Okay, okay, it’s a salacious headline to grab your attention. But the following was part of the Fox 411 Report today (last two paragraphs):
Anybody have the poop on this???
I remember reading about this. Appaerntly its an avocation that started after he was rich and famous and has turned into consulting.
They actually pretty much gave it away: he’s a government consultant on technology issues, not a spy. I mean, who would out a spy? 
“It was I, you fools! The man you trusted wasn’t Wavy Gravy at all! And all this time I was smoking harmless tobacco!”
I understand he was providing backup on Chuck Barris’ secret missions.
He may have also provided backup on Chuck Berry’s secret missions.
This has been around for a while - he is into weaponry and nuclear usage scenarios and through a variety of contacts, submitted some of his thinking. It was very well received and the relationship was more formalized - he was given top-secret clearance, etc…
He is not a spy - he is a defense strategy advisor of some form or fashion…
Totally legit - out of left field, but legit…
I met him once at a digital music conference - very nice and obviously very smart.
A Google search turns up a zillion references.
Try this article, originally from the Wall Street Journal.
Well that’s pretty cool; yet another reason to like Steely Dan! They should start selling their albums at the International Spy Museum, where I visited a couple weeks ago (highly recommended – I stayed almost four hours).
You only thought it was for four hours. In reality the guide gassed you, carted you off to the boys in the back, and you spent the last week getting wrung dry by trained psycho-interrogators. Then your memory was wiped, false memories implanted, and you were released, none the wiser. :eek:
Damn those men in black!
I only wish my life was that exciting! 
That’s the kinda thing I was looking for! Thanks, EM.
…as well as some post-hypnotic suggestions.
Purple Taxi Guanaco Apricots!!
[sub]Now, we’ll all just sit here and watch you sing Helen Reddy’s greatest hits.[/sub]
Jeff Baxter isn’t a spy, even though he’s a consultant for various government contractors on national security issues, just as Hedy Lamarr wasn’t an engineer, even though she was the co-inventor of spread spectrum (frequency hopping).
Helen Reddy had greatest hits?
I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore…
Yes, but you have been programmed to forget them until another bridge in Bucharest needs to be blown up.
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What have I been doing? That is the first time ever I have come across the word avocation used innocently and sincerely rather that being ‘mentioned’ sinisterly.