Brewster Jennings & Associates
Brewster Jennings & Associates was a front company set up by the CIA for Valerie Plame, who was allegedly uncovered as political retaliation.
Staff
Plame's status was revealed by Robert Novak (based on leaked information) in a 2003 column. In an interview on CNN, he said "Wilson's wife, the CIA employee, gave $1,000 to Gore and she listed herself as an employee of Brewster-Jennings & Associates. There is no such firm, I'm convinced." It later turned out that BJ&A did exist for all intents and purposes, listed on the Dun & Bradstreet database of company names.
Since NOCs (CIA agents under nonofficial cover) usually work at companies set up by the CIA itself as fronts, it has been speculated that other employees of BJ&A may also have been NOCs, doing work similar to Plame. If that were true, the damage done by leaking Plame's name would be vastly multiplied, as all the other NOCs would be compromised.
D&B statements
A spokeswoman for Dun & Bradstreet Inc., a New Jersey operator of commercial databases, said Brewster Jennings was first entered into its records on May 22, 1994, but wouldn't discuss the source of the filing. Its records list the company, at 101 Arch St., Boston, Massachusetts, as a "legal services office," which could mean a law firm, with annual sales of $60,000, one employee, and a chief executive identified as "Victor Brewster, Partner." [1]
Physical address
101 Arch St. is a multi-tenant, class A, high rise, 21-story, 389,000 square foot (36,000 m²) office building located in the Boston financial district that houses a number of law firms, though there was no visual indication of Brewster Jennings being centered there. "All it was was a telephone and a post office box" a former intelligence official was quoted as saying [2], although the company was listed in an online database of law firms. [3].
Reason company was created
Intended to infiltrate ties between groups involved in smuggling nuclear weapons, it was apparently named after the late Brewster Jennings, who served as president of a predecessor company to Exxon Mobil Corporation.
See also
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External links
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031004.shtml - Column in which Novak mentions Brewster-Jennings & Associates
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40012-2003Oct3?language=printer - Washington Post article notes Novak's statement on CNN, and subsequent effects.
http://www.brewsterjennings.com/ - Brewster Jennings Protects America - Game that merges "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" with Google Maps.