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In September 1952 at Los Angeles district court, Bernard G Klepper produced escrow papers at the Grand Jury hearing which also contained an affidavit signed by Martin A Hougen which indicated he had seen the gold that was being offered to the treasury department. That escrow account was in the amount of $20,000,000.
$20,000,000 = 571,428.50 troy ounces at the American price of $35.00 an ounce, or 17.77 metric tons.
Escow accounts are basically a safe way of protecting seller and buyer in large transactions. In 1950, which is when the escrow account was set up there was no way of stealing money using an escrow account.
Bernard G Klepper was not only the escrow officer for the First National Bank in Ontario, California he was also the Vice President of the bank. His testimony adds great credence to the “17 tons story”.
Bernard Klepper died in Ontario, San Bernardino, California in January 1976.
(social security death index)
Bernard KLEPPER
Birth Date: 12 Feb 1901
Death Date: Jan 1976
Social Security Number: 552-28-8730
State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: California
Death Residence Localities
ZIP Code: 91762
Localities: Ontario, San Bernardino, California
It has been claimed in the published 17 tons stories that the aircraft used to move the gold from Mexico in 1933 were the stearman bi-plane or the cesna. The stearman did not have a 1 and a half ton weight capacity and had a service ceiling of less than 15,000ft and the cesna was not much better and its unlikely that either plane would have flown/glided over the burial site of the gold at 25,000ft.
(link) http://www.treasurehuntersuniversity.com/tons.html
It was also claimed that Martin A Hougen did not appear at the Grand Jury hearing and had taken employment abroad to avoid being served. This is false and Martin A Hougen did appear before the Grand Jury in 1952.
WhenMartin Hougen appeared before the Grand Jury he was living in Hawthorne, California, when he died in March 1968 he was still living at the same address he was living at when he attended the Grand Jury hearing in 1952. He was buried in Los Angeles and had died 4 months after his wife Ann.
The attorney from the story Prentiss Moore was a partner in the law firm Moore, Webster & Lindelof in Los Angeles.
George Luckey was not only a cattleman and oil man but also a Democratic Party leader, He had paid for President Trumans “Whistle stop campaign” in California prior to him being elected. Truman later offered him 2 positions which he turned down.
Neither Moore or Luckey were strangers to President Truman.
If you look at the Presidents day book (available free online) you will see that on Tuesday 4th of September 1951 both men met with the President in his hotel suite in the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco at 2.45pm.
(click link) http://www.trumanlibrary.org/calendar/main.php?currYear=1951&currMonth=9&currDay=4
Prentiss Moore later became Judge Prentiss Moore in November 1962.
George Luckey turned down the positions of Secretary of Agriculture and Ambassadorship to Mexico. He died in January 1977 and is buried in Mt Zion Cemetery in Bertram.
It is interesting that none of the published tellings of the 17 tons story were written before the 1960s, which begs the question how did they know so much about what happened in the 1930s?.
To be contiued..........
Any Questions?
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$20,000,000 = 571,428.50 troy ounces at the American price of $35.00 an ounce, or 17.77 metric tons.
Escow accounts are basically a safe way of protecting seller and buyer in large transactions. In 1950, which is when the escrow account was set up there was no way of stealing money using an escrow account.
Bernard G Klepper was not only the escrow officer for the First National Bank in Ontario, California he was also the Vice President of the bank. His testimony adds great credence to the “17 tons story”.
Bernard Klepper died in Ontario, San Bernardino, California in January 1976.
(social security death index)
Bernard KLEPPER
Birth Date: 12 Feb 1901
Death Date: Jan 1976
Social Security Number: 552-28-8730
State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: California
Death Residence Localities
ZIP Code: 91762
Localities: Ontario, San Bernardino, California
It has been claimed in the published 17 tons stories that the aircraft used to move the gold from Mexico in 1933 were the stearman bi-plane or the cesna. The stearman did not have a 1 and a half ton weight capacity and had a service ceiling of less than 15,000ft and the cesna was not much better and its unlikely that either plane would have flown/glided over the burial site of the gold at 25,000ft.
(link) http://www.treasurehuntersuniversity.com/tons.html
It was also claimed that Martin A Hougen did not appear at the Grand Jury hearing and had taken employment abroad to avoid being served. This is false and Martin A Hougen did appear before the Grand Jury in 1952.
WhenMartin Hougen appeared before the Grand Jury he was living in Hawthorne, California, when he died in March 1968 he was still living at the same address he was living at when he attended the Grand Jury hearing in 1952. He was buried in Los Angeles and had died 4 months after his wife Ann.
The attorney from the story Prentiss Moore was a partner in the law firm Moore, Webster & Lindelof in Los Angeles.
George Luckey was not only a cattleman and oil man but also a Democratic Party leader, He had paid for President Trumans “Whistle stop campaign” in California prior to him being elected. Truman later offered him 2 positions which he turned down.
Neither Moore or Luckey were strangers to President Truman.
If you look at the Presidents day book (available free online) you will see that on Tuesday 4th of September 1951 both men met with the President in his hotel suite in the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco at 2.45pm.
(click link) http://www.trumanlibrary.org/calendar/main.php?currYear=1951&currMonth=9&currDay=4
Prentiss Moore later became Judge Prentiss Moore in November 1962.
George Luckey turned down the positions of Secretary of Agriculture and Ambassadorship to Mexico. He died in January 1977 and is buried in Mt Zion Cemetery in Bertram.
It is interesting that none of the published tellings of the 17 tons story were written before the 1960s, which begs the question how did they know so much about what happened in the 1930s?.
To be contiued..........
Any Questions?
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