Spy Agency Launches Recruiting Campaign

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-NSA-Hiring-Spies.html

Spy Agency Launches Recruiting Campaign
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 10, 2004


Filed at 12:04 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The highly secretive National Security Agency is looking to hire 7,500 workers over the next five years in the spy agency's largest recruiting campaign since the 1980s.

A release posted on the agency's Web site said NSA plans to hire 1,500 workers by September, and another 1,500 in each of the next four years. Those with specialties in foreign languages, especially Arabic and Chinese, were encouraged to apply.

... more at AP

When you hire at these rates you are hiring the enemy especially the Chineses. IMHO of course.

[DBoon]

1. No they won't hire Chinese

Foreign nationals would never make it in the door, and anyone with strong ties to another country would have a very hard time getting the clearance needed.

They will likely recruit Mormons just off their missionar tour for these places. Seriously. They have learned the language, know a little of the culture, and have provably clean backgeounds.

[Cocoa]

2. no homosexuals need apply

this is the agency that fired the gays isn't it?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. i think that was military int.

>this is the agency that fired the gays isn't it?

I think you're remembering a report of *army* intelligence firing gay arabic translators.

[alfredo]

4. I have a friend who is going back in.

If you were an O5H20 in the Army, need a good job and don't mind losing some privacy, go for it.

[DBoon]

5. Slashdot had an interesting thread on this

See:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/05/141248&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=158&tid=99

Lead went:

writes "'Interviewing With an Intelligence Agency (or, A Funny thing Happened on the Way to Fort Meade)' is a humorous and entertaining account of one man's recent experience seeking employment with the National Security Agency (NSA). But this story, newly posted to the Federation of American Scientists website, is also one with a serious message. Written under the pseudonym 'Ralph J. Perro,' it includes discussion of the job interview, psychological testing, polygraph, and background investigation. It will be of interest to anyone contemplating employment with a federal intelligence agency."

With many of the respondents in the thread having their own personal atories about interviewing for spooks.