Jekyll Island

I ran into an old friend yesterday who is very well read regarding history and politics. We were discussing current political events and he said, in reference to a point he was making, “You’ve heard of The Creature from Jekyll Island” right? “No.´ I responded. “What’s it about?”

I’ll stop the conversation there and not go much further other than to say it’s a book. A book that has been turned into a documentary; a documentary about 70 mins. long ( http://is.gd/1GMmm ).

I’ve not watched it yet, but I will. So I don’t know a lot more about Jekyll island right now than you. I’m not a conspiracy guy, but I think this kind of history is incredibly interesting. Anyway, the creature, as I understand it, is the Federal Reserve. You may want to learn more or... this stuff may bore you to tears. I’m just tossing it out there. I’ve asked two or three other persons I consider to be “up to speed”, if they’d ever heard of Jekyll Island and they had not.

It’s an island off the coast of Georgia. The background about its development is interesting. If you’re interested you may explore for yourself (http://is.gd/1GMoL) . Below is a blurb written circa 1925 that’s very intriguing.


Forbes magazine founder Bertie Charles Forbes wrote several years later:

Picture a party of the nation’s greatest bankers stealing out of New York on a private railroad car under cover of darkness, stealthily riding hundreds of miles South, embarking on a mysterious launch, sneaking onto an island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the names of not one of them was once mentioned, lest the servants learn the identity and disclose to the world this strangest, most secret expedition in the history of American finance. I am not romancing; I am giving to the world, for the first time, the real story of how the famous Aldrich currency report, the foundation of our new currency system, was written... The utmost secrecy was enjoined upon all. The public must not glean a hint of what was to be done. Senator Aldrich notified each one to go quietly into a private car of which the railroad had received orders to draw up on an unfrequented platform. Off the party set. New York’s ubiquitous reporters had been foiled... Nelson (Aldrich) had confided to Henry, Frank, Paul and Piatt that he was to keep them locked up at Jekyll Island, out of the rest of the world, until they had evolved and compiled a scientific currency system for the United States, the real birth of the present Federal Reserve System, the plan done on Jekyll Island in the conference with Paul, Frank and Henry... Warburg is the link that binds the Aldrich system and the present system together. He more than any one man has made the system possible as a working reality.[5]

Interesting, eh?