This is a very long piece by Bill Murphy reposted at Gold Seek. It's filled with a lot of data supporting GATA's position going back to at least 1999. Worth the read, imo, but quite long.

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http://news.goldseek.com/Lemetropole...

By: Bill Murphy, Le Metropole Cafe, Inc., LemetropoleCafe.com-- Posted Monday,

6 April 2009 Source: GoldSeek.com

April 5 – Gold $895.60 - Silver $12.93

GATA (Chris Powell and I) are readying a trip to London in early May, with the details to be worked out this coming week. The feedback and support from legendary supporters in that arena has us very excited about the potential for this trip. We are going there with the following in mind:

*To raise awareness about GATA and what we know.

*To raise funds from supporters in London and Europe who want our efforts on behalf of gold to be advanced.

*To meet with the press and alert them to a story of a lifetime … one that is not easy to accept because it is about the clandestine activities of the richest and most powerful people in the world.

*To hook up with friends that are supportive of our efforts and to network with them.

*To meet others in the gold industry that are willing to listen to what we have to say.

This is presented for those in Europe who want to get this REALITY to the press and persons of interest. The hot points...

*The Bank of England gold sale which put GATA on the map because it made no sense (the way they conducted it) to anyone with an open mind.

*The pitiful Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, who was the engineer of this gold sale in order to get where he is today.

*Their now sycophant Prime Minister Gordon Brown, HIM, who is under a lot of heat politically. Our efforts are to reach out to his political adversaries in England and offer them as much ammunition as possible against this bloke who, IMO, was willing to sell out his country to get the top job he has today.

*GATA has long pointed to Goldman Sachs as one of the key manipulators of the gold price suppression scheme. Recently, because of the financial chaos, there has been increasing unrest in America about the direct connection between Goldman Sachs and the US Treasury…

The rest at: http://news.goldseek.com/Lemetropole...