Recently, I had lunch with a long-time colleague in the advertising business. He told me of a dicey experience he once had with a government employee. It was when his agency had created an ad for a client that, purely by happenstance, touched on something quite secret and clandestine. It was entirely inadvertent. Nevertheless, this government agent wanted information.
The agent was from the CIA. At my friends’ office the man left a business card with instructions to phone him. The only printing on it was a phone number. No name. No agency address or info. Just a number. How covert. Even FBI cards have some info. Not this.
When my friend met and spoke with the agent, he said it was uncomfortably frightening how much intelligence they already had. Their preliminary research was detailed and complete....
