Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online visits the Avalon Mosaic, a luxury apartment building near Washington, DC and improbable base of operations for a prostitution ring recently shut down by federal investigators.
The Avalon Mosaic is an upscale apartment complex in the quiet suburban town of Fairfax, Virginia, which sits about 15 miles west of Washington, DC and is known for its quaint downtown area, excellent schools and annual Chocolate Lovers Festival. It also is the improbable setting for a brothel that attracted members of the capital's political and national security elite, according to an 8 November federal indictment that charged three Korean-born US residents with running an "interstate prostitution
