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Dead Drop: September 1

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OPERATION DESERT DORM: Various press accounts say that a serving CIA officer has sued his former boss, a base chief at some unrevealed location, claiming that his career was derailed after he complained about her management style. The officer claims his base chief, "placed her personal needs of cooking, baking, socializing, entertainment, exercise and shopping above the needs of the mission." In the lawsuit, the officer says his boss put people in danger by ordering them to transit conflict areas for shopping missions – apparently to support her penchant for cooking. According to reports, the CIA has filed a response, asking the court to dismiss the case. The Agency may have been sending a signal when they gave the disgruntled officer the pseudonym "James Pars" for the lawsuit. "PARS" is CIA lingo for efficiency reports. Mr. Pars accused his former boss of running her base "like a college dorm." We bet the toga parties were awesome.

SHIPS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT: At the end of a 20-minute Facebook live session, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson seemed to put to rest speculation that recent tragic collisions at sea might be the result of cyber attacks. According to Navy Times, Richardson said, “To date…the inspections we’ve done shows no evidence of any kind of cyber intrusion.” It is perhaps a sign of the times that, to many people, hacking is a more plausible explanation than bad seamanship in the deadly accidents. An article in the U.S. Naval Institute News service this week said that the Navy’s investigation into possible cyber intrusion even has a code name, “Operation Orion Hammer.”

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