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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: white; mso-themecolor: background1" class="auto-style1">Who
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<span class="auto-style69"><strong>T</strong></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: white; mso-themecolor: background1" class="auto-style1">he Covert Comic?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
If you’ve ever been killed, you probably have a sense of how
life-altering an experience it can be. Being killed frequently results
in profound changes in a person’s behavior and relationships, and can
fundamentally transform the way that person views his or her place in
the world. While each individual responds to being killed in his or her
own unique way, everybody who’s been killed agrees on one thing: being
killed changes one’s life forever.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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In the case of CIA officer</span><span class="auto-style63" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><span class="style96" style="mso-spacerun:yes"><img height="20" src="CC_WK_Smudged.jpg" width="160"></span></span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
aka the Covert Comic, being killed seems to have awakened a greater
awareness and appreciation of the transitory nature of material
existence, as well as a recognition of the need to more deeply examine
his life – and death – in order to better understand the meaning of his
killing (and potentially enable him to avoid being killed again, if he
so chooses, in the future).</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
The following document details relevant events, statements by witnesses,
as well as the Covert Comic’s own observations and reflections. This
document may be updated pending new developments in the investigation
into who killed the Covert Comic.</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="auto-style71" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Who Killed the Covert Comic?</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Because he worked for the US Intelligence Community and therefore wasn’t
very well known outside government circles, the list of suspects can
mostly be limited to those who attended his intel briefings, interacted
with him by classified e-mail, or had lunch with him in the CIA
cafeteria.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
… In other words, at this point I’m thinking the Covert Comic probably
committed suicide. – <i>Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Attending a classified briefing on weapons proliferation can be a
sobering experience. Especially if the liquor runs out. – <i>Opening
joke, Department of Homeland Security conference</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%;">According to
scientists, we spend nearly two hours each day blinking. To avoid
distraction I get all my blinking done by 7:00 a.m.</span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
Never assume your briefing audience is less intelligent than you are.
Carefully vet and edit the invite list to make sure.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
Agency people typically don’t wear shades at work, but he wore them all
the time. He used to say: “</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">If
I took off my sunglasses, everyone else would have to put on theirs</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">.”</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
– <i>Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</o:p></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%;">Disinformation?
Don’t I always?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b></span><i>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p>
</span></i></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style82" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
<span class="style1">A hot-looking walk-in approached me at the embassy
and proposed sex for secrets. At first I hesitated, but her information
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">was</i> pretty good.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</o:p></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
I always think before I speak. I always think “I think I’ll speak now.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black">*<o:p><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">*</span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
A covert operation is only as effective as its worst operative. The
worse your worst operative, the more effective your covert operation.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</o:p></p>
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<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Everybody wants to see the big picture. Nobody wants to smell the big
scratch-and-sniff.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Who says you can’t negotiate with terrorists? I just traded one for a
deputy foreign minister and cash!<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold"> <i>– [Context classified]<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
In addition to his job, he was passionate about writing and posting on
intel-related web sites. He used to get up hours before dawn to do it. I
heard the Agency gave him grief about it occasionally. </span>
<span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p></o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
I asked him once what kind of content he was posting. He told me: “Black
graffiti on a black helicopter.”</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
– <i>Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span class="auto-style3" style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
<span class="style1">Subject told me not to be nervous, as she didn’t
bite. Luckily I’d been briefed that she preferred to constrict and
swallow whole. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">– Ops report</i></span></span><span class="auto-style3" style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><span class="style1"> </span></span><p class="auto-style6" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1" class="auto-style3">
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: white; mso-themecolor: background1"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style8" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1">
<o:p>
</o:p>
<img height="206" src="CC_Officially_Don't_Kill_WK_01.jpg" width="354"></p>
<p class="style87">
<span class="auto-style2"><em>"</em></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: white; mso-themecolor: background1" class="auto-style3"><em>The Covert Comic
- I officially don't want him killed."</em></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style62" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1">
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style71" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Why Was the Covert Comic Killed?</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
One thing we can be certain of: the Covert Comic wasn’t killed because
he knew too much. – <i>Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Name:</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black" class="auto-style3"><o:p><img height="20" src="CC_WK_Smudged.jpg" width="160"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Agency: CIA</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Favorite quote:<i> Knowledge is power.</i></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Favorite song: ‘Fight the Power’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
– <i>Name tag he filled out at an interagency conference</i></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2">
</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:
14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic">*<o:p><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">*</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style77" style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">During the
rendition controversy he was at a diplomatic function and someone asked
him his view on torture and the CIA.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
He said: “It depends who at CIA you’re torturing.” </span>
<span class="auto-style68" style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
– Anonymous CIA official<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="auto-style2">I bet </span>
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">the spirit
animal of most animals is that same species of animal.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
The only difference between ‘leader’ and ‘dealer’ is where you place the
letters.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-no-proof: yes">
To die if you get shot in the head, that’s natural isn’t it? <i>–
Explaining why he cabled HQS that a deceased asset had died of natural
causes</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Nobody plans to fail, they just fail to plan. Therefore, always plan to
fail to fail to plan. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
A military attach� from a Third World country asked him if it was true
that the Agency was researching how to read people’s minds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
He said: “Don’t imagine for a second that CIA can detect your thoughts. <o:p></o:p>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
… Imagine it for at least 2.5 seconds so we can calibrate our monitors.”
