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News agencies report GATA''s drive for answers

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:30p EST Monday, January 17, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a story from the London Evening Standard from a
few days ago. It's about how Normandy Mining and its
chief executive, Robert Champion de Crespigny, view the
gold market, but you may find it most interesting for
its trace of the hand of bullion dealer Goldman Sachs,
which, if I read this right, may have offered Normandy

Senator helping GATA, Germans helping gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

8:15p EST Saturday, January 15, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's a special dispatch from GATA Chairman Bill
Murphy about our recent contact with the international
financial adviser, Martin Armstrong.

Please post it as seems useful.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

* * *

Conversations With Marty Armstrong
Before He Was Thrown In Jail

Normandy avoided Goldman''s worst and is hopeful

Section: Daily Dispatches

5p EST Monday, January 17, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Here's an interesting dispatch from GATA Chairman
Bill Murphy. Please post it as seems useful.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

* * *

Monday, January 17, 2000

By Bill quot;Midasquot; Murphy
Chairman, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
Le Patron, www.LeMetropoleCafe.com

Martin Armstrong gets locked up before he talks

Section: Daily Dispatches

11:30p EST Wednesday, January 12, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

More progress for us today.

A friend of GATA's in Illinois reported receiving from
the office of the speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Dennis Hastert, who is a
representative from Illinois, the same plain-paper
answers to some of GATA's questions that were
provided by the Federal Reserve to a GATA friend

Gold reaches House speaker''s office and BBC

Section: Daily Dispatches

10:35p EST Monday, January 10, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Yesterday GATA Chairman Bill Murphy reported
indications that Ashanti Gold, having been sabotaged by
its own banker, Goldman Sachs, was going to be acquired
by the big gold hedger, Barrick Gold. Today the following
story from the Ghanian Chronicle reached us, and it
reports a scheme by which the Ghanian government
would unseat Ashanti's management to turn the company

Treasury secretary was responding to GATA

Section: Daily Dispatches

Sunday, January 9, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

There's a lot of gold news and GATA news in the latest
quot;Midasquot; dispatch of GATA Chairman Bill quot;Midasquot; Murphy
to his subscribers at www.LeMetropoleCafe.com, and so
he has asked me to share it with you here.

CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.

* * *

By Bill quot;Midasquot; Murphy

Scheme would deliver Ashanti to Barrick

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:35p EST Monday, January 10, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

As you'll see from the accompanying Bridge News
dispatch from January 8, U.S. Treasury Secretary
Lawrence Summers indeed was responding directly
to GATA on Saturday in Boston when he denied that
U.S. gold reserves have been sold. The Reuters story
from Saturday that I sent to you earlier made us think
as much, but the Bridge News story made it explicit.

U.S. govt. starts responding to GATA questions

Section: Daily Dispatches

5:10p EST Saturday, January 8, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

GATA's campaign to get answers about United States
policy toward gold is having some success, as you'll
see from the attached Reuters story published today.

While U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers
seems here to be almost pointedly ignoring GATA's
more crucial questions -- questions about the gold
DERIVATIVES market, rather than about the physical

Treasury secretary starts feeling the heat about gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

12:30p EST Friday, January 7, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Yesterday I received a letter from the international
financial adviser Martin A. Armstrong, who is under
federal indictment on securities fraud charges and
who, you may remember, had some interesting
and cordial exchanges with me here last year. With
his permission, I share his letter with you below,
because it illustrates the difficulty of fighting both

Martin Armstrong knows too much; pray for him

Section: Daily Dispatches

7:45p EST Tuesday, January 4, 2000

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Photocopies of correspondence between the Bank
of England and Peter Hambro of Zoloto Mining Ltd.
in London have been posted at:

a href=http://www.gata.org/latest.htmlhttp://www.gata.org/latest.html/a

For some time now Hambro has been posing to
British government financial officials the same
sort of questions GATA has been posing to

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