A semana passada a Time deu conta de novo de uma história que põe a Coreia do Norte a seguir o método Alves dos Reis de fabrico de notas. Simplesmente, fazer notas verdadeiras "apenas" não emitidas pela Reserva Federal. Mas, afinal Alves dos Reis tinha antecessores de peso, incluindo Napoleão... e o método faz parte do arsenal de técnicas de guerra conhecidas:
The “super” moniker does not stem from any particular talent on the
part of the North Koreans. It’s a matter of equipment. The regime
apparently possesses the same kind of intaglio printing press (or
presses) used by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. A leading
theory is that in 1989, just before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the
machines made their way to North Korea from a clandestine facility in
East Germany, where they were used to make fake passports and other
secret documents. The high-tech paper is just about the same as what’s
used to make authentic dollars, and the North Koreans buy their ink from
the same Swiss firm that supplies the US government with ink for
greenbacks.
Forging $100 bills obviously gels with the regime’s febrile
anti-Americanism and its aim to undercut U.S. global power, in this case
by sowing doubts about our currency. State level counterfeiting is a
kind of slow-motion violence committed against an enemy, and it has been
tried many times before. During the Revolutionary War, the British
printed fake “Continentals” to undermine the fragile colonial currency.
Napoleon counterfeited Russian notes during the Napoleonic Wars, and
during World War II the Germans forced a handful of artists and printing
experts in Block 19 of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp to produce
fake U.S. dollars and British pounds sterling. (Their story is the basis
for the 2007 film “The Counterfeiters,” winner of the 2007 Oscar for
Best Foreign Language Film.)
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