</span>
<span class="auto-style68" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
– Anonymous CIA official</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
When I was a kid I never knew where my next meal was coming
from. Restaurant, delivery, catered – it seemed like every meal came
from a different place.</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
Wanna hunker under the covers in my cut-and-cover bunker? </span>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">– Officially
nowhere near Syria</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">Philadelphia
is just the tip of the Pittsburgh.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Let’s please have everyone line up and form an ascending spiral. <i>–
While leading a team building exercise</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style68" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
In our conference room at Langley there was a framed quote by a famous
sci-fi writer: </span>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style68" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Unbeknownst to anyone, he replaced it with the quote: </span>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style68" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Reality is that which, as soon as you start believing in it, goes away.</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Exact same font; nobody noticed the change. Last time I checked it was
still there. – <i>Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Never compromise your principles. Maintain their cover at all times.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style66">
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style62" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
<img height="256" src="CC_Learning%20to%20Fly_WK.jpg" width="266"></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style62" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
</p>
<p align="center" class="style122">
</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style71" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
How Was the Covert Comic Killed?</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
I assume he would have perished while giving an intelligence briefing.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
... I mean, nobody could tell jokes like that and not expect to die
onstage. – <i>Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">Whatever
hardens your structure.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">I support
transparency in government. I’ve been known to help make governments
practically invisible.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">America has
never lost a war. We just misplaced a couple temporarily.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
In Washington DC, you long long for a brief brief.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
It seemed like his cover was constantly getting blown.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
He used to joke “My cover has all the fun.” <i>– Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Papa was a rollin’ stone. But he generally confined his rollin’ to the
TV room and kitchen.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
Visited new tech site; site manager confirmed fully configured, turned
on and ready for operations. And she said the site was ready too. –</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%;">
Ops report</span></i><span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
</span>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style77">I’ve never understood how some intel officers
can shatter lives and then just submit an expense form. Whenever I try
to do that, Central Travel always makes me attach receipts. <o:p></o:p>
</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Melvin. – <i>When asked by his first grade teacher to name an animal
that lives in Africa</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
We were in the Ops Center when a headline came across one of the news
services: “Massive Explosion Rocks Moscow.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
He said: “Wonder if their songs are on iTunes.” – <i>Anonymous CIA
official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
Contrary</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
to popular perception, HUMINT is not acquired by means of sex, though
you can get it from sitting on a public toilet.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
The Super Bowl has become so commercialized, its religious meaning is in
danger of being lost completely.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
“Bond. James Bond.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Corny? Sure. But you have to admit it sounds better than “Fleming. Ian
Fleming.”</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">One
intelligence analyst’s Analytic Outreach is another’s nonconsensual
groping.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
Director’s cut? Let’s hope it’s a major artery.</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
She walked into my life like a shopper walking into a locked glass door
twenty minutes before the store opens. <i>– Ops report</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">The sentence
‘Lying on a beach chair, drink in hand, the sun slowly sank below the
horizon’ is <i>not</i> a dangling modifier. I’ve seen the sun kick back
like that plenty of times.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style82"><span class="style1">But if you
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">could</i> care less about what
happens to me, I’d make it worth your while. –<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
During arrest by a foreign security service</i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Never let power go to your head. There are much better parts of you for
power to go to.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Hey! Oil! – <i>Kidding around during excavation of a suspected chemical
munitions dump in Iraq</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
</p>
<p class="auto-style8" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1">
<o:p>
</o:p>
<img height="279" src="CC_Berlin_Wall_0_WK.jpg" width="417"></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style68" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Anonymous expression of solidarity</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style68" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Berlin Wall Memorial, CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style122" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style71" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
When Was the Covert Comic Killed?</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
When <i>wasn’t </i>the Covert Comic killed? – <i>Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:
14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic">
<o:p>
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%;">What’s the use of a
