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...loans, Beltrante learned that Johnson held securities worth about $100,000. Through a broker friend, Beltrante got the name of Johnson's broker, who confirmed that Johnson had a secret Swiss account. Finally, through Italian sources, Beltrante learned his Swiss account number and the size of his trove: $2 million...
Kaplan says his trove includes evidence of pre-1948 Communist conspiracies, plus 30 years of secret documentation from the archives of the Czechoslovak Politburo, the party central committee, the state planning commission, the trade unions and the secret police. Kaplan also had access to memorandums detailing Prague party leaders' discussions with Joseph Stalin and the Czechoslovak party's instructions from Moscow, notably in connection with the celebrated 1952 show trial of Party Chief Rudolf Slansky and other high-level officials. Among the items in Kaplan's cache, according to Kaplan...
...came one of the grandest scams of all. In 1910, Backhouse and J.O.P. Bland, a London Times China watcher, published China under the Empress Dowager. The memoir was based on the diary of Ching-shan, a fin de siècle Manchu courtier. Backhouse claimed to have found this trove of gossip and intelligence in its author's house during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The diary became the jewel of the Oxford collection; scholars may have debated its authenticity, but hardly a soul dared suggest that Backhouse himself had written it. Now Trevor-Roper, revealing for the first...
...forgotten peoples but art forms that reflect the sophistication of complex civilization. The late Alan Lapiner chose to illustrate his book with outstanding examples of ritual tomb furnishings and gold and silver mummy ornaments from Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Brazil. The result is a trove for collectors and browsers alike...
They are only the tip of the treasure trove. Behind all this, on shelf after shelf, is the record of the republic. Washington's letters from the field are here, along with dispatches from his trusted aide Benedict Arnold and letters in the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and John Hancock. "Whatever you touch is an original," marvels Assistant Archivist Albert Meisel. "That's the one! That's the piece of paper he signed...