A buddy is a former spook.
If you met he’d seem very much like a regular guy.
Interesting background, fun to hang out with.
But if you get him talking on topics that some might call conspiracy, well, he’ll go to town with you.
Not in a David Icke crazy kind of way
But in the way that intelligence officers are paid to think.
Potential scenarios.
What risks we might face.
How to thwart them.
Best respond in some worst-case scenarios.
Over the years he’s thought through many such cases that most of us never want to imagine.
“And you wouldn’t be surprised to hear how many of them have been cooked up by someone,” he says.
“Movies like Contagion and Impossible Mission 2 give bad actors good ideas.”
