From Reuters
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

http://za.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?
type=businessNews&storyID=2006-06-
27T063934Z_01_ALL723961_RTRIDST_0_OZABS-ECONOMY-CHINA-YUAN-
20060627.XML

BEIJING -- Countries should gradually rely less on the dollar for

By John Crudele
New York Post
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

http://www.nypost.com/business/george_let_plunge_slip_business_john_crud...

George Stephanopoulos knows all about the Plunge Protection Team,
the secretive organization made up of Wall Street bankers and top
administration officials whose job it is to come to the rescue of a
faltering stock market.

Here's the bombshell statement that an obviously nervous

1:26a ET Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA Chairman Bill Murphy will be interviewed for
about eight minutes on ROB-TV in Canada at 11:40
a.m. ET Wednesday. If you're in Canada, you'll be
able to watch it live. In Canada or out, you'll be
able to watch it for a week thereafter on the
ROB-TV Internet site archive. We'll send you the

Beaten-up Dollar Unsettles Investors in USA and Abroad

By John Waggoner
USA Today, McLean, Virginia
Thursday, June 22, 2006

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2006-06-22-dollar-cover-
usat_x.htm

Rob Goreham is more sensitive to the price of gold than most of us.
Goreham, who lives in Columbia, Calif., sells gold-mining supplies
and leads chartered gold-hunting outings in the old California gold

9:29p ET Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Gold price-fixing litigator Reginald H. Howe, proprietor of GoldenSextant.com and consultant to GATA, has written "Gold Derivatives: Da Goldman Code," updating the central bank campaign against gold in light of the latest gold derivatives report of the Bank for International Settlements and the nomination of Goldman Sachs CEO Henry K. Paulson as U.S. treasury secretary.

Recent Slide Fails to Squelch Gold Bugs

Yesterday's rally confirms their optimism
as geopolitical jitters stir safe-haven focus

Eric Sprott and Sasha Solunac of Sprott Asset Management in Toronto write that the great contest of the world financial system is between central banks, on one hand, and, on the other, markets striving to break free. The primary target of the central banks, Sprott and Solunac maintain, is gold.

By John Crudele
New York Post

I swear that this is the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but: I came face to face with the Plunge
Protection Team and lived to tell about it.

IMF COMMITTEE ON BALANCE OF PAYMENTS STATISTICS
RESERVE ASSETS TECHNICAL EXPERT GROUP

TREATMENT OF GOLD SWAPS AND GOLD DEPOSITS (LOANS)

Prepared by Hidetoshi Takeda, IMF Statistics Department
April 2006

1:28a ET Thursday, March 9, 2006

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Alan Greenspan confessed to the gold price suppression scheme while he was chairman of the Federal Reserve. He gave his famous testimony to Congress on July 24, 1998: "Central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise."

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/testimony/1998/19980724.htm

The European Central Bank confessed to the gold price suppression scheme when it entered the Washington Agreement on Gold on September 26, 1999. The bank's members acknowledged that they had gotten together to regulate the gold price through gold sales and leasing: