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bemildred

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13. What rules there are, or were, about this are more guidelines, that is they do what they want.

Reply to valerief (Original post)

Sat Apr 11, 2015, 06:44 AM

Apr 2015

It's more about turf wars than any pragmatic necessity anyway. "You get the foreigners and we get the legal citizens" kind of thing. And also the fiction that we still give a shit about political rights and all those little amendments at the end of the Constitution.

You can do whatever you want with the story I think, I've seen the "nameless government agency" approach work fine too, that is leave it ambiguous, and in Mexico it is pretty ambiguous anyway.

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CIA or FBI? [View all] valerief Apr 2015 OP

ummmm monkeyofstick Apr 2015 #1

You pulled that out of your monkey stick just now, right? valerief Apr 2015 #2

The CIA was huge in Iran monkeyofstick Apr 2015 #3

lol monkeyofstick is my native name monkeyofstick Apr 2015 #4

Thanks! I knew this was the right group to ask. nt valerief Apr 2015 #5

I think it would be CIA as set in those days the FBI was not allowed to work outside the country. jwirr Apr 2015 #6

Thanks. I just didn't think the CIA had the power to arrest. valerief Apr 2015 #7

I think I have it. Almost. valerief Apr 2015 #8

Great lit from that era:Norman Mailer monkeyofstick Apr 2015 #9

Ha, I couldn't outdo Doctor Seuss! Thanks. nt valerief Apr 2015 #10

The FBI did Nazi hunting in MX, but lost most of its budget and manpower in Latin Amer after WWII leveymg Apr 2015 #11

Local authorities, huh? Okay. Thanks. So the CIA agent IDs the spy and valerief Apr 2015 #12

That sounds about right. The real problem with that scenario is that leveymg Apr 2015 #15

What rules there are, or were, about this are more guidelines, that is they do what they want. bemildred Apr 2015 #13

You know, I think I may just do "U.S. agent." He'll use the local authorities valerief Apr 2015 #16

The FBI Sienna86 Apr 2015 #14