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Weekly Intelligence Briefing

 

 

(Note: Cleared readers only, please.)

If you knew how rarely the CIA engages in covert action, as long as you kept quiet that number might not have to change.

It’s been said that espionage involves peeking at the other fellow’s hand, marking the cards, cooking the books, poisoning the well, breaking the rules, hitting below the belt, cheating, lying, deceiving, defaming, snooping, eavesdropping, prying, stealing, bribing, suborning, burglarizing, forging, misleading, conducting dirty tricks, dirty pool, skullduggery, blackmail, seduction, everything not sporting, not kosher, not cricket. But while this claim is not without truth, its important to keep in mind that espionage also has its downsides.

In order to send a more uplifting message, maybe instead of smashing their guitars at the end of a concert, rock stars could reconstruct guitars from discarded parts and play a song on them.

● Whenever I see a painting of a nude woman, I imagine how angry she must have been when she found out.

● If you reply ‘This is why we can’t be friends’ to a ‘This is why we can’t be friends’ post, this is why we can be friends.

Executive Intelligence Summary

Live, laugh, love, lie (about who you lived, laughed and loved with).

                     

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A NOC has cover meetings, and real meetings. Everyone else has cover meetings.

Fewer than one in ten intelligence reports contain actionable information. And even then, the subject of the reporting usually isn’t nearly as actionable as they looked in the photo.

In quantum physics, ‘Shrödinger’s cat’ simultaneously does and does not contain an umlaut.

● An upside of having Darth Vader for your father: you just know his dad jokes would be way better than average.

● You can look on your phone and know someone’s location, but you can’t look on your phone and know where they’re really at.

… You can? There’s an app for that too now???

Executive Intelligence Summary

Its not a blunt object, its a differently edged entity.

          

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December in Russia. As always, Edward remains snowed in.

My in-laws don’t know I work for CIA – although they do ask why sections of my family’s Christmas letter are blacked out every year.

Social Criticism Certification

“_____ is another manifestation of the systemic _____ inherent in _____ culture.”

Instructions: 1. Fill in each blank above with a randomly selected word or phrase. 2. Post on social media.

Congratulations, you are now a certified social critic!

I deny aiding the enemy. As for abetting the enemy, I won every wager.

Nobody wants to culturally appropriate long division.

Executive Intelligence Summary

Socialism, fascism, tourism – all the monolithic ideologies are basically the same. My War On Terror!

                                  

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