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At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas are covert
WaPo ^ | September 27, 2014 | Emily Wax-Thibodeaux

Posted on 09/28/2014 6:46:45 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

The new supervisor thought his idea was innocent enough. He wanted the baristas to write the names of customers on their cups to speed up lines and ease confusion, just like other Starbucks do around the world.

But these aren’t just any customers. They are regulars at the CIA Starbucks.

“They could use the alias ‘Polly-O string cheese’ for all I care,” said a food services supervisor at the Central Intelligence Agency, asking that his identity remain unpublished for security reasons. “But giving any name at all was making people — you know, the undercover agents — feel very uncomfortable. It just didn’t work for this location.”

This purveyor of skinny lattes and double cappuccinos is deep inside the agency’s forested Langley, Va., compound.

Welcome to the “Stealthy Starbucks,” as a few officers affectionately call it.

Or “Store Number 1,” as the receipts cryptically say.

The baristas go through rigorous interviews and background checks and need to be escorted by agency “minders” to leave their work area. There are no frequent-customer award cards, because officials fear the data stored on the cards could be mined by marketers and fall into the wrong hands, outing secret agents.

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1 posted on 09/28/2014 6:46:45 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Uhm. There’s a problem when our highest level of national security and intelligence gathering has a trendy faggy starbucks in the building.


2 posted on 09/28/2014 6:54:48 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

From what I understand the CIA has two cafeterias, North and South, and the South is considered “open storage”.

Mark Levin loves Starbucks.


3 posted on 09/28/2014 7:00:52 AM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Maybe it’s because the CIA director is a Muslim. Muzzies drink lots of coffee because alcohol is forbidden them (in the ME, coffee is known as “Arab wine”).

Ever notice when there’s an ME or Paki riot of thousands of Muslim males (with never a female in sight), just how jacked up & frenzied they appear? It’s not just Islamic fanaticism, it’s gallons of caffeine blowing a collective gasket.

Never been in a Starbucks, never will be. A cup of plain ol’ joe gets my day started, thank you.


4 posted on 09/28/2014 7:01:37 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: elcid1970

It’s because muslims chew khat all day long which is an amphetamine.


5 posted on 09/28/2014 7:04:53 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Or “Store Number 1,” as the receipts cryptically say.

The identity security of people who work there is important and the author of this article just gave away a nice little trash can hunt for bad guys.

6 posted on 09/28/2014 7:07:15 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: elcid1970

Shock claim: Obama picks Muslim for CIA chief
Former FBI expert claims John Brennan converted to Islam
http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/shock-claim-obama-picks-muslim-for-cia-chief/

Muslim CIA Chief Brennan Rufuses to Take Oath Of Office With Bible.
http://beforeitsnews.com/blogging-citizen-journalism/2013/03/muslim-cia-chief-brennan-rufuses-to-take-oath-of-office-with-bible-2446078.html

LYONS: The Islamic cloud over Brennan and Hagel
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/19/the-islamic-cloud-over-brennan-and-hagel/


7 posted on 09/28/2014 7:08:40 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: elcid1970

>> jacked up & frenzied ... it’s gallons of caffeine

Lightweights...


8 posted on 09/28/2014 7:09:33 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: COUNTrecount

If they’re doing nothing wrong they have nothing to fear. At least that’s what we’re told.


9 posted on 09/28/2014 7:15:38 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Jeez just swing by Dinky Donuts on the way to the office.


10 posted on 09/28/2014 7:22:34 AM PDT by mylife
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11 posted on 09/28/2014 7:28:49 AM PDT by mylife
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And wear a disguise...
12 posted on 09/28/2014 7:31:31 AM PDT by mylife
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To: elcid1970
Maybe it’s because the CIA director is a Muslim.

Wild Bill Donovan is turning over in his grave.

13 posted on 09/28/2014 7:39:29 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: elcid1970; Darksheare
Ever notice when there’s an ME or Paki riot of thousands of Muslim males (with never a female in sight), just how jacked up & frenzied they appear? It’s not just Islamic fanaticism, it’s gallons of caffeine blowing a collective gasket

Thank God they haven't discovered Dark's weaponized coffee recipe!

14 posted on 09/28/2014 8:06:58 AM PDT by null and void (Only God Himself watches you more closely than the US government.)
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To: COUNTrecount; GeronL
Welcome to the “Stealthy Starbucks,” as a few officers affectionately call it. Or “Store Number 1,” as the receipts cryptically say.

Your credit card company, AT&T, facebook, and those who pay to snoop such datastreams all know you were there.


15 posted on 09/28/2014 8:13:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Time for everyone to vacate Starbucks. I only go in to buy a good canister for my coffee. I no longer frequent their premises otherwise.


16 posted on 09/28/2014 9:05:03 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: COUNTrecount

Most days I’m proud of FR.
Today I read through comments on this story and see a simple and kind of funny quirky story about Starbucks at the CIA... and the comments degenerate to blaming Islam and homosexuals.

And all I can do is shake my head in disbelief.
Really people?


17 posted on 09/28/2014 9:06:45 AM PDT by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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and the comments degenerate to blaming Islam and homosexuals

It's the zeitgeist.

People are angry with what they see in the world.

18 posted on 09/28/2014 9:23:15 AM PDT by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: BlueNgold

Support mohammetan sodomy rights today.
/ sarc


19 posted on 09/28/2014 11:02:37 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: null and void; elcid1970

I dunno.
It might actually improve them some.


20 posted on 09/28/2014 11:03:51 AM PDT by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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