By Anthony Fox - No Agenda News
In 2006, former US Treasury agent Leo Wanta, gave a series of interviews to Greg Szymanski. He claimed he was attempting to return trillions of dollars that lay in offshore accounts to the US Treasury.
This is his story, in his own words.
Part Three
GREG SZYMANSKI: Where was this money earmarked for once you make this money this money back then?
LEO WANTA: Well, the money was earmarked for the US Department of the Treasury, except for $30 billion that was authorized by President Reagan through AmeriTrust to the Russian Federation in Mockba, which is Moscow, for redevelopment programs. As long as there are none military. We would have been moinitoring all of that $30 billion. We paid back the $150 billion, that we got forwarded from the US Department of the Treasury, within 6 months.
We had a tremendous amount of real hard currency and of that $70 billion that was set aside: $5 billion was going to Canada, $5 billion to UK, and $5 billion to Mexico and so on so forth a total of $70 billion. But at the same time down in Western American Samoa, we were setting up a $5 million oil refinery to back up the US oil needs.
We were [also] buying medium term bank...Well at that time they were called prime bank guarantees, at 7.5% annual interest, 10 year plus one day maturity. We were buying them at 68%, 66% per $100 million par value and we could either loan 'em, or sell 'em, or transfer, at 88 to 92[%]. In reality, we're making $20 million for every $100 million par value prime bank guarantee. And we're doing this repetitively, every hour on the hour. That generated a tremendous amount of money, that we would reduce any and all debt obligations of the USA. And that is what President Reagan wanted to do.
GREG SZYMANSKI: So this money, so you're sucessful at bringing the ruble down. In the meantime, you amass a lot of dollars. And you become the caretaker of this through Ronald Reagan. Who appoints you, through what you told me earlier, his trust in you.
LEO WANTA: Oh yes.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Okay. So the years go by now, this fund is there, I mean the money is their now invested in the different things.
LEO WANTA: Yeah, in prime bank guarantees.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Okay. Now how does that transition remain american assets, but remain out of the country?
LEO WANTA: Yeah, offshore bank deposits.
GREG SZYMANSKI: So basically Reagan must have been really pleased with what you guys were doing?
LEO WANTA: Oh, he was overly excited. The Soviet Union had no money to buy anything for military arms, and Star Wars, and stuff of that nature. That's why Gorbachev [publically] in Helsinki was so mad. Gorbachev, [meaning the USSR] had zero, zero in cash.
We paid him $10 billion through the Gorbachev Foundation. So he was happy to sell out his country. What are you going to do? It's easier to pay these guys a couple of bucks.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Now, Reagans intention was always to bring this money back. Now you guys amassed a lot of money, it was constantly compounding interest...
LEO WANTA: Reagan's first intention was to have US security thoughout the world and the Soviet Union being [unknown] to nothing. So he [would] not have to spend money on military.
So all of these funds then...We paid back the treasury the $150 billion. There was security throughout the world. There was no more USSR. They were gone.
The Russians had a Federation; they needed money. Boris Yeltsin and Putin the Deputy Mayor in Leningrad, was going to receive through the Reagan Group, which was us, $30 billion to rebuild their countries. But for no arms, and no tanks, and no nothing [military].
And we were rebuilding the US dollar economy. We were buying prime bank guarantees of 66% to 69% and retrading those at 88% to 92% which was making us around $20 million for every $100 million prime bank guarantee. That was the money that was rebuilding all of the banking community. Money in the United States, so the banks could give out loans and mortgages and do whatever you want. And also, more foriegn aid to the countries of acceptance [sic] to the US State Department. So this money was coming back, and it was also being used and generated to make more money for the USA to be a super-economy.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Well tell us how did you save his [Reagan's] life.
LEO WANTA: Well being in the intelligence community we, you know, we're reaching out to a number of people throughout the world at all times. We had a certain person that was a foriegner as a guest of the United States. I don't think he had a green card since he was in the political regime.
He had called me and he was extremely nervous. He said he had people staying in his Washington office for months, and months, and today was the day they were going to assasinate President Reagan. I asked really clear what was going on? How can I know for sure? He told me all of the details.
I immediately called Treasury Special Agent Bill Lecates. He got on the phone to Special Agent of the Secret Service Glen Speedy, along with Frank B. Ingram, who is a liason with the FBI. That's why his initials are F.B. Ingram.
We immediately pulled President Reagan out of the Whitehouse.
We pick[ed] up everybody that came via Texas, to come into the Washington area. They were being groomed and being hosted by this gentleman, who will remain anonymous, except [to] the people that need to know. The Secret Service came immediately to his place; grabbed him for his own security and protection. He wasn't sure who I sent to get him.
So he's there; they're coming in with all their Secret Service garb, and everything else, and the Secret Service agent said he went all over the floor. I said, "Well I would too, if they came in running with all of those machine guns and everything else."
He said, "You should have warned him."
I said, "I was kind of busy."
GREG SZYMANSKI: What year was this just to give us...
LEO WANTA: That was...I'll say a Friday the 13th. I'll let you track it back from there.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Okay.
LEO WANTA: But you can talk to the Secret Service, because we all got plaques and all this other good stuff. Glen Speedy, the Secret Service, and Bill Lecates who was [dirac?] in US Treasury and national at that time. So you know everybody was happy, happy, happy. We were all happy that the threat, [that] wasn't sure at that time, [and] when we verified that it was absolutely a threat. We picked up everybody. To the best of our knowledge, we got them all.
GREG SZYMANSKI: So here you are you're on the Presidents...He's very happy with you. You're working, doing a service to your country, you're making a lot of money for the Treasury Department.
LEO WANTA: For the Office of the President. That's who I work for.
GREG SZYMANSKI: Okay. So when did the whole problem begin. When you wanted to put the money back, but I think you were talked to by someone. Did somebody want to really take it from you, is what I'm getting at.
LEO WANTA: Well here, first of all you have to understand we have all of [this] in our control, Howe and I. We had all the money in foriegn accounts, prime bank guarantees, and other collateral, and gold bullion, and the like.
George Bush was finishing up his travel time in Singapore. This was about April, 1992,[January 3-5, 1992] because Howe died in May, 1992. He [Bush] realized that all of the assets, which was about $864 billion in Aneko Credit in Singapore, was owned by a chinese guy named Howe Kwong. [He] was the chairman of our group bank and [with] myself as managing director. He was curious that he was now the President of the United States, and we had all these funds. Then when Bill Clinton became President of the United States, he decided that all three of us were no good. He's the only guy that can handle that kind of money with authority and maturity.
This is the third installment of an original series from No Agenda News. See here for part two.
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