Lost and Spy

Chapter 3356 The Third Person
Okajima Domoto is dead.

Sergeant Kato was also killed by the soldiers.

Their deaths resulted in the surrender of the 150 Japanese soldiers who had resisted in this tunnel for a long time.

There were many factors that prompted their surrender.

Such as food shortage, such as heavy casualties.

But it was the U.S. military's leaflets persuading them to surrender that finally made them decide.

Especially, that photo on the flyer!

Lowering his once high head, raising his hands above his head, he respectfully handed the command sword to his enemy, Major General Nobuhiro Kitazawa!
This photo was really shocking to the Japanese soldiers in desperate situation.

In fact, they already knew that they were just making a last ditch effort.

But they still don't want to believe it.

However, this photo completely shattered their last illusion.

Let's end it.

Let it all end.

Not just here.

Similar leaflets appeared everywhere on various battlefields in the Philippines.

More and more Japanese troops stopped resisting.

Of course, the war is far from over here.

……

"Hey, Chief Peter, why are you free to come here to inspect the work?"

As soon as he saw Tian Qi, Meng Shaoyuan said with a bit of joking tone.

"Come to congratulate Colonel Charles on becoming the King of Manila." Tian Qi also said mockingly: "You are always here to do whatever you want, and you are arrogant. Am I not just here to flatter you? I will ask you to take good care of me in the future. "

"Fuck off."

Meng Shaoyuan smiled and said, "What on earth is going on?"

"Two things." Tian Qi put away his smile and said, "I was ordered to pick up a major from the Strategic Intelligence Service, Jonathan Teach."

"Who?" Meng Shaoyuan asked smoothly.

"Before, I stayed with the Philippine guerrillas."

Tian Qi said: "He is responsible for commanding the guerrillas to fight the Japanese army. Three days ago, he suddenly used a secret radio to contact us, demanding that the mission be ended immediately and that he had important intelligence reports. I am the person in charge of the Southwest Pacific Theater of the Bureau of Strategic Intelligence. I agreed to his request. But I don’t know what specific important information he has.

We made an appointment with him to meet in Manila. I happened to have another mission, so I decided to come to meet him in person. "

Jonathan Teach?
Meng Shaoyuan thought for a long time, but could not retrieve any information about this person from his mind.

Probably some inconspicuous intelligence agent.

"Where was he before?"

Out of the conditioned reflex of his long career as an agent, Meng Shaoyuan asked one more question.

"He and the guerrillas were operating in the Santa Romana area of ​​the Philippines."

Tian Qi pointed on the map: "At present, the resistance of the Japanese army here is still very tenacious. The main task of the guerrillas here is to monitor the Japanese army and provide intelligence to the US military in a timely manner.

Jonathan got in touch with the guerrillas in the area two months ago. As for why he suddenly came back now, I asked him whether he really got some valuable clues, right? "

Santa Romana?

Meng Shaoyuan still had no impression.

Logically speaking, it's not right.

If Jonathan arrived in the Philippines two months ago, it was still full of dangers, but is it not the case now?

In the Philippines now, the US military is advancing steadily, and victory is in sight.

These guerrillas do not have to undertake combat missions, and Jonathan does not have to directly enter the battlefield. The risk factor is almost negligible.

And in this case, staying in the guerrilla command in order to gain greater merit after the war is what most people will do, right?

As for important information?

Now the Japanese intelligence system in the Philippines has been completely destroyed, and there is no such thing as monitoring.

Is there anything he can't say on the radio?
Do you have to come back?

The sensitivity of the profession made Meng Shaoyuan very sure that Jonathan must have some secret.

Hold on.

Meng Shaoyuan suddenly thought of something.

Japan’s Hidden Treasures in the Philippines!
But after the war, there were three important people who really knew the specific locations of some of the treasures.

After the US military landed on Luzon Island, the Mountain Lily Society began to blow up a large number of treasure tunnels.

This is the mission of the Mountain Lily Society.

The Mountain Lily Society has always been a mysterious organization led by Prince Hengde himself.

Moreover, in order to ensure secrecy, the members of the Mountain Lily Society who are responsible for burying treasures in various places in the Philippines have never had any contact with each other, and they do not even know who the person in charge of a certain place is.

