17-10-2013, 02:20 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:
If anyone deserves to find a special surprise in his car one morning, it's Fidan, the Turkish spy chief. He is a key Erdogan man, who was handed the MIT in 2010, after serving as a noncommissioned officer in the Turkish army and getting a bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and a doctorate in Ankara. After Fidan took over the Turkish service, "he rattled Turkey's allies by allegedly passing to Iran sensitive intelligence collected by the U.S. and Israel," according to a profile in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ also mentioned that Fidan was arming jihadist rebels in Syria.
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking...013/10/17/
My bolding.
Quote:CIA recruiting news generation of spies at College Park
Women, ethnic minorities favored among applicants
November 12, 1999|By KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE
LANGLEY, Va. -- WANTED: Smart, clean-living college and graduate students fluent in non-Romance languages. Minority group members and Turkish and Iranian U.S. citizens are especially welcome. A taste for foreign intrigue is required.
That's the Central Intelligence Agency's pitch for its biggest recruiting drive since the Cold War ended. And it's working even better than spymasters expected. Applications more than doubled to 39,000 in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. They're expected to double again next year, and the drive should continue up to four more years.
Although the number of new spies remains classified, the flood of job offers also doubled, overwhelming the CIA's background checkers, who fell so far behind that the agency failed to meet its 1998-1999 hiring target. Now that more checkers have been added, the agency plans to increase its job offers by another 30 percent for 1999-2000.
Rather than Ivy League males, women and ethnic minorities -- particularly Asian and Arab Americans -- are favored. George Tenet, director of central intelligence, also wants more recruits with advanced degrees, foreign language proficiency and experience living and working abroad.
These days, the University of Maryland, just inside the Washington Beltway, is the CIA's most productive recruiting ground.
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(See full article HERE)
The University of Maryland also hosterd a covert NSA facility where Edward Snowden worked.
Spook central?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14