International Currency Review, Summer-Autumn 2005, edited by Christopher Story, FRSA of Edward Harle Ltd., 108 Horseferry Road, Westminster, LONDON SW1P 2EF Tel: 222 2635, e-mail: mailto:orders@edwardharle.com subscription £250 per year, ISSN 0020-6490Two articles about the European Union, one describing it as an ‘illegitimate, illegal organisation’ and the other as a ‘mecca for organised crime’, from the bulk of the most recent issue of International Currency Review, a somewhat misleadingly-titled journal which probes under the surface of various international governments and organisations – and examines their activities in depth.
Its price will be beyond the reach of most readers, but the revelations on pages 39 to 152 are a good, comprehensive analysis of the sheer scale of corruption and fraud that has now forced the EU’s Court of Auditors to fail to certify the EU’s dodgy accounts for 11 years in succession.
Story examines how most European Treaties were only agreed by fraud and deception on the general public on a grand scale, including what he claims (without producing the detailed evidence) were corrupt payments to some of the leading politicians who signed them. He analyses the EU’s faulty accounting procedures in depth and explains how easy it is for corrupt Commissioners and officials to divert money from its intended purposes.
Of the Court of Auditors, Story sums up: “It appears, from its performance, to exist not to verify the accuracy of European Commission’s financial records, but to obfuscate and to hide what is going on – so that officials like Mr Brian Gray can label specific accusations by conscientious MEPs as ‘myths’.” Gray is the Eurocrat who replaced Marta Andreason, the honest EU official who blew the whistle on Neil Kinnock’s cover-up of accounting fraud – and was sacked for her pains. The frightening extent to which the EU’s open borders assist and promote international drug and people-traffickers is also exposed to the report, together with suggestions of links between these criminals and corrupt EU officials.
Story refers to sinister ‘slush funds’ used to achieve the integrationist agenda of Europe’s political elite. A typical sentence runs like this: “Intelligence sources have provided International Currency Review with the NAME of the secret Swiss bank account, the vast amount of ‘Black’ money it holds, the amounts allocated for each corrupted EU ‘Member State’, plus the names of three of the most prominent alleged recipients of ‘Black’ payments, together with details of the alleged transactions concerned”.
Unfortunately, none of the details is given, to the frustration of the reader, who is then led to doubt some of the assertions story makes. Story further undermines his research by some extravagant statements that appear to be justified only by mysterious references to ‘anonymous sources in MI5’. Thus, on page 40, he claims that both Edward Heath and Geoffrey Rippon received corrupt inducements to persuade them to sign the Treaty of Rome on Britain’s behalf. He adds further doubts to the reader’s mind by going on to claim that Edward Heath was “an agent of the Nazi International, whose headquarters are based in Dachau, who remained a German spy for six decades”. Even the most ardent conspiracy theorist will find that one difficult to swallow.
Story’s researches were carried on in close co-operation with Ashley Mote MEP, the independent and former UKIP MEP. A useful six-page summary of the claim that the EU is a ‘criminalised organisation’ is available free from Mr Mote on 07836 220223 or via his website: http://www.ashleymote.co.uk
