Inside the CIA.

Learn how to fight competition with cable's best: the top secret, DBS- deflating, telco-defying internal covert ops team known as the Cox Intelligence Agents.

By Shirley Brady

If EchoStar had launched its "Stop Feeding the Cable Pig" campaign in 2002, there would have been little that Cox's cable systems could have done-- short of using a needle--to deflate the satellite TV provider's nasty attacks that featured 22-foot-long, 16-foot-tall inflatable pigs bearing anti-cable slogans.

Luckily for Cox, EchoStar started its mudslinging smear tactic