. one of the weirdest con jobs you have ever heard about in government, the kind you can't believe that some pulled off, particular for as long as this dude did. his name was john beale, he world for the epa over 20 years, one of the leading experts on climate change. while doing that expert work, he was also pretending to be moonlighting as a cia agency. for more than ten years, he told his epa supervisors, i'm going to need some time off, because i have highly secret work to do for the cia. apparently everybody just believed him. they apparently really believed he was involved in some covert operation, so best not to call too much attention to it.