Dennis Parada sued to force FBI to turn over records of excavation in Pennsylvania, where an 1863 shipment of gold vanished
Dennis Parada, right, and his son stand at the site of the FBI's dig for cvil war-era gold in Dents Run, Pennsylvania, in September 2018.Dennis Parada, right, and his son stand at the site of the FBI's dig for cvil war-era gold in Dents Run, Pennsylvania, in September 2018.Sun 19 Feb 2023 14.11 GMTsearch for civil war-era gold has a treasure hunter convinced of a cover-up.Pennsylvania
The dispute is playing out in federal court, where a judge must decide whether the FBI will have to release records it wants to keep secret. An FBI spokesperson declined to answer questions, citing ongoing litigation. Last year, the FBI publicly acknowledged it had looked for gold in Dents Run. It said it did not find any and “continues to unequivocally reject any claims or speculation to the contrary”.
A geophysical consulting firm detected a seven- to nine-ton mass suggestive of gold. A team of FBI agents came in March 2018. An FBI videographer was on hand, at one point interviewing a Philadelphia-based agent on the FBI art-crime team. Parada obtained the video and other FBI records through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. He was mostly kept from the dig site and now suspects the agency conducted a clandestine overnight dig, found the gold and spirited it away. Residents have told of hearing a backhoe and jackhammer overnight, when the dig was supposed to have been paused, and seeing FBI vehicles including large armored trucks. The FBI has denied it conducted an overnight dig.
Also, the agency did not provide any video of the second day of the dig or any photos or video showing what its own hand-drawn map described as a 30ft-long, 12ft-deep trench, which the treasure hunters claim could have only been dug overnight. Government lawyers acknowledged these gaps in the record but did not elaborate in a court filing last week.
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