[redwood]

This guy is former CIA...

[tdfx]

He worked as a "technical assistant" for the CIA. He probably picked up a few tricks during his tenure but he didn't go through the clandestine service trainee program, which are the people you're thinking of when you think of spooky CIA types.

[dllthomas]

Or so they're telling us.

Not that I disbelieve on this count, but who was doing just what in the CIA seems like something we don't tend to know with certainty.

[pyre]

CIA does not imply field agent. If you worked for the CIA behind a desk for years, does that give you 'secret agent' skills?

[tekromancr]

No, but I bet you would allude to it at the bar.