Today, we have a more oddball tale of deception in what sounds more or less like a private pre-spy school in Washington DC. (Who knew they existed?)
Long story short - a guy ingratiates himself with staff at such a school, and with retired spies more generally, with stories that he used to work in some agency or other, killing bad guys and so on. Some young male students fall for his stories that he may be recruiting them for his still active covert group, but some of the training involves visits to his apartment. (Uh-oh.)
Then, Levin began inviting his protege back to his Arlington apartment building to practice drawing a weapon — shirtless. Soon, the man said, Levin began fondling him and giving him prostate exams, telling him the inspections were key to his recruitment. Levin also washed him in the shower, according to the alleged victims’ lawsuit, which was filed by lawyers Tamara Miller, a former Justice Department deputy chief, and Peter Masciola, a retired brigadier general.
Although Levin told him that he was free to refuse, the Arlington man said he did not want to imperil his candidacy for the clandestine organization or risk losing out on government jobs.
About the same time, Levin had persuaded a second young student at the Institute of World Politics to get in the shower, under similar pretenses, the lawsuit says.The whole story is interesting though, because of the way it suggests that retired spies don't really talk in detail to each other about places they worked for, and what they did. Which makes it conveniently easy to concoct a past.
As someone in comments after the article says:
The general impression, from reading this story, is that there are a bunch of stupid people in the IC.
(I also how hope that the pun in the title to this post is now appreciated.)
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