Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online explores Porky's, now rebranded as Bellas, a strip club long at the centre of concerns for Law Enforcement and Intelligence agencies.
As longtime hotbeds of mob activity, arms deals, money laundering, drug trafficking and other crimes, Miami strip clubs are obvious targets of scrutiny by the FBI, CIA and an assortment of other intelligence and security agencies. A freshly filed Florida court case provided details about surveillance of Bellas Cabaret – featuring the city's "hottest strippers…from exotic places such as Brazil, Cuba, and France", according to its advertising – that law enforcement officials said uncovered evidence
