My Crazy Lady Story

 For 3.5 years,  I worked and lived in Arlington, VA.  I lived in an apartment complex....about 2 miles from the Pentagon.  If you drew a half-mile circle....there were four 'large' apartment buildings near my building.

One of these buildings had a coffee shop-bar operation. 

One day....the local cops got called....to untangle a mess.

So....it took a number of hours and here is the basic story.

One day (around the end of 2010)....some gal  (in her 30s) moved into this apartment  building with the coffee shop.  She got to know a number of folks,  and she projected herself as a member of the CIA. 

Yeah, I know....usually, CIA people don't openly chit-chat about themselves and state their profession.

Weeks and months went by, and some younger guy (late 20s) eagerly bought into her story.  Toward the end of 2011....she had convinced this younger guy that she could hire him on as an assistant.  But there was a catch.....he needed a clearance, and he would be going 'off' with her on a secret mission to the Middle East.

For a number of reasons....I seem to believe that the guy was having physical relations with this secret-agent gal.  But lets not dwell on the lusty stuff.

He filled out the security paperwork and gave her the package.

Right before Christmas....he gave notice to his present gov't job.....and that his secret-agent gal was taking him on a mission.  

This was right before Christmas, and the guy was going to visit his parents (with the secret-agent gal), and announce all this stuff.

Well....his parents didn't really believe much of anything.  Yeah....imagine that.

So they called the real CIA, and eventually.....told 'junior'....this is all BS.

'Junior' calls the Virginia police and that's when they step in to figure out the mess.

My apartment building manager talked around with the cops.....what they said in the end....it seems like the secret-agent gal was paranoid schizophrenic.  She had well-to-do parents....who set her up in this apartment and paid her monthly bills.

The guy?  The story goes that he went back to his old job.  

No one said much of jail for the crazy gal....or even some mental eval.

In this brief conversation with the building manager....I offered the opinion that there were probably dozens like this secret-agent gal in the DC region.  He indicated that the police figured they handled at least one or two of these per year....with most people not wanting to admit they fell for a pretty crazy story.

(I probably have 400 stories like this from my 3.5 years of DC life)