Long range strategies may have to do with preparing for the eventual takeover of the country by political and economic means rather than a second Civil War. That takes a lot of time - decades or longer building a power base, infiltrating important positions, and accumulating and sitting on the gold that will give them a big edge when the ponzi dollars eventually fail (fiat money always fails) and are replaced with a gold standard of some sort. That's been a very long term plan, sure, but it offers an explanation as to why the gold has remained hidden for so long. They better have a lotta tons of it, because the Far east and Middle east have been buying it like crazy the past several years.
I suppose there's some truth in some of the woo-woo things, but I don't have much of a notion that it's been applied by the government trying to find the caches. Besides, it seems more likely to me that some of the government (deep state, shadow government or whatever you want to call them) are on the cache team.
Sure, there's always been a bleed-through between certain people and other entities. It's like a radio band - some folks have a bit larger frequency reception. More stations on the dial.
Long range strategies? Check this video out. Not very much on UFO's, but the other portion is extremely interesting. Just lets us know what CAN be done with long range ...
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