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[-] [email protected] 128 points 1 week ago

Because you are not good at it

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Email the CIA. Apply for military intelligence.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hello CIA,

How's it going?

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

Doing alright, how you doing?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

5 month old account lmao

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I think I just shit myself.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

... We've rescinded our be in touch.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

You're not supposed to talk about such messages. They're only for you.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The CIA has an internship program for college grads

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They recruit from college students studying Chinese, Arabic, Russian...

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Ahaha, I legit laughed pretty hard at that one.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I speak Russian natively, where to enlist? :D

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

....they should really consider taking the weed addicts.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They are also probably giving the contract to a defense contractor who is turning around and outsourcing it, so there are no US based jobs to troll for the US.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

So, to the Russians?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Looks at Infographics Show content from the past 2 years

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

You could always join NAFO

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The military like doesn't do it, but the almost certainly CIA does...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I mean, the military definitely has a PR division.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

If we ever go to war with Japan again, we should be set.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Weeb should be set....

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Nice try professional military troll!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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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