Starbucks Creative Cafe. Starbucks, an agent in the CIA.

Us media reported on September 30 that there is an "anonymous" Starbucks on the ground floor of the CIA headquarters. The receipt printed here does not have the word Starbucks, but says "number one store". CIA staff are used to calling the store "Secret Starbucks". You can't get points for drinking coffee here to avoid leakage of customer information.

On the surface, the CIA Starbucks is an ordinary Starbucks coffee shop with golden wooden chairs and tables and blueberries and raspberry scones in the oven. Vanilla lattes and lemon pound cakes are the most popular during the day at the 24-hour Starbucks, while Frappuccino and espresso are favorites of night shift workers.

This store may be the busiest Starbucks in the United States, and the people who come here for coffee are often economists, engineers, geographers, etc., who are either gathering intelligence or planning secret operations. Even many job transfers within the CIA are appointed here. They meet here every day. The coffee cups they use are often given a name to avoid confusion, but these people can only write an alias.

The nine baristas in the store, who have undergone a full background check, leave the building under the supervision of agents every day and are not allowed to brag about their place of work to others. At most, they say that they work in a federal building.