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thought people would find this nytimes editorial interesting...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/magazine/19LIVES.html

LIVES
Too Hot to Handle
By LINDSAY MORAN

Published: December 19, 2004

When I finally ''broke cover,'' A.'s respect for me, even though I was a 
woman, increased exponentially. We were sitting in his Mercedes next to what 
appeared to be a city dump near Skopje, Macedonia's capital.

''I love C.I.A.!'' he exclaimed loudly. A., a jovial and dapper businessman 
I had been developing for the autumn months of 2000, was an Albanian well 
connected to a number of significant Kosovars. The agency was interested in 
Kosovo, the contentious region bordering Macedonia to the north, and so far, 
A. had given me solid information.

Weeks earlier, I cautioned A. that it was too risky to meet publicly. ''We 
can use my friend's apartment!'' he suggested.

''Your car will do,'' I replied. ''How would you like to work for the 
C.I.A., too?'' I had written up a careful ''pitch proposal'' and sent it 
back to headquarters, outlining how I thought the recruitment meeting would 
play out.

''C/O Hadley anticipates little risk of blowback in executing the pitch,'' 
I'd written, referring to myself by my alias in the third person as is 
characteristic of C.I.A. case officers and also, I often considered, insane 
people. ''C/O Hadley doubts that Subject ever would report the pitch or 
C/O's true affiliation to the local police or security services.''

After a nanosecond of consideration about the implications of committing 
espionage, A. shrugged and said, ''O.K.''

The C.I.A. never said recruiting an agent could be this easy.

''You cannot tell anyone,'' I told him. ''Not even your wife.''

''I never tell my wife anything,'' he answered with a wink.

''And if anyone catches us together, or asks how you know me. . . . '' I 
braced myself. ''Tell them we're having an affair.''

A. was nearly beside himself with enthusiasm. ''If we must do it, then we 
will make sex.''


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