Any Potential James Bonds out there?

[CWO3ROBBIE]

I was never in the clandestine service of any agency. However, I did work closely around the world with some who were. 40 years ago we were not even allowed to acknowedge that The National Security Agency existed. Thereby giving birth to the inside joke that NSA stood for "No Such Agency". NSA and CIA, and associated military, operated under some very strict and sometimes weird rules. One such was; If a person had access to Special Intelligence and had to have an operation requiring anaesthetizing, there had to be a person of equal knowledge in the operating room. This was to insure that if some special intelligence was inadvertently disclosed by the person while under the influence of the drug, it would be recognized and everyone in the operating room would be debriefed.

One of my friends shattered the bone in his forearm and required an operation. I was the designated person to accompany him into the operating room. The Surgeon refused to allow me in the operating room.

Our Battlion Intelligenge Officer was called.

A rather intense discussion followed. It was agreed that for various reasons it was not advisable to have untrained personnel present during the proceedure. And, that there was no way that he would be talking during the proceedure. I stayed with him until he was totally unconscious. then they wheeled him away. When the operation was complete, I sat in the recovery room with him until he awoke. I found out that watching someone come out from under anaestheisa is not a pretty sight.

Usually when you are called in to sit with someone after an operation, they have already gone through the first stage of recovery. They may be asleep when you see them, but believe me their body has already undergone the initial recovery.

 

Just one of my enteresting little experiences during a career spent in Military Intellegence.

 

If you know anyone who might be interested in working for the CIA, I will post the web site in the first reply to this.      

[CWO3ROBBIE]

Here is the CIA recruitment ad.

https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/clandestine/index.html

[Chez moi]

Gee, Robbie, I was just thinking the other day that it's a good thing I'm not a spy! I keep forgetting what I'm supposed to be doing when I get upstairs, let alone when I get to some hot spot of spydom.

I guess they'll just have to bumble along without my peculiar talents.

[CWO3ROBBIE]

That was just one of the reasons I did not find the clandestine service appealing. You have to be able to remember appointments and addresses, and what the cover name of your contacts are. I always felt it was a major accomplishment to remember how to say "hello" in the various countries, let alone remember code words.

[darroll]

We were warned constantly about not talking about our crypto machine and other things.
I got home, opened up a copy of Telephony Magazine. Low and behold, there it was for all to read.
I liked the rules: “Enter these premises without proper clearance, you will be shot”.
The sign worked.

[Bull]

Ms Farquar it's called a census innumerator.

[Maricel Evasco]

They did heavy recruitment for the CIA at my university. I was tempted to attend one of the informational session. My professor in Foreign Affairs was an ex CIA director. Appearances could be very deceiving since he looked like the absent minded type especially since he was a key researcher for the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[CWO3ROBBIE]

Maricel, What you say is very true. Most of the people I knew who worked in cladestine areas did not look like what the entertainment media lead us to believe. On the other hand; the nerds at NSA usually look like NSA nerds.