The CIA’s National Clandestine Service has a new recruiting tool: a Facebook account (login required). Here’s how Wired News sums it up:
Since December 2006, the Central Intelligence Agency has been using Facebook.com, the popular social networking site, to recruit potential employees into its National Clandestine Service. It marks the first time the CIA has ventured into social networking to hire new personnel.
The profile even sports an embed of a promotional YouTube clip (read: recycled TV ad).
There’s only one problem: any would-be spy who joins the group outs him/herself for all the world to see. I hope that Cliff Kurlander (Emory ’07), Jen Sharp (UC Davis ’10), and Stew Anderson (Vanderbilt ’08) didn’t really want to be agents. But I do; why else would I have joined?
UPDATE: Boy, was I not joking about “recycled TV ad.” I finally watched the end of the clip, and there are a few frames’ worth of a 1-800-Fitness commercial. Congrats to the folks at the CIA for their top-notch understanding of both social networking sites AND video editing software.
