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WANTA! Black Swan, White Hat Written by Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall Copyright © 2013 Ambassador Lee E. Wanta 1 CHAPTER ONE FATE: “Sow a thought; reap an action. Sow an action; reap a habit. Sow a habit; r eap a character. Sow a character; r eap a destiny.”  …Ralph Waldo Emerson If you’re an American citizen, Leo Emil Wanta is probabl y someone of whom you’ve never heard. If you search the Internet for his name, you’ll get from 1 to 3 million hits (depending on the search engine you use). Thus, a lot of people know s omething of his story . Most think of him as the $27.5 trillion man. Wanta was involved in Iran-Contra, the Panama arms sting, Red Mercury (RM 20-20) and many other headline-making news stories that have nothing to do with the $27.5 trillion… but people are people (and everyone’s interested in trillions of dollars ). Most of his actions as America’s most successful covert intelligence operative remain secret . He was a busy man operating at the highest levels of intelligence work. Let me quickly tell y ou how I became aware of Ambassador Wanta. I knew nothing of him until September 2008. After my experience, I have no doubt whats oever that we were two people f ated to meet one another. I with a background in banking and writing had unique qualifications to unders tand Wanta’s life story, and he had the story of a life time to tell me. Perhaps tha t’s what God had in mind? I wrote a book called When the Swan’s Neck Breaks . I live in an agricultural valley in Colorado where each winter the snow on a large mesa to the east of town is formed into a giant snow swan. Colorado is known for its snow one day and 90-degree- temperature-the-next-day climate and none of the farmers in the valley plant each spring until “the swan’s neck breaks.” It is the harbinger of spring… a quiet but historic truth that when the snow in the neck of the swan melts (as it is the first part of the swan to melt every year), it indicates frosts for the year are done. I loved the allegory behind the meaning of the story and wanted to include it in a book plot. Though I had written numerous non-fiction books about  banking, I had never before undertaken the challenge of writing a novel. Fiction, I found, is hard work! But I saw what was happening to the economy of this nation as early as 1991. I saw how the commercial banking industry was changing    and it wasn’t for the better. I figured the only way the average person might be convinced that something unpalatable was occurring, not just in banking but within the very roots of the government which re gulated the industry, was to write some kind of thriller with a banking theme. My plan was to gently explain things like fiat currency, fractional-reserve banking, the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve S ystem, the World Bank… all of the things that were leading us towards the preci pice over which our economy now hangs. Also things designed to put people to sleep. I wanted to entert ain people into understanding the serious ness of what was about to befall them. I found that I’ m not a very good fiction wr iter… but people liked the book. They liked the characters and I got good feedback. Interestingly, of the 22 predictions I made i n the book about what would happen to our economy once the unwinding of t he system began, 21 of them happened. I wrote the  book in 2006 and it was published in July 2008. About halfway through the manuscript, I had a sudden compulsion to create a new character… a man named William Leonard. He was a covert intellig ence operative who had earned $13 trillion by  bringing down the Soviet Union Ruble. His character was totally unplanned.

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