CIA Starbucks
Washington Post: "
At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas are covert"
The baristas go through rigorous interviews and background checks and
need to be escorted by agency 'minders' to leave their work area...
It
is one of the busiest Starbucks in the country, with a captive
caffeine-craving audience of thousands of analysts and agents,
economists and engineers, geographers and cartographers working on
gathering intelligence and launching covert operations inside some of
the most vexing and violent places around the world.
(Via
James Joyner.)