I find this both hilarious and interesting, given that as a freelancer I overlapped in time and place and suffered accordingly because of her work. What I don't get is -- why the CIA seems to have such a rigid and stylized form of recruitment abroad, when it seems that there are a million ways short of asking someone directly whether they agree to be a paid agent for the CIA to get much information that could be useful. But that seems to be how they do things. Anyhow, this is hilarious and she gets a certain type of Balkans character just right.

Posted by Laura at December 19, 2004 07:13 PM