A remarkable new book on 9/11

[Ed Jewett]

It is fairly well documented that the large amounts [total not revealed to public] of gold in several vaults in WTC 6, I believe were emptied JUST before the 'events' = foreknowledge. One truck still loaded with gold, but with the drivers gone = foreknowledge was found underground. Too bad David Guyatt is not here now anymore. He's an expert on Gold and would explain that most gold is in fact stolen or subject to magic accounting, etc. This is one of the more important and least researched aspects of 911. More attention has been paid to the stock and futures trading, which I consider less important. Follow the gold!

I agree with you in re: David Guyatt but, in his absence, one thing we can do is to go on over to History Commons and their 9/11 timeline and do a search for the simple word "gold". Here, already done, are the three primary entries (there may be others far deeper)...:


Large amounts of gold are stored in vaults in the massive basement below the WTC, and some of this is being transported through the basement this morning. Several weeks later, recovery workers will discover hundreds of ingots in a service tunnel below WTC 5, along with a ten-wheel lorry and some cars (which were, presumably, transporting the gold) (see (Mid-October-mid November 2001)). The lorry and cars had been crushed by falling steel, but no bodies will be reported found with them, so presumably they were abandoned before the first WTC collapse, at 9:59 a.m. [NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 10/31/2001; LONDON TIMES, 11/1/2001]

Workers at Ground Zero discover large amounts of gold and other precious metals stored below the ruins of the WTC. As debris is removed they are able to access parts of the 16-acre WTC basement, which drops 70 feet below ground level. Precious metals are stored in numerous vaults within this area. The London Times says the quantity of these "has been a carefully guarded secret," but estimates $750 million of gold and silver in vaults belonging to the Comex metals trading division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. There appears to have been an attempt, since 9/11, to break into a Comex vault containing $200 million of precious metals belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia. A government official involved in the recovery work says, "It looked like they used a blowtorch, a crowbar," but a bank spokeswoman denies there has been any attempted break-in. The banks later states that "All of the silver, gold, platinum, and palladium stored in its vaults at 4 World Trade Center" has been relocated to a depository in Brooklyn. Other gold is discovered in a service tunnel below WTC 5. According to the London Times, this was being transported through the tunnel on the morning of 9/11 (see (Before 9:59 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 10/31/2001; LONDON TIMES, 11/1/2001; NEW YORK TIMES, 11/1/2001; REUTERS, 11/17/2001]

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani angers firefighters when he decides to severely reduce the number of them that can search for remains at Ground Zero. Until now, up to 300 firefighters at a time have been involved in the search and recovery effort. Giuliani's decision will mean no more than 25 at a time can do so in future. The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) later alleges that, also at this time, Giuliani makes "a conscious decision to institute a scoop-and-dump' operation to expedite the clean-up of Ground Zero in lieu of the more time-consuming, but respectful, process of removing debris piece by piece in hope of uncovering more remains." So far, the bodies or remains of 101 firefighters have been recovered, out of the 343 who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11. According to the IAFF, the mayor refuses to even meet with local union presidents about the decision. Due to the ensuing public outcry, Giuliani will modify his policy and allow firefighters back on the pile at Ground Zero. The remains of another 113 firefighters will subsequently be found. The IAFF later alleges that "the mayor's switch to a scoop-and-dump coincided with the final removal of tens of millions of dollars of gold, silver and other assets of the Bank of Nova Scotia that were buried beneath what was once the towers" (see (Mid-October-mid November 2001)). "Once the money was out, Giuliani sided with the developers that opposed a lengthy recovery effort, and ordered the scoop-and-dump operation so they could proceed with redevelopment." [FIREFIGHTING NEWS (.COM), 3/8/2007; BLOOMBERG, 3/9/2007; ASSOCIATED PRESS, 3/10/2007] IAFF President Harold Schaitberger later says, "in my opinion, it was more important for him [to] find the gold than it was to continue to find and recover remains." [MSNBC, 7/12/2007]
Entity Tags: Rudolph ("Rudy") Giuliani, International Association of Fire Fighters, New York City Fire Department