Second FBI Agent in Two Months Arrested for Raping, Molesting Children.
Ten years ago, I would have written off the following story as just a lot of conspiratorial nonsense from treasure-hunting kooks; now, I'm not so sure: "The FBI searched cave for Civil War gold, fearing Pa. officials would seize it, new court documents show".
Getler believes the FBI found the gold and decided to keep it secret, as a matter of national security. The FBI maintains nothing was found at the site.
The Paradas have now retained an attorney, who is fighting for the release of thousands of pages of FBI documents and video footage of the dig.
It would be informative to know what prompted the arrest of the FBI agent. Eyewitness testimony, complaints by the victims, what? They never give you these details in these little thumbnail articles, and a year or two later, you find out the arrestee walked because there was no proof. (Not that I'm real keen on the FBI these days).
ReplyDeleteAs for that gold story, there have been tales about lost Civil War gold forever. I maintain that if such gold went astray, it got spent a long, long time ago and isn't sitting around awaiting discovery anywhere.
One of the silliest "lost Civil War gold" stories is the film Sahara. I haven't read the Cussler book upon which it is based, so I don't know if it is as silly.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, a Confederate casemate ironclad escapes Richmond in the last days of the war (okay, maybe), steams across the Atlantic (huh? the casemate ironclads had no sails and their steam engines were neither reliable nor efficient enough to cross an ocean) and up a river in West Africa (okay, maybe once it magically got there) which shifts leaving the ship stranded and eventually covered in drifting sand (okay, look at the Sea of Azov in Russia).
Dumb movie. At least Matthew McConaughey has fun, I'm not convinced that he's actually taking it seriously.
Steve: So, you're telling me this map I bought off a guy in a bar in Wilmington is useless? Damn!
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