{"id":4838,"date":"2012-10-09T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2012-10-09T07:17:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:17:48","slug":"the-cia-burglar-who-went-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4838","title":{"rendered":"The CIA Burglar Who Went Rogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/The-CIA-Burglar-Who-Went-Rogue-169800816.html?device=ipad\">David Wise<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The six CIA officers were sweating. It was almost noon on a June day in the Middle Eastern capital, already in the 90s outside and even hotter inside the black sedan where the five men and one woman sat jammed in together. Sat and waited.<\/p>\n<p>They had flown in two days earlier for this mission: to break into the embassy of a South Asian country, steal that country\u2019s secret codes and get out without leaving a trace. During months of planning, they had been assured by the local CIA station that the building would be empty at this hour except for one person\u2014a member of the embassy\u2019s diplomatic staff working secretly for the agency.<\/p>\n<p>But suddenly the driver\u2019s hand-held radio crackled with a voice-encrypted warning: \u201cMaintain position. Do not approach target.\u201d It was the local CIA station, relaying a warning from the agency\u2019s spy inside: a cleaning lady had arrived.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Wise: The six CIA officers were sweating. It was almost noon on a June day in the Middle Eastern capital, already in the 90s outside and even hotter inside the black sedan where the five men and one woman sat jammed in together. Sat and waited. They had flown in two days earlier for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}