Black Unicorn posted a very interesting info summary on the subject of foreign state US$$ forgery.
This is a story I heard, long ago, from a Brit, Mr Waterlow, about something that happened to his grandfather, chairman of the Waterlow bank:
Early in this century Portugal didn't print it's own money but contracted this job to the Waterlow Bank in England. Some skilled conmen succeeded in making the bank beleive they were representatives of the Portugeese National Bank. Then they ordered a huge amount of new bills and got away (at least for some time) with it.
Tis all in a book: "The Man Who Stole Portugal". I picked it up for about $2 in a bookstore a few months ago. Very much worth a read. An incredibly audacious escapade. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller | "The Internet, of course, is more | than just a place to find pictures Windsor Consulting Group | of people having sex with dogs." stevenw@iglou.com | -- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995