Treasure Hunter Dennis Parada is convinced FBI agents stole a huge treasure in gold. He’s upset because he’s owed a finder’s fee on it. The bureau claims they didn’t find anything. He says they did and made it disappear. Fresh records just surfaced backing his claims.
Missing gold cover up
According to recent reports from Clearfield, Pennsylvania, a federal court ordered really important documents to be released in a missing gold stash case. Agents with the Federal Bureau of Instigation are accused of stealing it. Right out from under the nose of a treasure hunter who discovered it.
The bureau had to shake loose “a trove of government photos, videos, maps and other documents involving the FBI’s secretive search for Civil War-era gold.”
Treasure hunter Dennis Parada was fascinated by local lore of a missing Union gold shipment near Dents Run, Pennsylvania. The bullion disappeared in 1863 while en-route to Philadelphia’s U.S. Mint. After extensive research and investigation, Parada hired sophisticated ground sensor testing which “suggested tons of gold might be buried” at the location he targeted.
Treasure Hunter Accuses FBI of Secretly Stealing Cache of Civil War Gold & coverup. Dennis Parada waged a legal battle to force FBI to turn over records of excavation in Dents Run, PA. Locals say 1863 shipment of gold disappeared on its way to U.S. Mint. https://t.co/aZJTiskpdi
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He couldn’t just dig it up and keep it. What he could do, and did, was turn in his find for a reward. He’s owed a big percentage of its value. The FBI came in to dig it up and came out of their hole empty handed. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing, so Parada isn’t happy.
Parada and his “advisers” have been “poring over the newly released government records” day and night. They think they have the goods on the government.
They “accuse the FBI of distorting key evidence and improperly withholding records in an apparent effort to conceal the recovery of a historic, extremely valuable gold cache.”
The FBI released photos of a dig in Dents Run, Pennsylvania, for a Civil War treasure that's been lost for 155 years. https://t.co/tV3ZMdPbBu
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The operational plan
The next step is for the judge to issue a decision on “whether the FBI will have to release its operational plan for the gold dig and other records it wants to keep secret.” You bet they want it kept secret.
“We feel we were double-crossed and lied to,” Parada relates. “The truth will come out.” The gold recovery was expected to be worth “hundreds of millions.” The FBI doesn’t want to talk about it.
They didn’t even admit they were looking for gold at Dents run until last year, when they had to. They didn’t find any and they’re sticking to that story. The bureau “continues to unequivocally reject any claims or speculation to the contrary.” Prada and his son spent years looking.
Dennis Parada waged a legal battle to force the FBI to turn over records of its excavation in Dents Run, Pennsylvania, where local lore says an 1863 shipment of Union gold disappeared on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.https://t.co/LT29peaD5b
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They “eventually guiding the FBI to a remote woodland site 135 miles northeast of Pittsburgh where they say their instruments identified a large quantity of metal.” The “FBI brought in a geophysical consulting firm whose sensitive equipment detected a 7- to 9-ton mass suggestive of gold.”
The FBI came in with a warrant, a team and heavy equipment. Then a snowstorm stopped operation. During the night, local residents report digging with jackhammers and sighting several vehicles, including armored transport. Parada “suspects the agency conducted a clandestine, overnight dig between the first and second days of the court-authorized excavation, found the gold, and spirited it away.”
The new photos appear to show altered evidence. “For example, an FBI image that was supposed to have been taken about an hour after the squall does not show any snow on a large, moss-covered boulder at the dig site. That same boulder is snow-covered in a photo that FBI records indicate was taken the next morning — some 15 hours after the storm.” Parada’s team has “compelling evidence a night dig took place, and that the FBI went to some large effort to cover up that night dig.” There’s also a trench shown on a map.
