How much time is spent training to recruit agents for the CIA?
When you first join the CIA clandestine service, they make it very clear that the most important thing that you’re going to do is to recruit foreign spies. The most important aspect of your training is learning the recruitment cycle, and learning how to view every potential contact you meet as someone who could possibly be a foreign spy. That’s not to say that everybody you meet is going to be recruitable or recruited and is going to become a spy. But whenever you meet a foreigner, you are going to view them differently. So the CIA from the minute you walk in the door to the whole first year of your training is almost brainwashing you. With this idea of the recruitment cycles, this is how you’re going to run your life. But they will spend about a year training you to actually go overseas. And then the rest of your life is like an ongoing training process, because for the rest of your career you will be doing exactly that. Everybody you meet you’re going to be assessing. Does this perso
