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IT is said to be the most impregnable vault on Earth: built out of granite, sealed behind a 22-tonne door, located on a US military base and watched over day and night by army units with tanks, heavy artillery and Apache helicopter gunships at their disposal.

Since its construction in 1937, the treasures locked inside Fort Knox have included the US Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, three volumes of the Gutenberg Bible and the Magna Carta.

For several prominent investors and at least one senior US congressman, it is not the security of the facility in Kentucky that is a cause of concern: it is the matter of how much gold remains stored there and who owns it.

They are worried that no independent auditors appear to have had access to the reported $137bn (104bn) stockpile of brick-shaped gold bars in Fort Knox since the era of President Eisenhower.

After the risky trading activities at supposedly safe institutions such as AIG they want to be reassured that the gold reserves are still the exclusive property of the US and have not been used to fund risky transactions.

In other words, they want to be certain that the bullion has not been rendered as valueless as if a real-life Goldfinger had stolen it.

It has been several decades since the gold in Fort Knox was independently audited or properly accounted for, said Ron Paul, the Texas Congressman and former Republican presidential candidate. The American people deserve to know the truth.

Mr Paul has so far attracted 21 co-sponsors for a Bill to conduct an independent audit of the Federal Reserve System including its claims to Fort Knox gold but an organisation named the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) is taking a different approach.

It has hired the Virginia law firm William J Olson to test US president Barack Obamas promise to bring an unprecedented level of openness to the US government.

Next month it will file several Freedom of Information requests for a full disclosure of US gold ownership and trading activities.

Nuclear

Were taking the president at his word, said Chris Powell, of GATA.

If you go online you can find out how to build a nuclear weapon but you wont find any detailed records on central gold reserves.

A month after former US president Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate affair, Congress demanded to inspect the contents of Fort Knox but the trip to Kentucky was dismissed by critics as a photo opportunity.

Three years earlier, Mr Nixon brought an end to the gold standard when France and Switzerland demanded to redeem their dollar holdings for gold amid the soaring cost of the Vietnam War.

Many gold investors suspect that the US has periodically attempted to flood the market with Fort Knox gold to keep prices low and the dollar high perhaps through international swap agreements with other central banks but facts remain scarce and the US Treasury denies that any such meddling has gone on for at least the past decade.

Pressure for more openness is mounting after the collapse of the global banking system and renewed interest in a return to the simpler era of the gold standard a subject that is likely to be raised at the G20 summit next week.

China and Russia are calling for the creation of a new world reserve currency amid fears that the Federal Reserves quantitative easing policy essentially printing money might cause hyperinflation, then collapse.

A spokesman for the US Treasury said that US gold holdings were audited every year by the Department of Treasurys Office of Inspector General.

He confirmed that although independent auditors oversaw the process they were not given access to the Fort Knox vault.

The website of the US Mint says that the 147.3million troy ounces of gold in Fort Knox is held as an asset of the US. It does not elaborate. (© The Times, London).

- Chris Ayres in Los Angeles

They are worried that no independent auditors appear to have had access to the reported $137bn (104bn) stockpile of brick-shaped gold bars in Fort Knox since the era of President Eisenhower.

Oh yeaaaa NOW liets check into this. Now we can test Obama. WTF! Wonder why they didn't "TEST" one of the last 5 Republican Presidents. Pfttt... try again you worthless, petty swine!

For the record the worthless petty swine to whom I make reference to are..... "several prominent investors and at least one senior US congressman"

but Obama has promised openness

the previous presidents have made no such promises



and it is the "people's " property (the gold)


shouldn't it be audited?

and if obama wants to fix the banking system ...shouldn't that include an audit of the federal reserve ?

You have no credibility when it comes to this subject, because you have no idea as to what others have promised. None.

For the life of me I cannot see how this would a "testing Obama". Holy cow, the stuff hasn't been audited for decades and he's responsible for that? Quite stretch there, huh?

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