{"id":74584,"date":"2026-06-07T18:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/ex-cia-official-accused-of-stealing-40m-in-gold-bars-reportedly-created-fake-spy-program\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T18:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:57:05","slug":"ex-cia-official-accused-of-stealing-40m-in-gold-bars-reportedly-created-fake-spy-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/ex-cia-official-accused-of-stealing-40m-in-gold-bars-reportedly-created-fake-spy-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CIA official accused of stealing $40m in gold bars reportedly created fake spy program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Rush, who was arrested in May, stole millions from US government through \u2018special access program\u2019, officials say<\/p>\n<p>A former executive intelligence agent who is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/29\/cia-official-gold-theft-trial\">accused of stealing<\/a> more than $40m in gold bars from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/cia\">CIA<\/a> reportedly created a fake spy program to siphon money, the latest on his fraudulent activity, the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/06\/05\/cia-officer-accused-stealing-gold-bars-created-fake-black-box-spy-program\/\">first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David Rush, who was a senior-level employee of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for 17 years, was arrested in May after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\">FBI<\/a> agents discovered Rush had taken 303 bullion bars, each about 2.2lbs, dozens of luxury watches, and more than $2m in foreign currency from his government office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/07\/david-rush-cia-gold-bars-fake-spy-program\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Rush, who was arrested in May, stole millions from US government through \u2018special access program\u2019, officials say A former executive intelligence agent who is accused of stealing more than $40m in gold bars from the CIA reportedly created a fake spy program to siphon money, the latest on his fraudulent activity, the Washington Post &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-CIA official accused of stealing $40m in gold bars reportedly created fake spy program\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/ex-cia-official-accused-of-stealing-40m-in-gold-bars-reportedly-created-fake-spy-program\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-CIA official accused of stealing $40m in gold bars reportedly created fake spy program\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}