Treasure Hunter Thinks So
“We feel we were double-crossed and lied to,” said Dennis Parada, co-owner of Finders Keepers reports FoxNews. The FBI had searched a remote area in Dents Run in 2018 for a cache of gold worth hundreds of millions of dollars, but the agency said it did not find anything. The area is allegedly where an 1863 shipment of Union gold disappeared on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Parada sued the Justice Department last year to force the FBI to release records on the search of the excavation site, and a judge ruled in favor of the agency.
After reviewing the newly released documents, Parada said the FBI is distorting key evidence and improperly withholding records in an apparent effort to conceal the recovery of the historic gold cache. A federal judge overseeing the case will decide if the FBI must release its operational plan for the gold dig and other records it wants to keep secret. The judge could also order the FBI to keep looking for additional materials to turn over to the treasure hunter.
Notorious outlaw Jesse James started his career during the Civil War. He followed in the path of his older brother Frank who was part of a guerrilla operation known as Quantrill’s Raiders—out to win the Civil War their own way. Even after General Lee had surrendered, these guerrillas continued their operations. Cole Younger led a group of Quantrill’s men to rob the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri that netted an immense sum, for the times, $70,000 dollars. Even most modern bank robberies net less. The James-Younger Gang was not doing this for its own gain, or to hand out money to poor Missouri farmers. Their goal was nothing short of becoming the force that would help the South to rise again. They belonged to a greater organization known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, almost exclusively made up of sympathetic Freemasons, many of whom were Rosicrucians and often funded by wealthy English merchants. It was possibly the most powerful subversive organization in the United States.
A document called the Holt Report declared that Lincoln’s Secretary of War Edwin Stanton claimed there could be several hundred thousand members, and that their plan was to fund a war for Southern Independence after the civil war. Stanton did nothing about them, however, and may have been a traitor himself. The James gang took the proceeds of their twenty to twenty five successful robberies and hid them in secret stashes from Arkansas to Arizona. Most remain hidden to this day, guarded by secret symbols and protected by guardian families determined to see that they are not pilfered.
AR #95
Jesse James: Secret Agent
by Steven Sora
