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Judge orders FBI to produce records on Civil War gold hunt in Pennsylvania

The FBI has long insisted its March 2018 dig in Elk County came up empty.

By Michael Rubinkam/Associated Press

Affidavit: FBI feared Pennsylvania would seize fabled gold

An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a cache of gold that he said had been “stolen during the Civil War” and was hidden in northwestern Pennsylvania, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.

By Michael Rubinkam/Associated Press

Updated: 2019-10-24 17:20:17

Pennsylvania told to produce documents about mystery FBI dig

A father and son who believe they found a legendary cache of buried Civil War-era gold have been fighting for access to government documents about a 2018 FBI dig at the remote Pennsylvania site.

By Michael Rubinkam/Associated Press

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