Printing Secrets At The CIA

• One GBC coil binder

• One Muller-Martini Panda perfect binder

• One Videojet Cheshire imaging system

• Two Acme book stitchers

"We really don't have to meet you till you have a proof in your hand," Krauss says.

Once customers do step inside IPS's nearly windowless facility, a short walk from the main CIA building, they are greeted by a clean, modern pressroom sporting two-, four- and six-color offset presses (see equipment list). Nearby, the IPS bindery features just about every type of finishing equipment made. In fact, throughout the in-plant, a visitor can find two of nearly every piece of machinery, in the fashion of other government operations. As Rob Barbaris, chief of the Printing Services Center, explains: You can't tell the President he's not getting his daily brief because a folder broke down.