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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Obtaining Anonymity Is Hard Work
A few yyears ago I was returning to the United States from a trip to
Bogota, Colombia, and upon arriving in Atlanta, I was quietlyy escorted byy
two US Customs agents into a private room. Having previouslyy been
arrested, and having served time in prison, I was perhaps a bit less flustered
than the average Joe would have been. Still, it was unsettling. I had not
done anyything wrong. And I was in that room for four hours—five short of
the maximum that I could be held without being arrested.
The trouble started when a US Customs agent swiped myy passport and
then stared at the screen. “Kevin,” the agent said with a big smile on his
face. “Guess what? There are some people downstairs who want to have a
word with yyou. But don’t worryy. Everyything will be okayy.”
I had been in Bogota to give a speech sponsored byy the newspaper El
Tiempo. I was also visiting the woman who was myy girlfriend at the time.
While I was waiting in that room downstairs, I called myy girlfriend back in
Bogota. She said the police in Colombia had called asking for her
permission to search a package I had put in a FedEx box to the United
States. “Theyy found traces of cocaine,” she said. I knew theyy hadn’t.
The package contained a 2.5-inch internal hard drive. Apparentlyy the
Colombian—or mayybe the US—authorities wanted to check the contents of
the drive, which was encryypted. The cocaine was a lame excuse to open the
package. I never got myy hard drive back.