{"id":1620,"date":"2008-12-08T13:33:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:29:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:29:24","slug":"the-cia-is-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/the-cia-is-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"The CIA is hiring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I don&#8217;t mean the Church in Abingdon.<\/p>\n<p>According to their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/careers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vacancies page<\/a>, &#8220;This includes Clandestine Service Officers to be on the front line of human intelligence.&#8221; Along with people like Einstein and Hawking? These will be recruited into the National Clandestine Service, the service so clandestine it &#8211; um &#8211; has a name with &#8220;clandestine&#8221; in the title. In this field they&#8217;re basically looking for people to recruit traitors in other countries, but strangely they feel the need for a sexier sounding job title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/careers\/jobs\/view-all-jobs\/open-source-officer-foreign-media-analyst.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Source Officer (Foreign Media Analyst)<\/a>\u00a0looks fun, but on closer inspection they have a different understanding to &#8220;open source&#8221;. I could reasonably go for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/careers\/jobs\/view-all-jobs\/publications-officer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publications Officer<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/careers\/jobs\/view-all-jobs\/librarian.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Librarian<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/careers\/jobs\/view-all-jobs\/graphic-designer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graphic Designer<\/a>. I have a certificate to say that I successfully completed the LRQA Internal QMS Auditor Course but, even so,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/careers\/jobs\/view-all-jobs\/contract-auditor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contract Auditor<\/a>\u00a0would just be too scary &#8211; all depends on what you mean by contracts, eh, nudge nudge wink wink?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this all leaves aside the needlessly picky requirement of being a US citizen. I bet I know more American history than most Americans, and if Hollywood is anything to be (and has it ever let you down?) the CIA can employ both\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/character\/ch0002117\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Cox<\/a>\u00a0(Scottish) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/character\/ch0028885\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russell Crowe\u00a0<\/a>(Australian) so I could probably swing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I don&#8217;t mean the Church in Abingdon. According to their\u00a0vacancies page, &#8220;This includes Clandestine Service Officers to be on the front line of human intelligence.&#8221; Along with people like Einstein and Hawking? These will be recruited into the National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/the-cia-is-hiring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,142],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-cia","tag-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}