Okay,
I've let this BS go on for faaaar too long! LOL
Steve (SDCFIA) tends to take a narrow focus on things that Doc did that were questionable and/or deceptive. He tends to ignore or conveniently forget the voluminous evidence that proves him wrong. Love you brother, but you are stuffed on this one. HAHAHA
Don't get me wrong......I have never been under the impression that Doc was a beacon of morality. I don't think that Doc was a LOT different than many depression era rural men. Little formal education and being part Indian (in rural New Mexico) was a bad combination. He was a hard drinker. Didn't trust hardly anybody.
1. Capt. Leonard V. Fiege, Airman First Class Thomas Berlette, and a Civilian Dispatcher had read all about VP and went exploring. They found a small cave opening that led to a larger cave that contained three large stacks of gold bars. They were afraid if they took ANYTHING they could lose EVERYTHING. They piled rocks in the entrance and left. They spent several years trying to go through "Official Channels" to get ownership of the gold. I have the polygraph test results from both men that proved one of two things fairly conclusively:
A. They were BOTH telling the entire truth as they knew it.
B. They were BOTH such good liars, that they BOTH beat a government administered polygraph test.
I also have a sworn affidavit from Leonard V. Fiege as to the entire story.
2. Capt. William "Orby" Swanner was not only a Military Police Captain, but was the Operations Officer for White Sands Missile Range (and not prone to flights of fancy). He was first tasked in 1961 with opening up a way into VP. They were spotted and ordered by a NM State Court to cease digging. Too late Swanner and crew had gotten into the lower caverns. It took several years for the Government to take the gold out. After witnessing the removal of approximately 93 million troy ounces of gold from VP over the four day Thanksgiving Weekend of 1973, he signed a notarized affidavit to that effect. The Air Force called him a liar and said he was NEVER under VP. He replied that his name and service number were sooted onto the wall of the Lower Chamber with his Carbon-Arc Headlight. I have a picture taken during Operation Goldfinder I of Capt. Swanner's name and service number EXACTLY as he described.
3. There are rare and little known interviews with two men named Dick Moyle and Lloyd Tucker. Moyle worked for Fred Drolte (The One-Armed Bandit). Moyle was Droltes most trusted security guy. Drolte was a gun runner and a contract employee for the CIA. Moyle tells of how Drolte told him (before the start of the 1973 Thanksgiving Four Day Weekend) that he was given they keys to the back gate at VP and was taking his personal Deuce-and-a-half with trailer and was meeting "people" there (short version of the story. The whole thing will blow your mind). Tucker was a spelunker that Doc hired him to put together a team to see just how far down VP went.
The Moyle Interview cleared up something that has been bugging me for years. Swanner entered the lower caverns in 1961, but every story has the actual gold removal Thanksgiving Weekend of 1973. That means the Government was exploring VP for 12 years before the theft. I guess they wanted to make sure they got everything in one take (from more than one place).
4. TONY JOLLEY: Jolley was a Cow Hand and Rodeo Rider. He had met Doc many years earlier working the rodeo circuit. By his admission, Doc told Jolley that he had taken about 300 gold bars from VP. He had a deal with a man named Charley Ryan to buy all the bars. The day before he had overheard Ryan bragging that he would get the bars and not pay a penny. Doc had already told Ryan the approximate location of the bars and wanted to rebury them before the next morning. Doc ran into Jolley at a gas station and asked him to help. Here's part of the interview (the whole interview is 1.5 hours):
Tony Jolley Interview with Alex Alonso
5. MOST IMPORTANTLY: The statement of Willie Douthitt. Willie was a friend of Doc Noss. After the story of Willie and Buster's Cave of gold bars in the Caballo's got into the newspapers, Willie was kidnapped twice and tortured to get the cave location. In Willie's own words, they had him hanging by his ballsack from a pipe in the ceiling of the basement of a building. Doc found out about it, went in, shot the guard and let Willie loose. In gratitude, Willie let Doc look at a map that he had murdered a boy named Jack Reynolds for. This was in late 1932-early 1933. This map showed seven treasure caves. Willie got one that contained (in Willie's words) about 2000 forty pound refined gold bars. That left six. It took Doc about five years to find the first cave under VP. Photographs taken by Doc show the inside of a cave in the Caballo's. VP is in the San Andres. No known refined bars came from VP. Everything I have seen were dore mine pours. Steve has said those copper bars were refined to get the little gold that was in them. When and where? Doc was surrounded by people day and night. Nobody has EVER said that Doc refined ANYTHING. Besides, is there ANY evidence that Doc even knew HOW to extract gold from copper? NOPE! Steve is just trying to justify the fact that many pure gold ingots Doc had distributed to several people that were refined bars. These likely came from a different cave Doc had found in the Caballo's based on Willie's Map. After VP and the Government had destroyed his life, its no wonder he kept the second cave a secret. Willie's big secret was that when he left N.M. in 1933 after his kidnapping and torture, he waited until 1943 (ten years later and in the middle of WWII). He grew his hair and beard, rented a car, and drove to N.M. Most of the young men were off at war, and he was not recognized. He went and recovered a gold bar or two and went back to California. That was his habit every year for many years. When Willie died in 1996, his estate was valued at $3.5 million (and that's not counting the $1.5 million his girlfriend found in the house after he died.
I guess that's enough for now.
Best - Mike