I like to know what goes on in Glover Park. He says there's no way the FBI could have built the tunnel without his knowledge, but he came to the neighborhood 10 years ago, after it was dug. He lives in what people have told him is a former government safe house. Tunnel talk broke out at a neighborhood fundraiser Thursday and a citizens association meeting Tuesday. But Glover Park doesn't need a novelist to make things up.
Residents say they are accustomed to a daily reality of spy vs. spy.
They say the drama features safe houses, spy houses, lookout posts and unassuming brick colonials that suddenly sprout telephoto lenses, where mail is never delivered and the lady from the U.S. Census Bureau can't get a count of residents. Men with close-cropped hair read newspapers in unmarked cars idling on strategic blocks. So the tunnel fits right in. Mum's the word on tunnels and spy houses. The discipline extends to the Russian teenagers sneaking cigarettes at the back of the compound by the tall fence topped with barbed wire.