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5 min readIn early 2022, David Grusch was sitting in a classified Senate meeting when senior staffers told him that certain individuals had wanted him dead. A U.S. Air Force officer and intelligence official who had spent 15 years in the country's most sensitive programs, Grusch had been tasked in 2019 to investigate the government's UAP efforts. What he found instead was a hidden criminal enterprise running inside a federal agency, funded by child trafficking and operating under the cover of national security programs. The meeting in the Senate skiff—where staffers were so shaken they started drinking whiskey—was the moment Grusch learned just how close he had come to being killed for what he had discovered.
A whistleblower's nightmare
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What you'll learn
- 1 Episode #2560 - David Grusch
- 2 The Joe Rogan Experience
- 3 (02:22) **David Grusch Returns: Life After Testimony** - Grusch describes the personal toll of whistleblowing and his recent work as a professional staff member for Congressman Burleson
- 4 (04:14) **Congressional Divide on UAP** - The bifurcation between believers and resisters in Congress, and the ongoing classified briefings
- 5 (05:33) **The Gold Bars and the Criminal Underbelly** - Grusch connects the David Rush case (CIA officer with $40M in gold bars) to the dark ecosystem he discovered
- 6 (08:46) **Iran-Contra Parallels and the Path to Whistleblowing** - Drawing historical connections to CIA drug trafficking and explaining how Grusch got drawn into this world
- 7 (14:14) **Death Threats and the Senate Skiff Meeting** - Grusch reveals he was told Senate staff that certain individuals wanted to kill him
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David Grusch is a former United States Air Force intelligence officer, former representative of the National Reconnaissance Office to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, and former co-lead for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena analysis at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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