FBI Agents Busted for Cheating

Posted on Sep 27, 2010

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One would think that if a bunch of FBI operatives were to devise a plan to cheat on a key intelligence exam, they might be a little more creative and a lot less obvious about it than the group of agents who recently drew attention to themselves with their middle-school tactics during a round of required testing.  —KA

BBC:

The Office of the Inspector General was called in to investigate after 200 workers passed the test in under 20 minutes.

After interviewing staff in a number of field offices, investigators found people taking the exam had conferred, and that direct cheating had been employed.

In one field office, staff had exploited a lack of computer security to call up the answers to the test.

In another office, of 11 workers interviewed, three supervisors and four agents said they had used answer sheets for the exam. Some tried to justify the usage on the basis that these were “notes”.

They also found that tutors were “training to the test”, indicating which part of lessons would be on the exam by stamping their feet loudly during the relevant sections.

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