At the beginning, Meng Shaoyuan sneaked into Manila as "Shibu Taniguchi" and took advantage of this loophole.

But in the Philippines, there is more than just one "Shibu Taniguchi."

There are many more people in charge.

For example, Takeda, the nephew of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, is also in the Philippines.

The last treasure tunnel that the Yamayuri Society blew up in the Philippines was Tunnel No. [-].

Located deep in the mountains of Luzon Island.

After putting crates of gold into a tunnel more than 60 meters deep, members of the Mountain Lily Association, together with hired Filipino engineers and workers, said goodbye to the gold and held a grand ceremony.

After the ceremony, Yamashita and members of the Japanese imperial family entertained the engineers and workers in the tunnel.

When these engineers and workers were drunk, the "Mountain Lily Club" used explosives to blow up the tunnel and buried the gold and the local people in the tunnel!

The Japanese thought they did it without anyone noticing, but they never expected that one person would be missed.

This man was Ben Walmorris, the valet of Emperor Hirohito's nephew Takeda.

After the farewell ceremony, Takeda left early due to physical discomfort, and his servant Ben Walmorris also left.

The "Yamayuri Club" killed all the locals involved in the plan, but forgot that Prince Takeda's servants were also locals.

By the time they remembered, the terrified Ben Walmorris had already fled.

In order to hunt down Ben Wormorice, Yamashita Fengfumi searched everywhere in the Philippines and killed innocent people indiscriminately.Unfortunately, they failed to find Ben Walmorris in the end.

On September 1945, 9, after the Japanese Emperor announced "unconditional surrender", Yamashita, who had nowhere to go, surrendered to the U.S. troops stationed in the Philippines.

Immediately, U.S. Lieutenant General Steyer instructed the establishment of an "independent committee" to conduct a secret interrogation of Yamashita in advance.

During the interrogation, Yamashita neither admitted to presiding over and planning the "Manila Massacre" nor to plundering a large amount of wealth in Southeast Asia.

Not only that, he also requested "habeas corpus" from the Supreme Court of the Philippines, believing that the trial by the US military was illegal.

According to normal procedures, Yamashita Fengfumi should be tried by a military court, which is composed of judges jointly appointed by the victorious countries.

From this point of view, Steyer's approach is indeed unreasonable and illegal.

Unfortunately, the Philippines did not realize that there was something fishy at the time and rejected Yamashita's application.

The first to react were the British. They strongly demanded that Yamashita Fengfumi be sent to a military court for trial, and they also brought China on board to put pressure on him.

Steyer did not agree, but gave in and agreed to a public trial of Yamashita Fengfumi and assigned six military lawyers to defend him.

Unexpectedly, Yamashita Fengfumi once again refused to plead guilty and filed an application for "habeas corpus" with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Yamashita's "struggle" was in vain. The US federal government also rejected his application and stated that the "independent committee" established by Steyer in response to MacArthur's instructions was legal and had the right to try Yamashita.

Yamashita Tomofumi's crime is divided into multiple components!
The first part is "committing war crimes", and the second part is "abusing and killing civilians and war prisoners, and plundering property on a large scale..."

It is worth mentioning that this is also among the crimes committed by Masaharu Honma:
Mass looting of property!
During the interrogation process, Yamashita Fengfumi flatly denied "large-scale plundering of property." However, the US military already had two people in its hands.

Both of them knew something about Yamashita Fengfumi and the "Yamayuri Society"'s actions of plundering wealth and burying treasures.

One of them was Ben Walmorris, who escaped.

Ben Walmorris left before the explosion and took his own life.

Later, on a secret occasion, Ben Walmorris told the Americans the secret of Japanese gold hidden in the Philippines, but did not disclose the specific location.

There is another person, Yamashita Fengfumi's driver, Major Kojima.

The driver who drove Yamashita Tombumi, Major Kojima, attracted special attention from the US judges.

Filipino-American intelligence officer Roman La imprisoned Kojima by accusing him of torture and conducted a secret trial in order to uncover Japanese treasure troves in the Philippines.

Roman La repeatedly lured the island to provide information about the gold treasure.

