"RV UPDATE" BY WALKINGSTICK, 11 DEC

 Walkingstick

 Question: "Do you think the tellers [In Iraq] have the lower denoms?"  No.  "...Executive levels?"  Yes.  Samples and specimens and LDs only at executive levels right now...

 [Iraqi bank friend update] 

IRAQI BANK FRIEND: The meetings we have had with the CBI we are learning the next steps.  Also we talked about in the meeting we are seeing many people in Iraq now coming into the banks and asking questions and we have given the banks permission, they are now allowed to explain all about the monetary reform process and where it's at right now to the citizens as they ask...

One of their biggest questions is, 'Is it true we are getting a new currency?  Yes.  Are we going to receive more purchasing power with this new currency?  Yes.  Are we going to see a change in our exchange rate?  Yes.  Is this why we are removing the dollar?  Yes.'  

They keep asking questions over and over again.  Also the question people are asking a lot about, 'When?  And how much?'  But at the meeting we agreed that the banks are not to be given that information just yet, not even the upper echelon.  The banks are saying, "In the very near future."  

These questions are due to the fact that it is no longer a secret...The monetary reform has been successful thus far.