Are we talking about the New World Hotel, for example? I might have unwittingly bumped shoulders with this guy... I tell you what, it is a small world. Someone, manyones, out there know somebody and something and is not going forward. This wild goose chase shows how low our humint has become.
ANd I mean HOW UNATURALY BAD is our humint. I too have made encounters like these that I never really exploited because I had already my own circles, but I could have easily done it without problems had I been the more commercial type.