Forgive me, I’m TOTALLY hyperbolic. *grin* Wash. Post, The Slowly Changing Face of the CIA Spy, Recruits Eager to Fight Terror Are Flooding In, but Few Look the Part:
While officials are cheered that the CIA now seems to be a hot place to work, the overwhelming majority of qualified applicants are mid-twenties to early thirties, white, middle-class Americans lacking in languages such as Arabic, Farsi, Dari and Pashtun. They are not, in short, ideal candidates for penetrating the world of Islamic-based terror groups.
As the agency works to keep up with the increased demands for its services, it is having trouble adapting its workforce to the new war on terrorism — and the enemies that inhabit it.
I dunno, I think it would be kind of cool for a bunch of non-whitebread people showed up at CIA recruiting places; girls with tattoos, guys with piercings, Cablinasian one-legged transvestites… “We want to work for Uncle Sam!” Come on. It could happen.