http://www.silverdoctors.com/gold/gold-news/just-when-you-thought-the-fort-knox-gold-story-was-over-bam/
Striking and curious in that small article snippet was that the Fed Chair of the time William McChesney Martin said the Fed (not the Treasury) was going defend the peg “to the last ingot”.
Recall that the US dollar was convertible by sovereign nations, into
gold, at $35 per ounce after WWII. That was known as the “Bretton Woods
Agreement”, and that agreement is what Nixon axed on August 15, 1971
when he severed the tie to gold.
Here is more from Koos Jansen analyzing the FOIA release of documents earlier this year which revealed new information on Fort Knox:
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