Bankers, The Spooks Want You!

It has recently been reported that the CIA is actively recruiting bankers for their specific skill sets:

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Laid off from Wall Street? The CIA wants you — as long as you can pass a lie detector test and show that you are motivated by service to your country rather than your wallet. The Central Intelligence Agency has been advertising for recruits and will be holding interviews on June 22 at a secret location in New York.

“Economics, finance and business professionals, if the quest for the bottom line is just not enough for you, the Central Intelligence Agency has a mission like no other,” one radio advertisement for the agency says. “Join CIA’s directorate of intelligence and be a part of our global mission as an economic or financial analyst. Make a difference in your career and for your nation,” it says. Ron Patrick, a spokesman for recruitment and retention at the CIA, told Reuters Television the agency had received several hundred resumes so far from applicants ranging from people just out of graduate school to laid-off bankers.

“It’s going to be a very different use of their skill set than perhaps they’ve used on Wall Street,” Patrick said. Recruits will have to pass rigorous background and medical checks, as well as a polygraph, or lie-detector test. Starting salaries range from around $60,000 for a new graduate to $100,000 for somebody with more experience, and top out at $160,000. Generous benefits are included. Patrick said the agency would welcome worthy applicants from Wall Street, whose reputation has been tarnished by the financial crisis and revelations of lavish lifestyles and multi-million dollar bonuses at banks blamed for the meltdown.

So what skill sets do bankers have that the CIA could possibly want and for what reason? It seems as if the specific targeting of bankers by the CIA is an indirect admission that economic war between the Western world (the US, the UK, and the EU) and those countries opposed to the monetary policies implemented by the Central Banks in these countries (China, Russia, India, Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras, Bolivia, etc.) will intensify in the future. And it also seems to be an indirect admission that the story of the “green shoots” is a blatant lie if the CIA is actively recruiting bankers to use their skill sets in this “underground war.”

Perhaps after the cat was let out of the bag when Goldman Sachs (GS) admitted it had developed software to manipulate markets and the CIA also wants to know how to intervene in the stock markets of other countries. Or perhaps we should read “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” by John Perkins to speculate about what the CIA has in mind by hiring bankers, that in their own words, have had their reputation “tarnished by the financial crisis and revelations of lavish lifestyles.” What better way for these bankers to restore their reputation than to continue to do their dirty deeds under the cover of the CIA and out of the scrutiny of the public eye? So out of a job, bankers? Take comfort in the fact that the Spooks want you!

Comments

[ain't no fo...:]

Its a pretty straightforward match for bankers' skill sets, especially the former investment bankers. The CIA needs cold-blooded, soulless, immoral machines who are psychologically suited to perpetrating monstrous lies, deceit and grievous injury on their victims, the innocents, who they realistically (in their minds) consider enemies.

I think the CIA should consider raising the salary guidelines however, for they will be competing for the talents of these cretins with the Mob, the KGB, the Chinese secret police and most significantly Goldman Sachs.

Persons with souls, compassion or a sense of fair play are encouraged NOT to apply.

Jul 10 10:54 AM

[Swashbuckler:]

The CIA requiring new recruits from the banking industry to pass lie-detector tests is ingenious. That way, only the most accomplished liars and thieves will be allowed to join.The less-accomplished will fail the test. The fact that the pay is supposedly less than that available on Wall Street should not be a major deterrent in landing recruits. Most of the recruits would much prefer to steal from others than to receive an honest paycheck. The money is really only a secondary issue anyway, since the majority of the new recruits get much more fulfillment from the act of f**king over someone while stealing their money and ruining their life than they do from the actual money itself.

Jul 10 12:53 PM

[sheeple123jump:]

.... that's a good book, "Confessions...".... should be part of everyone's economic education.

Jul 11 12:23 AM

[Ferdinand E...:]

Joining the CIA. I never thought that I would be tempted, but maybe I am. After all, I was once a brilliant teacher of international finance.

The problem is though that I expected to be 'drafted' by the US Energy Department in the same manner that I was once drafted into Uncle Sam's army, beginning with a letter from my 'Friends and Neighbors'. Of course, as has becóme clear, the US does not have an Energy Department - they have an Environmental Department. As a result, perhaps I should consider contacting what in some circles is known as the 'Craft' - and in others as a horse's ____ travel agency - and offer to put my arrogant shoulder to the wheel.

Jul 11 09:53 AM

[stillafewleft:]

Hmmm. I guess that would depend on which questions were asked at which interview... ;>)


On Jul 10 12:53 PM Swashbuckler wrote:

> The CIA requiring new recruits from the banking industry to pass
> lie-detector tests is ingenious. That way, only the most accomplished
> liars and thieves will be allowed to join.The less-accomplished will
> fail the test. The fact that the pay is supposedly less than that
> available on Wall Street should not be a major deterrent in landing
> recruits. Most of the recruits would much prefer to steal from others
> than to receive an honest paycheck. The money is really only a secondary
> issue anyway, since the majority of the new recruits get much more
> fulfillment from the act of f**king over someone while stealing their
> money and ruining their life than they do from the actual money itself.

Jul 11 10:55 AM

[ken3602:]

CIA will not be able to hire any of the formerly wall street bankers because 100% of them will fail the very first simple question on a lie detector test:

Would you work for your country in any circumstances?

Jul 11 11:55 AM

[ken3602:]

Or... I have a second thought.
They will all pass the most vigorous lie detector test with no sweat, and everyone in CIA will start questioning the test. The result is same. No banker is hired for the moment...

Jul 11 11:59 AM

[I am not a ...:]

Attacks on Cyber net works by unknown hackers...Chicom being the most obviuos suspect. CIA protecting Americas Financial systewm from Cyber attack?

Jul 11 07:22 PM

[spontsymm:]

Let the SEC investigators keep a slice of the fraud they can convict. Capitalism is about incentive. Give the so called market police the right incentive, and maybe competition can prevail again.

Jul 12 01:26 AM

[Monticello ...:]

Nothing surprises me anymore about the CIA.

My Dad was interviewed by the CIA when he was finishing up his undergrad degree at the University of Texas, in Austin. I've never forgotten the story he told me about how he took the written test that they gave as some kind psychological profile tool. He said he got about half-way through the test and concluded from the nature of the questions, that only a soul-less sociopath could possibly pass it. He walked up to the person administering the test, and, told them he didn't want to be a part of an organization that only hired sociopaths, and, never looked back.

We could stop most, if not, all future wars by shutting down the CIA. About the only decent thing they do is provide data about potential threats to us, but, how can we trust an organization that keeps such deep secrets?

At least, now, there seems to be more Congressional oversight than there was under Bush

Jul 18 02:36 AM