Sleuths In Suits: Mission: Intelligence

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Even if they are not drafted into the war on terrorism, though, there stands to be more than enough uncertainty at home and abroad to boost the value that business places on intelligence. The economic landscape of the past several months has resembled nothing so much as a minefield in wintertime, when the freezing ground can compress around the mines and trigger an erratic and unpredictable pulse of explosions: the World Trade Center, Argentina, Enron. Few business leaders could be faulted for being worried that the next blast may come from directly under their feet.

--With reporting by Eric Roston/New York