon, the spokesmen said, quote: “We 
			are in contact on a regular basis.”  
			
			 
			The next item to build anticipation over the hostages came from 
			Norway. Norway, like Iran, is in the front lines of the Bolshevik 
			planning for a nuclear first strike at Russia. I reported that long 
			ago in AUDIO LETTER No. 37; and on October 10 a newspaper in Oslo, 
			Norway helped to move along this latest Bolshevik ploy. The 
			Norwegian newspaper quoted former Iranian Foreign Minister 
			Ghotbzadeh as saying that Iran should release the hostages 
			immediately. In the United States the excitement built up another 
			notch.  
			
			 
			For the next week or so the Iran hostage release rumors were allowed 
			to simmer for a while. Then on October 17 Iran’s Prime Minister 
			Rajai provided the next excuse for heightened rumors. He appeared 
			before the United Nations Security Council where he bitterly 
			attacked the United States for helping Iraq in the war, but that was 
			downplayed in the news compared to other remarks Rajai made in a 
			news conference a day later. Under pressure of the war with Iraq, 
			Iran seemingly was looking for a way out of the hostage crisis.
			 
			
			 
			The rush of rumors turned into a torrent after that, and on 
			Wednesday October 22 NBC Nightly News carried a sensational report. 
			It was said that there had been a “breakthrough” in the negotiation 
			over the hostages. Supposedly the Iranian Parliament was almost 
			certain to set conditions for the hostage release during debate on 
			Sunday, October 26, and that could be followed by the actual release 
			of the hostages as early as the next day.  
			
			 
			Up to that point the Bolshevik planners had everything going their 
			way. By their calculations, the release of hostages on 
			that schedule would have guaranteed re-election of this Bolshevik 
			Administration, because the entire week preceding the election would 
			have been filled with news of the hostages. There would have been 
			the drama of the release itself, then for days stories of some of 
			the hostages coming home, others going to intermediate stopovers for 
			medical treatment. Stories of reunions, interviews of former 
			hostages and their families, special news reports to rehash it all. 
			And, my friends, if it had all gone as planned there would have been 
			euphoria here on election day 1980. Millions of formerly undecided 
			voters would have been caught up in the emotion of the moment, and 
			the Bolsheviks were certain that they would pull the lever marked 
			“Jimmy Carter” in the voting booth. It did not matter that cynicism 
			would set in later over the timing of the release. By then, the 
			election would have been over and the deed would have been done. 
			That was the Bolshevik plan of the United States Government, but 
			once again Russian agents are trying to intervene in an effort to 
			unravel these Bolshevik plans.  
			
			 
			From the very beginning the hostage situation in Iran has been under 
			Bolshevik control, as I first revealed in AUDIO LETTER No. 52. But 
			the Bolsheviks do not exercise complete control over Iran, because 
			the Russians have also succeeded in establishing an important level 
			of influence in Iran nearly a year ago. In the present situation, 
			Bolshevik agents in Iran tried to stampede the Iranian Parliament 
			into the quick action they wanted. But Russian agents succeeded in 
			at least slowing down the stampede, and the Bolshevik timing was 
			delayed. So now even if the release of the hostages does take place 
			in one form or another, the effect on our election is less 
			predictable. A last minute release could even have a backlash effect 
			on voters due to cynicism, and so the election is now up for grabs. 
			It could easily go contrary to Bolshevik wishes. If it does, that 
			will be a setback for the Bolsheviks, mainly in terms of delay. They 
			will be forced to re-establish control over any new administration. 
			That will cost the Bolsheviks a little bit of valuable time in their 
			frenzy to set off NUCLEAR WAR ONE, and that is exactly why the 
			Russians want a change of administration simply to slow down the 
			Bolsheviks.  
			
			 
			But I mentioned earlier that the hostage release ploy of the 
			Bolsheviks was set in motion for two (2) purposes. One was to 
			undermine the grab for the White House by the Rockefeller Big Oil 
			Group under the name of Ronald Reagan. That purpose depended 
			strongly on timing, and so has probably been ruined; but the other 
			purpose of a hostage release at this time is still on track. It is 
			part of the latest Bolshevik scenario to lead up to a nuclear first 
			strike against Russia.  
			
			 
			The first step in this latest war plan was to set off the Iraq-Iran 
			war, as I mentioned last month. The Rockefeller Big Oil Group did 
			this, thinking they were starting the downfall of the Khomeini 
			regime; but the Bolsheviks here used it for another purpose instead. 
			Basically the Bolshevik United States Government is saying to Iran: 
			“Release the hostages and we will give you military help against 
			Iraq”, which is backed by Big Oil; and to get ready, a sizeable 
			Amphibious Attack Force of United States Marines is on the way. The 
			Force includes a helicopter carrier, landing craft, and some 1,800 
			Marines. It passed through the Suez Canal very quietly on October 27 
			heading for the Persian Gulf. The tactics keep changing but the 
			strategy is always the same.  
			
