Couple of things. First, interesting story. I'm glad you posted it.

Second, the collapse of the company due to owners stock shenigans. Warrants no comment, sounds reasonable, creates no interest. Sort of a routine happening. How much of an outrage would there have been had there been a Union scandal in the process. I can hear the screams now. But nothing about management taking a company down.

Second, is there any real difference between working for the CIA or the oil companies? It just seems to me that one can work for the CIA or the oil companies directly. Not much difference, really.

Or go into the US military. Another way of working for the oil companies.

Anyway, thanks again.

(If you read the Aldrich Ames story, and others, the CIA's insistence on avoiding drugs and a wild lifestyle and taking polygraph exams is wildly overstated, more image for the paying public than reality for the insiders.)