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CIA Recruiting Comes Out Into The Open

This is just one quirky example of the agency's new outreach to a broader base of potential recruits. For generations, the CIA recruited its workforce discreetly — by word of mouth, a tap on the shoulder, or through a friend of a friend.

But under Director Gina Haspel, the CIA is reaching out in very public ways it has never done before. The agency says it needs a wider range than ever of specialized skills — from linguists to scientists to cyber experts. It advertises positions on Twitter and Facebook. And it just joined Instagram.

In a recent speech at Auburn University, Haspel noted the change since she applied in the mid-1980s. "I wrote a letter to the CIA on my manual college typewriter. I mailed it to CIA with my résumé. I didn't have an address. So I just put, 'CIA. Washington, D.C.,' " said Haspel. "And here I am."

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GCHQ drive for more young women to become intelligence agents – keeping country safe from global dangers and cyber threats

SPOOKS have launched a drive to entice more young women into becoming spies at GCHQ as they fight to protect the UK from cyber threats and terror plots.

The top secret spy agency is hoping women aged between 18 and 24 will apply for intelligence analyst roles with an attractive starting salary of £26,743.

GCHQ - the Government’s intelligence, security and cyber organisation - currently employs more than 6,000 people.

But they are hoping their campaign, called Journey into the Known, will encourage women into signing up for a job at the Government Communications Headquarters’ network of UK sites.

They will feature stories from five female employees over the coming weeks on their Instagram page.

The women, whose names have been changed for security reasons, all work as linguists, analysts and communication security specialists.

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Hackers Wanted: Canadian Intelligence Service is Hiring

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service published a job offer for Network Exploitation Analyst on Ottawa’s government website.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has opened a vacancy for what is thought be some to essentially be a hacker. The job description for Network Exploitation Analyst was published on the Canadian Government website.

According to the published vacancy, the applicant will be tasked with "conducting technical analysis of technical artifacts using reverse engineering and forensics," as well as engaging to "design, architect and implement systems to support cyber investigative activities."

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Novichok Attack: Apollo... the agent groomed by MI6

THE RUSSIAN military agents who tried to murder Sergei and Yulia Skripal were identified thanks to a recently-turned Russian spy, according to intelligence sources. Codenamed Apollo, he was recruited in a spectacular coup by Britain's Secret Intelligence Service in Rome, weeks after the Novichok nerve-agent attacks in Salisbury.

Although he had a position in Russia's embassy there, his real job was to glean classified information about Nato.

Sources say he had been groomed for months by an MI6 agent posing as an art dealer, after expressing a desire to defect over his belief that Russian president Vladimir Putin is determined to foster conflict with the West.

Last night a recently retired MI6 agent revealed Apollo was brought to Britain in early April and debriefed.

He provided Secret Intelligence Service officers with a "wide spectrum of routine and sensitive information" about Moscow's worldwide spy network.

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MI5 in race to hire spooks in record numbers to fight back against 23,000 jihadists on the loose

MI5 is frantically recruiting spooks in record numbers to cope with 23,000 jihadists on the loose in Britain.

But it takes more than a year to train new spies before they are ready to combat what one Whitehall source called the “unprecedented scale of threat” we now face.

Jeremy Corbyn told the Sunday Mirror the astonishing number of extremists shows that “no one should be in any doubt about the scale of the challenge we face keeping people safe.”

The Labour leader added: “The Government can’t keep cutting resources. Labour pledges more police in our communities to build the links and trust that form an essential part of the wider fight against terrorism.”

MI6, which gathers intelligence abroad, also plans to boost its staff by 1,000 to 3,500 by 2020.

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How to Pass a C.I.A. Background Check

“Withholding information from us will not work in your favor,” says Ronald S. Patrick, deputy director of talent development at the Central Intelligence Agency, which receives up to 150,000 résumés a year. Applicants who are offered a job go through a monthslong security clearance, including an intense background check. To pass, you can’t have been convicted of a felony (“That’s a showstopper for us”); also, no recent illegal drug use. You will be asked about drugs in the application. Tell the truth. “We don’t expect you to be shockingly, squeaky clean,” Patrick says. “We expect you to have lived a life, to have exercised bad judgment, to have gone through adolescence and made mistakes.”

Get your finances in order. “The No. 1 reason why Americans spy is for financial gain or need,” Patrick says. The C.I.A. sees bad credit and mountainous debt as potential liabilities. Prepare to be spied on. Investigators will come to your town; walk your streets; talk to your ex-colleagues, former roommates and nosy neighbors.

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Norwegian politicians falling for Russian honey traps, spy agency warns

Norwegian businessmen and politicians are being blackmailed into working for Russia’s spy agencies after falling for Cold War-style honey traps involving drink and beautiful women, the country’s spy agency has warned.

Arne Christian Haugstoyl, Police Security Service's (PST) section head for counter-intelligence, told national broadcaster NRK that his agency had information that several prominent Norwegians had been targeted.

“We have received reports of Norwegian citizens who have been blackmailed to deliver information to Russian authorities,” he said. “This is an alarming development that we must become more aware of.”