Attention college graduates, the CIA's National Clandestine Service (NCS) - created post-9/11 to boost the agency's human intelligence capabilities - is looking for a few good men and women. And as Wired reports, they're hanging out their shingle on the social networking site Facebook.com. Here's their Facebook group page; you'll need to register at Facebook to get in. A company spokesperson stresses to Wired the agency is merely another "advertiser" and has no access to any user profiles. There are 3,593 users signed up to the CIA/NCS Facebook group at this writing.
The SF Chron approves, but notes agency image challenges. NCS also has a recruiting ad on YouTube. Smart. With many staff aging and retiring, agency recruiters must compete in a market increasingly shaped by personal technology.
You go, spooks!
Posted by Matt Rosenberg at January 31, 2007 01:30 PM | Email ThisI'm all for modernizing with the times, but this is just dumb. Why is it a good idea for the CIA to be putting a big list of potential employees on the Internet where anybody (read: foreign intel services) with a minimum level of technical savvy can go look at it again?
Posted by: brent on January 31, 2007 11:08 PMActually, I think we should resign from the UN, so I can't be very "Cordell Hull," can I?
Our big mistake was getting involved in World War I.
Ya know, we could learn a lot from the Swiss. When was the last time you saw the Swiss going half-way around the world to kick some tin-horn dictator's butt and getting nothing but criticism for doing so?
Posted by: Libertarian on February 1, 2007 07:35 AMMy point exactly. The Swiss stay out of trouble rather than going out and looking for a fight. We could learn a lot from them.
Sorry to point this out to all my conservative friends, but Iraq will eventually dissolve into civil war. If a few years, there will emerge several "countries" that used to be called Iraq.