Robert Morrow post 8/14/22
Lyndon Johnson in the early 1960s, while he was Vice President, stole 6 million troy ounces of gold from White Sands Missile Range. The gold was sent by truck and car to LBJ's ranch in Mexico, which was called Las Pampas - a 100,000 acre ranch with a 5,500 foot air strip.
LBJ's Mexican ranch: Mexican Farmers Say Johnson Holds a Ranch There Illegally - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
The 1980 book Breaking Cover by Bill Gully details how LBJ as president would sometimes secretly leave the USA and fly to his Mexican ranch: Breaking Cover: Bill Gulley, Mary Ellen Reese: 9780671245481: Amazon.com: Books
At Las Pampas the stolen gold was loaded on a B-24 Liberator, a heavy bomber, that LBJ had stolen from the government. 13 times the B-24 Liberator was filled up and 13 times it was flown to Vancouver where LBJ had the gold either store or laundered. The pilot who flew the gold for LBJ was Fern Charles Hamill, who died in 2011 at the age of 94 Fern Hamill Obituary (2011) - Tucson, AZ - Arizona Daily Star (legacy.com)
Author John Clarence has released his Kindle version of the Noss Gold which covers this crime:
After LBJ died in January, 1973, Richard Nixon used some of the exact same people who helped LBJ steal his gold to also steal 36.5 tons of gold bars (58% gold purity) from White Sands over Thanksgiving weekend 1973, which Richard Nixon's approval rating was at 28%. The date of the Nixon gold extraction (theft) occurred over a 5 day period from Nov. 21-25th, 1973.
The Nixon theft, hilariously, occurred mere days after Nixon told the newspaper publishers in Orlando on 11-17-1973 that he had never profited off of his public service and that he, Nixon, was not a crook.
Two of the people who helped both LBJ and Nixon steal billions in gold were a CIA gold dealer named Lloyd Tucker, who LBJ had gotten his gold broker's license (very hard to get) and the on-the-ground foreman for the thefts, Fred Drolte, a one armed former pilot (one armed due to injuries from a plane crash).
Author John Clarence cracked the Noss Gold case when he came into possession of the complete money laundering documentary trail of the 1973 Nixon theft - papers that gold thief Lloyd Tucker held. After Lloyd Tucker died, his widow Betty Tucker gave the incriminating documents to John Clarence. These Lloyd Tucker documents were the keys to the kingdom in solving the gold thefts at White Sands Missile Range.
The reason the government would store gold at military installations is because they were secure locations. Both LBJ and Nixon worked with crooked general commanders at White Sands to facilitate their gold thefts.
In 1977 the brass at White Sands allowed the public on property to "look for the gold" in an event known as "Operation Goldfinger:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/03/19/buried-treasure-sought-in-operation-goldfinder/e02d57d3-7691-49fd-b3f1-7fcddd1fafd8/
By 1977 the gold bank at White Sands had been looted relentlessly on many occasions since the late 1950s by many people including Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, base commanders and some unknown party that made a gargantuan gold extraction sometime in the year 1976. After the gold bank had been completely drained the public was let inside in a publicized farce that the media dubbed "Operation Goldfinder," which, of course, resulted in no one finding any trace of gold. Notably, the 1977 gold searchers were not allowed to go near the "Bloody Hands" site on Victoria Peak that had been the scene of the 1973 Nixon theft.
2013 article on The Noss Gold: Mickadeit: Did LBJ, Nixon steal gold? – Orange County Register (ocregister.com)
The odds are high that the story of The Noss Gold will be appearing on a major media platform sometime in the near future.
Sincerely,
Robert Morrow
Presidential Historian and Distinguished Fellow at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Institute for the Study of Presidential Crime
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