Spies and History
The OSS was the real life predecessor of this organization.
What is the CIA?
He is the novel's protagonist.
Who is Ansel Luxford aka "A"?
This Government Department coordinated financial sanctions.
What is the Treasury Department?
Ansel sees this on his trolley ride to work in Minneapolis that inspires his nationalistic idealism.
What is a hundred-something uniformed American Nazis marching down from a St. Paul bridge aka "Silver Shirts"?
This was why JP Morgan was so mad at the Treasury Dept!
What is a treasury regulator was placed in each bank to stop banks from transferring German owned gold from financial institutions?
Japan’s empire relied heavily on this resource the Allies tried to cut off.
What is Oil?
Where was A from?
(city, state)
Harlan, Iowa
Freezing enemy assets was a strategy used by this US President.
Who is FDR?
He is the author of this novel.
Who is Graham Moore?
The US remained neutral at the beginning of WWII because of this.
What is the Treaty of Non Aggression?
He was the reason Ansel harbored a passion for economics.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
This policy replaced Cash and Carry.
What is the Lend-lease?
She forged an inter-agency document request, intercepted it and inserted cable 631 into a stack of documents to look like a clerical error.
Spies in the Wealth of Shadows often worked inside these institutions.
What are banks?
This is the definition of shadow currency.
What is an off book source of currency or a shadow banking system?
T/F Only 12% of Americans thought American should get involved in the war.
What is True?
2 part question: partial credit given. A sought out and makes his pitch to a treasury department curmudgeon. 1. Name this curmudgeon and 2. what was the pitch he gave?
1. Who is Harry Dexter White? 2. What is The Scotch (liquor) economic theory? [...you can tell the future of the world in those scotch bottles if you know how to read them: the minute Hitler started letting go of Germany’s dollar reserves he declared he was going to invade Poland. That is why Great Britain is stockpiling dollars because to fight back they will need to buy American steel, equipment, oil and weapons. ]
This is how Keynes took advantage of A.
What is while Treasury lends billions of dollars worth of weapons on credit, Keynes gets Commerce to lend billions of dollars as well. The US is financing the British government twice.
Randolph Paul
Who was JP Morgan's attorney who joined the Treasury Dept and went with Ansel to the Havana Conference. he was also the most esteemed finance attorney in the country whose firm. guided taxation and regulatory efforts for all of the largest companies on Wallstreet, and was the architect of the modern tax system.
Spies risked this ultimate penalty if caught.
What is execution?
Secret history can shape the world, even if it stays in these.
What is the shadows?
This policy enabled support for the allies who had naval power and financial resources to utilize it while avoiding direct military involvement by the US in WWII.
What is Cash and Carry?
She was the only woman in the room in the Research Dept.
Who was Professor Mabel Newcomer?
The Professor's trick to bribery.
What is you've got to leave him feeling classy? (when trying to get the folks at Bretton Woods Conference to back the US dollar over Keynes' Bancor)
The SS St Louis.
What is the ship that sailed with 900 Jewish refugees to Cuba but denied entrance to Cuba and the US.
The idea that "wars can be won without firing a shot" refers to this kind of espionage.
What is financial or economic espionage?
Graham Moore won an Academy Award for this historical screenplay.
What is the Imitation Game?
These bills were an alternate form of German currency, which was "smarter" than a Ponzi scheme.
What are Mefo bills?
Cable 631
What is a buried carbon of a cable detailing German atrocities v. Jews to the State by an agent known as Verity by a gaswagen converted into a death mobile by gas killing 10 men at a time?
This was the only gold-convertible currency as of "today's date" during Bretton Woods Conference.
What is the US dollar?
The only member of the Research Dept who passes away in the novel.
Who is Herman Oliphant. (Chief Counsel of the Treasury Dept)?