Yep, CIA dudes sure do stay in the top places: Milan’s Principe di Savoia and Florence’s Grand Hotel Baglioni.
Don’t you wish you and your six friends could afford $40,000 to blow on a week in Milan?
That’s about a teachers salary in the US for the whole year.
I mean, think about it, each operative on the “Surveillance Team” spent $5,714 a week puttering around Milano. While they’re casing a joint, a teacher is not only teaching reading, writing and arithmatic like her contract states, but in many places she’s also forced into taking the place of religious leaders and leading her charges in prayer, forced into teaching faith as science, and by neccessity confiscating weapons and hard drugs. Not such a great job description.
I have an idea. Why don’t they get $5,714 a week and the CIA dudes can make due with a teacher’s pay and stay in the seedy hotels we thought they were staying in when they were undercover anyway.
I mean, let’s face it, these guys were tracked by Italian authorities and their every move traced because they forgot to turn off their cell phones. They can’t be the upper echelon of operatives, can they?
Ok, I’m done ranting. Things aren’t so good in Italy, either:
Photo: James Martin, Lerici, Italy.