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The FBI's highly unusual search for buried Civil War-era treasure more than five years ago set in motion a dispute over what, if anything, the agency unearthed and an ongoing legal battle over key records. There's so much intrigue that even a federal judge felt compelled to note in a ruling last week: "The FBI may have found the gold or maybe not."
Now, two witnesses have come forward to share with The Associated Press what they heard and saw in the woods that late-winter morning, raising questions about the FBI's timeline and adding plot twists to a saga that blends elements of legend, fact and science and a heavy dose of government secrecy.
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Parada, co-founder of the treasure-hunting outfit Finders Keepers, views the eyewitness accounts as important because they could bolster one of his main contentions that the FBI conducted a secret overnight dig for the gold and spirited it away. The FBI's warrant to excavate the site limited work to 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day.
https://www.moneymetals.com/news/2023/10/10/eye-witnesses-contradict-fbis-account-of-treasure-trove-of-gold-002842
Not sure there is a Politics angle to this other than the general criticisms certain three-letter agencies get around here. But, who isn't entertained by a good buried gold story? I'd like to speculate what they would do with 9 tons of gold. Buy a lifetime supply of jorts and sunglasses?
