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Secret FBI documents deepen mystery about Civil War-era gold

2023-02-19 21:05:11Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Secret FBI documents deepen mystery about Civil War-era gold
A 2018 FBI photo of the Dents Run dig site

After a court ordered the release of a trove of photos, videos, maps and other government documents related to the FBI's undercover search for Civil War-era gold, one treasure hunter is convinced more than ever that the truth has been hidden and is determined to prove it.

Dennis Parada had begun a legal battle to compel the FBI to turn over records of excavations at Dents Run, Pennsylvania, where, according to local lore, a shipment of Union gold disappeared in 1863. The FBI, which went at Dents Run after sophisticated testing suggested that several tons of gold may have been buried there, has long insisted that the dig turned up nothing.

Mr. Parada and his advisers, who have spent endless hours poring over documents newly released by the government, believe otherwise. They accuse the FBI of tampering with key evidence and concealing records in an attempt to conceal the discovery of a historic and extremely valuable gold reserve. The FBI defends how it stored the materials.

Mr. Parada's dispute with the FBI has reached a federal court, where a judge must decide whether the FBI must release its operational plan for digging for the gold, as well as other information it seeks to keep secret.

Along with his son, Mr. Parada searched for years for the famed Dents Run gold, eventually leading the FBI to a wooded area about 140 miles (220 km) near the city of Pittsburgh, where their equipment identified a large amount of metal. The FBI brought in a geophysical company whose state-of-the-art equipment spotted a mass of 7-9 tons of potential gold.

Secret FBI documents deepen mystery about Civil War-era gold
Dennis Parada speaking in his office about the 2018 FBI dig for lost Civil War gold (January 6, 2023)

With a court order, a team of FBI agents arrived at the location in March 2018 to excavate. There was also an FBI videographer at the facility to document the process, and at one point he interviewed an FBI team agent explaining why the FBI was in the woods in one of the least populated areas of the country. Pennsylvania.

"We have identified during our investigations a location that we believe contains objects owned by the United States, including a significant amount of precious base metal ... specifically gold, possibly silver," the agent says in the video, whose face is covered. to maintain his privacy.

Mr. Parada obtained the video and other FBI records after winning a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, hoping to get answers about the events at Dents Run five years ago. Mr. Parada was largely kept away from the dig site while the FBI continued its work.

He suspects that the FBI may have been doing clandestine digging during the night hours during the first two days of the court's authorization to dig, that they found the gold and moved it away. Residents of the area have previously said they heard the sound of excavators and probes working at night, when digging was supposed to have stopped - and that they saw a convoy of FBI vehicles and large armored trucks. The FBI has denied digging overnight.

The Department of Justice has requested the closure of the case after the FBI complied with the request to hand over the documents. The judge has not given the decision yet.


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