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On Wed, 2/24/16, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Salvage Operations (and Submarines)
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2016, 1:15 PM

 > On
 Feb 24, 2016, at 10:32 AM, tmr0195@comcast.net
 wrote:
 >
 > Hello
 Bruce Johnson,
 > IIRC in one of the James
 Bond movies, Goldfinger I think, the villain dug into Ft.
 Knox and melted the gold.

 In the movie (and the book) he planned on
 strafing the facility with nerve gas, then setting off a
 nuke in the depository to make the US gold stores
 radioactive, thus increasing the worth of his own gold stash
 and bankrupting the US in the bargain because reasons and
 ‘Bwahahahaha!’. (it made no more sense in the book
 either…)

 He drove in the
 front gate with tanks and trucks in US Army livery.

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There was a 'Mission: Impossible' episode where a gold vault was emptied by melting the gold.
It ran down a drain & was recast by Barney & 'muscles' in a chamber underneath.

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