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	WAIS Document Retrieval (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Third, due to the sensitive nature of the ongoing investigation of the so-called Superdollar, we were unable to fully explore this extremely high-quality, allegedly foreign government-sponsored, counterfeiting operation.
		He added that these efforts did not specifically implicate these governments in the production of the Superdollar, but that, at a minimum, they were believed to be tolerating this illegal activity within their borders.
		The Secret Service states that it is known that the C-14342 does not circumvent detection and further states that foreign banking institutions and currency exchange houses have consistently demonstrated their ability to detect these notes and that there has not been any indication of widespread recirculation of the C-14342 family by financial institutions.
	www.securitymanagement.com /library/count.html (11963 words)

	IRA ballad hero accused by US of superdollar plot - Scotch-Irish / Ulster-Scots Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The warrant alleges that Garland was in conspiracy with English criminals (who were subsequently convicted and jailed) and the North Korean communist government and that he used his Workers Party position as a front and Official IRA volunteers as a conduit to circulate up to $1 million of counterfeit US currency.
		Known as superdollars, the currency is believed to be printed on highly sophisticated machines by the North Korean government and are of such quality that they often deceive experts.
		Superdollars so worried the US that in 1996 it brought in a series of new security measures, redesigning the $100 bill by changing the central portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
	www.scotchirish.net /forum/index.php?showtopic=2343 (7984 words)

	business.iafrica.com \| features Minting it with superdollars
		In fact, the “superdollar”, as it became known, was better than the genuine note in some areas, such as the resolution of the ultra-fine line patterns on the note.
		What makes the superdollar different from other counterfeits — and particularly scary for economic guardians everywhere — is that it is produced in the same way as real bank notes, using intaglio presses usually available only to governments and employing anti-counterfeit measures such as colour-shifting ink, holograms and security threads.
		Just how many superdollars are in circulation is difficult to calculate, considering that many may never be identified as counterfeit, and that most examples are in use outside the US.
	business.iafrica.com /features/555187.htm (1184 words)

	SMO: GAO Testimony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Since the Superdollar's initial detection in fiscal year 1990, Superdollar detections have represented a small portion of total counterfeit currency detections, according to the Treasury and Secret Service.
		While high-quality counterfeit notes, such as the Superdollar, have received the most attention from the media, Treasury officials told us that their biggest concern was the rapid advances in photographic and printing devices.
		U.S. and Interpol officials we interviewed stated that final resolution of cases similar to that of the Superdollar, should such cases occur, were beyond the purview of law enforcement and would require diplomatic solutions.
	www.securitymanagement.com /library/cf.txt (4265 words)

	Superdollar - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		They are thought to be printed and distributed by the North Korean government for two reasons: as a source of income and to undermine the US economy.
		Sean Garland would then, with the help of some associate couriers, move this money to Dublin and then onto Birmingham where the notes would be exchanged for pounds or other dollars.
		The term 'superdollar' is also used to refer to a period of extreme U.S. dollar strength relative to other currencies, particularly in the 1980s.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Superdollar (471 words)

	Pennylicious » Blog Archive » Superdollar: the (Almost) Perfect Fake.
		The superdollar is the name given to an almost perfect counterfeit of the US banknote, believed to be produced by North Korea in the late 1980s.
		The superdollar notes were so good that even experts were fooled for years:
		One defector who spoke to Panorama on the condition of anonymity said he had spent his life making counterfeit US dollars, adding that they were such good quality that they fooled experts.
	www.pennylicious.com /2006/08/25/superdollar-the-almost-perfect-fake (163 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Panorama \| The superdollar plot
		Panorama: The superdollar plot was broadcast on BBC One on Sunday, 20 June 2004 at 22:15 BST
		Believed to be printed on an industrial scale in the isolated state of North Korea, superdollars have become the currency of choice for the criminal elite who are granted access to them.
		We trace the route of the superdollar distribution network from the presses of North Korea to Moscow's mafia-run underworld, and from former spies to a prominent Irish Republican who supplies them to British criminals in huge quantities.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/panorama/3805581.stm (249 words)

	Superdollar: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A superdollar or super note is an almost perfect counterfeit of a United States banknote believed to be produced in North Korea.
		It is threatening North Korea with sanctions, though it says those sanctions will be a separate issue from the nuclear one.
		Their research suggested that the real source of the superdollars is a secret printing facility close to Washington D.C. and owned by the CIA.
	www.winelib.com /wiki/Superdollar (1203 words)

