I lived in the DC/Baltimore are for 10 years and worked among many high-tech government employees. The joke I heard about 25 years ago goes like this:
Q: How do tell if a NSA employee is an extrovert?
A: They look at your shoes, not theirs.
Seriously, the SigInt people run a meritocracy in the technical ranks. The fact he does not have a traditional college degree ADDS to his credibility. I knew of several “savants” who had Asperger’s or autism and had wonderful careers in the IC.
They dumped him and he went to Booze Allen ~ like to know how that happened ~ could tell us why he turned ~ most likely for reasons similar to that of former FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen