On The Issue of Collaborators in the Philippines During WWII – A Declassified CIA Report

10 December 2015

“Three things you cannot hide for long: the sun, the moon and the TRUTH.” – Buddha

INTRODUCTION: As WAIS Editor John Eipper noted in Francisco Ramirez’s 11 March 2015 post:

“JE comments: Yes, Philippines was still officially part of the US during WWII. We do know that our friend Bienvenido Macario has never recognized the legitimacy of the 1946 act (Treaty of Manila) which granted the Philippines its independence.“

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Neither the Filipino people nor the American people were ever consulted through a referendum, if our parents and grandparents wanted to be “on the road to independence” when the Philippine Independence Act of 1934 aka Commonwealth Act of 1934 was passed by the U.S. Congress.

And again in 1946 there was no referendum held asking our parents, grandparents, the Filipino people if they wanted to GIVE UP THEIR AMERICAN NATIONALITY and SECEDE from the U.S. at a time when we needed U.S. administration and guidance the most when WWII just ended.

We are forced, to this day, to embrace treason!

We were forced to renege on our Pledge of Allegiance to the US flag. Remember that part of the oath: “one nation under God INDIVISIBLE with liberty and JUSTICE for ALL.”? Puerto Rico a U.S. territory acquired from Spain along with the Philippines and Guam held a referendum on 6 Nov. 2012.

Excerpt: “The September 18th referendum in Scotland should remind all Filipinos that our parents were not consulted when known Japanese collaborator Manuel A. Roxas sought independence that the US Senate illegally, irresponsibly and prematurely granted with the ratification of the 1946 Treaty of Manila on 22 October 1946. On Nov. 6, 2012, a referendum was held in Puerto Rico, and only a tiny 5.6 percent of Puerto Ricans voted for independence.”

From: “A Tale of Three Jesuses (Bienvenido Macario, USA) Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:43 PM”

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Scotland Referendum Aftermath; What About the Philippines? (Bienvenido Macario, USA) Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:08 AM

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Below is a declassified CIA report (13 pages) on the implications of Philippine Pres. Manuel Roxas’ granting of amnesty to accused collaborators in the Philippines. Entitled:

“POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS RESULTING FROM THE GRANTING OF AMNESTY TO ACCUSED COLLABORATORS IN THE PHILIPPINES“

This was published on 28 April 1948, three (3) months after Manuel Roxas, Sr. signed the general amnesty.

It was out of Roxas’ desire to escape justice, selfish ambition and the collective greed of the oligarchs that he opted to declare independence without consulting the people. Roxas’ decision is the single cause of the misery and suffering of millions of Filipinos especially the OFW’s to this day.

On page 1 the Summary page, the report says: “SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF FILIPINO GUERRILLAS OPPOSED TO THE OCCUPATION UNDER THEIR OWN OR US LEADERSHIP, ARE NOW IN CUSTODY AND SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION IN THE PHILIPPINE COURTS FOR ALLEGED ACTS OF VIOLENCE COMMITTED DURING THE WAR AS PART OF THEIR ANTI-JAPANESE AND ANTI-COLLABORATIONIST ACTIVITIES.

The ultimate effect of the amnesty, therefore, may well be detrimental to US interests in the Philippines in that

Elements suffering from its effects will believe themselves betrayed by the US and thus may reverse their previous loyalty to it; and
Former collaborationists who play on extreme Philippine nationalism and are themselves secretly or avowedly anti-US, are likely to achieve political and economic control.”

It now appears the Philippines was not liberated in WWII. This explains why the Philippines never celebrated VJ Day, MacArthur’s Leyte Landing or the Liberation of Manila. This is no longer acceptable.

Dedicated to MEGM.

Declassified CIA Report On the Impact of Granting Amnesty to Japanese Collaborators p.3

Above: An undeniable proof that Benigno Aquino, Sr. the grandfather of former Philippine Pres. Benigno Aquino III and father of Paul Aquino supposedly the geothermal magnate of the Philippines, was a Japanese collaborator during WWII.

A notice from Japanese Military Attache – Japanese Embassy (c. 1943)

OFFICE OF THE MILITARY ATTACHE

TO THE JAPANESE EMBASSY

Manila, Philippines

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

This house belongs to His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino^, Speaker of the National Assembly. The same

should be respected and the occupants thereof given the necessary protections.

IMPERIAL JAPANESE FORCES

^ – The grandfather of Benigno Aquino III was a die-hard Japanese collaborator. The Philippines has never held any Liberation Day or VJ Day parade or any celebration whatsoever.

Manuel A. Roxas (above with Col. Jimbo) was a Brig. Gen. in the US Army when he collaborated with the Japanese during the occupation of the Philippines. To escape his war crime of treason under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and trial by court martial, Manuel Roxas sought and amazingly enough was granted independence for the Philippines without consulting the Filipino people.

Philippines Mid-Term Elections: Duterte Allies Victorious (Bienvenido Macario, USA, 05/16/19 5:17 am)

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The Philippine mid-term elections were held on May 13th. The Liberal party to which former President Benigno Aquino III belongs, together with other independent parties, fielded the Ocho Derecho (spelled Otso Diretso) candidates for the Philippine Senate.

Three Ocho Derecho (Straight Eight) candidates stand out:

1. Mar Roxas II (Mar Roxas), Aquino III’s anointed successor, who lost to Pres. Duterte in the 2016 presidential election. His grandfather was US Army Brig. Gen. Manuel A. Roxas, Sr. (Photo above) who avoided the court martial for treason under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) by seeking independence under the 1946 Treaty of Manila.

2. Lorenzo Tañada III (Erin Tañada), the grandson of Lorenzo Tañada, Sr., Chief Prosecutor appointed by Manuel A. Roxas, Sr. Tañada prepared the list of suspected collaborators to be pardoned immediately after July 4, 1946.

See: “Man-To-Man: Roxas Is Asked To Explain Stand”

by Harold L. Ickes

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Monday, July 22, 1946:

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3. Benigno Aquino IV (Bam Aquino), another grandson of Benigno Aquino, Sr., the most dedicated and loyal Japanese collaborator of all. His father Paul Aquino was appointed to the PNOC-EDC privatization commission and sold the entire geothermal industry to the Lopezes at dirt-cheap prices. He then became the president of the privatized Energy Development Corporation (EDC). It was my late wife Ma. Elena G. Macario who discovered, assisted in the development and management of those geothermal resources in the Philippines while working for PNOC-EDC and before earning her MS in Petroleum Engineering at Stanford in 1991. On Dec. 10, 2010 she died penniless.

See: WAIS NEWS–Elena G. Macario (Bienvenido Macario) Dec. 13, 2010

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I am sure the oligarchs and the two million richest in the Philippines who never invented, developed or discovered anything even remotely associated to their obviously ill-gotten wealth, are desperately trying to find ways to explain where and how they managed to amass such an obscene amount of wealth. One way is money laundering. And my late wife’s accomplishments are the perfect target.

I digress.

None of the Ocho Derecho candidates were elected to the Senate.

JE comments: Happy to hear from one of our dearest colleagues, veteran WAISer Bienvenido Macario. Duterte’s allies won resounding victories in the mid-term elections. Bienvenido, is Duterte really that popular? I know he’s good at summary executions and um, “outspokenness,” but has he brought any real progress to the Philippines?

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Just two (2) months after the Philippines was granted independence, on Sept. 4, 1946, The New Times published an article saying that former puppet President Jose P. Laurel called Roxas a collaborator.

The Philippines was only liberated in the military sense. In every other sense, the Japanese collaborators retained effective control of the Philippine Islands, an abandoned US territory.

The US Senate of the 79th US Congress did not ratify the Treaty of Manila and the granting of independence until Oct. 22, 1946. How could the US Senate still proceed with the granting of a US territory, independence under the control of unknown anti-American quislings and traitors?

This is Washington DC’s Jekyll and Hyde foreign policy towards the only US territory ever granted dependent-independence.

Below: “President Roxas was my collaborator during the Japanese occupation, is my collaborator now and will be hereafter.” -Jose P. Laurel, puppet ruler the Japanese. Article: “Puppet Laurel Calls Roxas A Collaborator” Chicago Daily Tribune p.7 Thursday Sept. 5, 1946

“President Roxas was my collaborator during the Japanese occupation, is my collaborator now and will be hereafter.” Jose P. Laurel, puppet ruler the Japanese. – Chicago Daily Tribune Thursday Sept. 5, 1946

Austronesian Migration 3000 BCE

AUSTRONESIAN PEOPLES do not include the Papuan and Australian Natives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples

Austronesians,[4] Austronesian peoples[5] or Austronesian-speaking peoples[6] are various populations in Asia, Oceania and Africa that speak languages of the Austronesian family. They include FORMOSAN (Taiwanese) aborigines; the majority ethnic groups of Malaysia, East Timor, PHILIPPINES, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Madagascar, Micronesia, and Polynesia, as well as the Polynesian peoples of New Zealand and Hawaii, and the non-Papuan people of Melanesia. They are also found in the MINORITIES of the Pattani region of THAILAND, the Cham areas in VIETNAM, CAMBODIA, and Hainan, parts of Sri Lanka, southern Myanmar and certain islands of the Andaman Islands. The territories populated by Austronesian-speaking peoples are known collectively as Austronesia.

