VirginiaEx-CIA official with 298 gold bars owes nearly $200m.
David Rush also admitted revealing a clandestine human source to a foreign official, prosecutors said.
Rush invented a classified program to buy Florida real estate and acted as his own approving official, the filing says.
His lawyer denies prosecutors’ claim that large sums remain unaccounted for.
He faces up to 20 years at a sentencing hearing on 28 January.
How each outlet framed it
- BBC leans critical
- links financial theft to espionage; Rush disclosed clandestine human source to foreign official, endangering intelligence asset
Sources: BBC