Glitter and Greed - The Secret World of Diamond Cartel - The Truth about Blood Diamonds (Revised Edition)

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 a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations.With Leonardo DiCaprio's movie The Blood Diamond making more people than ever aware of the seamy side of the diamond trade, Janine Roberts'explosive exposé, taking us through seven decades of intrigue and manipulation, is the right book at the right time. Rare, romantic and forever: the diamond industry depends on these myths to reap billions of dollars of profit. This sensational international investigation explodes such fallacies, revealing the role of the diamond trade in creating havoc in Central Africa, explaining the unending saga of terrorism and diamonds, and showing how multi-million dollar advertising campaigns have succeeded in creating the impression of rarity and romance. It reveals a very secret and unromantic world, one that is dominated and controlled by a handful of mighty corporations.

The most expansive and explosive expose ever on diamonds, among its 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 diamond prices are 'fixed' to make them more expensive, Which 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 the war effort, How even a major diamond deposit in Arkansas was sabotaged to stop it from going into production, That 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, That the Kimberley Process does nothing to protect the diamond mineworkers of South Africa from dangerous working conditions not permitted in other mines. This is the inquiry that De Beers and the Oppenheimer family that control the cartel did not want, that itstop people 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!