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CIA officer arrested with gold bars worked on nuclear submarine program at Pentagon 96%
6/4/2026, 5:00:35 AM
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This is just becoming more and more remarkable the more we learn about this man.
He's David Rush.
He was a senior official at the CIA and it turns out that he had been fabricating his history for years there.
Now, what we now know is that he was essentially detailed or assigned to be the liaison from the CIA to the Pentagon on maritime issues and specifically he was dealing with one of the most sensitive topics for the US Navy and that is the nuclear submarine program.
Now, we also learned that if part of the reason he was assigned to this role is because he was requested for it by the number two at the Pentagon.
That is the Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg.
Now, we have to point out Feinberg has not been accused of any wrongdoing here, but investigators are now peeling back what may have been the role of this man David Rush as the senior official at the CIA.
When they went to his house, they found as you mentioned more than 300 gold bars worth about $40 million as well as $2 million in additional cash and somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 watches including Rolexes and and what we found out in the course of our reporting here.
In fact, this was all discovered when Rush requested large numbers of money and and things like gold bars as the during the course of his job when the CIA went back and tried to trace the money, they couldn't find where it had been used.
That began this investigation and now again, we are unpacking more and more about not just the fact that this was a senior CIA official who was involved in in potentially top secret events and issues at the Central Intelligence Agency, but he was now involved in very sensitive issues at the Department of Defense.
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