CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters
12/03/08 - Hilarious
“Also unclear is why black highlighters were chosen in the first place. Some blame it on the closed, elite culture of the CIA itself. A former CIA officer speaking on the condition of anonymity said highlighting documents with black pens was a common and universal practice. “It seemed counterintuitive, but the higher-ups didn’t know what they were doing,” the ex-officer said. “I was once ordered to feed documents into a copying machine in order to make backups of some very important top-secret records, but it turned out to be some sort of device that cut the paper to shreds.” w/ photo
