alt Hacker NewsThis seems absolutely crazy. Probably Fort Knox should be inventoried, might indeed not be anything there!
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This is different than that and scant on pertinent details
It says he received it as compensation for expenses, not that it was ever in some government vault. This is additional gold and foreign currency that an agency had, not the reserve.
It then says
> When the C.I.A. conducted a review of where the gold and currency were stashed
Why would they do that if it was compensation for expenses
He wasn't charged for that, and the phrasing doesn't suggest it was supposed to be remitted to the government
if the CIA didn't have a history of being involved in shady shit like this that already explains everything, this would be weird
instead it looks like he's got burned over his necessary use of fibbed identity
Fort Knox doesn't store gold bars that small. A 1kg gold bar is about the size of a cellphone. The ones at Fort Knox are the large trade bars, which weigh about 400 ounces (or 12.4 Kg).
> Size of a standard gold bar: 7 inches x 3 and 5/8 inches x 1 and 3/4 inches.
> Weight of a standard gold bar: approximately 400 ounces or 27.5 pounds.
https://www.usmint.gov/about/tours-and-locations/fort-knox