Paranoia. Conspiracy theorists have been spreading these rumors for 60 years. Every so often they do an audit, and the next day, they are back at it, making the same allegations.
When you think about it, though, you wonder why we have the gold reserve to begin with. What good is it? Why not liquidate it and use the money to pay down the national debt? In order to be a scandal, it’s gotta be something bad. Selling off the gold reserve might be a good idea.
Maybe they cant because its actually all radioactive. You know, like in goldfinger...