How porous is the CIA's interview process that they couldn't validate the guy's military discharge status?

The type of people Intelligence agencies need and use to accomplish their goals are also the type of people who tend to do these things.

When it comes to stories involving intelligence agencies I generally assume that I’m not getting the whole or accurate story.

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.

the CIA told him to make that part of his identity and then burned him with it

isn’t it obvious?

not being charged for the forty million dollars in gold and foreign currency missing, no explanation on why they are even looking for something that was rightly paid out as expenses, no explanation on what kind of expenses those could be to begin with to incur this much, no explanation on why the government wasn't using US dollars to pay a government employee expenses. Its a complete red herring because some client state is paying off a debt, CIA just needs this guy burned