	AR15.COM :: Forums :: Girlfriend's store gets hit with "Superdollar" fake.
		The SS/US Treasury is a bit annoyed about the pens...as someone pointed out about security threads, watermarks, etc. are DESIGNED into the bill to be used for positive identification, but then someone comes up with a $0.99 pen that people think works.
		Seems like the "Superdollar" is making a comeback here in the shopping malls of South Florida, bleached $1 bills then offset printed with the $100 features, the strip with the USA 100 USA 100 is there although blurry, the watermark is there although is not high quality.
		Usually the same M.O. well dressed couple buys one pair of $18 shoes then hands "Superdollar" to the girl, feels ok, it is money after all.
	www.ar15.com /forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=508959&page=3 (2649 words)

	SUPERDOLLAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Um superdollar é uma moeda falsa quase perfeita da nota de banco unida dos estados.
		O garland de Sean então, com a ajuda de alguns correios do associado, para mover este dinheiro para Dublin e então em Birmingham por onde as notas seriam trocadas libras ou outros dólares.
		O termo ' superdollar ' é usado também consultar a um período da força extrema do dólar de ESTADOS UNIDOS relativo a outras moedas correntes, particularmente nos 1980s.
	www.faktoport.com /wiki/pt/su/Superdollar.htm (482 words)

	j. - Iran may be pushing bogus `super' dollars
		Cited by GAO in its report, the task force concluded two years ago that between $100 million and several billion in fake dollars are in circulation.
		Printed in the Middle East on "high-tech, state-owned presses with paper only acquired by governments," the report alleged, the Superdollar is "designed for direct infiltration into the U.S. banking system and has become a major instrument in facilitating the flow of militarily useful nuclear materials and equipment and various weapons systems."
		According to Livingstone, the Superdollar is printed in Iran but distributed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley -- a safe haven for all sorts of illegal activities -- by terrorist organizations including Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/3203/edition_id/57/format/html/displaystory.html (713 words)

	Magic Bullets Family Forums - View Single Post - The Superdollar
		Superdollars first caught the public's attention in 1992.
		A 'superdollar' is the name given to an almost perfect
		was found that many of these 'superdollars' washed up in
	www.magicbullets.com /forum/showpost.php?p=2391&postcount=1 (533 words)

	Dodgy dollar rebel who plays the patriot game [IRA-North Korea anti-USA scheme] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Now, according to Panorama, US intelligence had discovered in the late Eighties that North Korea had acquired the Intaglio, a highly sophisticated printing press similar to that used by the US Treasury and their printing and engraving offices.
		In 1989, a counterfeit $100 note of such quality that it became known as a 'superdollar' was spotted in the Philippines and forwarded to the US secret service.
		The British police had got on to him when they infiltrated Birmingham couriers who blabbed about Sean, 'the Colonel-in-Chief of the old-style IRA', who when they went to Moscow would organise the handover of the fake currency.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1161132/posts (955 words)

	۞ Superdollar - Infos und Erklärungen auf www.lebenToday.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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		Der Begriff Superdollar wurde geprägt, als amerikanische Geheimdienste etwa 1994 auf gefälschte Banknoten von einer derartigen Güte stießen, dass sie kaum mehr vom Original zu unterscheiden waren.
		Einige Falschgeldfahnder vermuten aufgrund des eingesetzten Papiers, der Qualität der Fälschung und der benötigten Mengen an spezieller Druckerfarbe, dass die Superdollar in der Geheimdruckerei des CIA hergestellt würden, um verdeckte Operationen im Ausland zu finanzieren.
	www.lebentoday.de /Superdollar (538 words)

	Safe Haven \| Shades of '87
		Though there are undoubtedly great dissimilarities, too, between the two episodes, we wrote some while back that, in many ways, 2002-3 was shaping up a lot like the period 1986-7.
		Back then the collapse in commodity prices - partly brought about by the Saudis trying to discipline Venezuela - was accompanied by a deliberate policy to topple the Reagan SuperDollar which had soared into the stratosphere, rising 58% on a trade-weighted basis in five short years (compared to the 43%, seven-year ascent this time around).
		It also led to declines in measured cost of living indices across the developed world and the inevitable chorus heard was of a fear of a deflation which was resisted manfully everywhere, with interest rates reaching generational lows and budgets being relaxed accordingly.
	www.safehaven.com /article-899.htm (728 words)

	Iran Thought Source of Bogus Dollar
		WASHINGTON -- A Middle East counterfeiting operation is producing "the highest quality family of counterfeit" $100 U.S. bills Treasury officials have ever seen, the General Accounting Office told the U.S. Congress Tuesday.
		It was the first government confirmation of what House Republicans, European bankers and terrorism experts have alleged since 1992: that a bogus "superdollar" is flooding overseas markets and undermining faith in the U.S. dollar.
		A number of foreign banks have refused to accept U.S. $100 bills, one of the most widely held paper currencies in the world, fearing the money may be counterfeit.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/1996/02/29/021.html (193 words)

	Digg - Superdollar - The Almost Perfect Fake
		They have been circulating since the late 1980s.
		I don't think it would be too expensive: if the provider is willing to wait a few weeks for you to pay him, and accepts cash.
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	digg.com /offbeat_news/Superdollar_The_Almost_Perfect_Fake (1536 words)

	Newsvine - Getting the Korean crisis right (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The freezing of North-Korean funds is, according to the Bush administration, not related to nuclear issues, but simply an effort to protect the US financial system and pressure Pyongyang into halting the activity of counterfeiting US currency.
		US Secret Service, base its accusation on the information uncovered by the arrest of one Sean Garland, head of the communist Workers Party of Ireland, linking Pyongyang to a supernote or superdollar.
		According to the Secret Service’s criminal investigations division North Korea's government has produced more than $45 million in high-quality fake $100 bills since 1989 and is the world's only state-sponsored producer of the so-called "supernote”.
	danish.newsvine.com /_news/2006/07/07/280560-getting-the-korean-crisis-right (2514 words)

	Nuclear trade to join Kim's other vices \| News \| The Australian
		Australian coastguards seized the North Korean boat Pong Su after it dropped off 150kg of heroin at a beach in Victoria in 2003.
		Even harder to pin down are the counterfeit $US100 bills known to law enforcement agencies as Superdollar.
		US security services have seized $US50million ($67 million) of the counterfeits since they began appearing in 1989, of a quality so high they are often detected only when they reach the Federal Reserve.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20566099-601,00.html (837 words)

	European Business Association - EBA - Pyongyang \| Press Release \| Counterfeit Note Accusation Proven False
		The fact that DCB were able to detect fake notes undermines the story perpetrated by the media, and some other organisations, that the notes are undetectable
		Daedong Credit Bank also maintains strict procedures for the detection and rejection of counterfeit bank notes; it uses regularly updated note checking machines, and has personnel with over 10 years’ of experience of handling notes.
		DCB have encountered and not accepted the so-called ‘superdollar’ notes, proving that these notes (despite media misconceptions) are not undetectable.
	www.eba-pyongyang.org /index.php?pressrelease (2685 words)

	SermonCentral.com: False Faith/Counterfeit Christianity by Billy Ricks
		The fake North Korean copies are called Superdollars because of their high quality.
		Just like the Superdollar from North Korea, the “highly deceptive,” nature of the counterfeit takes close examination by “experts.”
		Where ever God is at work planting saving faith (a genuine response to the Gospel), you can gurantee the devil is hard at work planting false faith (counterfeit Christianity).
	www.sermoncentral.com /sermon.asp?SermonID=84019 (993 words)

	Two Dollars
		There were a couple of times in both the 70s and the 80s when the US$ was so weak and moving so unpredictably (mostly down) that many European shopkeepers wouldn’t accept it.
		Now it’s once again the Superdollar, forming the majority of most Central banks’ reserves, and acting as the de facto national currency of at least 50 countries around the world.
		But things are going to change, at least cyclically.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam22/dollars.html (1920 words)

	Feb. 25-March 2;Superdollar Suspense - New York Times
		Six years ago, nearly perfect counterfeit $100 bills began turning up in the Middle East.
		Despite an investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency and Treasury agents, officials say the origin of these "superdollars" is a mystery.
		Suspicions have focused on Iran, which owns the kind of presses the United States Government uses to print legitimate $100 bills.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EFDA1E39F930A35750C0A960958260 (65 words)

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