			 
			Lately our fears have been stoked up over Russian designs on the 
			Middle East and Persian Gulf. First Russia was given a black eye by 
			its past ties with Iraq when Iraq invaded Iran. Now we are hearing 
			about Russian overtures to Iran by supplying certain war needs. And 
			in the midst of it all is the hostage release ploy. The Bolsheviks 
			here are trying to set the stage for a massive American military 
			return to Iran. If the plan succeeds, it will be as I described it 
			long ago in AUDIO LETTER No. 37, and I quote:  
			
				
				“The American public will demand 
				that it is time to stand up to Russia, and with full public 
				support American troops and weapons will pour into Iran. From 
				that point onward the outbreak of NUCLEAR WAR ONE will be all 
				but impossible for the public to follow by way of the so-called 
				news.” 
			 
			
			(End of my quotation from AUDIO LETTER 
			No. 37.) The Russians know what is afoot and they are trying to ruin 
			the plan. In this case, that means trying to spoil the hostage 
			release negotiations altogether. Up to now Russian agents in Iran 
			have succeeded in spoiling the timing of a hostage release, and they 
			are still at work as I say these words on October 31, hoping to 
			prevent the hostages from being released at this time. If they 
			succeed, it will be the fourth time during 1980 that nuclear war has 
			been averted. Even so, the Bolsheviks who have taken over our 
			government never rest.  
			
			 
			By the time you hear this, the election will be past and the matter 
			of the hostages may have been decided, but the Bolsheviks already 
			have another serious crisis building up in Poland. For two years now 
			the Bolsheviks have been trying to create an explosion in Poland. 
			The first plan was the one for a Pope’s Revolution, as it would have 
			been known. I described that plan in detail in AUDIO LETTER No. 42; 
			but just as in the present hostage release ploy, timing was critical 
			to the Pope’s Revolution plan; and the Russians were able to spoil 
			the plan by changing the timing of the Pope’s visit to Poland. But 
			now the Bolsheviks have a new weapon of destruction in Poland. It is 
			the so-called “Independent Trade Union” movement. It has been given 
			the old Bolshevik name “Solidarity”, but its real purpose is not 
			solidarity but division, turmoil, and revolution. Two months ago the 
			new rulers in the Kremlin defused the confrontations then brewing by 
			approving major concessions to the strikers. Now many of the Polish 
			workers want to take a breather to consolidate their gains, but the 
			Bolsheviks did not create the new Labor movement for that purpose.
			 
			
			  
			
			Instead there are new and bigger 
			demands, spreading agitation, and threats of a new major strike. So 
			now Poland’s borders with Russia, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia 
			are slowly being sealed off. Large concentrations of Russian troops 
			are now poised along the border in Russia and East Germany. The 
			Polish workers, having been used as pawns, may soon lose everything; 
			but those who have used them, the Bolsheviks, may well get 
			everything they want—revolution, strife, and bloodshed. If that 
			happens, my friends, it may be the last straw for the leaders in the 
			Kremlin. Last month I reported that Russia had begun making feverish 
			preparations to be able to decimate New York City by means of 
			geophysical warfare. I can now report that these preparations also 
			extend in more limited form northward into New England. 
			
			 
			There is a little known but major fault that runs along the east 
			coast, partly offshore, partly on land, and Russian cobalt bombs for 
			earthquake generation have now been planted in eight (8) areas along 
			this fault in the Northeast. These locations 
			respectively are: south of Providence, Rhode Island; south of 
			Norwich, Connecticut; several near Hartford, Connecticut; near 
			New Haven, Connecticut; south of Springfield, Massachusetts; and 
			near Northampton and New Bedford, Massachusetts. But it is still New 
			York City that is now subject to the greatest devastation by far. 
			The reason, as I explained last month, is that New York is the 
			headquarters city of the Bolsheviks here in America. Right now the 
			Bolsheviks are trying to see to it that Russia has her hands full 
			due to revolution in Poland; but if that happens, the Bolsheviks 
			here will also have their hands full. They may well find themselves 
			picking through the smoking rubble of that ruined headquarters city 
			because, my friends, at last report there are now 85 
			earthquake-producing cobalt bombs buried beneath the waters around 
			New York City. 
			
