Cody was recruited as an “independent contractor with the CIA due to SAT test scores (top 1% in U.S. in physics) at East Tennessee State University (ETSU). After that, he went on to Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) for their Master’s degree program in physics. He worked for Chevron/Amoco oil companies as a civilian front, while operating as part of CIA black ops. His life got turned upside down in October of 1994, when he was offered the black ops job to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and turned it down.