Looks Like GATA is finally getting someone to PAY ATTENTION
  12:40p EDT Tuesday, October 12, 1999
  Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
  Today I met with my U.S. representative, John B.  Larson, D-Conn., to express my concern that the U.S.  Federal Reserve Board and the U.S. Treasury Department  are intervening surreptitiously in the gold market to  rescue the financial houses that have been manipulating  the price of gold.
  I asked him to try to get answers to the following  questions from the Fed and the Treasury. He said he  would.
  Since a bailout by the Fed and the Treasury along the  lines of last year's bailout of Long-Term Capital  Management is now the greatest threat to the  restoration of gold to its rightful place in the world  monetary system, I urge gold's friends and all gold  share investors to put the same questions to their U.S.  representatives and senators. We must put the spotlight  on the Fed and the Treasury and force them to operate  in the open. In secret they can get away with anything. But not in public.
  Please post this as seems useful.
  CHRIS POWELL, Secretary Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.   
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  Questions for the Federal Reserve Board  and the U.S. Treasury Department
  1) Do the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury  Department have a policy toward the price of gold? If  so, what is it? 
  2) Do the Fed and the Treasury trade in gold or in  securities, futures contracts, or options related to  gold, or otherwise influence trading in gold? If so,  how? 
  3) Do the Fed and the Treasury trade in any financial  instruments besides U.S. government bonds? If so,  which ones and what do the Fed and the Treasury try  to accomplish with their trading? 
  4) Do the Fed and the Treasury have or control  brokerage accounts? If so, with which brokers? 
  5) Do the Fed and the Treasury try to influence the  stock and commodities markets? If so, how? 
  6) Do the Fed and the Treasury lend or lease gold? If  so, to whom, for what national purpose, and under what  terms?  
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