			  
			
			 
			Topic #2 
			
			  
			
			 - For several months now I have been 
			offering you my step by step answers to the question, “What can I 
			do?” I began doing this because more and more of you were asking me 
			to do it. You had started telling me that you were no longer 
			satisfied just to watch and listen as our crises multiply; instead 
			the time has come for action—now or never.  
			
			 
			In AUDIO LETTER No. 56 last July I said that what we must do is to 
			wage PREVENTIVE war. Ours is a war of truth to head off nuclear war. 
			Our strategy is to take away the gold weapon which our enemies 
			within are using against us; and by revealing the truth about the 
			theft of America’s gold supplies, the gold weapon will become our 
			very own. This is the only way, my friends, we can seize a weapon 
			big enough to halt our betrayal into national suicide.  
			
			 
			The first battle front in our preventive war is our campaign 
			directed at Senator William Proxmire, and we must continue what we 
			have started along those lines. But up to now Senator Proxmire has 
			been conspicuous by his failure to take meaningful action, so this 
			month we are about to open up a second front in our preventive war. 
			It lies totally outside Proxmire’s control yet could also increase 
			the pressure for him to act. I will go into all that in Topic #3, 
			but for now I want to concentrate on our direct campaign with 
			Senator Proxmire. For more than two months now many of you have been 
			showering Senator Proxmire with letters. As I have suggested, you 
			have demanded that he open up a full, public investigation of 
			America’s gold reserves. Ultimately there will have to be a complete 
			physical inventory of our gold, if there is any left. My friends, in 
			any campaign like this, every effort is always made to make you feel 
			isolated; but if you think you are alone in your concern about our 
			missing gold, think again. To give you an example of what I mean, I 
			have an important letter to read to you. It was written to Senator 
			Proxmire early this month on October 2. The writer is a very astute 
			businessman in Proxmire’s home state of Wisconsin. What’s more, he’s 
			a man who knows Proxmire socially; but wait until you hear what he 
			thinks about the situation. He sent a copy of his letter to my dear 
			friend Mr. Edward Durell. He gave permission to make it public if 
			desired, and Mr. Durell provided me with a copy. I will now read it 
			to you:  
			
				
				“Dear Bill,  
				
				 
				Mr. Edward Durell, a close friend of mine, has sent me a copy of 
				his letter to you of September 5, 1980. The crux of the letter 
				asks that you demand an inventory of the nation’s gold reserves. 
				I have written to you on this subject myself more than once. The 
				reluctance of the Treasury Department to provide a sensible 
				answer to this basic and simple question appears to indicate 
				that the present real value of the Treasury’s gold reserve might 
				represent the ultimate ‘Golden Fleece.’  
				
				 
				The inventory practices which the Treasury is currently using 
				would not be accepted by any public accounting firm nor by any 
				corporate management I know of. It is elementary that the nation 
				know what its gold reserve is; and the fact that no action is 
				taken to take a physical inventory, as would be required by 
				generally accepted accounting standards, makes the United States 
				Gold Reserve an open question around the world. I have 
				personally heard this question raised by financial people in 
				both London and Zurich, and of course many times in the United 
				States. As Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, this is 
				certainly one of your responsibilities. It seems strange that 
				you do not take a determined action on this question which is so 
				much more important than the many other incidents of waste which 
				you have pursued with vigor.  
				
				 
				Sincerely, “ and there follows the signature of the writer.
				 
			 
			
			My friends, the letter I’ve just read to 
			you represents the thinking of more and more highly informed 
			business and financial people, so don’t let anyone bluff you into 
			thinking otherwise. Now let me return to your own letter-writing 
			campaign. By now you should have received at least one reply from 
			Senator Proxmire. Some of you have received two replies by now. The 
			first wave of letters to Proxmire in August produced a computerized 
			form letter, which I quoted last month. Proxmire began sending that 
			letter to people in late August. In the letter Proxmire passed the 
			buck to the Treasury itself. Supposedly he asked the Treasury’s 
			Inspector General for a report about a specific missing shipment of 
			gold. This was the mystery shipment of January 20, 1965 from Fort 
			Knox. It was a shipment worth more than a billion dollars - 1000 
			million dollars—at today’s prices; and it was admitted in writing 
			five years ago by Mrs. Mary Brooks, then Director of the United 
			States Mint. Yet it was listed nowhere on the official Treasury 
			listing of shipments from Fort Knox.  
			
			 
			Now the time has come to ask a new question, my friends, and that 
			is:  
			
				
				“Whatever happened to that promised 
				report by the Treasury Inspector General?”  
			 
