FBI digging up civil war gold?

[parallax]

didnt know anything about this story, sorry if its been posted..

Witnesses accuse FBI of digging up Civil War gold in the middle of the night, hiding found riches

Did the FBI secretly dig up gold buried during the Civil War in the middle of the night? Some witnesses and treasure hunters think they did.

www.nbcnewyork.com

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[shlo812]

Why would the FBI be digging up gold in the first place?

 

[L84Cabo]

Why would the FBI be digging up gold in the first place?

Yes, why on earth would a monumentally corrupt entity like the FBI want an essentially untraceable supply of cash? Since everything the FBI does is on the up and up, there's no reason why they would need covert cash to fund unscrupulous endeavors.

By untraceable I mean they do not have to account to We The People for a cash supply that is unknown and did not come out of the standard budget process. You could argue that Civil War era gold might attract a fair amount of attention in significant quantities and that would be true...if it were attempted to be sold in large quantities in its original form. Smaller quantities might go unnoticed and/or it could certainly be melted down and would essentially be untraceable.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Was it buried under some guy named Arch Stanton...?
Andy

 

[Flopsweat]

Was it buried under some guy named Arch Stanton...?
Andy

Who's whistling? Why is that guy staring at us?

 

[Capn Jack]

Personally, I would like to have one of those, "Pack-Howitzer" that Fremont buried at the foot of the Sierras.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Don't have to beg congress for cash when you can just steal your own.

 

[RVTECH]

didnt know anything about this story, sorry if its been posted..

I remember following this at the time on a metal detecting forum I am a member of.

Lots of interesting details and questions as to what exactly they were digging for but like anything we'll most likely never know.

It's possible they were looking for something other than gold as well.

 

[TTSX]

Nicholas Cage will be great in this movie, I can tell

 

[Diamondback]

The difference between the Federal Government today and a Mafia crime family is at least the latter are honest about what they are.

 

[RVTECH]

There are some intriguing stories and clues about Dent's Run dating back to the 1970s, with a lot of amateur treasure hunting since then.

Some have said a few bars of gold had been found along with Civil War era artifacts since then but the original story describes the wagon hauling it had broke down, some soldiers took off to get help and when they returned the remaining soldiers - and the gold was gone.

The 'rest of the story' tells of the soldiers taking what they could carry and burying a remaining 26 bars near the area. Somehow this got convoluted into the 'nine tons' by the 'professional treasure hunters' doing electronic research in the area, and claiming they had 'found it'

Personally I would think this having been know about, at least publicly since the 70's, it would have been found by now, or HAS been with the finders maybe maintaining their secrecy about it.

 

[Hemlock]

Oh NO!
Not another Oak Island.

 

[Diamondback]

Just imagine how many less FBLIE jackboots would be available to harass grannies who got too close to the Capitol on J6 if they were all busy on wild-goose chases looking for General Lee's gold...