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The Central Intelligence Agency has been advertising for recruits and will be holding interviews on June 22 at a secret location in New York.
"Economics, finance and business professionals, if the quest for the bottom line is just not enough for you, the Central Intelligence Agency has a mission like no other," one radio advertisement for the agency says.
"Join CIA's directorate of intelligence and be a part of our global mission as an economic or financial analyst. Make a difference in your career and for your nation," it says.
Ron Patrick, a spokesman for recruitment and retention at the CIA, told Reuters Television the agency had received several hundred resumes so far from applicants ranging from people just out of graduate school to laid-off bankers.
"It's going to be a very different use of their skill set than perhaps they've used on Wall Street," Patrick said.
Recruits will have to pass rigorous background and medical checks, as well as a polygraph, or lie-detector test.
Starting salaries range from around $60,000 for a new graduate to $100,000 for somebody with more experience, and top out at $160,000. Generous benefits are included.
Patrick said the agency would welcome worthy applicants from Wall Street, whose reputation has been tarnished by the financial crisis and revelations of lavish lifestyles and multi-million dollar bonuses at banks blamed for the meltdown.
"Typically the people that come to the CIA want to serve the government, they want to serve their countries. It's a different mindset perhaps than serving a company or serving profit as a bottom line," he said.
"As long as they can make that attitude switch from profit being the motivator to serving their country, I think they'll fit in very well with us."
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Jun 18, 2009 at 07:18 PM Anonymous Says:
I find it difficult to understand why the cia is going to ex wall street employees if serving your country is the main qualification then they should look elsewhere, wall street is about making money and zero to do with serving your country, maybe teachers would be a more fiiting group to pool from.
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Jun 18, 2009 at 06:32 PM power up Says:
Anybody know where I can reply?
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Jun 18, 2009 at 09:15 PM Anonymous Says:
“ Anybody know where I can reply?
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cia.gov
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Jun 18, 2009 at 08:29 PM Anonymous Says:
“ Anybody know where I can reply?
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you can "reply" by pressing the reply link, if you wanna know where to "apply", that's another question...
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Jun 18, 2009 at 08:25 PM Where to apply Says:
https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/view-all-jobs/index.html
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Jun 18, 2009 at 09:58 PM OvernightKigel Says:
if these wall street people could not see the fraud in the serecuties market, much of which was blatant, how will they uncover matters which are not so obvious, such as, where North Korea is widing weapons.
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Jun 19, 2009 at 05:44 AM Daniel Says:
The lie detector may be the mayor obstacle fot the Wall Streeties.
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Jun 19, 2009 at 08:27 AM מהפך פשטא Says:
Guys with long payos and Biber hats would of course make an excellent cover for the C.I.A., since who would suspect that this guy is really a C.I.A. agent!
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Jun 19, 2009 at 07:54 AM Yossi Says:
I think the people behind the MESIRAH of Rabbi Glanz should be excellent candidates for this CIA job openings....
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Jun 19, 2009 at 09:21 AM Z. N. Mishegoss Says:
The CIA work is right up the alley of Wall Street analysts - it's not James Bond stuff. It's taking seemingly unrelated bits of information and putting them together to make a conclusion. The big problem is that they pay government wages, which leads to ganuvim like Aldrich Ames selling them out. If they paid competitive with the market, they'd have no problem attracting superior minds that would go to Wall Street ordinarily.