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Riggs, after all, was the CIA's bank -- at least as far back as 1961, when it served as secret paymaster for the agency's failed Bay of Pigs operation. And in decades since it handled the discreet cash needs of such CIA friends as Saudi Prince Bandar  (who helped funnel money to the agency's Nicaraguan contra rebels and Afghan mujahedeen) and the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, among other shadowy figures.

Riggs went belly-up in the mid-1990s after a money laundering scandal.

(For a colorful exploration of Riggs's pedigree, see Jack Shafer's 2005 take on "The Spook Bank" in Slate.)

I wish I could lay claim to drilling down to the Myers-Riggs angle first, but it was Clarice Feldman, listed as chief investigative correspondent for The American Thinker Web site, who ruminated on it Monday. 

"Gwendolyn Meyers was hired by Riggs National Bank as an Administrative Analyst in the Management Information Systems (MIS). In 1986, she was promoted to Special Assistant to the MIS Division Director," Feldman notes, from the FBI's affidavit.

Simply put, she "worked in the computer department.

"Not much is made of this in the affidavit," Feldman continued, "but employment by Riggs also placed her in a position where she could have provided valuable information on her own to the Cubans.

"At that time Riggs bank was the premiere banking institution in the Washington metropolitan area. It had branches in many big embassies, laundered money for people and governments, had CIA officials on its payroll and otherwise was the repository of significant amounts of information which would be of considerable use to Fidel."

Double bonus: She didn't need a security clearance.  She was down in the IT bowels, amid  jillions of e-mails and electronic transfers, presumably, with no one looking over her shoulder.

Not that her husband was a piker.

"From about August 22, 2006 to his retirement on Oct. 31, 2007," the government says, "Kendall Myers viewed 200 intelligence reports," more than 75 of which "had no relation to his responsibilities at INR, the majority of which were classified Secret or Top Secret."

But Gwendolyn was, theoretically, at least, far better positioned to follow black funds wherever they were going in Latin America - Fidel Castro's main concern - than her husband, top analyst for Western Europe in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

As an instructor at State's Foreign Service Institute, he also would've been able to provide the Cubans with the names of possible recruits in the diplomatic corps.

But State Department documents aren't usually thought of as the national security bureaucracy's family jewels. 

On the other hand, Gwendolyn might have had access to not only tremendously sensitive information about CIA operational payments made through Riggs, she could have known about secret funds that the bank was handling for any number of foreign officials and governments - the Saudis and Pinochet, for starters.

Gwendolyn must have chuckled sometimes as she switched grocery carts with Cuban agents at the Giant near their residence at 3900 Cathedral NW in Washington, as the FBI stipulates.

Everybody was watching her husband.