I reread your first post after my reply. It seems that some KGC hunters think that some of what they found was relocated at different points. There is sense in that. The early 1900's were obviously a time to make such investments on a grand and thorough scale, but precisely who was their enemy? Who are they competing against, trying gain financial dominance and to secure power from? It certainly wasn't 'The North', as in Lincoln, Grant and the people that voted for and supported them. It is a much older, stronger powers structure than that. It is a pretty damn serious, powerful, and established adversary the KGC was up against.
Does it really make sense to recover all of it back then, to be thrown at financial and business investments, not all of which had any guarantee of profitable success? Were the KGC that shortsighted and lacking of commitment to keep at the war despite losses in individual battles? That they said, "Oh well, we had a good run with the Civil War, Jesse and the boys, et al, but it's over. Everyone go dig up whatever cache we placed to buy boots, guns, and bullets, and do whatever you want with it. Us Inner Circle guys recommend taking whatever all ya'll can find and starting banks, buying oil wells, and other business opportunities with it. It's been fun, now all ya'll have a nice life and let's forget about all of it."
In my mind, that is the first question to ask when pondering the existence of modern day sentinels. How thorough was the disbanding of the KGC? Did the Inner Core outwardly disband, yet keep 'the dream' alive, including continual planning and preparations? Look at the Jesuits. They were disbanded, have been throw out of many, many countries, yet they are still around and strong as ever. Hell, the new Pope is a Jesuit. There have been periods of years where the Jesuits "no longer existed and were scattered to the four winds, including their goals and desires", yet here they are in 2014, with a Jesuit sitting on the Throne of St. Peter.
And after that, it becomes a question of recoverability - if there is any left in 2014 that hasn't yet been relocated to such a secure location that it is virtually unrecoverable by an hunter (lot's of scenarios for this - think Army controlling access to Vicky Peak, etc.). Plenty of talk about caches under reservoirs, on public land where recovery attempts would be fairly instantly noticed, etc. One really doesn't need too many active sentinels to guard a cache at the bottom of a reservoir.
If there are such, good sized caches available to the astute and professional THer to find and recover, than I suggest yes, there are modern day sentinels. That's a big question, though and one I don't pretend to know the answer to with ultimate confidence. I think it more likely that most reported run ins with sentinels is simply crossing paths with a random person or crossing paths with another THer, with two THers eying each other and acting weird. I actually have been turned on to a site this way, or at least giving it now very serious consideration of it being a KGC type site, even though it is an area that I have been using for 15+ to run my dogs around on and enjoy a walk for myself. Came across a guy acting really weird, looking really out of place, quite far from the trail head, and instantly dodging into the woods, trying to not let me see him and not answering my, "hellos" when I ducked off the path after him.
Do I think that guy was a sentinel? No. A very possible THer or just a random weirdo, yes. But, I could dress it up, especially now that I am actively investigating the site, as coming across a sentinel who was following me and 'spying' on me, only to try to flee and hide when I caught him in the act. Which other THers might be prone to do on da Net ...
Signed,
Proud Knight of the Profane, slappin' internet sentinels and guardians of knowledge around with my keyboard, that is if they exist ...