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Secret vaults Gold, arms and seized drugs in huge basement
The Guardian ^ | Nov 2, 2001 | AUDREY GILLAN

Posted on 11/02/2001 6:52:56 AM PST by CommiesOut

Twin towers treasure trove a lure for looters: Secret vaults Gold, arms and seized drugs in huge basement
The Guardian - United Kingdom; Nov 2, 2001
BY AUDREY GILLAN IN NEW YORK

The vaults below the complex that was the World Trade Centre were a vast and secret place. Not only did they hold some of the world's largest gold depositories, but they were home to stashes belonging to the CIA and secret service.

Seventy feet below ground is an array of goods that includes bricks of cocaine, fake taxi cabs used for covert operations, bomb-proof state cars and security files meant for the eyes of the CIA only - nice booty for potential looters.

As Brink's-Mat security vans brought out Dollars 200m (pounds 137m) of gold from a safety store below 4 World Trade Centre, which was on the east side of the ruined complex, it emerged that someone had tried to get into the vaults, no doubt with robbery in mind.

Two weeks ago a security guard spotted scorch marks on a basement doorway which had not been noticed by a patrol team a few hours before. Behind the door were thousands of tonnes of gold and silver. It looked like someone had used a blowtorch and a crowbar and it prompted concerns that they may try to do so again. Video surveillance systems have now been installed.

As they dig amid the rubble, recovery workers are uncover ing corridors and gangways that lead to the cavernous vaults below. The 16-acre basement has enough square footage to fill a building of greater proportion than the Empire State building. Engineers and recovery officials say that large parts of the underground storage rooms are undamaged.

Since September 11 very little has been said about the treasures that lie below what has become a mass grave. But down there are piles of old furniture, a mountain of Godiva chocolates, stacks of illegal assault weapons, as well as jewels and more gold and silver.

Beneath the customs house - 6 World Trade Centre - was a fleet of government vehicles, including dozens owned by the secret service. The cars were kept in a sealed-off area, part of which was a garage which housed a single armoured limousine used to carry heads of state and dignitaries visiting the city.

The building also housed an office of the CIA containing drugs, weapons and contraband seized by customs officers. The bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms also lost two evidence vaults, according to a spokesman.

"There could be several hundred weapons - somewhere between 200 and 400, ranging from small-calibre semi-automatic pistols to assault rifles," he told the New York Times.

He said agents plan to be on the scene when the remains of the building are demolished some time in the next two weeks. "After that, we'll be working at the landfill to search for any missing items."

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1 posted on 11/02/2001 6:52:56 AM PST by CommiesOut
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To: CommiesOut
Maybe Geraldo should head over there to see what he can dig up!
2 posted on 11/02/2001 7:06:08 AM PST by Fixit
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To: tex-oma; That Poppins Woman; malador; Dosa26; FreeTally
OUR BLOODY, DRUG DEALING GOVERNMENT has been caught!!!!!

Those vile little murdering MOTHER F&C#ERS!!!!

”Seventy feet below ground is an array of goods that includes bricks of cocaine, fake taxi cabs used for covert operations, bomb-proof state cars and security files meant for the eyes of the CIA only - nice booty for potential looters.”

”The building also housed an office of the CIA containing drugs, weapons and contraband seized by customs officers. The bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms also lost two evidence vaults, according to a spokesman. “

Any of you guys got a bump list I can bum?

3 posted on 11/02/2001 7:16:06 AM PST by JRadcliffe
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To: Fixit
. . . head over there to see what he can dig up!

Vince Foster's photos.

Ron Brown's autopsy.

TWA 800's missile fragments . . .

4 posted on 11/02/2001 7:20:08 AM PST by Phil V.
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To: Fixit; madrussian; malarski; Askel5; GROUCHOTWO; Zviadist; kristinn; Free the USA; Black Jade...
Maybe Geraldo should head over there

Good idea.
CIA could finally announce: "We cought a real gangster".

6 posted on 11/02/2001 7:35:09 AM PST by CommiesOut
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To: CommiesOut
It appears that the Talibon wasn't the only government using drugs to fund terrorists activities.
7 posted on 11/02/2001 7:37:09 AM PST by JRadcliffe
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To: JRadcliffe
Re: FR Bump Lists

Try here:

If its not here it probably does not exist!

8 posted on 11/02/2001 7:44:09 AM PST by Tunehead54
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To: JRadcliffe
Oh yes, the War on Drugs is way too profitable for the b@$t@^ds to ever consider its appalling effects on the BoR.
9 posted on 11/02/2001 7:45:52 AM PST by That Poppins Woman
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To: JRadcliffe
This actually makes me feel very hopeful. Somewhere there just might be some survivors subsisting on chocolate, booze and coke. What a human interest story that would be!
10 posted on 11/02/2001 7:49:11 AM PST by buickmackane
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To: buickmackane
This actually makes me feel very hopeful. Somewhere there just might be some survivors subsisting on chocolate, booze and coke. What a human interest story that would be!

I hope they pocketed couple of golden bricks too instead of waiting for the Red Cross.

11 posted on 11/02/2001 8:02:00 AM PST by CommiesOut
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To: CommiesOut
Snort, snort, snort!
12 posted on 11/02/2001 8:08:13 AM PST by GROUCHOTWO
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To: *Paleo_list
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13 posted on 11/02/2001 8:13:19 AM PST by A.J.Armitage
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To: CommiesOut
"After that we'll be working at the landfill..."

Now there's an idea as to what to do with incompetent bureaucratic deadwood.

They can pick through trash at landfills; we'll even issue them tin beaks so they can compete with the gulls!

14 posted on 11/02/2001 8:13:41 AM PST by headsonpikes
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To: CommiesOut
Any explanation for 'fake taxicabs used for covert operations'??
15 posted on 11/02/2001 8:13:53 AM PST by GROUCHOTWO
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To: tex-oma; JRadcliffe
You may be right to be paranoid. When I first read it I thought it was just a really big evidence locker. But then, wouldn't that stuff be near a court, or at least at a police station rather than a CIA office? That does look odd. And why in the same place as security opperation supplies like files and fake taxis? Looks like the drugs are also CIA supplies. Maybe the big evidence locker is next door to the CIA and the story doesn't make that clear. Maybe they just ran out of room somewhere else and used whatever space was around. Maybe the CIA agents were doing the drugs, which might be why they didn't see any of this coming. Or maybe there's some shady stuff going on.
16 posted on 11/02/2001 8:22:15 AM PST by A.J.Armitage
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To: A.J.Armitage
I'm really not paranoid. I'm just being realistic. It is already known that the CIA deals in drugs to fund its secret projects.

The only reason this government goes after drug dealers is to destroy any competition.

And also consider this -- last year the Drug Thugs arrested 700,000 people for drugs -- over 400,000 of which was for simple possession of marijuana. Most of the rest sold marijuana.

These facts speak for themselves. Those using other drugs are not arrested in nearly the proportion to their use. Since this is a FACT, one could easily conclude that since the average citizen could grow their own marijuana, our murdering government has a stake in seeing to it that ONLY those who use marijuana be sought out. The other drugs are where these commies get their money.

18 posted on 11/02/2001 8:54:46 AM PST by JRadcliffe
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To: tex-oma
The Connection Between the CIA and Cocaine Trafficing

This is a VERY interesting site.

20 posted on 11/02/2001 10:48:00 AM PST by JRadcliffe
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