Reply #8: As it happens...

[paulthompson]

...my new timeline update has two entries about this. We keep having some last minute programming snags but the new update should be out any day now, and it'll be massive. Here are the entries, the first one is from the Day of 9/11:

(Before 9:59 a.m.): Gold Transported Through WTC Basement
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). The lorry and cars had been crushed by falling steel, but no bodies are reported found with them, so presumably they were abandoned before the first WTC collapse, at 9:59 a.m. (New York Daily News, 10/31/01; London Times, 11/1/01)

(Mid-October-mid November 2001)
Gold and Silver Recovered from WTC Basement Area; Evidence Suggests Attempted Theft
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. (New York Daily News, 10/31/01; London Times, 11/1/01; New York Times, 11/1/01; Reuters, 11/17/01)

Call me conspiratorial, but I have a feeling the public hasn't been told the full story on this. I would think that if some gold had been successfully stolen, there would be a strong motive on the part of the US government and banking industry to cover it up so as to not shake up the markets and lose confidence in the security and so forth. But who knows. It seems to me there may have been two attempts to steal the gold, one on the morning of 9/11, and the second in October.