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Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: In an interview today with Chris Marcus of Arcadia Economics, Money Metals Exchange CEO Stefan Gleason deplores the superficiality with which the issue of auditing the U.S. gold reserve at Fort Knox continues to be treated by the Trump administration and financial news organizations. The audits claimed to have been done by the U.S. government, Gleason says, have not really been audits at all but just a review of paperwork that itself has been improperly altered from time to time. In any case, Gleason says, much of the U.S. gold reserve is impure metal,...

An old map believed to mark the spot where German soldiers hid treasure worth millions of dollars during World War II sparked the imagination of amateur treasure hunters in the Netherlands this week. Armed with metal detectors and shovels, groups wandered through the fields surrounding rural Ommeren in the east of the country after the map was made public by the Dutch National Archive on Tuesday. The archive said the map was believed to indicate where Nazi soldiers had hidden four large boxes filled with diamonds, rubies, gold, silver and all sorts of jewelry which they had looted after an...

A Ww2 Treasure Map Has Been Released by the National Archives, Part of the Annual Open Access Day in the Netherlands for 2023.The Open Access Day is an unveiling of former classified or confidential documents.This year, 1300 pages of archived documents have been made public, including minutes from meetings by senior ministers, WW2 files from the Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of War, personnel files of spies and the resistance movement, and documents investigating abuses in the internment camps where collaborators were imprisoned after the war to await trial.Among the released documents is a map from the archives of the...