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An open Letter/Request (FOIA) to the US Treasury
from Joseph N. Tlaga
Marty Weber
Disclosure Officer
Financial Management Service
United States Treasury
401 14th Street, S.W., Room 553
Washington, DC 20227
This is a request for information under Freedom of Information Act;
It is in writing and it is signed;
It is faxed to (202) 874-7016;
It reasonably describes the information requested;
The category of the requester for fee purposes is"all others";
The requester agrees to pay all fees that might be incurred;
Expeditious processing, bypassing the 20 business days deadline,
is respectfully requested:
DOES THE TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES OWN 54,067,331 OUNCES
OF GOLD AT U.S. MINT IN WEST POINT, NEW YORK, WHICH ARE
CLASSIFIED IN F.M.S. STATUS REPORT OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2000, AS
"CUSTODIAL GOLD BULLION"? YES OR NO?
FMS Status Report of US Treasury Owned Gold dated August 31, 2000,
identifies 56,945,284 fine troy ounces as stored at US Mint in West Point,
New York: 54,097,041 ounces are classified as Gold Bullion Reserve, and
the remainder is subdivided into 18 separate Programs ranging from
2,608,103 ounces in Gold Eagle Program to 53 ounces in World Cup
Program.
The next month Status Report, dated September 30, 2000, identifies
56,945,838 ounces in West Point: 54,067,331 ounces are classified as
Custodial Gold Bullion, and 2,878,507 ounces as PEF Gold.
Because the terms Gold Bullion Reserve and Custodial Gold Bullion appear
to be used interchangeably within US Mint, and because US Mint's role is
that of a legal custodian of US gold and silver stockpiles (which are reported
in the custodial segment of the Treasury's Statement of Financial Position
both as an asset and an offsetting custodial liability), this change from Gold
Bullion Reserve to Custodial Gold Bullion may be perfectly innocent and
inconsequential. Consolidation of 18 separate categories into PEF Gold is
self explanatory, as PEF borrows gold and silver bullion for numismatic
operations and returns it from new gold and silver purchases (which are
made after Gold and Silver Eagles are sold).
Unfortunately, this seemingly innocent change is open to horrendous
interpretations, in view of the ongoing suppression of the price of gold by
combined effect of massive gold selling and leasing operations by central
banks and flooding the market with gold derivatives by the bullion banks. One
such interpretation is presented in an article"Behind Closed Doors"
http://www.fgmr.com/clsddoor.htm
The article informs that inquiry about who now owns the gold stored at US
Mint in West Point was not answered by the US Treasury, but it does not
say when the request for information was submitted, and whether it was
submitted as a FOIA request (which would make it subject to a 20 business
days reply deadline).
The reason why this FOIA request is submitted with request for expeditious
processing is that it may substantially influence the outcome of a law suit of
national importance now pending before Judge Reginald C. Lindsay at the
US District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Howe vs Bank for
International Settlements, et al).
If the West Point gold was in fact swapped for Bundesbank gold and used
for leasing operations, disclosure of this fact now would be likely to prevail
on denial of defendants' motions to dismiss; and if it was not so swapped,
disclosing this fact at the time of oral argument to paint the plaintiff as yet
another conspiracy theorist would be likely to prevail on granting defendants'
motions to dismiss.
As a party to this lawsuit (one of the defendants), Secretary of the Treasury
thus has a direct interest in not disclosing this information right away, but he
also represents the dignity of the Government of the United States and
should act accordingly.
This FOIA request calls for a simple Yes-No answer. Only the Secretary of
the Treasury himself can answer this question authoritatively. Anyone else
can only make educated assumption, which would not be any better than a
conjecture made by the author of"Behind Closed Doors".
Dated: May 7, 2001.
Joseph N. Tlaga
2060 SW 81 Avenue
N. Lauderdale, FL 33068
(954) 718-2118
tlaga@shadow.net
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