Fort Knox

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Now given the destruction of the world economic system, that will change significantly, BUT that still doesn't mean anyone would identify a need for the gold to be shifted before it (or the global economic system it forms a part of) was nuked.

Agai, I think this comes back to contingency planning. Did (or probably more accurately does) the United States Government have a contingency plan to move gold reserves out of Fort Knox should a certain situation occur (specifically in this case the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe)?

Who knows...such a plan is hardly likely to be in the public domain, but surely Governments have a responsibility to anticipate different scenarios and plan accordingly. FWIW it's now open source information that the British Government planned to transfer all of its gold reserves (including reserves of other countries held in the UK) from the Bank of England to North Wales as part of its Transition to War measures - even the operation's code name can be tracked down

Recent disclosures in TNA documents identify that the tunnels at the former Valley Works at Rhydymwyn were planned to be used in the Cold War for the relocation of the 3,700 tons of gold from the Bank of England vault at Mount Pleasant. This transfer would have taken place in the run up to war and would have been effected by soldiers in 10 ton lorries. The transfer would have taken 10-14 days and the unpacked gold bars would have been unloaded and stacked by forklift. The soldiers would then have used 6,000 square feet of surface accommodation and guarded the site. This operation, originally named MALLARD, was later called FOLIUM. This arrangement was still in place in 1980

Source here

http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/...=78416&expand=

And here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10218941