CIA staffer accused of burglaries

[UpInArms]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3643351.html

FAIRFAX, VA. - A CIA administrative worker was arrested and charged with being a serial burglar.

Police said he is responsible for more than a dozen incidents near the spy agency's headquarters.

Fairfax County police said Tuesday that George C. Dalmas III had been charged with 17 burglaries in McLean, Va., between October and last month. Some of the houses that were burglarized belonged to CIA employees.

Dalmas, 44, of Falls Church, faced numerous counts of burglary and grand larceny, and investigators said other charges were possible.

Police said a search of Dalmas' home turned up a stunning trove of cash: $1.65 million.

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[Junkdrawer]

1. Give a man a salary, you feed him for a day, teach a man how to...

do black-bag jobs, you feed him for a lifetime.

[Dunvegan]

2. Excuse me?

Let me understand this: A cat burgler who works for CIA...and therefore may know the addresses of some CIA people, breaks into their houses...and has a stash (just the one at home, who knows about bank accounts) of $1.65 million dollars...IN CASH?

Okay...help me here.

1. How much are we paying CIA civil servants these days?

2. Or, how much slush fund black-ops money is going home with CIA spooks these days?

[Benhurst]

3. Hmmm. I'd like to see what is behind

door number two.

[Botany]

4. Alex I would like ......

More to this story for $1,000"

[truthisfreedom]

5. and who gets the movie rights?

seriously, it's a great plot.

[BR_Parkway]

6. So was the cash just a bonus, go find out what these people are

up to, we think they may be leaking CIA info?

Banking is heavily looked at by CIA to see if their employees have gotten unexplained money. Wouldn't regular CIA employees understand that they are going to be watched and followed to see if they are actually spying for others? I can't believe this guy did this all on his own.

I could be wrong, or paranoid, or just influenced by too many spy novels. But something just seems kinda weird.

[wordpix]

7. =$97,000 stolen per home--doubtful even toniest McLean homes contain

that much, even if he pawned some jewels.

[canichelouis]

8. What the ....

Cash, cash, cash everywhere

[Historic NY]

9. $1.65 million is a lot of green to be lying around.......

who leaves that kinda cash lying around.........even if you broke it down evenly to 97k each house thats still a lot of cabbage to pay bills. He slips up because he leaves his own license plate on his car.......come on.

[UpInArms]

10. it's a far-fetched thought to have that much money in cash

but I would suppose that the CIA would be watching for banking activity outside the norm of one's salary :eyes:

Who was paying this guy?

Why was he breaking into other CIA employees' houses?

So many questions!

[cantstandbush]

15. For sure it ain't poor people. Only the ones who could be employed

by the CIA and we all know who they are. They are 'stealth' lovers from the beginning.

[Algorem]

11. maybe he was working for Cheney

[displacedtexan]

12. Here's what I want to know...

Did those "burglarized" report all of that missing cash?

[displacedtexan]

13. Here's some more weird news about this guy...

CIA office worker busted in panty raid
Hoard of lingerie, antiques at burglary suspect's home

Tom Jackman, Washington Post

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Washington -- Lori Meyer walked into her darkened McLean, Va., home one evening last month, her 8-month-old son, Samuel, in her arms, and found a strange man dashing down her stairs. As the intruder fled, Meyer ran outside, screaming, and flagged down a passing minivan.

Fairfax County, Va., police said Tuesday that the man that Meyer and the driver of the minivan cornered in a cul-de-sac that night, George C. Dalmas III, 44, works at the CIA. He's now been charged with 17 burglaries in the McLean area. And in a search of his Falls Church home, police said, they found a stunning trove of cash, jewelry, antiques, license plates -- and bags filled with more than 1,000 women's undergarments.

Dalmas was arrested Jan. 31, and at a hearing Friday, a Fairfax judge set bond for him at $50,000 on each count, for a total of $1.65 million. Dalmas was still being held Tuesday night.

His attorney, Michael Lindner, did not return a call seeking comment. A woman who answered the phone at Dalmas' home hung up promptly Tuesday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/08/MNGPSH4RFQ1.DTL

[Historic NY]

14. sounds like he had a fetish going too...........

I'm putting this one in the dumb crooks dept. for now.

[EVDebs]

22. Are Woodward and Bernstein being assigned to this court hearing ?

LOL !

[Dunvegan]

16. Maybe he had a fetish and was a cat burgler...or...

...maybe he was one of them, got caught in a house "spying"...and the authorities "found" ummm..."stolen" cash and...ummmm..."panties (!)" in his house.

If he was caught in a citizen's arrest doing a black-ops, they'll deny him and discredit him with "sex stuff" (their favorite discrediting tactic.)

Maybe the money was his to use for something nefarious...he could be a bag-man for the CIA.

Once he's outed accidentally, whatcha gonna do? Say the guy's a straight-shooter employed to break into CIA employees homes to spy on them? Admit you gave him an enormous amount of cash for black-ops?

Hard to know what's going on with spooks at Foggy Bottom.

[Nihil]

17. Your second option looks far more likely.

I find that the "plant & discredit" option far more credible than
the "each house had $97k lying around in cash" one.

An interesting exercise would be to work out the maximum & minimum
sentences for the listed charges versus those for a black bag job.
Whilst it would be prudent to keep a "dead man's handle" to prevent
the ultimate silencing, I suspect this sort of trade wouldn't cause
it to trigger (as it is definitely a one-off defence) and so deals
can be struck to keep mouths shut?

[NJCher]

18. only $1.65 million?

I would expect it to be $1.65 trillion, what with the thievery in Washington today.

Seriously, take the "panties" element out of the story. I believe, as Dunvegan says above, it is their favorite distraction/lie.




Cher

[Dunvegan]

19. ...that and drinking...sometimes drugs...

...and, I think mental instability. Okay...I think that about covers the cover-up discreditations.

[annabanana]

20. What a movie! What a great bunch of plot potential!

Seriously, this is really interesting.

[EVDebs]

21. The Knights of Malta formed the basis of the CIA's leadership

since its founding. Staunchly conservative and aristocratic. Black bag jobs with 'plausible deniability', Dalmas seems to be a pawn in a larger game. Jack Ruby redux.