The only “stealth” Starbucks in the world is located inside the CIA headquarters in Virginia. It serves thousands of caffeine-addicted CIA employees who must pass rigorous interviews and background checks to work there.
There’s a coffee shop in America that won’t show up on your phone’s GPS. It has all the familiar signage, talented baristas, tasty scones, and that vanilla latte that always gets you moving in the morning. But look at that receipt. She simply says: “Shop number 1”. It may look like any neighborhood Starbucks, but don’t ask questions here, and don’t ask for a customer’s name to write on a cup, because this is the only “stealth” Starbucks in the world, located inside the CIA headquarters in Langley , Virginia. And no, there are no rewards cards for clients, lest undercover identities be compromised.
Coffee on a need-to-know basis:
It’s hard to leave CIA headquarters for a quick coffee run, so Starbucks has plenty of business. Many of the thousands of CIA employees who work there — gathering sensitive information or planning covert operations — are “caffeine-addicted personality types,” as one officer calls them.
“The urban myth has it that the CIA’s Starbucks is the busiest in the world,” says intelligence expert Vince Houghton, adding that these are workers “who have to be vigilant and spend hours going through documents. If they miss a word, people can die.”
To become a bartender at the #1 Store, applicants must pass rigorous interviews and background checks. Bartenders must be escorted to and from their work area by agency “watchers.”
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