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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

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eh. the shady people are supposed to be the assets; the handlers are supposed to be squeaky clean (on paper, at least.) but yeah, I imagine that a job which requires keeping secrets and breaking laws tends to attract people who keep secrets and break laws.

They are not supposed to break laws in the US.

In their minds, when (not if) they break laws, they should avoid getting caught... because that's all that matters.

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

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CIA recruits a lot of square pegs who didn't quite fit in to other parts of government

But it still vets them. This is very odd.

I think they are a couple of standard deviations more fucked up than the average person still.

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

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> Or are you imagining he'd go bury the gold in a hole in the woods somewhere? Why not?

Because, for someone with any kind of security clearance, suddenly going out to the woods, if you don't normally go out to the woods, would be a major outlier from your highly-scrutinized and documented regular life; and so could easily lead the FBI to finding your buried gold, without having to get any kind of warrant.

The security scrutiny is really so thorough that taking up a new apparent hobby gets flagged? That’s impressive.

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

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flock or any number of cameras that contribute to flock would see you.

They would see you driving out into the sticks to go camping for a few days. That's entirely normal isn't it? We haven't (yet) made it to the level of flock cameras on gravel logging roads.

There are some on hiking trails :)

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

#196

Maybe this is part of the shadow money. CIA has been working with business people since the beginning of Cold War and I wouldn't be surprised that they have deep roots in the financial world -- after all both Intelligence and Finance need globalization.

Sounds like using an official position to make money.

A guy I used to know, a retired USAF Maj. pilot, acquired a bunch of racing cars, motorcycles, and a non-flyable MiG-21 through shady characters.

More than likely individual people try to get away with doing shady shit on the side rather than it being a grand UFO conspiracy.

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

#198

I'm guessing they decided they don't like the guy anymore? The CIA is very corrupt as an institution and things like this run rampant. Billions of dollars go unaccounted for a year at the CIA.

DoD defense contractors (military-industrial complex) is pretty close to the same. Never passed an audit and contractors were ripping off the DoD while creating scrap metal that was used by the Taliban. Trillions and trillions wasted.

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

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post #176

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> Or are you imagining he'd go bury the gold in a hole in the woods somewhere? Why not?

Because, for someone with any kind of security clearance, suddenly going out to the woods, if you don't normally go out to the woods, would be a major outlier from your highly-scrutinized and documented regular life; and so could easily lead the FBI to finding your buried gold, without having to get any kind of warrant.

How would they know you went out to the woods?

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

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post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Or are you imagining he'd go bury the gold in a hole in the woods somewhere? Why not?

Because, for someone with any kind of security clearance, suddenly going out to the woods, if you don't normally go out to the woods, would be a major outlier from your highly-scrutinized and documented regular life; and so could easily lead the FBI to finding your buried gold, without having to get any kind of warrant.

Nonsense the cost of physical surveillance is extremely prohibitive.
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