The Federal government was recently forced to fork over a “scientific analysis commissioned by the FBI.” The FOIA fight resulted in a treasure trove of controversial documents and photos, but no gold. This new evidence only deepens the mystery. The bureau went digging for treasure in Pennsylvania. Now, they’re accused of pirating it away for themselves.
FBI analysis suggested gold present
According to the report prepared by experts on the FBI payroll, “a huge quantity of gold could be below the surface.” If there was, it’s not there now.
The bureau went digging for it, under cover, like a clandestine herd of gophers. The real work was allegedly done after hours and off the clock.
The excavation project was set up in 2018 at a remote site in western Pennsylvania after a report came in, prepared by “a geophysicist who performed microgravity testing at the site.”
Because it “hinted at an underground object with a mass of up to 9 tons and a density consistent with gold,” the FBI used the report “to obtain a warrant to seize the gold.” If, they qualified, “there was any to be found.” Surprisingly, there wasn’t. The Federal Bureau of Instigation claims.
A father-son treasure hunting team doesn’t believe the bureau. They say the FBI “double-crossed them and made off with a cache that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.”
They spent years hunting for the Civil War gold and turned the feds on to the location in exchange for a “finder’s fee.” As Billy Preston famously pointed out, “nothing from nothing leaves nothin’.”
Court ordered release
The government refused to cough up the survey report until a court ordered them to. The judge made the Department of Justice produce all the records they have on the FBI “treasure hunt” at Dent’s Run.
That sits about 135 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. A Union gold shipment got misplaced in the vicinity on it’s way to the mint in Philadelphia.
Dennis and Kem Parada have been obsessed with the story for years. They put together Finders Keepers and went out treasure hunting. After a long and hard fight, we just learned they “successfully sued the Justice Department for the records” The FBI stonewalled their requests for some strange reason.
The technical survey backed up their work locating the treasure with extensive fieldwork. The bureau was convinced. They moved in during the frosty cold of November with a “massive, secretive operation that lasted for several frigid days.”
After finding not a thing when everyone, including the experts, were expecting millions in gold treasure, the FBI dared to believe they could get away with a single paragraph report about coming up empty. Dated March 13, 2019, the feds asserted “No metals, items, and/or other relevant materials were found.” They were busy so closed the file. “Due to other priority work … the FBI will close the captioned case.”
Local residents report that they heard “a backhoe and jackhammer overnight between the first and second days of the dig — when the work was supposed to have been paused — and seeing a convoy of FBI vehicles, including large armored trucks.” The bureau says that’s nonsense. “The only nighttime activity was ATV patrols by FBI Police personnel, who secured the site around the clock for the duration of the excavation.“