Nicolas Aldana I’s 112th Death Anniversary

On Dec. 12, 1901 Nicolas Aldana and three others were executed by hanging.

A Historical background of the life and times of Nicolas Aldana (RIP 12 Dec. 1901)

American soldiers occupies Las Piñas – June 1899 Upon arrival at Manila from Hong Kong, Aguinaldo’s foreign minister Apolinario Mabini advised him not to declare independence and instead first, prove to the Americans that they were ready for self-rule. Mabini favored autonomy or what would be today a Freely Associated state relative to the U.S. But perhaps because of deep personal losses, Aguinaldo went ahead and on June 12, 1898 declared independence. In his long absence Aguinaldo’s first wife remarried and His brother Crispulo was killed when Bonifacio ceded to the Spanish forces territories previously secured by the revolutionaries, after breaking off from the Revolutionary government of which Aguinaldo was elected president. Aguinaldo’s nationalist army was more of an alliance of militias commanded by landowners whose soldiers were from various ethnic regions of Ilokos, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Bicol and of course Tagalog. They spoke different languages. There wasn’t a national army to speak of. After Aguinaldo swore allegiance to the United States, the war went on. Nicolas Aldana never joined Aguinaldo’s army and didn’t join Aguinaldo who went north up to Palanan, Isabela where he was captured. Nicolas Aldana didn’t surrender hence the possibility that it was a trump up charge was high. With voting requirements such as: Must know how to speak, read & write English or Spanish and own property of at least P500 OR have worked in the government before 1898, the U.S. has planted the roots of elitist and undemocratic oligarchy. In 1899, who could afford to own property worth P500 and speak, read write Spanish if not the middle and upper classes? The Americans had no plans of settling in the Philippines as they did in other territories or non-territories like Hawaii.

GENERAL ORDERS NO. 344 dated Nov. 7, 1901 sentencing Nicolas Aldana, et al to die by hanging as confirmed by Maj. Gen. Adna Romanza Chafee, commanding general Department of Southern Luzon. Note that no counsel for the defendants have been named.

“The army used the 1863 General Orders 100 (signed into law by Abraham Lincoln to govern the actions of Union soldiers in wartime) as legal authorization for governing the Philippines. As long as Filipinos did not resist military authority, support the insurgents, or take up arms, they could expect friendly treatment. For those who actively opposed the United States, however, the order prescribed cash fines, confiscation or destruction of property, summary imprisonment, relocation, capture of hostages, and execution of guerrillas who did not observe the laws and customs of war.” –

Folly in the Philippines By Rod Paschall | Published: August 10, 2010

Arthur MacArthur in the Philippines 1901

http://www.historynet.com/arthur-macarthur?pid=862

Executions of Filipinos 1900 – 1901

Ironically, after the execution of Nicolas Aldana and three others on Dec. 12, 1901, the Philippine War turned ugly. The hope that the insurrection would end once Aguinaldo took an oath of allegiance to the United States of America did not materialize.

Philippine War 1899-1902, Philippine Genocide: 1,300 Filipino Prisoners Summarily Executed

https://www.nedmacario.us/2017/08/12/philippine-war-1899-1902-philippine-genocide-1300-filipino-prisoners-summarily-executed/

On 12 DEC. 2013, it snowed in Jerusalem and Cairo.For the first time in 112 years snow fell in Jerusalem, Cairo and Beirut.

Nicolas Aldana’s son Elias became a four-term mayor of Las Pinas while his grandson, lawyer Bernardo Q. Aldana was the mayor when World War II broke out. Another grandson, Cenon Aldana-Cosme served with the Insular U.S. Navy and was captured when Corregidor fell on May 6, 1942. He was later arrested as a suspected American Agent in saturation drive on Dec. 1944. Believed to have been taken to the notorious dungeons of Fort Santiago, Cenon A. Cosme was presumed to have been tortured then killed. His body was never found. After the war, Bernardo Q. Aldana resumed his law practice and represented Americans whose properties were systematically being taken by relatives and friends of oligarch-traitors. Below is a successful appeal for plaintiff George McEntee.