pointee-talkee if your talkee has no pointee? </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style77" style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
*</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
Oh what a tangled web’s resultant, when first we hire a weaving
consultant.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Upon our nation’s moral fiber depends our nation’s moral regularity.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
During our first week of Career Trainee orientation, the speaker from
Office of Security said: “Contrary to what you may have heard, the fact
that you possess CIA clearances does not mean Security is obsessed with
your sex life.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
He leaned over and whispered: “Talk about a disappointment.” <i>–
Anonymous CIA official</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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</o:p></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">Non grata,
still working on persona.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
Attempted to change the subject, but despite being soiled, subject
loudly resisted. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
– Ops report</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
He who laughs last thinks slowest?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="auto-style2">How do you know he isn't laughing first?</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style77">There’s no business like show business, but
there’s lots ‘o businesses like matzo businesses.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%;">Eighty percent of
success is showing up. The other twenty percent is giving the wrong
address to the competition.</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style77" style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic">December 12<sup>th</sup>
is International Day of Neutrality. It could have been another date, but
nobody had a preference one way or the other.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Interestingly, his homicide was not ruled a death. – <i>Anonymous CIA
official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
You say ‘confusion agent’ like there’s some other kind.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Believe me, if CIA wanted you to disappear, you’d already be working in
the Office of Congressional Affairs Liaison Group.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
We don’t have to live in fear. We can move out to the suburbs and
commute to fear instead.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
The future is now! As for now, it should be arriving shortly.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
Diplomacy and covert action don’t mix. They bond chemically.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
This is critical intelligence – it’s been bad-mouthing me ever since I
collected it.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Michelangelo, and a guy named Guido, both obtained their marble from the
same Italian quarry. But what each man saw in that marble made the
difference between a statue gathering dust in a museum, and the calcite
nano-compounds that saved our galaxy from the dreaded Venusian
Hell-Beam. <i>– Motivational comment to new hires</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style77">Wouldst thou taste the spice of life? Then taste
not the life of spies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: white; mso-themecolor: background1">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style87">
<img height="107" src="CC_Makeshift_Memorial_WK.jpg" width="135" class="auto-style65"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: white; mso-themecolor: background1"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style68" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Inside CIA Operations Center: classified intelligence cables, television
updates, and a makeshift memorial</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="auto-style71" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
What Were You Doing When You Learned the Covert Comic Had Been Killed?</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Officially not killing the Covert Comic, what else? – <i>Anonymous CIA
official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
*<o:p><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
A good hamburger looks like someone eating a good hamburger.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
*<o:p><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. </span>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Walk all over me. I like it.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
He barely escaped death in a car crash in South America. I remember him
saying: “After my accident, the doctors told me I shouldn’t be alive. It
wasn’t a medical opinion – they were expressing a deeply held personal
belief.” <i>– Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
Oh </span>
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
for a book and a shady nook? Oh for a shady bookie and some nookie.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
He’ll hem and he’ll haw and he’ll yes-and-no your house down. </span>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">– Dissing an
intelligence analyst</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Let’s schedule a meeting to disgust the proposal. </span>
<span class="auto-style68" style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
– At the UN</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
In my opinion, a woman doesn’t deserve the title of supermodel until she
proves she can actually fly.</span><span style="font-size:
14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
They had a Father’s Day essay contest at CIA Headquarters. The topic was
<i>‘You’re a father if …’</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
He sent in a one-line entry. It said: “You were the last guy with me on
Saturday night.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
It didn’t win. – <i>Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
If there’s one prediction we can safely make about the future, it’s that
guarding the self-destruct mechanism will continue to be a remarkably
low-paying job.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Out of context?! But I just filled up with context this morning! </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">*<o:p><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">*</span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Sooner or later, we all die from complications of being ourselves.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">My SWOT
analysis got swotted. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">– After
briefing the Joint Chiefs of Staff</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
‘Political asylum’ – talk about a redundancy.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style77">When fortune smiles on you, check to see
