Great perspective Ross and I would love to weigh in here as well. Although I see no connections to the topic of UFO Legacy Programs in this case, I think this article by WaPo is an INVALUABLE example of how DoD/IC elements can use Special Access Programs (SAPs) or Controlled Access Programs (CAPs) to hide from oversight.
The article states that Agency Officer Rush essentially built out his own Continuity of Government (COG) SAP to steal $40m in gold bars, $2m in cash, and dozens of luxury watches. This endeavour involved Rush swindling a defense contractor through a fraudulent government contract.
According to the article, Rush fabricated much of his past prior to CIA, including Navy service and college degrees, and somehow fooled CIA security to get hired... miraculously not getting flagged in a series of lengthy and rigorous background checks, blood tests, psychological evaluations, polygraphs, military records search, etc.
I see several issues here and think it far more likely this COG SAP was a coordinated CIA DS&T and Directorate of Operations (DO) activity built to hide from oversight, and Officer Rush is the scapegoat here.
First off, although there is a non-zero possibility, there is nearly a zero percent chance that Rush was able to hoodwink CIA security and "slip through the cracks". What is more likely here, in my opinion, Rush's CV is data masked to match his living alias, aka he had a much longer history with the Agency and operated with standard CIA practice of Non-Official Cover or a NOC.
Second, I find it extremely unbelievable that an officer was able to carve out his own basically waived COG (Continuity of Government) SAPs. Establishment, governance, and the lifecycle of a SAP generally involve numerous oversight mechanisms to ensure the need for a SAP, confirm that there is no SAP duplication across departments/services, etc.
COG SAPs, on the other hand, have a very similar structure to UFO Legacy Program SAPs due to a few massaging techniques that waive all congressional and budgetary reporting requirements. These are NOT easy to make and basically have to be spun up at a white house/NSC level due to some interesting molding of Title 10 and Title 50 to get the SAP to exist in a grey area.
So again, I contest that this activity was likely a CIA DS&T/DO COG SAP built for covert operations outside of traditional oversight.... Perhaps in this case, due to the presence of gold bars, overseas trafficking or influence operations.
Indeed, this situation parallels the revelations of 1983's Yellow Fruit USAP (Unacknowledged Special Access Program) out of the Army's Special Operations Division or SOD which directly led to numerous government oversight reforms on National Programs.
Yellow Fruit operated to provide operational security and counterintelligence for CIA Central American missions (Nicaraguan Contras) and "other Army Classified Operations".
When Yellow Fruit was revealed through a series of normal audits, Lt. Col. Duncan was the fall guy. Army Chiefs of Staff were apparently never read into this activity and were shocked they had no idea what was going on in their own Army!
Col. Duncan served on the staff for the Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ASCI). For the security of Yellow Fruit, Duncan performed a staged retirement so the activity could operate outside the Pentagon and within a "black" commercial cover company. In this instance, Duncan would serve the Army SOD's Yellow Fruit USAP through his corporate cover cut-out company, "Business Security International" aka BSI.
Both Army SOD and Yellow Fruit were disbanded with the revelations of Yellow Fruit, and Col. Duncan was one of the few men punished, receiving a full court-martial and a 10-year sentence at Leavenworth!
To state again, I do not think this Agency scandal detailed in WaPo has anything to do with UFO programs; however, I do think it is an incredibly valuable case study.
The events outlined in this article and the Yellow Fruit saga closely parallel and give a firm conceptual understanding of what I speak on oh so often - UFO Legacy Program Secrecy with COG SAP constructs (coming soon), avoidance of traditional oversight channels, NOCs and Datamasked program members, corporate cut-outs, misappropriation and illegal handling of funds, and so much more!
This article is fantastic and I highly recommend giving it a read.
Congress wants you to think they can’t survive on $83 an hour but that you can survive on $7.25.
The level of contempt they have for the citizens is truly sickening.
Steven Spielberg: "Disclosure Day is closer to FACT than fiction when it comes to UFO's & Aliens" 🛸👽😱
"I am for UFO disclosure and that is why I made the film to move the process along"
"A UFO disclosure day would bring the divided world together"
The iconic movie director says with everything that's happened since 1977, he now believes the truth about what's happening in our skies is closer than ever. 👽
In a new interview, the legendary director shares why he made "Disclosure Day": "I really believe that things that I was only hoping were true back then are things that are actually happening now."
Spielberg reflects on evolving from hopeful fiction in Close Encounters to today's reality: "Isn’t it going to be wonderful when people realise after seeing this movie that everything is true, and has been true?"
This shows ~1,200 years of seawater erosion of the Khafre Pyramid, compressed into one minute.
For the first ~500 years a high ocean stand holds about 300 ft above the base; its waves lap the soft Tura limestone casing and dissolve it (carbonic acid) at roughly 0.08 ft/year — about one inch of perpendicular recession annually, and ~14× faster than the slow dissolution on submerged surfaces below.
As the sea recedes, it then pauses at successively lower stands, each held ~75–100 years, and each carves a distinct horizontal band where the casing is stripped to the bare core. Loosened blocks slough off at their own pace and fall down each face, piling into talus that mounds toward the center of all four sides.
The smooth white cap above the highest waterline is never reached and survives intact.
Class XII Interceptor at 2000fps doing what they do.. These objects are flying by commercial aircraft on a routine basis.
This was shot with a telescope and an attached high speed camera. This white object is in focus along with the aircraft. They are occupying the same space. These objects are doing this every day. I cannot show clearer footage, this shit is f'ing real. What are they doing and why are they doing it? @rosscoulthart@GarryPNolan
🚨 An infographic proposes that many observed UAP orbs represent the active drive state of a much larger craft, enclosed within a spacetime bubble or warp field.
When the drive is active, spacetime compression and light-bending effects make the object appear as a small luminous sphere, often around 3 feet in diameter. Upon deactivation, the true scale of the craft potentially 300 feet or larger becomes visible.
This model accounts for recurring witness reports of non-Euclidean interior geometry, silent operation, extreme acceleration, and the discrepancy between apparent exterior size and claimed vast internal volumes. It draws on concepts such as Alcubierre-style warping and aligns with certain technical testimonies.
🚨 "There are 10,000 more UAP videos yet to be released." 🚨
Former F-18 pilot Ryan Graves just dropped a bombshell. Military pilots are reporting UAPs nearly 5 times a day, we're talking metallic spheres zipping past jets, stopping dead in midair, and accelerating like they're shot out of a gun.
Thanks to new declassifications through the "PURSUE system," the floodgates are finally opening. This isn’t just sci-fi or a fringe conspiracy anymore; it’s a critical aviation safety issue that demands real transparency.
The data is coming. Are we ready for what's operating in our skies?
Full Interview here: