CIA fraud splashes Gabonese intelligence! Une fraude à la CIA éclabousse le renseignement gabonais!
English version A former CIA official has just admitted to a $194 million fraud, nearly 111 billion CFA francs. According to the confidential newsletter Africa Intelligence, part of the scheme allegedly ran through Libreville and through the former head of our country's phone-tapping service. That raises an uncomfortable question: who was really spying on Gabonese communications? A CIA official, gold bars and a guilty plea His name is David J. Rush. He is 49 and lives in Ashburn, Virginia. On Tuesday, this former senior official in the CIA's technical directorate pleaded guilty to wire fraud before a federal court in Alexandria. The method was simple. Rush invented fake "classified" programs or imaginary "sensitive activities." Under these covers, he obtained public funds and diverted them for his own benefit: luxury real estate in Florida, private flights, cars. When his home was searched in May, investigators found about 300 gold bars worth more than $40 ...