Unless there’s a secret tunnel from the depths of Fort Knox to Oak Island, I wonder just how many people would need to be complicit in a conspiracy to move gold out of the vaults? And whether that number of people would have been able to keep their mouths shut over the years and maintain the pretence that the gold is still there? Each chamber in the vaults is protected both by electronic codes for which no single person has the complete sequences, as well as by tamper-evident seals. It’s not as if someone could just break (and later repair) the seals, bring in a fleet of forklift trucks and wheel the gold out of the vaults into a convoy of armoured cars without suspicions being raised and questions being asked by those not part of the conspiracy. That would include the troops guarding the site among others. Gold has not routinely been transferred to or from the depository for many years, so any such activity would certainly have been perceived as unusual. Seems completely implausible to me.
The gold is in fact already audited yearly on a regular schedule, with the last audit conducted by the U.S. Treasury in September 2024. It’s true however, that these audits could be claimed as the Treasury ‘marking its own homework’ and that they rely largely on checking the official joint seals that were placed on all vault compartments during the more rigorous audits between 1974 until 1986 when 97% of the gold was inspected. It’s also true that the Treasury was unable to fulfil a Freedom of Information request to produce all of the audit records for those years (thus fuelling the conspiracy claims.)
The last audit that could be considered as “full” was in 1953, but a partial audit was conducted in 1974 (including sampling of the gold for purity testing) by a committee of auditors from the U.S. General Accounting Office and the Department of the Treasury, who drew auditors from the Office of the Secretary, the Bureau of Government Financial Operations, the U.S. Customs Service, and the Bureau of the Mint. The Mint also called on a number of its technicians, trained in assaying and weighing gold bullion.
Just exactly what is going to satisfy Musk, given that for the fraud to have been perpetrated in secret, it would have to have involved a sophisticated series cover-ups and deceptions worthy of a David Copperfield stage illusion?
[Interesting factoid: The gold is held by the Treasury as an asset of the United States at a statutory book value of $42.22 per ounce. It doesn’t fluctuate with the market price of gold and has had that constant book value since 1973.]