			
			After all, you’ve been writing to 
			Senator Proxmire since mid August. I hope that you’ve been keeping a 
			file of all your correspondence to and from Senator Proxmire, 
			because now it’s time to write your most important letter yet to 
			Senator Proxmire; and if you can refer back to the date of your 
			first letter, it will increase the impact of this letter. If you 
			have not been keeping a file as I urged you to do, then just do the 
			best you can on this letter; but please do start now to keep a file 
			in a folder or in a manila envelope. As time goes on, this will 
			become more and more important. By the way, if you have not written 
			before but want to write this time, by all means please do so. Make 
			whatever changes you need to in the model letter I’m about to 
			suggest, to fit your own situation, and send your letter to:  
			
				
				Senator William Proxmire  
				Senate Office Bldg., Washington, D.C.  
				Now here’s what I suggest as a starting point for your newest 
				letter to Senator Proxmire:  
				
				 
				“Dear Senator Proxmire,  
				For several months now I’ve been writing to you to urge that you 
				open a full, public investigation of America’s gold supplies. I 
				first wrote you about this urgent matter on (date so and so). 
				
				 
				In reply you promised as a first step to obtain a report about 
				one matter from the Treasury Inspector General. This matter was 
				the missing gold shipment on January 20, 1965 from Fort Knox. I 
				have also written you more recently on this over-all subject, 
				but up to now your replies continue to say that you have 
				requested a report, not that you have received one; so I now 
				ask:  
				
					
					‘Have you received the report 
					you said you requested from the Treasury Inspector General 
					over two months ago? If so, then I request that I be 
					furnished a copy promptly. But if not, then why not after so 
					long a time? If it takes over two months for the Treasury to 
					figure out what happened to a billion dollars worth of gold, 
					then something is very wrong. And something is also very 
					wrong if you are content to accept silence about so vital a 
					matter.’  
				 
				
				Once again, I urge you to open up a 
				full, public investigation into the condition of America’s gold 
				supplies without further delay. And more and more of my friends 
				and neighbors are beginning to agree—that is the message of the 
				additional signatures at the end of this letter.” 
			 
			
			After signing your letter, then get 
			everyone else you can to add their signature below yours, just 
			signatures of anyone who agrees that your question deserves an 
			answer. Even if only two or three friends will add their signatures 
			below yours, it will help. Every name counts. Use your influence. 
			Before, Proxmire was receiving letters; now he will begin to see 
			petitions, petitions, and more petitions. And, my friends, so will 
			other certain very important people!  
			
			 
			After you have collected all the signatures you can, please make a 
			generous supply of photo copies before mailing the original to 
			Proxmire, because copies of this latest letter to Senator Proxmire 
			will be a weapon you can begin using for other purposes, and we will 
			use them right away as we open up the second front in our Preventive 
			War to SAVE AMERICA.  
			
			  
			
			  
			
			Topic #3 
			
			  
			
			 - As you probably know, America’s 
			currency is not issued by the Treasury but by the “Federal Reserve 
			System.” If you look at a dollar bill you will see the words: 
			“Federal Reserve Note.” In banking terms, a Note is an I.O.U.—a 
			promise to pay something; and it’s the Federal Reserve System, not 
			the United States Government itself, that issues these I.O.U.s which 
			we use as currency. They’re printed by the United States Government 
			Mint for the Federal Reserve System for a small fee. In effect, the 
			United States Mint, a branch of the Treasury Department, serves as a 
			mere print shop for the Federal Reserve System. Many people assume 
			that the Federal Reserve System is a Government agency, which IT IS 
			NOT. It is purely a privately-owned Central Banking System! What 
			I’ve just said is essential to understand. It’s the key to our 
			opening up the Second Front in our Preventive War to Save America. 
			So before I go on, I want to say a few more words about the purely 
			private nature of the so-called “Federal Reserve System.” I realize 
			that for some of you what I will say will be review. You’ve already 
			studied the Federal Reserve System yourself and know that it is a 
			private corporation, but my mail indicates that many of my newer 
			listeners are not aware of this.  
			
			 
			It’s not surprising that so many people believe the Federal Reserve 
			System to be a Government agency. From its very 
			beginning in 1913, the Federal Reserve has always presented a false 
			governmental image. To begin with, its creation in 1913 
			required an act of Congress; but that was not because Congress was 
			authorizing a new Government agency. Instead, it was because 
			Congress was abdicating its CONSTITUTIONAL duty to create and issue 
			the nation’s money! In effect, Congress gave a Federal Corporate 
			Charter to the new privately-owned Central Banking System. In turn, 
			that system was given the name “Federal Reserve System.”  
			
			 
			There were many Americans in those days who were bitterly opposed to 
			the creation of a private Central Bank. They believed that the 
			creation and control of our money should be left in the hands of the 
			Government—not a private corporation. Others believed that private 
			control of our money would not be so bad if it were dispersed. What 
			these critics opposed was concentrating our money control in just 
			one bank.  
			
			 
			To silence these critics, the architects of the new private Central 
			Bank for America did two (2) things. The first had to do with the 
			Board of Directors of the System as a whole, which they call a 
			“Board of Governors” because it sounds better. They agree to allow 
			the Chairman of the Board to be a presidential appointee; and just 
			for good measure, they agree to let the appointment be subject to 
			confirmation by Congress. The other maneuver by the Federal Reserve 
			architects of 1913 was to abandon the idea of a single Central Bank. 
			Instead they created a system of 12 banks scattered across the 
			United States. That gave the image of a diffusion of control over 
			America’s money; but actually that, too, was only for show purposes 
			to silence the critics. All of the real action in the Federal 
			Reserve System takes place within the Federal Reserve Bank of New 
			York. The other 11 Regional banks just follow the lead of the New 
			York Bank. They have power but rarely use it, and so in effect the 
			Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the real Central Bank of the 
			United States.  
			
			 
			The governmental cloak that seems to surround the Federal Reserve 
			System is actually very thin, but it’s enough to mislead most 
			people, because they do not look close enough. For example, people 
			often assume that the word “Federal” is a sign that the Federal 
			Reserve System is a government agency; but as Abraham Lincoln once 
			said in a famous court case: “A flower does not become a rose just 
			because I call it a rose.” And the Federal Reserve System is not a 
			government agency just because of its name. If you will look around 
			you, you will see many private companies that use the word “Federal” 
			in their names. For example, there is even an air freight company 
			called “Federal Express”, but of course Federal Express is not a 
			government agency. It’s a private company, with private 
			stockholders. The real criterion as to whether an entity is public 
			or private is that of ownership; and by that criterion the 12 
			Federal Reserve Banks are totally and unmistakably private 
			corporations.  
			
			  
			
			They issue stock like any other private 
			corporation; and, my friends, the United States Government does not 
			own one penny’s worth of Federal Reserve stock. Even the buildings 
			which house the Federal Reserve Banks and the land which they occupy 
			are privately owned. They pay local real estate taxes thereon. That 
			is even true of the building here in Washington where the Federal 
			Reserve Board of Governors meet. Employees are not governed by Civil 
			Service rules like the Government employees. The President of the 
			United States rubber-stamps each new Federal Reserve Board Chairman 
			as if he were a public official; but the minute he is confirmed, the 
			Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board passes through private doors, 
			and behind those doors the private Federal Reserve System does 
			exactly as it pleases, issuing or withholding money and credit at 
			will. 
			
			 
			Federal Reserve stock is issued only to banks, which in turn are 
			controlled by other powerful private interests. Banks which own this 
			stock are called “Member Banks.” Your own bank may be a member. If 
			it is, your bank has paid money into the Federal Reserve in two 
			forms. One form is ownership of Federal Reserve stock. This bears 
			interest in the form of dividends of only 6%. But also, your bank is 
			required to turn over a certain percentage of its own deposits to 
			the Federal Reserve Bank in your district. Those deposits, called 
			“Reserve deposits”, bear no interest to your bank. Even so, Member 
			Banks of the Federal Reserve System do receive certain services and 
			advantages from membership, but they are also burdened and 
			restricted in important ways. As a result, more and more banks have 
			been withdrawing as members of the Federal Reserve System. Smaller 
			banks especially have been pulling out for a breath of fresh air. 
			Like any monopoly threatened with competition, the Federal Reserve 
			money monopoly panicked. The “Fed” generally ignores Congress except 
			when faced with trouble.  
			
			 
			When trouble does flare up, the “Fed” always runs to Congress for 
			help. Most of all, they count upon a favorable hearing from the 
			Banking Committees of the Senate and House; and the Wisconsin 
			twins—Senator William Proxmire and Congressman Henry Reuss—never 
			fail to oblige. And so earlier this year, Congress passed a new law 
			to rescue the Federal Reserve—a sort of a Union shop for banks. It 
			requires even non-member banks to place interest-free deposits with 
			the Federal Reserve System. What is more, it creates a bureaucratic 
			nightmare for all small banks. As usual, the little guy is being 
			squeezed out in favor of big money. The alleged excuse for this new 
			Act is that it’s needed to promote financial soundness of our 
			nation’s banking system. The argument is very simple. Supposedly, 
			the new law is to help guarantee the safety of the underlying assets 
			of your bank. Your bank is now forced to place a fraction of its 
			assets in the Regional Federal Reserve Bank. Your bank cannot use 
			those funds, and so we are told it cannot lose them.  
			
