John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
“Sanctioned North Korea Makes Due by Cyber-Robbing World Banks
“Pyongyang has trained up the world’s greatest bank-robbing crews. In just the past few years they've pillaged $650 million for their nation. That we know of.”
Interesting, if true.
We always should reserve some doubt about people who have defected from anywhere and are telling us "secrets" about the place from which they defected.
As just one of the possibilities, fake defectors have long been used by intelligence services. It went on through the entire Cold War, including some spectacular examples.
That mention of counterfeiting hundred-dollar bills casts some real doubt.
A few years back, large numbers of virtually perfect counterfeit one hundred-dollar bills were showing up regularly.
Our press all joined in pointing to North Korea.
There is always reason to doubt a story, especially one of that nature, simply from the fact that you see the whole corporate press repeating it.
As one former CIA disinformation officer told us years ago, he used to sit down at his “mighty Wurlitzer organ” to get his stories "out there," the keys of the organ being the various cooperating members of the corporate press.
I simply do not believe the North Koreans were creating the currency without real evidence.
The North Koreans just would not have the ultra hi-tech presses required.
And we do know the CIA does all kinds of criminal activity to earn off-the-books cash, from selling drugs to gun running, so why not counterfeiting some perfect notes?
