Financial Times deleted gold manipulation story because it was too 'sensitive'

With great persistence and a little encouragement from GATA our friend R.B. in Britain has more or less solved the mystery of the Financial Times' quick deletion from its Internet site of its February 24 report about gold market manipulation, "Fears Over Gold Price Rigging Put Investors on Alert; German and UK Regulators Investigate."

The report has been preserved at GATA's Internet site here --

http://www.gata.org/node/13681

-- and at Zero Hedge's here:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-25/here...-manipulatio...

The explanation is pretty much what one might expect: For the Financial Times, one of the many news organizations to which GATA repeatedly has provided its full documentation of gold price suppression by Western central banks --

http://www.gata.org/taxonomy/term/21

-- the issue is simply too "sensitive."

In fairness to the FT, please note that the issue seems to have been too "sensitive" for all those other news organizations as well.

R.B.'s account of his repeated inquiries to the Financial Times is appended.