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Goldfinger: How about that wild story of David John Rush, the former CIA executive accused of pilfering “a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses”? Reports said Rush, a veteran of 17 years at the spy agency, squirreled away the loot between Nov. 2025 and just this past March, when some $40 million worth of gold bars, each weighing about 2.2 pounds, were discovered in his home.
We have questions. Did he just load them into his Cybertruck or whatever and drive them home? Employ a Brinks-style CIA vehicle? And what were those “work-related expenses” his bosses found so persuasive? Covert action of some sort, goes the guess. He must’ve been a great story teller, with dim bosses. But curious minds want to know why the CIA has hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold bars piled up in some warehouse in Virginia.
