alt Hacker NewsMaybe 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.
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There's a book that ties into this sort of thing - Gold Warriors [1]. It about how, post WWII, the US recovered a bunch of Gold looted from China and used it to set up an anti-communist slush fund.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249237.Gold_Warriors
I don't think it's connected to this specific event, but there's a lot of lore about the CIA moving gold in/out of Afghanistan, Iraq and others during war time.
They want globalization to make their jobs easier. In no sense do they "need" it. Whether we want a world where the desires of intelligence and finance are blindly prioritized is an open question. For my part the answer is obviously no.
It’s almost certainly grift. If it were official, the arrest would have been scrubbed.
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.
The cover of national security has allowed a certain type of organized crime to proliferate to the point it's breaking society.