House of Paine

hacker u wasn't enough

 jimmy pak flash


PINK 
the DPRK DISINFO BOYZ ARE AT IT AGAIN 

now its the oldest red-gook story ever told

counterfeit sawbucks 
that one 
goes back to 1951 

only this is a reborn version
i'll admit its a serious 
 step down from last years 
"hacking academy"
 and the alleged
       trillion dollar
   bank credit raids 
           used to leverage
  currency plays 
  back in the mid to late  90's 
not to mention my rope a dope story
about the currency cannon 

  but hey this one
 even has the feds 
clucking 

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"The counterfeiting operation 
began a quarter of a century ago
 at a government mint 
built into a mountain 
in the North Korean capital"

ah the strokes of the masters

"built into a mountain " 

"Using equipment from Japan,
 paper from Hong Kong 
and ink from France,"


" a team of experts 
was ordered to make 
fake U.S. $100 bills, 

(source : "a former North Korean chemist
 who said his job was to draw the design" )

   
   
"The main motive was to make money,
 but the secondary motive 
was inspired by anti-Americanism," 

(the chemist is  now 56 and living in South Korea)



" By 1989, millions of dollars' worth 
of high-quality fakes 
were showing up around the world"

" U.S. investigators 
dubbed them "supernotes" 
because they were virtually 
indistinguishable from American currency"

" The flow of forged bills 
has continued ever since"


" despite a redesign intended 
to make the cash harder to replicate"

"For 15 years, 
 revealed almost nothing 
about their investigations 
into the bogus bills"

"Now, however, 
federal authorities are pursuing
 at least four criminal cases 
and one civil enforcement action 
involving supernotes"

U.S. authorities have unsealed 
hundreds of pages of documents 
in support of the cases in recent months,

 including an indictment
 that directly accuses North Korea 
of making the counterfeit bills, 
the first time the U.S. 
has made such an allegation 
in a criminal case.

The documents paint a portrait
 of an extensive criminal network 
involving North Korean diplomats and officials, 
Chinese gangsters and other organized crime syndicates,
 prominent Asian banks,
 Irish guerrillas 
and an alleged ex-KGB agent.

The criminal cases and U.S. Treasury enforcement action 
are part of a concerted campaign
 to deprive North Korea of as much as $500 million a year
 from counterfeiting currency 
and other criminal activities, 
senior U.S. law enforcement
 and intelligence officials say. 

The officials say criminal syndicates 
in South America, Eastern Europe and elsewhere 
have also churned out large sums of fake U.S. cash.

 But North Korea's is the only government 
believed to do so, 
despite international pressure 
and laws that characterize 
such activity as an economic casus belli, 
or act of war, they say. 

"
In the fall, the U.S. unsealed an indictment 
against the head of an Irish Republican Army 
splinter group alleging that
 "quantities of the supernote 
were manufactured in, and under auspices 
of the government of,
 the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,






"This is state-sponsored counterfeiting.
 I don't know of any other case
 like this except the Nazis,"

 


"U.S. authorities fear that the communist state 
has been able to step up its illicit activities 
by forging more alliances 
with transnational organized crime syndicates"

"Those alliances have made 
Pyongyang's suspected nuclear arsenal 
and other weapons more vulnerable
 to theft by rogue elements 
of the North Korean government 
and sale to nuclear traffickers 
or terrorists, the U.S. officials said"


"Korean crime-for-profit activity
may become a 'runaway train,'
 gaining momentum, but out of control."

   
"One of the first places authorities 
picked up the supernotes' trail was Ireland,
 more than 5,000 miles away from North Korea.
 By the early 1990s,
 so many supernotes were circulating there 
that Irish banks stopped 
exchanging American $100 bills"

The Secret Service soon homed in 
on Sean Garland, 
whose exploits with the Irish Republican Army
 years earlier had made him a local hero.

Garland was chief of staff 
of the Official Irish Republican Army, 
or Old IRA, 
after it split with other IRA factions
 in 1969 
and became the most left-leaning.

 He also heads its political wing,
 the Irish Workers' Party, in Northern Ireland.
 In that capacity, 
Garland traveled extensively
 to see Socialist and Communist party leaders
 in the Soviet bloc 
and, authorities contend, North Korea.


 his discussions with North Korean operatives
 eventually turned from a shared rejection of capitalism
 to a scheme for him to buy bogus $100 bills, 
perhaps to destabilize the U.S. dollar
 by flooding the market with fakes.

The former North Korean chemist,
 who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal,
 said that over the years,
 people from China, Hong Kong, Japan 
and other countries helped distribute the bills.

 "There was a lot of cooperation with Ireland,"  


"Garland ultimately teamed up
 with Old IRA members,
 street crooks and an alleged 
former member of the KGB, 

"the men traveled widely 
to circulate the bills 
and sell them to customers 
who would buy suitcases full 
at wholesale prices"


"Authorities say they passed 
up to $28 million worth of bogus currency"









"When he decided to flee North Korea in 2000,
 he crossed into China with thousands of dollars
 in counterfeit notes, "

. When Chinese police caught him
 without official papers,
 they kept $4,000 of the fake cash 
and let him go.

  


None of those cases explicitly mentions North Korea,
 but they refer to a foreign country
 that several U.S. sources
 say is North Korea.

One case involves supernotes,
 drug trafficking 
and three suspected members of a Chinese crime syndicate
 who were arrested 
in the Mariana Islands last year.



In the two other cases, 
dubbed Operation Smoking Dragon
 and Operation Royal Charm,
 at least 87 people have been arrested or indicted 
in New Jersey and California 
on charges of smuggling or conspiring to smuggle
 at least $6 million in counterfeit cash,
 knockoff Viagra,
 brand-name cigarettes 
and weapons into the United States
 from "Country A" and "Country B."

Several U.S. officials said 
those countries were North Korea and China 
and that the money was printed
 by the North Korean government.

One of the alleged ringleaders,
 Co Khanh Tang
 told undercover agents in April 
that he was expecting an especially lucrative product
 from suppliers in China:
"new and better samples" 
of counterfeit U.S. currency, 
the indictment against him says.

North Korea recently began churning out 
improved copies of U.S. bills.


. 

U.S. authorities allege that the bank 
was a longtime pawn of North Korean front companies

,In court documents,
 prosecutors allege that Tang and another suspect 
offered undercover FBI agents a catalog 
of weapons available for purchase 
from the arsenals of at least two foreign countries, 
believed to be North Korea and China. 

The agents ordered dozens of AK-47 assault rifles
 and in July 2004 began negotiating a deal
 for surface-to-air missiles 
"manufactured by communist countries," 

The indictment added that the agents were told 
the weapons' high prices were
 "necessitated by the need to bribe officials" 
of at least one of the foreign governments.

Asher, the former State Department official, asserted in a November speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington that 

absent a worldwide crackdown 
on North Korean counterfeiting 
and the government's other illicit activities,
 the country would continue to rely 
on criminal profits to maintain
 its political isolation 
and its nuclear program 
and to withstand pressure to reform.

"