WHAT’S REALLY INSIDE FORT KNOX? The last so-called “audit” of Fort Knox happened in 1986—back when the Berlin Wall was still standing and people actually trusted the government (well, more than they do now). Since then? Nothing. The U.S. government claims to have 4,580 tons of gold stored in Fort Knox. But here’s the problem: nobody has independently verified this in half a century. And now, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, we know that 7 out of 13 audit reports from 1974–1986 have vanished into the bureaucratic void. Researcher Koos Jansen filed a FOIA request in 2015 to obtain these documents. Here’s what happened next: His request disappeared from the system. The Treasury Department couldn’t locate…
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