>>213028040 (OP)I went to a meeting with a CIA recruiter because my graduate school invited them, I didn’t get the job because I’m too retarded. The recruiter said that the two main positions they hire for are (1) analyst, usually you’re smart and know a lot about geopolitics and know how to use ArcGIS and speak a foreign language - they publish a good publicly available World Factbook and (2) agents - the recruiter was an analyst and he basically told me that agents are hired for charisma, ability to manipulate people, and basically being sociopaths - their job is to deal with foreigners who the CIA is paying. CIA agents themselves don’t do that much ‘spying’, they manage locals who do the spying. He also told me Havana Syndrome is real and his friend got blasted while visiting New Delhi with Pompeo.
>>213028863FBI is just high level police officers, though they have a bad tendency to claim a case from local jurisdiction and then sit on it forever while street level criminals continue to victimize people and the local cops can’t do shit about it because the FBI says ‘we’re going after the big guys and we’ll make arrests in like 5 years idk’
I respect FBI agents and most of the work they do but they also often tie the hands of the police who are concerned with helping local victims rather than ‘big picture’ investigations. FBI is also increasingly politicized in a partisan way.
The US has something like 26 intelligence agencies in total, it’s absurd