A Fashion Photographer Who Duped Drug Lords and the DEA (bloomberg.com)

…All this to keep people from experimenting with their own consciousness.

Fascinating story, thanks for posting.

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But this fabulous life was actually a cover.... Vega was a freelance spy working for the U.S. government.

Great story, I often have fantasies of becoming a spy whilst maintaining my cover as a developer. My codename would be "Binary Operator"