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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 26510576, member: 4910&quot;]Operation Washtub: How the Air Force and FBI Recruited Alaskans to Resist a Soviet Invasion</p><p><br /></p><p>From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran Operation Washtub, a covert program that trained bush pilots, trappers, hunters and miners to operate as covert agents if Soviet paratroopers ever landed in Anchorage or Fairbanks</p><p><br /></p><p>The program scattered survival caches across Alaska&#039;s frozen landscape, hidden in caves, remote cabins, buried underground, or tucked into distant forests.</p><p><br /></p><p>Inside these hidden stockpiles were tools for both survival and espionage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Agents would find .30-06 semiautomatic rifles with telescopic sights, small-caliber pistols fitted with silencers, 150 feet of climbing rope, commercial skis, snowshoes, radio equipment, explosives to destroy evidence, and <b>$500 in gold or silver coins</b> for bartering.</p><p><br /></p><p>Military.Com news article:</p><p><a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/29/operation-washtub-when-air-force-and-fbi-trained-alaskans-fight-soviets.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/29/operation-washtub-when-air-force-and-fbi-trained-alaskans-fight-soviets.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.military.com/daily-news/investigations-and-features/2025/10/29/operation-washtub-when-air-force-and-fbi-trained-alaskans-fight-soviets.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_d20_1898s.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>United States $20 1898-S</p><p>The 1898 coins were supposedly minted from Alaskan gold.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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