US/Department/Commerce

US/Department/Commerce
Parent organization	US
Headquarters	Herbert C. Hoover Building 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington DC, USA
Leader	United States Secretary of Commerce
Staff	43,880

The US Department of Commerce

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Monte Overacre	“Monte Overacre's most important job was recruiting overseas spies. He worked on the campus of a university (though he carefully guarded the identity of the university) in the San Diego area, where he managed a team posing as telecommunications academics, recruiting visiting foreign technology experts to spy for the U.S. back in their home countries-from South America to Europe, Africa to Asia-to keep the agency on top of new technological innovations. Under the guise of running a series of seminars on telecommunications, Overacre and his MXSCOPE team would invite scientists, engineers, and government and corporate officials from all over the world to come to San Diego. Once there, unwitting attendees would be scoped out by Overacre, evaluated, and targeted for recruitment as potential CIA agents, or "assets," after they returned to their home countries. The recruitment efforts were typically unsavory. "The old methods work even with the nerds, sometimes even better," he wrote. "Trips to massage parlors, strip clubs, wild bars with aggressive white women, etc., make these guys come unglued, just like any truck driver. Once you have gotten a guy laid and paid the bill for him, you have a friend for life. Eventually, the recruits would probably be handled by a CIA case officer working out of the U.S. embassy or, more frequently, operating under nonofficial cover, posing as an American businessman. By then, the new agents likely would be on the CIA’s payroll.”	Monte Overacre Mother Jones Robert Dreyfuss	1998

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	End	Description
Barbara Wise	Secretary	29 November 1996	Found dead and partially nude. "No obvious signs of foul play"

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