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 arent 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for all I care, said a food services supervisor at the Central Intelligence Agency, asking that his identity remain unpublished for security reasons.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 didnt work for this location.
This purveyor of skinny lattes and double cappuccinos is deep inside the agencys 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
We don't see that many muslim homosexuals in FR, for them it's a hostile environment. Freedom of association, and all that constitutional trivia.
But I find it telling to see the words "degenerate" and "blaming" in that comment. A subconscious admission that degenerates are involved, and they just might have something negative, or worse, to be "blamed" about.
Which indeed, in my universe, there has been, and continue to be.
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