A former CIA officer caught with $40 million in gold bars stashed in his Virginia home created a bogus secret intelligence program to help him hide the massive flow of government money into his personal coffers.

A former CIA officer in Virginia who is accused of taking tens of millions of dollars in gold bars and foreign currency from the agency was ordered Friday to remain in jail until his trial.

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, a former CIA officer and senior Trump administration intelligence official, says she resigned last month because she could no longer sign off on intelligence spending she believed lacked proper oversight,