CIA Graduates Largest Class of Officers

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- The CIA, looking to double its ranks of clandestine operatives, recently graduated the largest class of new officers in the agency's history, officials said.

They are, on average, 29 years old. One-third are women. About 12 percent are ethnic minorities. Three-quarters speak a foreign language with considerable fluency and 70 percent had never worked for the government or military, according to agency recruiting officials.

These rookie spies number in the scores, but the CIA says providing a more specific total would give other countries and groups too much information.

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"If you walked into this room with 100 native Arabic speakers, I'd give them all offers this afternoon, if they had the other qualifications we need," Rebelo said. "Same with Chinese. Same with Persian. Same with Urdu. Same with Pashto."

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"Are we ahead of the game? We think we're more ahead of the game than we were," Rebelo said. "Are we winning? Hell, no. Get over it. It's a difficult, complex world out there."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-cia-rookie-spies,0,1929737.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

Espionage is the new growth industry

[IranianDemocrat]

1. Hell I speak Farsi and can understand Pashto.

Maybe I should go work for the CIA.

[genius]

2. If you go to work for the CIA,

please don't accept any orders to fly planes into buildings.

[IranianDemocrat]

3. I won't don't worry.

lol

[terryg11]

4. Quantity vs. quality ?

It's debatable whether we really need more CIA spooks/analysts/officers or not. I just wonder if in their rush to get more bodies out there they didn't rush the grads thru or short change them (thus us too) on training.

[treepig]

6. exactly - is there any problem the cia is currently trying to solve

that they weren't instrumental in instigating in the first place?

on the top of the list:

#1 muslims-extremists-armed-t-fight-the-soviets turned into (possible) 9-11 perpetrators

#2 saddam hussein - just how did he come to power again?

etc.

i submit that less, not more, cia agents is what the world needs - i for one would feel a lot safer

[BlackRhino]

5. Testing

Koo-Koo