asked what he had learned about “deep sleepers”: individuals with whom the Agency had established a relationship, but whose assignment essentially consisted of going to live and prosper in a foreign country so as to develop a full understanding of its culture, people, and government. With a commitment to be helpful to their careers in unseen ways, the Agency only asked of these individuals that, when called upon — unobtrusively, perhaps just once or twice in a decade — they would provide their candid insights into what was happening in the country, and what was likely to happen in the future.
