Chad Hauer

government and their agencies, such as the FBI, placed so much manpower into this?

Well, Chad has a couple of theories.

Yeah, good cover.

Yeah, totally.

Yes, okay, I know what you're thinking.

CIA, FBI, recruitment, spies.

This is all starting to sound like a Tom Clancy novel.

But it's actually far from fiction.

It's reported that the FBI and CIA will swarm conferences.

And in fact, a former FBI agent has said that foreign intelligence officers try to collect Americans at these conferences.

As do they.

The CIA is involved with conferences in various ways.

It sends officers to them, it even hosts them through front companies, and it will even mount sham conferences to reach potential defectors from hostile countries.

The CIA monitors upcoming conferences worldwide and identifies those of interest.

Chad was a frequent attender of conferences overseas.

In his capacity as an employee of Microsoft, he talks me through one of these encounters.

But why, Chad?

Why would the US want to recruit this high-level Microsoft employee?

Get you extradited back to the US on these charges.

Get you in a prison over there and say, well, look, we can get you out.