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Diamonds, De Beers, CSO
THE diamond invention -- the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem -- is a relatively recent ...
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Chapter Six - The Rules of the Game
A discolored flat diamond weighing one carat may be worth no more than $50; but a flawless, colorless and octahedron diamond of the same weight may be worth ...
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Chapter Twenty - Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?
It suggested that the value of a diamond never diminishes and that therefore .... The value of diamonds, it turned out, could not be established through an ...
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Diary entry - Rocca
"The Rock," as Angleton called Raymond Rocca, was a tall, bearded man in his early sixties, who shuffled around with the same slight stoop as Angleton's. ...
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Chapter Six - The Rules of the Game
Since the price that De Beers charges its clients at sights is usually at least 25 percent below the wholesale price for uncut diamonds, the privilege of ...
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Chapter Six - The Rules of the Game
Since the price that De Beers charges its clients at sights is usually at least 25 percent below the wholesale price for uncut diamonds, the privilege of ...
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Chapter Six - The Rules of the Game
Inside the box are a number of paper envelopes containing uncut diamonds that .... through which De Beers establishes and maintains the value of diamonds. ...
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Edwin Wilson, CIA
All three had worked for the CIA and, in the mid 1970s. became involved in mysterious conspiracies plotted by a former CIA agent named Edwin P. Wilson. ...
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Prologue - The Diamond Invention
And, by 1981, some 6o percent of Japanese brides wore diamonds. ... Diamonds became a staple of the Japanese marriage. And Japan became, after the United ...
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Tiananmen Papers
How were they copied without detection, transcribed onto tape and transported ... for publication in America a computer file that cannot be authenticated. ...
