GATA Challenges "O'Reilly Factor" Regarding Treasury's Refusal to Answer Gold Questions

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2001--The Gold
Anti-Trust Action Committee, based in Dallas, has
issued a challenge to Bill O'Reilly, the host of the
FOX News top-rated cable news show, The O'Reilly
Factor.

O'Reilly, who professes that he will take on any
controversial issue, has ducked the Gold Anti-Trust
Action Committee's allegations of the manipulation
of the gold market by a cartel of bullion banks
and a faction of the U.S. Government.

A lawsuit raising GATA's charges has been filed
in U.S. District Court in Boston by GATA consultant
Reginald H. Howe against the Bank for International
Settlements; Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan
Greenspan; William J. McDonough, president of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York; bullion banks J. P. Morgan
& Co., Chase Manhattan Corp., Citigroup Inc.,
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.