mineset® schreef op 4 september 2017 21:57:
[...]Ik heb het toen in het AD gelezen ... maar inmiddels staat er ook het nodige op het www
LA Times: July 02, 1992 Iran Accused of Printing Fake U.S. Bills : Counterfeiting: Report by House Republicans says billions in bogus money is circulating with Syria's help.
articles.latimes.com/1992-07-02/news/...Al is het van originele dollars, naar counterfit dollars veranderd ... want dat eerste bleek rond 1980 een ware blamage voor de VS ... dus hebben ze het nieuws later iets aangepast in counterfit dollars ;-)
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Security Focus
Unintended Consequences
Scott Granneman, 2005-01-19Back in the 1970s, long before the revolution that would eventually topple him from power, the Shah of Iran was one of America's best friends (he was a dictator who brutally repressed his people, but he was anti-communist, and that made him OK in our book). Wanting to help out a good friend, the United States government agreed to sell Iran the very same intaglio presses used to print American currency so that the Shah could print his own high quality money for his country. Soon enough, the Shah was the proud owner of some of the best money printing machines in the world, and beautiful Iranian Rials proceeded to flow off the presses.
All things must come to an end, and the Shah was forced to flee Iran in 1979 when the Ayatollah Khomeini's rebellion brought theocratic rule to Iran. Everyone reading this undoubtedly knows the terrible events that followed: students took American embassy workers hostage for over a year as Iran declared America to be the "Great Satan," while evidence of US complicity in the Shah's oppression of his people became obvious, leading to a break in relations between the two countries that continues to worsen to this day.
During the early 90s, counterfeit $100 bills began to flood the Mideast, eventually spreading around the world. Known as "superbills" or "superdollars" by the US Treasury due to the astounding quality of the forgeries, these $100 bills became a tremendous headache not only for the US and its economy, but also for people all over the world that depend on the surety of American money. Several culprits have been suggested as responsible for the superbills, including North Korea and Syria, but many observers think the real culprit is the most obvious suspect: an Iranian government deeply hostile to the United States ... and even worse, an Iranian government possessing the very same printing presses used to create American money.www.securityfocus.com/columnists/293