Glitter & Greed: The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel

Rare, romantic, and forever: The diamond industry depends on these myths to reap billions of dollars of profit. This sensational investigation explodes such fallacies and -reveals how multimillion dollar advertising campaigns create the impression of rarity and romance. It reveals, too, a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations.

Taking us through seven decades of intrigue and -manipulation that span the globe, Janine Roberts has written the most expansive and explosive exposé ever on diamonds; among Roberts' revelations:

• How De Beers hides away rich diamond deposits-and where some of these are located.
• How a long-term companion of Jackie Onassis was a CIA-linked millionaire diamond merchant tied to coups and dictators in Central Africa.
• Just how diamonds are "fixed" to make them more expensive.
• How major diamond companies cooperated with Hitler's Germany-and how much they were paid.
• How industrial diamond supplies were artificially -restricted to the United States during World War II, severely damaging its war effort and how U.S. Intelligence came to suspect treason.
• How a major diamond deposit in Arkansas was sabotaged to stop it coming into production.
• How the White House was manipulated into buying millions of diamonds it did not need and now must sell.
• How terrorism found its way into the diamond trade, not recently but many decades ago.
• How diamonds are secretly moved by the millions around the world.

The inquiry the diamond cartel did not want and tried to stop. . . . If you have ever wondered what tales might lie behind the glitter of a diamond ring, read this account of the most international media investigation ever launched!