			 
			But now, my friends, consider this. The Federal Reserve Banks are 
			themselves claiming to have assets they do not have—gold assets. So 
			your bank stands to lose everything that it deposits in the Federal 
			Reserve Bank. And, of course, if your bank loses everything, so do 
			you! You have the option of either making or not making deposits to 
			your bank, but your banker no longer has any such option. He is 
			forced to be a depositor to the Federal Reserve Bank in your region, 
			and the Federal Reserve Bank does not have part of the assets it 
			claims to have; because, my friends, the monetary gold hoard of the 
			United States is not owned by the United States Treasury. Instead, 
			title to the gold has belonged to the Federal Reserve System since 
			1934. The Treasury is only the custodian while the Federal Reserve 
			Banks are the title owners, and they are now owners of gold that is 
			long gone.  
			
			  
			
			They are claiming assets that do not 
			exist. Every Saturday the New York Times publishes the abbreviated, 
			unaudited financial statement of the Federal Reserve System. Almost 
			all of the assets boil down to nothing but paper, with one major 
			exception. That is the item titled “Gold Stock.” The current value 
			listed is slightly over $11,000,000,000 - that is 11,000 million 
			dollars, but that is at the meaningless official price of gold, a 
			little over $40 per ounce. The real value at current market prices 
			is closer to $200,000,000,000. That is the Federal Reserve “Gold 
			Stock” so called. It is by far the biggest asset of the Federal 
			Reserve Banks on paper. The quantity held by each bank varies, but 
			all 12 Regional Banks own portions of that Gold Stock. 
			
			 
			My friends, America’s monetary gold hoard is often referred to as 
			the Treasury’s gold, but that is not correct. The Federal Reserve 
			Banks have title to the gold through their Gold Stock. The Treasury 
			only acts as a depository or custodian for the gold. For example: 
			The famous United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox is really 
			just a giant safety deposit box. The owner of the gold is the 
			depositor, the Federal Reserve System. For my listeners in business, 
			financial and banking circles, I feel I should drive this point home 
			in one more way. You can see what I am saying if you will simply 
			compare the Balance Sheets of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve 
			System. First look at the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet. On the 
			Asset side you will see the Gold Stock item, formerly called “Gold 
			Certificates.” To be concrete, for example, on October 22, 1980, the 
			Gold Stock value was listed as $11,165,000,000. Now look at the 
			Treasury Balance Sheet for that day. You will find the same figure, 
			but on the Liability side. So the Federal Reserve is a creditor with 
			regard to the gold, and the Treasury is a debtor—that is, the 
			Federal Reserve is the depositor of the gold while the Treasury is 
			only the custodian.  
			
			 
			My friends, I realize that all this may be rather involved, but also 
			it is vitally important because the facts I have been discussing 
			provide the basis for our second avenue of action to try to SAVE 
			AMERICA. I want to make these details available to you so that you 
			can refer back to them from time to time; but let me recap the basic 
			points to remember: 
			
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				First, and very important. The 
				Federal Reserve System is a private Central Banking System. It 
				is not an agency of the United States Government. 
				 
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				Second: The owner of America’s 
				monetary gold hoard since 1934 has been the Federal Reserve 
				System; and the gold, carried as “Gold Stock”, is by far the 
				largest asset claimed by the Federal Reserve Banks. 
				 
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				Third: The United States Treasury 
				does not own this alleged monetary gold. Instead, the Treasury 
				acts only as a custodian for the Federal Reserve gold. 
				  
			 
			
			My friends, the soundness of America’s 
			entire banking system is now tied directly to the Federal Reserve 
			System, and the Federal Reserve is counting assets that it does not 
			have—gold assets. The gold has been spirited away from Fort Knox and 
			other Treasury Bullion depositories.  
			
			 
			It is in your financial interest to make sure that your bank 
			deposits are safe. It is in the interest of your banker to make sure 
			that his deposits with the “Fed” are safe; and all other things 
			being equal, it’s in the interest of the “Fed” to make sure that its 
			giant gold deposits with the Treasury are safe and sound.  
			
			 
			So I am now ready to suggest what we can start doing through the 
			banking system itself. To begin with, please go to your bank to 
			obtain some information. The information you need concerns the 
			Federal Reserve Bank which serves your region. There are 12 Federal 
			Reserve Banks located respectively in: New York, Boston, 
			Philadelphia, Richmond, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, 
			St. Louis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco. Find out which 
			one of these is the one which banks in your Region deal with, and 
			find out its address. In addition, find out the name of the 
			President of that Federal Reserve Bank and the names of every one on 
			the Board of Directors.  
			