Around early October 1945, Xiaodao finally broke his silence and led Romanla to visit more than 10 treasure spots.

Then, there is a third person!
A Filipino guerrilla group discovered that a Japanese army had blown up a cave deep in the Santa Romana Mountains in the Philippines.

At that time, this guerrilla group was also lucky and captured a lone sergeant among the Japanese army.

The sergeant fainted and fell to the ground because of long-term hunger.

According to the experience of the Japanese army, such a person would die soon, so they abandoned this companion.

The guerrillas rescued the sergeant.

The person commanding this guerrilla force was a major from the US Strategic Intelligence Service.

The major personally interrogated the sergeant.

The major's luck is really good.

The sergeant not only blew up the cave, but also personally participated in supervising the transportation of the cave before doing so.

According to the soldier's instructions, a large number of boxes were gradually transported into the cave. Moreover, he once quietly took a look at a damaged box and found that there seemed to be gold inside.

Afterwards, all those who carried the boxes were secretly executed.

This made the sergeant even more convinced that all the caves were filled with treasures!

This time, they were ordered to blow up the cave.

Treasure?

The U.S. Army major captured this information keenly.

Then, the next day, the Japanese sergeant died.

As for why he died?unknown.

Afterwards, the major immediately reported this information to the US military.

After the war, the Americans indeed dug up a huge amount of gold in this cave!

And this is also the largest amount of gold obtained by the United States after the war!
Right in Santa Romana!

Including the gold that the United States successively found in the Philippines, between 1945 and 1948, gold worth approximately tens of billions of dollars was shipped to the United States.

It did not return it to the victims in Southeast Asian countries, but deposited it in 42 banks in 176 countries. Among them, the Geneva branch of the United Bank of Switzerland opened a bank account with tens of billions of dollars in the name of "Lansdale". Gold account!
After the OSS was disbanded, this huge wealth was taken over by the CIA and became its off-book funds, and its use and disposal were not subject to any supervision.

Shockingly, some gold has become the private property of Americans. The largest account was opened at Credit Suisse Bank in Zurich in the name of MacArthur’s son, Arthur MacArthur, and contained nearly one hundred tons of gold.

Former US President Hoover also had 7.5 tons of gold in his private account at Credit Suisse!
The discovery of a large number of treasures greatly increased the United States' capital for the Cold War.

Not only Americans, but also the future Philippine President Marcos!
After being elected as president, Marcos certainly knew that the Americans were digging for gold in the Philippines, and he realized that there must still be a lot of gold in the Philippines.

As a result, official excavations were carried out secretly many times and enriched their own pockets.

Marcos had a huge amount of gold stored in Swiss banks.

At the same time, he also gave a large sum of gold to his close partner, Saudi Arabian arms tycoon Adnan Khashoggi.

Marcos and his agents often secretly sold large quantities of gold in the gold markets in London, Hong Kong, Sydney and other places. Sometimes the number of gold ingots sold at one time was as high as more than 10 tons, which was more than the entire known gold reserves of the Philippines. .

Every once in a while, a secret sale known as the "Marcos Black Hawk" occurs on the London Gold Exchange, the largest in the world.

Therefore, the forty tons of gold that Meng Shaoyuan obtained is actually not that shocking!
When Meng Shaoyuan started his "gold thief" plan, he once had his mind set on Santa Romana's gold.

That is the biggest treasure discovered by Americans in the Philippines!

However, he was in Manila at the time and was beyond reach of Santa Romana.

Moreover, he only knew that the gold was buried in Santa Romana, but he did not know where exactly.

None of the documents mentioned the name of the OSS agent who discovered the treasure.

Meng Shaoyuan was helpless, and he had already obtained forty tons of gold, so he no longer thought much about the treasure of Santa Romana.

Jonathan?
Major, OSS!

Also from Santa Romana!

Could it be that he is the American agent who discovered the treasure?
I never expected that clues would appear so quickly!
"Lao Qi, this person is useful to me!" Meng Shaoyuan pondered for a while: "Is there any way to secretly control Jonathan and prevent him from contacting the outside world?"

Tian Qiyi was stunned: "What do you want to do?"

"The secret of this person, not only me, I'm afraid many people will be crazy about him!"

(End of this chapter)