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| CIA - Flushed Some, Ordered to Hire 50% More |
| 2004-11-25 |
| President George W Bush has ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to launch the largest expansion in its history, increasing its spies and analysts by 50 per cent. The White House released a memorandum from Mr Bush to Porter Goss, the new CIA chief, stressing the importance of an ethnically diverse corps of spies, with proficiency in "mission critical" languages, and the ability to "blend in more easily in foreign cities". Increases would involve recruiting thousands of new analysts and spies in its Directorate of Intelligence - the analytical arm of the agency and the clandestine Directorate of Operations, which runs spies overseas. Exact staff numbers are secret but the CIA is thought to have more than 17,000 employees, with 4,500 in the clandestine service. |
| Posted by:Capt America |
| #9 HAHAHA public university graduates - that'll be the day! I think the CIA, or any federal government agency for that matter, would rather see its turf divided up amongst its rivals rather than hire non-Ivy Leaguers. |
| Posted by: gromky 2004-11-25 6:28:53 PM |
| #8 Yes an all BCS CIA! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-11-25 6:18:34 PM |
| #7 What OP said. Break the East Coast monopoly. Go for super-patriotic bright young people from the red states and second-tier schools. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-25 2:58:02 PM |
| #6 Fire everyone who graduated from Yale, Harvard, Georgetown, UMass, Princeton, and a couple of other schools with "prestigious" foreign relations schools, and hire people from BYU, Nebraska, UTexas, Texas A&M, Cal Poly, the Citadel, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Co. School of Mines, and University of Maryland foreign campuses. The first question on the employment exam should be "What is your primary duty as a government employee?" If the answer ISN'T "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and to bear true faith and allegiance to it", they don't get hired. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-11-25 1:34:42 PM |
| #5 Find the very best Chaldean (Catholic) Iraqi-American grads from U Michigan, Notre Dame, Boston College etc. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-25 8:22:15 AM |
| #4 Don't trust any Ivy-League grad child of Ivy League-grad parents. Go for second generation immigrants with top degrees from good public schools. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-25 8:20:30 AM |
| #3 Skip that rule for those over 70 :-) |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-11-25 7:26:54 AM |
| #2 First rule of hiring: don't trust anyone over 30. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-25 7:07:28 AM |
| #1 First, and foremost, keep draining the swamp. I know time is important, but so is segregating the seditionists from the recruits - and dispatching them with an appropriate level of prejudice. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-11-25 1:42:09 AM |