New York Times: A former C.I.A. officer who the authorities say stashed hundreds of gold bars in his home admitted in court on Tuesday to a far larger web of deception, including a $145 million scam involving luxury real estate and providing sensitive intelligence to a foreign government official.
…Those crimes included his admission in court that he had shared the identity of a human source with a foreign government, a grave violation of what is among the C.I.A.’s most highly protected secrets…