Submitted by cpowell on Mon, 2012-10-22 3:51p CT Monday, October 22, 2012
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
With the Associated Press report appended here, the German gold audit story has just exploded into the English-language press with some important revelations:
-- The gold vaulted by the German central bank, the Bundesbank, with the Bank of England "has fallen 'below 500 tons' due to recent sales and repatriations. ..." So despite the lack of official announcement, Germany lately has been selling gold from London -- perhaps as part of the secret "strategic activities" grudgingly acknowledged two years ago by the Bundesbank to GATA's friend, the German financial journalist Lars Schall:
http://www.gata.org/node/9363
The lack of announcement of the sale of the German gold in London suggests that the sale was actually part of a gold swap with another central bank -- like the New York Fed. That is, the powerful implication here is that German gold in London was sold at the behest of the United States and in exchange Germany took title to United States gold vaulted in the United States -- or title to gold supposedly vaulted in the United States. This way the Bundesbank could continue to claim ownership of the same amount of gold without lying, at least not technically.
As for the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department, when you rig every market you can't worry so much about lying.
Of course such gold swaps were the target of GATA's federal freedom-of-information lawsuit against the Federal Reserve in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a lawsuit concluded somewhat successfully last year, having pried from the Fed an admission that it has secret gold swap arrangements with foreign banks:
http://www.gata.org/node/9917
-- The Bundesbank is resisting accountability and has censored part of the auditors' report in the name of protecting secrets of the central banks storing the German gold. But why should there be any secrets about it? Nobody's asking for the combination numbers to the vaults, and the combination wouldn't do anyone any good anyway, as the vaults are guarded. Do these secrets involve gold loans and leases and other legerdemain? That seems to be the case.
-- The campaign to repatriate the German gold has gotten noticed in a big way.
-- The Bundesbank has been officially reprimanded by another German government agency for negligence in its custodianship of the national gold.
-- The Bundesbank won't let German parliament members inspect the German gold vaulted abroad because the central bank vaulting facilities supposedly lack "visiting rooms." And yet one of those vaults, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, offers the public tours that include "an exclusive visit to the gold vault" -- provided, apparently, that you're not an elected representative of the German people:
http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/visiting.html#tabs-1
GATA has made further informational requests of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and State Department involving their gold records:
http://www.gata.org/node/11606
Since those agencies have failed to respond, GATA now is entitled to bring more freedom-of-information lawsuits against them. But we can't do that without sufficient financing.
The auditors' report about the German gold demonstrates that the Western central bank gold price suppression scheme -- part of a vast scheme of rigging all major markets -- can be exposed and defeated by persistent clamor and demands for information. If you haven't already considered helping us financially, please do so now: More>> FLASH: German gold report reveals secret sales that likely were part of swaps | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
With the Associated Press report appended here, the German gold audit story has just exploded into the English-language press with some important revelations:
-- The gold vaulted by the German central bank, the Bundesbank, with the Bank of England "has fallen 'below 500 tons' due to recent sales and repatriations. ..." So despite the lack of official announcement, Germany lately has been selling gold from London -- perhaps as part of the secret "strategic activities" grudgingly acknowledged two years ago by the Bundesbank to GATA's friend, the German financial journalist Lars Schall:
http://www.gata.org/node/9363
The lack of announcement of the sale of the German gold in London suggests that the sale was actually part of a gold swap with another central bank -- like the New York Fed. That is, the powerful implication here is that German gold in London was sold at the behest of the United States and in exchange Germany took title to United States gold vaulted in the United States -- or title to gold supposedly vaulted in the United States. This way the Bundesbank could continue to claim ownership of the same amount of gold without lying, at least not technically.
As for the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department, when you rig every market you can't worry so much about lying.
Of course such gold swaps were the target of GATA's federal freedom-of-information lawsuit against the Federal Reserve in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a lawsuit concluded somewhat successfully last year, having pried from the Fed an admission that it has secret gold swap arrangements with foreign banks:
http://www.gata.org/node/9917
-- The Bundesbank is resisting accountability and has censored part of the auditors' report in the name of protecting secrets of the central banks storing the German gold. But why should there be any secrets about it? Nobody's asking for the combination numbers to the vaults, and the combination wouldn't do anyone any good anyway, as the vaults are guarded. Do these secrets involve gold loans and leases and other legerdemain? That seems to be the case.
-- The campaign to repatriate the German gold has gotten noticed in a big way.
-- The Bundesbank has been officially reprimanded by another German government agency for negligence in its custodianship of the national gold.
-- The Bundesbank won't let German parliament members inspect the German gold vaulted abroad because the central bank vaulting facilities supposedly lack "visiting rooms." And yet one of those vaults, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, offers the public tours that include "an exclusive visit to the gold vault" -- provided, apparently, that you're not an elected representative of the German people:
http://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/visiting.html#tabs-1
GATA has made further informational requests of the Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, and State Department involving their gold records:
http://www.gata.org/node/11606
Since those agencies have failed to respond, GATA now is entitled to bring more freedom-of-information lawsuits against them. But we can't do that without sufficient financing.
The auditors' report about the German gold demonstrates that the Western central bank gold price suppression scheme -- part of a vast scheme of rigging all major markets -- can be exposed and defeated by persistent clamor and demands for information. If you haven't already considered helping us financially, please do so now: More>> FLASH: German gold report reveals secret sales that likely were part of swaps | Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee
