I worked a deep cover investigation for a private investigator for about two weeks. It was kind of fun for a while, but I’d hate to do it for a long time, or in a high stakes situation. Mine was just an employee theft investigation for a client company.
I used my real first name and a fake last name, because it’s nearly impossible to learn to react naturally to a different first name. I had to live in a seedy motel, cut off from everybody I knew. I told one trusted friend where I was going to be, and that’s it. I drove a beater car from Rent-A-Wreck, which is a favorite supplier to undercover and plainclothes operations in California. Let’s just say that the company name is not a lie.
The fun part was the cover job interview. The hiring manager had been told that he needed to hire my partner and me. We knew that he knew. But he didn’t know that we knew that he knew. So he was the one having to keep up the pretense. I knew I could give any answer and get the job, so it was a really fun improv scene.
The cover job itself was dirty and unpleasant. No wonder they had a huge turnover at that place. Did we “get our guys”? Yeah, pretty much. And the company’s chief of security, a really smart guy, liked the fact that I found a couple more ways that they could get ripped off by employees. After a while being someone else isn’t so fun anymore. I was glad when that assignment was over.
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