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FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home

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Re: FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home

#61

How porous is the CIA's interview process that they couldn't validate the guy's military discharge status?

the CIA told him to make that part of his identity and then burned him with it

isn’t it obvious?

not being charged for the forty million dollars in gold and foreign currency missing, no explanation on why they are even looking for something that was rightly paid out as expenses, no explanation on what kind of expenses those could be to begin with to incur this much, no explanation on why the government wasn't using US dollars to pay a government employee expenses. Its a complete red herring because some client state is paying off a debt, CIA just needs this guy burned

Re: FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home

#62
> From last November to March, the court papers say, Mr. Rush asked for, and received, “a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses.”

- "I need these bars to pay off this Russian spy who will tell us Putin's nuclear codes password"

Comes back a week later

- "His password is 12345"

- "How do we know the story is not fake?"

- "What am I going to get a signed receipt from him? Duh..."

Re: FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home

#63
post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gold is pretty soft. You would have to cut it to 10 carat, so there’s be even more to go around!

Having to handle the plates with care and the damage they’d take regardless would add to the charm.

I’ll spot you!

Re: FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home

#65

Archive.ph/archive.today failing me to bypass paywall, is everyone commenting on the title? Or you all have NYT subscriptions? Or you know of some other bypass?

Many community libraries offer free NYTimes access to their patrons.

Re: FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home

#66

Archive.ph/archive.today failing me to bypass paywall, is everyone commenting on the title? Or you all have NYT subscriptions? Or you know of some other bypass?

I get 24 hour access through my local library. Here, have a gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/fbi-arrest-ci...

Re: FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home

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post #6

Gold is the "bitcoin" of yesterday, in the sense that it is untraceable, anonymous and yet high value enough to be worth it. And it can be made to disappear in a hurry, if you have to: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/d...

> untraceable, anonymous and yet high value enough to be worth it

Literally none of these is true of Bitcoin.

Re: FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home

#70

How porous is the CIA's interview process that they couldn't validate the guy's military discharge status?

How porous is the approving manager/chain that someone can request 300kg of gold bars and no one knows why and they just approve it any way.

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