>>1439564

Pickle Factory = CIA

https://archive.fo/QUqiy

> When I arrived at their “hidden” facility I was greeted by a friendly high level administrator named Paul Howerton and shown around the place consisting of an abandoned roller skating rink and an old pickle factory next door, both retaining their original exteriors.

https://archive.fo/WFN66

> The CIA is extremely secretive and has developed many nicknames, such as “The Agency,” “Pickle Factory,” “Christians In Action,” “Crooks In Action,” “Cocaine Importing Agency,” “Capitalism’s International Army,” “Capitalism’s Invisible Army” (by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1981), “Certified Idiots of America” and “Virginia Farm Boys” (after its headquarters in Langley, Virginia).

https://archive.fo/Q9LZh

> Responding to the entreaties of his OSS boss, Richard Helms, to join him at the CIA—the “Pickle Factory,” as Hugh’s generation called it…

>>1439564

Pickle Factory = CIA

https://archive.fo/QUqiy

> When I arrived at their “hidden” facility I was greeted by a friendly high level administrator named Paul Howerton and shown around the place consisting of an abandoned roller skating rink and an old pickle factory next door, both retaining their original exteriors.

https://archive.fo/WFN66

> The CIA is extremely secretive and has developed many nicknames, such as “The Agency,” “Pickle Factory,” “Christians In Action,” “Crooks In Action,” “Cocaine Importing Agency,” “Capitalism’s International Army,” “Capitalism’s Invisible Army” (by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1981), “Certified Idiots of America” and “Virginia Farm Boys” (after its headquarters in Langley, Virginia).

https://archive.fo/Q9LZh

> Responding to the entreaties of his OSS boss, Richard Helms, to join him at the CIA—the “Pickle Factory,” as Hugh’s generation called it…

>>1439931

Speculation: The CIA may have been called the pickle factory because, according to this article, https://archive.fo/QUqiy some of the CIA offices used to be in, or next door to, an old pickle Factory

> I was first exposed to CIA culture when I was invited to visit their Washington headquarters in the early 1960s…

> When I arrived at their “hidden” facility I was greeted by a friendly high level administrator named Paul Howerton and shown around the place consisting of an abandoned roller skating rink and an old pickle factory next door, both retaining their original exteriors.