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[–] 128 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Because you are not good at it

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  • [–] [S] 43 points 2 years ago* (15 children)

    At least let me apply. Or is this some recruit type situation where they meet me in a dark alley and burn off my fingerprints.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Email the CIA. Apply for military intelligence.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 2 years ago* (6 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The CIA has an internship program for college grads

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I looked into it, and honestly compared to most private sector internships it seemed terrible, one of the alphabet agency internships I looked at was unpaid maybe all of them. And it was the most stereotypical intern stuff. Organizing files and the like.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    If you have the background and get the right head hunter, you can get sponsored for your TS/SCI. I used to work for a place....

    I will tell you, however, that working in a SCIF is not as awesome as it looks on TV.

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  • [–] 77 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    A) Labour is much cheaper in Russia than the US.

    B) What foreign languages do you speak relatively fluently?

    C) Do those foreign languages match to countries where elections have consequences AND the US has a vested interest in destabilizing them?

    D) If the answer to C was yes, really? Where?

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    OP thinks you should be scrolling on Indeed and see

    Do you enjoy shitposting on the internet all day? Join the CIA and you can get paid to shitpost in our many psychological warfare operations. From attacking leftist causes and amplifying corporate shills in political races, to discrediting climate science and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the Middle East, there is no limit to what you could accomplish with the CIA.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Ahaha, that's great! Only thing missing is a specific list of countries they CIA intends to destabilize.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do you speak Russian, or Chinese? B/c you won't be very effective doing it in English or high-school level Spanish.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Are you in the military, at least? Because that's sort of step one. They don't want the random weed addict who is terminally online. They at least want to know you will follow orders and finish missions through.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    The US is almost certainly doing it too. I don't think they're going to post them on Indeed though.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Because they know you'll do it for free. Source: The Picard Maneuver

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You need to join the military and go to this school.

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    Not for the US military but that’s literally political advertising. Have you seen what the Lincoln project does?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Because thats a important position that is probably obfuscated from the general public

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    You could always join NAFO

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well they definitely can’t hire you now, this post will have blown your cover

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Nice try professional military troll!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because NIPRNET sucks to do OSINT.

    You don't want to be in the military for anything PSYOPS.

    You'd be better off as a contractor.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Manpower in 'developed' countries is too expensive.

    The little anecdotal data we have points to something in the range of 50 cents per "state" approved comment.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You have expertise in the culture of your country. They need expertise in the culture of China/Russia/Iran/etc.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Not foreign operations. But it's relatively easy to get a us military tech job that is low impact. Application process is 3-6mo long but once you're in your golden.

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