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It's a fun rabbithole to explore, this gold thing. It comes as you from many different avenues that it truly becomes a rabbit warren trying to figure it out. I'd heard about it in 2013-14-ish but by way of the more obscure "truthers", not the mainstream ones everyone knows. Then came the reading and the books and.... Many different theories of who owned it, where it came from and why was it in NY but once you start investigating it - all those different theories seem to mesh into one huge story web with a Cecil B. DeMille-type cast. And all evidentiary. Have fun!

Mainstream:

https://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/22/rec.buried.treasure/index.html

September 22, 2001 Posted: 5:36 AM EDT (0936 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Buried somewhere under the World Trade Center rubble lies a fortune.

https://nymag.com/news/9-11/10th-anniversary/gold/

Earlier in the morning, before the attack, an ­armored truck had made its way through an underground tunnel below the World Trade Center. Inside the truck was millions of dollars’ worth of bullion. Through a maze of underground tunnels, the truck had just left a vault in which Comex, the commodities exchange, kept thousands of gold and silver bars stacked on pallets, a warehouse of megariches beneath the city surface.

"Truthers" and books:

David Guyatt's book "The Secret Gold Treaty"

Book "Gold Warriors" Sterling & Peggy Seagrave (my fav)

Dr Michael Salla, Exopolitics.org https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_bilderberg_40.htm " According to the U.S. Treasury, as of November 2011, China held 1.1 trillion dollars in U.S. treasury securities. ... In fact the U.S. trade policy with China has been meticulously thought out. There is growing evidence that it is payback for the CIA’s decades long covert use of China’s “black gold” - gold that does not appear on any international gold registry. China’s “black gold” has been hidden for over six decades in order to fund a globally coordinated set of covert projects hidden from public view by the CIA and a consortium of national intelligence organizations and transnational corporations - a Global Manhattan Project." Rumour has it that it was "hidden" below WTC.

And it was all over AboveTopSecret.com and BeforeItsNews.com and RumorMillNews.com (yeah I know they all sound fishy but there's actually a lot of good stuff amidst the rubble - and it's all subject to following the trail to prove it anyway, right?) DYOR kinda thing.

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Good find!

Precious metals buried under debris

September 22, 2001 Posted: 5:36 AM EDT (0936 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Buried somewhere under the World Trade Center rubble lies a fortune.

Tons of gold and silver had been stored in underground vaults beneath 4 World Trade Center when the building collapsed September 11.

According to the New York Mercantile Exchange, Scotia Mocatta -- the bullion and metals division of Bank of Nova Scotia -- was storing 379,036 ounces of gold and 29,942,619 ounces of silver in vaults under 4 World Trade Center. It is owned by people or companies who bought the metals as investments.

That's 11.8 tons of gold and 935.7 tons of silver.

Jeffrey Christian, a precious metals consultant for the CPM Group in New York, predicted to CNN that the absence of the gold will have no impact on the market.

Because silver supplies are tighter, its absence could have a limited impact, he said.

In a week in which stocks have plummeted to three-year lows, investing in the metals would have been a smart move.

When the vaults were locked September 10, the gold was worth $272.30 per ounce, or $103,211,503.

By September 21, its value -- wherever it is -- had soared 7.6 percent to $292.90 per ounce, or $111,019,644.

And the silver rose 10.3 percent in value from $4.19 per ounce, or $129,063,811, to $4.62 per ounce, or $142,114,861.

The price of silver rose faster than the price of gold because silver supplies are tighter, Christian said.

Larry Scott, head of Scotia Mocatta in Toronto, said he could not discuss the location of precious metals held by the company.

"Operations are obviously not normal, but we have no concerns at this time, either security or financial," he said.

Security has been tight in the area since the attacks, provided by hundreds of FBI agents and police round the clock.

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Considering it was CNN and the BofNS (a global money launderer right up there with TD and HSBC) - is it anywhere near the truth?

China’s gold? Yamashita’s gold? Nazi? Black Eagle? Lucis Trust? Phillipine?

And who put it there? And who took it away? Some say trucks in the days before 9/11, some say trains the day of…

It’s a mess.

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yep, and the CNN number is way off the Fed's number in terms of tonnage...

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Wow! Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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