Everyone is an analyst, and those analysts save the world. And unless you are in an area designated as a “war zone” or hostile environment (and sometimes not even then, depending on your job), you won’t be carrying a weapon. There is no (with some exceptions) sneaking into buildings at midnight, slitting guards’ throats, or planting explosive charges. If we do our jobs right, no one will ever know we were there, and if they do know, they only know us under our cover story. Our operations always end in high-speed chases and shootouts. And we definitely didn’t give a damn about your phone records. person peripherally, it was either deleted or, if it involved criminal activity, turned over to the FBI. citizens, if any intelligence that was gathered overseas even involved a U.S. But I worked in our domestic division for a while, and I can tell you that not only did we not spy on U.S. Did we at one time? History says yes, and it was a bad time for our nation. But believe it or not-like it or not-the CIA does not spy on U.S. I can hear the Edward Snowden t-shirt and bumper sticker crowd now. We may provide information to the FBI or another agency that results in the arrest of an individual or individuals based on intelligence that we gather, but we don’t slap the cuffs on anybody. The CIA has no arrest or law-enforcement powers. The people we recruit to spy for us are referred to as agents (or assets). I have had personnel from other agencies refer to me or other CIA personnel as agents. This one is pretty common, and it isn’t just Hollywood that gets it wrong. I am sure this has already been done somewhere out there on the big, scary interwebs, but guess what? It’s my article. I just wanted to compile a quick list of the top 10 things that Hollywood (and everyone else) seems to always get wrong about the Agency, in no particular order.
I won’t give away any classified stuff, so put the pitchforks and torches away, oh guardians of the non-disclosure agreement. No, not mad enough to start a Facebook page about it, or to start some sort of hashtag campaign (#itsnotthatimportant) but just enough that I want to set the record straight-sort of. My wife has learned to either ignore the stuff I mutter under my breath, go in another room and watch something else in peace, or ask, “Is that right?” For some reason, it just irks me when Hollywood (and the media, and many others) get it wrong about the CIA and the world of intelligence in general.
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