Dr. Andrew Huff

It's my boss.

Sure, Peter, go ahead.

Well, somebody from the CIA approached me and they're interested in the places we're working, the people we're working with and the data that we're collecting.

Do you think it's a good idea that I speak with them?

And he just said a lot of things, which just set off all my alarms because I came from the, you know, I'm a product of, you know, the so-called deep state of the national security complex.

I held a top secret clearance.

And here's my boss telling me that he had a side conversation with the CIA.

And I have all these immediate thoughts.

Was he really talking to someone from the CIA?

Was it someone pretending to be from the CIA?

Exactly.

Because I'm like, does this guy know what he's dealing with?

You know, I had to say something.

I said, Peter, it never hurts to speak with him.

There could be money in it.

And it was, I think, a very honest, direct assessment of what he had just told me.

We made small talk.

We went down the elevator and we went our separate ways.

I walked home to my place up on the 45th street and that was the end of it.

Well, over the next several weeks, in between meetings at the coffee cooler, I had asked Peter, I'm like, hey, how's that thing with the CIA going?