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CIA Uses Humor to Recruit

Posted on Nov 27, 2006

The Central Intelligence Agency is using a tongue-in-cheek personality test to attract applicants. “You don’t have to know karate or look good in a tuxedo to work at the CIA,” the personality quiz says.

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The CIA has scrapped its ho-hum test that steered job applicants toward mysterious careers and devised one that’s cloaked in jest.

Invisibility or ESP? Jet pack or amphibious sports car? Walk the Great Wall of China or sip Champagne at a New York gala?

The results from the CIA’s personality quiz are just a few clicks away, diagnosing test takers as daring thrill-seekers, thoughtful observers, curious adventurers, innovative pioneers or impressive masterminds.

The CIA wants to hire them all.

The agency’s online personality test is the equivalent of a help-wanted sign, posted on the closest thing the agency has to a front door - its Web site. The frivolous quiz is designed to encourage job applications while dispelling myths about the agency, some of them born of the James Bond stereotype.

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By yours truly, November 27, 2006 at 4:21 pm Link to this comment
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The CIA might as well lighten-up because they’re in for serious times, what with troops out now getting ever closer and our nation’s leaders (political, military and intelligence) facing trial for their crimes against humanity. Let’s see, 30-40 billion dollars thrown away on intelligence plus half a trillion wasted on the military. Add these up and what do we get? Health care for all, free education (pre-school through graduate school), reversing global warming, to mention only a few.

And it all starts with our seeing to it that Congress passes the Kucinich bill that cuts off all funding for the Iraq war. Not only is this doable, it’ll be downright easy.

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