if she’s licking her chops.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="style87">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: white; mso-themecolor: background1">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style8" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1">
<o:p>
</o:p>
<img height="159" src="CC_Rumors_WK_5.jpg" width="296"></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: background1">
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2">
</p>
<div class="style87">
<div class="style92">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style71" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
How Will the Covert Comic Be Remembered?</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Who? <i>– Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style77">Nothing to be here, move along.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
They say dead intelligence assets disclose no secrets. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
... Maybe that’s the problem with my intelligence assets.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style77">The source, speaking on condition of
anonymity, stated that anonymity’s condition was stable.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="auto-style77"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
*<o:p><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="auto-style44">
<span class="auto-style2">At most. </span></span>
<span class="auto-style68" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
– </span><span class="auto-style44"><span class="auto-style68">His
manager, answering a question on the Covert Comic’s performance
evaluation: ‘Does he/she qualify as an Intermittent Federal
Employee?’</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
*<o:p><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
Properly executed, the brush pass is a highly effective means of
covert communication. Improperly executed, it's even better.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="auto-style2"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
If the CIA isn’t a force for truth, what is it good for? (Truth
I mean, not the CIA.)</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
The universe is 9% helium. We’re all talking in squeaky voices
all the time.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
T</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">he
Covert Comic? He was the original mission creep. </span>
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
– <i>Anonymous CIA official</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance?
There’s <i>another</i> thing I didn’t know!</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
I googled the quote ‘Power means not having to respond.’ Nothing
happened.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
If some choose to call me a Renaissance man, let it be for my
work on behalf of human advancement (and not for my stockings,
Tudor bonnet and cod piece).</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
WTF, except W = ‘Whither.’</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
Don’t touch me – I don’t know where I’ve been. </p>
<span class="auto-style63" style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
<br class="style96">
</span>
<span class="auto-style63" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
<br>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p>
<img height="244" src="CC_Surrounded.jpg" width="408"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style92"> </p>
<p class="auto-style74" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
</p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
If they ever write my biography, it’ll be one huge black smudge.</span><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
… And that’s pre-redaction. </span>
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
– <i>The Covert Comic</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
If you’ve ever become immortal, you probably have a sense of how
life-altering an experience it isn’t. Becoming immortal rarely
results in noticeable changes in a person’s behavior or
relationships, and almost never fundamentally transforms the way
that person views his or her place in the world. While each
individual responds to becoming immortal in his or her own
unique way, everybody who obtains immortality agrees on one
thing: becoming immortal is definitely no big deal.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Whatever kills me makes me funnier.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">
Mistaken identity? As if every identity isn’t a mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
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<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-color-alt: windowtext">I’m not
bitter. I’m more umami.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
My theory on who killed the Covert Comic: everybody knows
getting clicks can get you murdered. On the other hand, getting
murdered <i>always</i> gets you clicks.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
He used to work the system in order to replace his cover every
couple of years. This probably gave him the idea of being
‘killed’ so people would visit his web site. I bet he’s TDY
somewhere preparing to get killed again as we speak. – <i>
Anonymous CIA official</i><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span></span>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="line-height: 115%;">I resent the
slandering of my good name – especially when I have so many bad
ones available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style110" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
A</span><span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
nasal cavity for a nasal cavity makes the whole world anosmic.
<i>– On why his death should not be avenged</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
<span class="style96" style="line-height: 115%;">Veni, vidi,
vomui.</span></i><span class="style96" style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
I came, I saw, I experienced acute nausea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
I was born free. Looking back, I should’ve at least charged
expenses.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Jack Handey said: “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t
get it.”</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
I hope life is a big joke, because I get it.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Seeing is be leaving.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="auto-style2" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
That one. – <i>Responding to the proverbial query: ‘If you could
ask God just one question, what would it be?’</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman""><o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
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*</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<span class="style96" style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext">
Don’t stop me before I’m killed again!</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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