			 
			My friends, you will no doubt have to speak to a bank officer to 
			obtain all this information, and that’s good. Speak to the highest 
			officer you can in your bank, because when you ask for all those 
			details about the Federal Reserve Bank in your Region you’re likely 
			to raise some eyebrows. Hardly anyone ever comes in with a question 
			like this. If he asks why you want the information, tell him you 
			intend to write some letters and will be glad to give him a copy. 
			Make it clear though that you are not writing the Federal Reserve to 
			complain about your own bank. You should have no difficulty in 
			getting the address of your Regional Federal Reserve Bank and the 
			names of its President and Directors. In the unlikely event, my 
			friends, that you do encounter any resistance, just keep in mind 
			that you have a legal right to this information. As a depositor, you 
			are a creditor of your bank, which in turn is a creditor of the 
			Federal Reserve Bank; and both you and your bank have the right to 
			seek assurances that your money is safe.  
			
			 
			Once you have this information, what you should do next depends on 
			where you are. If your banking Region is served by any Federal 
			Reserve Bank except the NEW YORK Federal Reserve Bank, then it is 
			time to write some more letters. But the New York Federal Reserve 
			Bank is a special case. If that is the one which serves your Region, 
			do not write any letters at this time. 
			
			 
			WRITE NO LETTERS TO THE NEW YORK FEDERAL RESERVE BANK—just hold on 
			to the information you have obtained about its address and 
			Directors.  
			
			 
			Now here is what to do if your Region is served by any of the other 
			eleven (11) Federal Reserve Banks which I listed earlier. I urge you 
			to write a letter to the President of the Federal Reserve Bank and 
			also to each of its Directors. I realize this is a lot of work, my 
			friends, but nothing less than our survival is at stake. We cannot 
			cut corners. Every letter should be typed or written separately in 
			order to have a personal impact, but it’s all right to use the same 
			wording to the President and each of the Directors.  
			
			 
			To get you started, here’s the outline of what I suggest you write. 
			As in the past, feel free to modify the wording to fit your own 
			concerns and your own way of expressing things. That will help to 
			personalize and vary the letters they will be receiving. Other 
			listeners, after all, will be writing to them too; but whatever you 
			do be sure to refer to Senator Proxmire, as you will hear in a 
			moment. Address each letter to: 
			
				
				President, or Director 
				Federal Reserve Bank (of whatever city) at the Federal Reserve 
				Bank address.  
				
				 
				“Dear (so and so):  
				I am writing to you because of my declining confidence in the 
				banking system of the United States. I am one of a growing 
				number of people with similar concerns. As a key official in the 
				banking life of our nation, my hope is that you will take action 
				to help restore confidence before it is too late. To illustrate 
				my growing concerns, I’m enclosing a photo copy of a letter 
				which I sent recently to Senator William Proxmire. 
				
				 
				As Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Proxmire 
				should be able to reassure the public about banking matters, but 
				my correspondence with Senator Proxmire for several months has 
				had the opposite effect. Instead of reassuring me, Senator 
				Proxmire’s replies to serious questions are alarming me; and as 
				I discuss this with all my friends and neighbors, they too are 
				becoming more and more worried.   
				
				 
				Since Senator Proxmire is only managing to reduce confidence in 
				our banks by his behavior, I believe that I should turn to you 
				for help. If elected representatives will not do their duty, 
				perhaps responsible banking officials will. My basic concern is 
				one which I believe you, as a Federal Reserve official, should 
				share. I believe that the United States Treasury has been 
				negligent or even worse in acting as custodian of the Federal 
				Reserve gold.  
				  
				
				Like many other people, I am 
				convinced that it is time for a physical inventory of the gold 
				stocks in Federal Depositories. There may be little or no gold 
				left at all. If the Treasury has defaulted on its obligation to 
				protect the Federal Reserve gold, we are in deep trouble indeed 
				as a nation; and the Federal Reserve System is counting assets 
				listed as gold stocks which do not exist.  
				
				 
				As a concerned citizen and bank depositor, I appeal to you for 
				help. I respectfully urge you to use your authority to press for 
				a physical inventory of the Federal Reserve gold in Treasury 
				vaults. There is no other way to stop the spreading doubts about 
				America’s entire banking system.” 
				
				(End of letter, followed of course 
				by your signature.)  
			 