Blog - Atty. B.Q. Aldana for Plaintiff George McEntee p1 Below are medals my father and most likely Constancio Cosme & Nicolas Aldana’s grandson Cenon A. Cosme earned serving in the U.S. Insular Navy in WWII. All three of them were captured when Corregidor fell on 6 May 1942; were forced into the second Death March and interned at Camp O’Donnell before being released in Oct. 1943.

For more than twenty (20) years, I couldn’t understand why my wife and I have been struggling with our respective careers and why the Philippines would not give me my official college transcript of records that I may formally take up law or an MBA to further my career and improve my earning capacity.

My late wife earned her Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University. She discovered and explored all the known geothermal areas in the Philippines. At one time we both worked in geothermal companies in California, one of which we significantly helped secure build-operate-transfer geothermal power plant contracts in the Philippines in the 1990’s. Still the oligarchic families ended up owning the entire energy industry and the economy.

Today, ethnic Chinese and ethnic Spaniards own and control the entire geothermal industry and the rest of the Philippine economy.

Then it occurred to me that no matter how smart you are, where you earned your degree, how hard you work and how pious you pray and regardless of your sex, in the Philippines, then as now, even before the Americans came, it will be the same oligarchic families who will be on top of the economy and food chain. We have in fact a caste system in the Philippines to this day funded and supported by the U.S. government through the World Bank, IMF and the U.N.

See: Korea -> North Korea; Some Old WAIS Posts (Bienvenido Macario, USA)

Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:41 AM

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Selected updates: July 30, 2014 to Sept. 2, 2014

I intend to establish a government-in-exile for my ancestral land, the Philippines based in London, UK as a Native American or otherwise. I shall the proceeds of these claims to finance such ventures, among others. And of course, I will need administrators. — I intend to establish a government-in-exile for my ancestral land, the Philippines based in London, UK as a Native American or otherwise. I shall use the proceeds of these claims to finance such ventures, among others. And of course, I will need administrators.

These cash, gold and securities are currently in the U.S. and European banks will be used to establish a government-in-exile in London, UK for my ancestral land, the Philippines.

WAIS editor John Eipper asked if it was in fact $32 Billion. Part of the money ($16 billion) I suspect the World Bank used in forgiving the debt of the poorest African nations on 14 Dec. 2007. (See: WAIS Post: Financial Crisis & Bailout Sept. 25, 2008 – Bienvenido Macario)

Initially thought to divert the people's attention, Manuel A. Roxas did nothing to help Gen. Yamashita who was tried, convicted and executed for war crimes he did not commit. At this point Roxas knew about the gold and where it was buried. — Initially thought to divert the people’s attention, Manuel A. Roxas did nothing to help Gen. Yamashita who was tried, convicted and executed for war crimes he did not commit. All along, Roxas knew about the gold and where it was buried. He was keeping an eye on the loot.

WAIS-Philippines & the Yamashita Gold (B. Macario, USA) 07-31-14 p2 — Initially thought to divert the people’s attention, Manuel A. Roxas did nothing to help Gen. Yamashita who was tried, convicted and executed for war crimes he did not commit. All along, Roxas knew about the gold and where it was buried. He was keeping an eye on the loot.

A damning WWII photo of Manuel A. Roxas who became president of the 1946 post-WWII Philippine Republic. Nothing short of an independent and sovereign Philippines will keep out of prison.

U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines Paul V. McNutt wanted to postpone giving the Philippines independence. However on 22 Oct. 1946 the U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Manila and turned the former U.S. territory over to oligarch-traitors whose grandchildren are still in power to this day.

In the WAIS posting “Massive Typhoon Hits Philippines (Bienvenido Macario, USA)” posted on Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:31 PM

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I have made my intentions of establishing a government-in-exile for the Philippines based in London, UK.

Excerpt: “At times like these, I cannot help but think that the Philippines would be far better off under a UK dominion status. https://www.nedmacario.us/2013/05/21/flags-of-the-philippines/

First, a government-in-exile for the Philippines must be established in London, England with dominion status and accepted by HRH Queen Elizabeth II. Then that government in exile will hire UK-ANZAC Emergency crews and US Navy Public Works and the Sea Bees. There is no continuity dealing with Washington DC. Besides, the US never really stays long enough to make a lasting difference. Just look at Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Philippines being a former US territory won’t create a problem for the UN if it becomes freely associated with the UK and/or the US. Other UN members could not follow the Philippines’ example.

A Compact of Free Association is really the fastest way the UK and US should have been able to help the Philippines if it wasn’t for the obstructionism of the World Bank, IMF, the UN Filipino oligarchs & politicians, including the clergy.”