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Has anybody here ever been a CIA undercover agent?

brainhulk

brainhulk

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I was listening to a radio interview of a female agent yesterday and it sounded so cool.


however, I guess if you were, you wouldn't admit to it on an online forum...


why did I even ask this question
 
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brainhulk said:
I was listening to a radio interview of a female agent yesterday and it sounded so cool.


however, I guess if you were, you wouldn't admit to it on an online forum...


why did I even ask this question
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Is that a Haiku?

CIA interview sounded so cool
You would not admit online
Why did I even ask this question.
 
brainhulk said:
I was listening to a radio interview of a female agent yesterday and it sounded so cool.


however, I guess if you were, you wouldn't admit to it on an online forum...


why did I even ask this question
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Congrats, you just made "the list."

If you stop posting here soon, we'll know why.
 
I was offered an internship at the NSA when I was graduating from high school in the late 90's. At the time I was like, why would I want to do that? Still kicking myself.
 
I was never a CIA agent, but I was a Mossad agent. I've hunted down and killed at least 30 Nazi war criminals.
 
my brother in law is a bit of a military buff and he once made a detailed posting on a forum about the russian air force. a few days later he got a letter in the mail from the cia asking if he wanted a job.
 
SaurusX said:
I was offered an internship at the NSA when I was graduating from high school in the late 90's. At the time I was like, why would I want to do that? Still kicking myself.
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Hopefully when you're older, you'll understand why this was the best decision of your life.
 
brainhulk said:
I was listening to a radio interview of a female agent yesterday and it sounded so cool.
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It's not nearly as grandiose as you think. I've been in those rooms they show in the movies, the ones with TVs along most of the walls, big conference tables with people shouting about the DNS getting hacked with a coaxial vampire loopback ping...

...It's #@$%ing boring. No, really, it is. The movies make everything sound cooler than it actually is.

As far as the dream of being a badass field agent running around like an action hero, that woman probably has things that haunt her every day and she can't talk about it to ANYONE because it's classified. I'm sure she didn't talk about the friends she's lost, the things she's seen, worrying about family getting hurt...

I can say this about how my brief stay overseas as a contractor effected me:

I stopped counting how many times I was almost shot/blown up after the fifth time.
I twitch every time a door slams or something is dropped.
I hate being in crowed places now because I can't relax... I'm always scanning the room looking for something out of place.
First six months home I was mad at everything and I drove some friends away for a while.
For a year after I got back I couldn't sleep, dreams shook me awake.
I'm just now feeling like a "normal" person again.

All that was just from six months back in 2011, and I was the guy running AWAY from the explosions. It takes a special kind of person to deal with that kind of life and not let it consume them; it's not like the movies at all.
 
SketchMaster said:
It's not nearly as grandiose as you think. I've been in those rooms they show in the movies, the ones with TVs along most of the walls, big conference tables with people shouting about the DNS getting hacked with a coaxial vampire loopback ping...

...It's #@$%ing boring. No, really, it is. The movies make everything sound cooler than it actually is.

As far as the dream of being a badass field agent running around like an action hero, that woman probably has things that haunt her every day and she can't talk about it to ANYONE because it's classified. I'm sure she didn't talk about the friends she's lost, the things she's seen, worrying about family getting hurt...

I can say this about how my brief stay overseas as a contractor effected me:

I stopped counting how many times I was almost shot/blown up after the fifth time.
I twitch every time a door slams or something is dropped.
I hate being in crowed places now because I can't relax... I'm always scanning the room looking for something out of place.
First six months home I was mad at everything and I drove some friends away for a while.
For a year after I got back I couldn't sleep, dreams shook me awake.
I'm just now feeling like a "normal" person again.

All that was just from six months back in 2011, and I was the guy running AWAY from the explosions. It takes a special kind of person to deal with that kind of life and not let it consume them; it's not like the movies at all.
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Thank you for sharing!
 
SketchMaster said:
It's not nearly as grandiose as you think. I've been in those rooms they show in the movies, the ones with TVs along most of the walls, big conference tables with people shouting about the DNS getting hacked with a coaxial vampire loopback ping...

...It's #@$%ing boring. No, really, it is. The movies make everything sound cooler than it actually is.

As far as the dream of being a badass field agent running around like an action hero, that woman probably has things that haunt her every day and she can't talk about it to ANYONE because it's classified. I'm sure she didn't talk about the friends she's lost, the things she's seen, worrying about family getting hurt...

I can say this about how my brief stay overseas as a contractor effected me:

I stopped counting how many times I was almost shot/blown up after the fifth time.
I twitch every time a door slams or something is dropped.
I hate being in crowed places now because I can't relax... I'm always scanning the room looking for something out of place.
First six months home I was mad at everything and I drove some friends away for a while.
For a year after I got back I couldn't sleep, dreams shook me awake.
I'm just now feeling like a "normal" person again.

All that was just from six months back in 2011, and I was the guy running AWAY from the explosions. It takes a special kind of person to deal with that kind of life and not let it consume them; it's not like the movies at all.
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I feel like homeland makes a good case for how the life of an agent isn't that grand. You really lose out on your personal life. I've only watched teh first season though, so don't ruin anything!
 
My “Black-Ops” history ensures that you will never know about the missions I accepted in my younger days, and Vietnam still shudders when it hears the name of a an assasin so skillful and deadly, he is remembered decades later. I hope all of you manage to find some meaning in life, because you obviously have never put your life on the line for others, and until you have almost died, you have never lived. In my profession, you take risks that would be considered impossible to 99% of other men, and undergo pain that the mere shock of which would kill any three of you pantywaists.
 
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