			
			My friends, now you know why I suggested 
			that you make a supply of good photo copies of your next letter to 
			Senator Proxmire. You will want to enclose a photo copy of your 
			Proxmire letter with each letter to a Federal Reserve President and 
			Director. By doing this, my friends, we can accomplish two things at 
			once. For one thing, Federal Reserve System officials all across 
			America may become a little perturbed at Senator Proxmire. They will 
			not be pleased to hear that Proxmire is alarming you and others by 
			his behavior. If even one Federal Reserve official should write a 
			note of displeasure to Proxmire, it will have its impact.  
			
			 
			But aside from Proxmire himself, we are beginning to open up a whole 
			new avenue of action through the banks. For one thing, action could 
			take place through the Federal Reserve System itself to inventory 
			the gold because, as I explained earlier, 11 of the 12 banks were 
			originally intended for show, but they do have power. The New York 
			Federal Reserve Bank is now tightly controlled by the Bolsheviks who 
			want to destroy America, but the other 11 Banks are another matter. 
			Their Directors are indoctrinated basically to follow the lead of 
			New York. For the most part they are not given the inside track 
			about the most secret plans, and so they could decide to flex their 
			muscles in ways contrary to the wishes of the New York Bank. 
			Specifically, they could decide that a gold inventory is a good 
			idea, and they could help make it happen, my friends.  
			At still another level, be sure to give your banker copies of your 
			latest letter to Proxmire and to the Regional Federal Reserve 
			President and Directors; because your banker, like you, has a 
			tremendous stake in all of this. And even the American Bankers 
			Association should press the Federal Reserve System to look into 
			this question. They should demand that the 12 Regional Bank 
			Presidents raise this question with the Board of Governors of the 
			Federal Reserve System here in Washington.  
			
			 
			My friends, I realize that all this is hard to digest at one 
			hearing, so I urge you to listen to it over and over again if you 
			need to until it all begins to sink in; because this is only the 
			beginning of our battle on a powerful new Second Front, and the key 
			to it all is the private corporation known as the “Federal 
			Reserve System.”  
			
			 
			Now it’s time to give you my last minute summary. In this AUDIO 
			LETTER I’ve tried to alert you to some of the latest battle fronts 
			which are involved in the secret war now raging. During this month 
			of October 1980 there have been all kinds of rumors that our 
			hostages in Iran may soon be released. In Topic #1, I reported to 
			you how this came about, and why. It was set in motion partly for 
			reasons related to our national election four days from now. But 
			even more importantly, the release of our hostages right now is 
			intended to be one step on the path to nuclear war. The Russians 
			know this and want to avoid becoming the targets of a 
			Bolshevik-triggered American first strike, and so Russian agents in 
			Iran are trying hard to stop the preparations for a release of our 
			hostages at this time. But even if this crisis should fizzle out, 
			others are being set in motion to take its place. One of these is 
			already on the horizon in Poland. If full scale revolution should 
			erupt there, the Russians are prepared to retaliate by means of 
			geophysical warfare.  
			
			 
			The true capital city of the Bolsheviks—New York City—may very well 
			suffer a massive earthquake. According to my last 
			minute reports, other geophysical warfare preparations are also 
			continuing. In AUDIO LETTER No. 55 I described how Russian 
			geophysical warfare techniques triggered the explosion of Mount St. 
			Helens last May. The final step in the process involved a squadron 
			of Cosmospheres firing their Charged Particle Beam weapons from 
			overhead. And as of October 26, squadrons of four (4) Cosmospheres 
			each were on station over several volcanicmountains of the 
			Northwest. These are: Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams, Glacier Peak, 
			and Mount Rainier. There is also a single Cosmosphere, purely for 
			observation, stationed high above Mount Hood.  
			
			 
			My friends, the warring factions of the Bolsheviks, Big Oil, and the 
			Russians are bringing us closer and closer to open all-out war. They 
			are attacking and counterattacking on many fronts; and if you want 
			to stop our downward slide into catastrophe, we too must take action 
			on many fronts. The TRUTH is a powerful weapon, and we must use it 
			in every way we can.  
			
			  
			
			Month by month I am trying to bring 
			avenues for action to your attention; and because more and more of 
			you are taking action, I believe there is a glimmer of hope for 
			America. Last month, for example, many of you did succeed in getting 
			LETTERS TO THE EDITOR published. Even the Washington Star published 
			one of them and gave it the headline “WHERE IS OUR GOLD?”  
			
			 
			What we are trying to do together, my friends, can be learned in 
			only one way and that is by doing it. I know it is not easy, but so 
			far I believe you are doing a magnificent job, and I thank you.
			 
			
			 
			Until next month, God willing, this is Dr. Beter. Thank you, and may 
			God bless each and every one of you. 
  
			
			
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