Henry L. Stimson
Lawyer and former United States Secretary of StateWikipedia
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Sep 11, 2026
Frankie ValHOST
Once Lansdale's information was confirmed, the Truman administration decided to keep the gold a secret, in part to preserve the relative stability of the 1944 Bretton Woods Agreement.
Frankie ValHOST
Secretary of War Henry Stimson came up with the idea of creating the Black Eagle Trust to fund anti-communist efforts around the world.
Frankie ValHOST
And William Donovan of the newly created CIA became the point man for distributing the gold to domestic and international banks.
Frankie ValHOST
In total, the gold ended up being held in over 170 banks in 42 countries.
CaseyAUDIENCE
Hmm.
FrankHOST
Secretary of War Henry Stimson came up with the idea of creating the Black Eagle Trust to fund anti-communist efforts around the world.
FrankHOST
And William Donovan of the newly created CIA became the point man for distributing the gold to domestic and international banks.
FrankHOST
In total, the gold ended up being held in over 170 banks in 42 countries.
Y. L. Al-SheikhGUEST
It is not beneficial and it doesn't help us and it doesn't help anybody.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
No. No. Obama practiced a political idea that Henry Stimson, the former Secretary of War during World War II, articulated.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
It's one of my favorite quotes, to be sure.
Trent R. NelsonHOST
It's, the surest way to gain a man's trust is to trust him and to demonstrate that trust.
Ben HodgesGUEST
But that civilian military interface is so important.
Ben HodgesGUEST
I just started reading a book called Partnership about George Marshall, who was chief of the army for 1940, and Henry Stimson, who was secretary of the army, 1940.
Ben HodgesGUEST
So these two guys together for five years.
Ben HodgesGUEST
And of course, they had to deal with Roosevelt.
VyzygothHOST
paragraph.
VyzygothHOST
From Henry Stimson's diary for November 25, he was the Secretary of War under FDR, stated this problem in these words.
VyzygothHOST
The question was how we should maneuver them, the Japanese, into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves.
VyzygothHOST
It was a difficult proposition.
Kai BirdGUEST
McCloy had worked with their father, Harvey Bundy, in the War Department.
Kai BirdGUEST
Harvey Bundy was a top assistant to Henry Stimson, the war secretary.
Kai BirdGUEST
McCloy was the assistant secretary.
Kai BirdGUEST
And so McCloy, during World War II, knew the young Bundy brothers.
Kai BirdGUEST
McCloy had worked with their father, Harvey Bundy, in the War Department.
Kai BirdGUEST
Harvey Bundy was a top assistant to Henry Stimson, the war secretary.
Kai BirdGUEST
McCloy was the assistant secretary.
Kai BirdGUEST
And so McCloy, during World War II, knew the young Bundy brothers.
Damian HarmonyHOST
And that, of course, has plenty of downstream impact.
Damian HarmonyHOST
And because it was all semi-legal and hurt a lot of investors, the federal government went after him, specifically Henry L. Stimson, who was the attorney general at the time.
Ed BlalockHOST
Oh, wow.
Ed BlalockHOST
Okay.
James M. ScottGUEST
And so one of his investigators tried to go out there and sniff around.
James M. ScottGUEST
And it warrants a call from Henry Stimson, who is the war secretary at that point, to Truman.
James M. ScottGUEST
basically to sort of call off his dogs.
James M. ScottGUEST
And Stimson tells Truman, I can't tell you what's going on out there, but you just have to trust me on this.
James M. ScottGUEST
We'll back off.
James M. ScottGUEST
And so that's sort of his brush up prior to that.
James M. ScottGUEST
Of course, what happens the night he is sworn in on April 12th, 1945, Henry Stimson comes back to him at that point and says, I've got some other news I'm going to have to share with you about a special project that we're working on, but I'll get up with you here shortly.
James M. ScottGUEST
Recognizing that Truman very much needed to kind of get a few days under his belt and get his desk unpacked, if nothing else.
Alex NewmanGUEST
All during that time, he was negotiating with the British government how we could get the United States involved in the war.
Alex NewmanGUEST
And so if you read the diaries of Stimson, the man who was serving as Secretary of War at that time, he is very open about the fact that they were hoping to prod Japan into making the first attack so that it would look like they were in the wrong, so that we could have a pretext to justify American involvement in the war.
Alex NewmanGUEST
They did everything they could.
Alex NewmanGUEST
They put sanctions on Japan.
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