Lost gold

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Rather, it was not the gold that was lost, but the documents for the gold stored in Fort Knox. This is a consequence of the machinations of the US Government, says Jansen Kus in his journalistic investigation. Below is his article in full.

As my readers have probably already noticed, since 2014 I have been investigating the situation with the audits of the warehouses of the official US gold reserves, which should prove the existence of a metal that embodies confidence in the global reserve currency. My first article showed the official storyline: all the gold bars totaling 8, 134 tonnes of gold held in depositories in Fort Knox, West Point, Denver and New York were carefully calculated, weighed, tested and recorded in the registers during the period from 1974 and 2008

In subsequent articles, I have discussed the myriad of problems associated with physical audits. Through the FreedomOfInformationAct (FOIA) I received information that seriously violates the integrity of the official version. For example, one of my inquiries related to audit reports for the period from 1974 to 1986, when an audit of 7,504 tons was carried out, showed that the US government "lost" almost all documents.

In order to finally clarify the situation, in the following months I filed countless FOIA requests addressed to the legal owner of the gold, the US Treasury Department, its trustee, that is, the US Mint, and the chief auditor, that is, the Department of the Inspector General of the Treasury Department, in order to obtain all possible documents related to these audits.

Soon I collected and verified all the new information and realized that I was entangled in a huge web, since many documents contradicted each other. I ended up submitting a request for an unpublished report, which I read about in the doc on another request.

I asked the Court to provide the “Written Report from the Representative of the Director of the US Mint to the CFO Notifying the CFO of the Reconciliation Completed” for the 1993-2008 period. (the [US Mint] Director's Representative … written report to the [USMint] Chief Financial Officer (CFO) notifying the CFO of the completion of the verification)

To my surprise, the Yard replied to me that my request would cost $ 3, 144.96!

which amount seems ridiculous.

First, the documents must be immediately available. Perhaps digitalization could cost several hundred dollars at the very least. Secondly, in Dvora's response, it was written that $ 3, 144.96 includes 40 hours for searching.

But why should it take 40 hours to find multiple sheets of paper? It also said that my request would include 1,200 pages of documents. But how did they know that there are as many as 1,200 pages if they initially took 40 hours to find them?

Anyway, last August I decided to start a group funding (crowdfunding) campaign to raise money. After I tweeted the post, the campaign quickly spread across the web. The news appeared on sites such as TFMetals, GoldMoney, GATA and GoldChartsRus, as well as on several others, and within a few hours I received all the necessary funds, which demonstrates the power of the golden community.

After receiving the money from the crowdfunding site, I asked the Court for the bank account number to transfer the funds. But the Court replied that I can only pay by check! By check? I was born in 1981 and have never seen a check in my entire life. Was this another way to obstruct my investigation? Most likely. I can't imagine that the US Mint doesn't have a bank account and every account has a number. I still don’t understand why they don’t accept money transfers.

All I had to do was go to the local branch of my bank. When I went there and explained the situation, the employee with whom I spoke said that he, too, had never dealt with checks in his life.

He called an older employee for help. He said that he might be able to write me a check, but first he would have to look into the matter. Two hours later, I left his office promising that the funds would be transferred within a week.

A few days later, the funds were debited from my bank account and I first asked the Court (11 September) if they had received my check, to which they said no. For more than two weeks, the check was mysteriously "lost." It was only when I sent an email to the Dvor with the email address of the bank employee so that the bank and the Dvor solve the problem between themselves, did the Dvor inform me (September 28) of the receipt of the funds:

We have received your check and are collecting the documents you require.

It was September 28, and today is November 15! I never received the documents from the Court. Naturally, I sent more emails asking about the status of my request, but have not received a response yet.

Or maybe at some point the Court will have to confirm that they cannot provide me with the documents - perhaps they “changed their minds”. In this case, they must return the money, and I will return it to the donors. Or they will finally fulfill my request in the next few weeks, and I will include these materials in a very, very long article that I am working on.

So that's all I know at the moment. Please be patient. I thank all donors again. In any case, I will publish an article with the results of my requests and will reveal many of the "problems" found in the official version.

Jansen Kous