- Chris Lynch's relationship with the The Americans TV series began when show runner Joe Weisberg contacted him about an anecdote in his book, The CI Desk: FBI and CIA Counterintelligence As Seen From My Cubicle, describing an electronic mail cart at FBI Headquarters in the mid-1980s. This led to The Americans recreating this cart as a recurring "character," the mail robot.
- Anecdotes taken directly from Christopher Lynch's book, The CI Desk, have been used in The Americans TV series, particularly in Season 4. Among them was when FBI Special Agent Stan Beeman told his supervisor, Special Agent Gaad, about an FBI employee who was puzzled about a request to visit the Director's office, and spent all day preparing for it, only to learn that one of the Director's visitors wanted postage stamps. (This actually happened to Lynch). In the same season, Beeman and Aderholt read from a memo that stated "The Bureau does not feel." This was from an actual FBI memo described in the book.
- Although credited as a consultant for season-ending Episode #65 of the House of Cards, Lynch's actual contribution was for Episode #61.
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