• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You know years ago I heard a recruitment ad for the CIA on the radio, and that caught me a little off guard, I always kind of assumed the CIA personally reached out to specific candidates and hired through shady back channels and such and didn’t really do open recruitment.

    I guess it makes sense though, for every James Bond type super spy there’s probably a hundred different random office staff, IT guys, clerks, mailroom guys, secretaries, janitors, accountants, etc. who handle boring day-to-day operational stuff and rarely or never get to see any of the crazy spy craft stuff happening.

    And I guess once you land one of those jobs, maybe you can get your foot in the door for eventual promotion to International Man of Mystery.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      At my university my whole class was invited to a seminar about how and why to join the Australian secret intelligence service as an intel officer.