Black Eagle Trust

The alleged off-books fund seeded with war gold, financing what appropriations never could.

The 'Black Eagle Trust' — war gold (Yamashita recoveries, Nazi loot) allegedly seeded into covert funds backing decades of off-book operations — comes primarily from the Seagraves' 'Gold Warriors' (2003), built on the documented Santa Romana recoveries litigation and real postwar gold movements, extended well past its sourcing. Confirmed adjacent facts: Japanese loot existed at scale, some was recovered under US control (documented in occupation records), and covert finance existed (Church-era). The specific trust remains unproven. The node marks the boundary between documented war gold and its alleged afterlife.