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

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.

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Monday, January 17, 2000

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

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

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.