Topic: Booz Allen Hamilton

The segment focuses on passenger Yvonne Selke, a long-time contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton who specialized in mapping gravimetric waves and remote sensing. Patch notes the suspicious timing of her death alongside the resignation of a high-level Undersecretary for Defense who oversaw intelligence agencies. The discussion links these events to a broader pattern of sudden deaths among high-level bankers and scientists involved in sensitive research.

John Rapoport argues that the NSA, known for meticulous security, would not likely allow a lone contractor to steal massive amounts of data via a thumb drive. He proposes a hypothesis that the Snowden leaks were part of an internal turf war between the CIA and the NSA. As the NSA became the dominant agency due to the shift toward electronic intelligence, the CIA may have sought to damage its rival's reputation to protect its own budget.