"An awful lot of things are taking place now that never would have been considered suitable when I was young." It funds research at universities," he said. schools - with the aim of getting them to work for the agency when they head back home. The book looks at how the CIA openly recruits American students - and quietly contacts foreign professors and students at U.S. Golden is the author of Spy Schools: How The CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities. These days, "recruiters are pretty universally accepted and students sign up in droves for these sessions." "Back then, it was commonplace for students to protest the presence of a CIA recruiter on campus," he said. Still, the agency has become more visible, and more widely welcomed at places like universities.įor journalist and author Daniel Golden, this was a sea change from his student days in the 1970s. They have come down a bit since then, according to Sheronda, though she declined to give a figure.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden said they reached 160,000 in his final full year at the agency, 2008.
5u1cNVUbIN- CIA January 26, 2018Īpplications to work at the CIA shot up after the al-Qaida attacks in 2001. That means she supervises teams that put together intelligence sent in by CIA officers around the world.Ĭlick here to apply to the Directorate of Operations 2019/2020 clandestine #internship program. She's now chief of staff for the Directorate of Analysis. "When I decided to go to the CIA career fair, I had a professor tell me that I could not have dreadlocks and that I was going to have to change who I was," she recalled.įor the record, Kim still has dreadlocks. Growing up in a small, Midwestern town, she had no idea how she'd make her way to the CIA, or if the agency would be interested in her as an African-American woman. I wanted to be Jack Ryan," she said - the lead played by Harrison Ford. "I saw a movie and I wanted to be like that guy in the movie." This is what I've wanted to do since I was 12," Kim said. She's naturally outgoing and speaks at public events like college job fairs. She's able to be relatively open about her job. In contrast to Mary, Kim has spent her 13-year career at CIA headquarters as an analyst, much of it focused on Africa.
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