Jeff Castelli, a onetime high flying senior CIA officer whose career nose-dived following the exposure of a kidnapping operation he supervised in Italy, has joined the Washington office of an esoteric marketing analysis firm headed by another former spy.
Castelli's exact title and duties at Los Angeles-based PhaseOne Communications could not be learned, but a source familiar with the company's business said his main responsibility would probably be generating government contracts.
Most of the the firm's clients are commercial, including Hollywood studios who hire it to analyze the effectiveness of movie trailers and promotional advertising, said the source, who asked not to be identified. Other clients include AT&T, General Motors, Nestle, Campbell's Soup, Gillette, Sears, Con-Agra, Ralston Purina and Alberto-Culver.
But the company recently advertised for a "Research Analyst with a Top Secret clearance" to conduct "research on target audiences using secondary demographic, social/cultural, psychological, economic and political materials."
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