[IncreasePosts]

How porous is the approving manager/chain that someone can request 300kg of gold bars and no one knows why and they just approve it any way.

[bawolff]

I imagine a big difference is at most jobs the worst that will happen is you get fired, at the CIA you go to jail for the rest of your life.

[saghm]

I think that if you embezzled $40M at just about any job, you'd be looking at some serious jail time

[IAmBroom]

I can think of exactly one exception, in the US.

[lenkite]

That is why this story feels fishy.

[profsummergig]

Imagine if government approvals were that easy for things the country actually needed, like safe nuclear energy and bullet trains.

[ProAm]

The CIA is a cash only business.

[defrost]

Oh, please.

They're on record as happy to barter guns and drugs also.