Join the National Clandestine Service (Facebook group)!
January 24, 2007 – 8:31 pmThe 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.
2 Responses to “Join the National Clandestine Service (Facebook group)!”
In fairness, that ad was posted by someone totally unrelated to the CIA, and it even said it was captured from Adult Swim on TV. So, if the CIA actually included that YouTube clip in the old group, that’s pretty stupid, yeah, but that wasn’t their own YouTube clip. Just something a random person captured off TV and posted on YouTube.
By Dave Schroeder on Mar 13, 2007
Fair enough. Thanks Dave!
By Bill Herman on Mar 14, 2007