Becoming a Secret Agent

Secret Agents - The life of a Spy

Magic formula agents, or spies, work for the Central Intelligence Agency to locate confidential information about inhospitable countries, usually regarding their particular military or naval extramarital relationships. While secret agents travel all over the world to carry out harmful missions, they're not always within the lap of luxury. Sometimes they get deliver to really crappy places where there is not any electricity or running drinking water! Secret agents - the key word here being key - can't reveal their identity or speak about their jobs, so they have to lie and tell every person they're a truck driver or maybe a spoon salesperson. So if you cannot keep a secret, then you certainly better have a back-up job choice.

Secret Agents - What must be done

The CIA isn't like the circus - you can't just elope to join them. You'll want a college degree and earn a baseline 3. 0 GPA. Any field of study can prepare you for the CIA, but they like computer science, engineering and economics. It also helps if you are fluent in another terminology, especially a hard-target terminology. What's a hard-target? Look at glossary below!

Secret Agents - Talk the Discuss

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to understand these spy terms.

Double Agent - A broker who works for a couple of different governments, but gives false info to at least one.

Rabbit - The one who is being spied with.

Dead Drop - A secret location used to pass items and information between agents while not having to meet.

Hard-Target Country - A country that's hard to spy on, just like China, Russia and North Korea.

Cryptography - Changing information right into a secret code so that unauthorized third parties are unable to read it.

Secret Agents - Did U Understand?

As expected, a secret agent's salary is top-secret! But we've heard through the grapevine that it's not good, especially considering how risky the job is.

The most famous fictional secret agent is Bond, James Bond. Others include Austin Powers, Agent Cody Banks, Johnny English and Ethan Hunt from Mission: Impossible.

Head to the official CIA website to get more info about becoming a spy. You can also take a personality quiz to find out if this is really the career for you!