THE TOWER OF BASEL - FULL BOOK BY ADAM LEBOR !!!

Note: have transferred it to the wayback machine for other anons to read without the issue of downloading it.

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https://archive.org/details/tower-of-basel-the-shadowy-history-of-the-secret-bank-that-runs

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Nowadays the countries represented at the Global Economy Meetings together account for

around four-fifths of global gross domestic product (GDP)—most of the produced wealth of the

world—according to the BIS’s own statistics. Central bankers now “seem more powerful than politicians,” wrote The Economist newspaper, “holding the destiny of the global economy in their hands.”

10 How did this happen?

The BIS, the world’s most secretive global financial institution, can

claim much of the credit. From its first day of existence, the BIS has dedicated itself to furthering the

interests of central banks and building the new architecture of transnational finance. In doing so, it has

spawned a new class of close-knit global technocrats whose members glide between highly-paid

positions at the BIS, the IMF, and central and commercial banks.

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note: anon linked this to the british archive pdf link which has been nuked - the names match with the libruary archives and with the b.i.s home page history section.

Did any anon remember to download the archives, all anon has is a few screenshots.

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The real purpose of the BIS was detailed in its statutes: to “promote the cooperation of central

banks and to provide additional facilities for international financial operations.” It was the

culmination of the central bankers’ decades-old dream, to have their own bank—powerful,

independent, and free from interfering politicians and nosy reporters. Most felicitous of all, the BIS

was self-financing and would be in perpetuity. Its clients were its own founders and shareholders—

the central banks. During the 1930s, the BIS was the central meeting place for a cabal of central

bankers, dominated by Norman and Schacht. This group helped rebuild Germany. The New York

Times described Schacht, widely acknowledged as the genius behind the resurgent German economy,

as “The Iron-Willed Pilot of Nazi Finance.”

11 During the war, the BIS became a de-facto arm of the

Reichsbank, accepting looted Nazi gold and carrying out foreign exchange deals for Nazi Germany

The bank’s alliance with Berlin was known in Washington, DC, and London. But the need for the

BIS to keep functioning, to keep the new channels of transnational finance open, was about the only

thing all sides agreed on. Basel was the perfect location, as it is perched on the northern edge of

Switzerland and sits almost on the French and German borders. A few miles away, Nazi and Allied

soldiers were fighting and dying. None of that mattered at the BIS. Board meetings were suspended,

but relations between the BIS staff of the belligerent nations remained cordial, professional, and

productive. Nationalities were irrelevant. The overriding loyalty was to international finance. The

president, Thomas McKittrick, was an American. Roger Auboin, the general manager, was French.

Paul Hechler, the assistant general manager, was a member of the Nazi party and signed his

correspondence “Heil Hitler.” Rafaelle Pilotti, the secretary general, was Italian. Per Jacobssen, the

bank’s influential economic adviser, was Swedish. His and Pilotti’s deputies were British.