Dealings with the "Military"
A man calling himself "Colonel West" contacted a technology company. Colonel West "told [the company] that he was in charge of a covert NATO procurement project that would involve the purchase of sophisticated electronic equipment with expenditures of eighty to one hundred billion dollars...." The technology company contacted two others to actually produce the goods. As part of the deal, they agreed to ship samples for destructive testing to see if the products would meet the rigors of the covert NATO project.
"Colonel West," however, was not actually involved with NATO or any other military organization. Instead, he used or sold the products himself. Read the case, Federal Ins. Co. v. Ace Prop. & Cas. Co., to see who was left holding the bag.