No Gold In Fort Knox?
What if there were no gold in Fort Knox?
A real James Bond plot would come alive. Hear all about it on this Edge of Wonder Live with Ben Chasteen and Rob counts.
With government audits taking place, questions no one had considered have come to the surface. Could Fort Knox actually be empty? Could there be more gold inside than originally thought? Surprisingly, the last time anyone audited Fort Knox was in 1974, right when the gold standard was eliminated.
Ian Fleming, the creator of the James Bond spy novels, wrote a plot involving high-level people stealing gold out of the vault. Could this really have happened?
With the president of the United States not having access to Fort Knox’s contents, who does have access? Who has the clearance to go inside? A small group of politicians and media outlets have been allowed into certain parts of Fort Knox as recently as 2017, but there’s a lot that’s still unknown.
