GATA delivered to the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury Department
formal requests for access to all documents in their possession that
have been generated since 1990 and mention swaps of gold involving the
U.S. government. Such swaps of gold are commonly used by governments to
intervene surreptitiously in the gold and currency markets, and in May
this year provisions for swaps began to be cited in Treasury Department
records of the U.S. government's international financial reserve
position: