The Expansionist

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Secret Agency, Openly Advertised. Have you seen the television commercials the CIA is running to recruit new agents? Never before in my life do I recall having seen such commercials. The voiceover is of a man with a slight foreign accent — Hispanic? I believe he mispronounces one key word, "clandestine", stressing the first syllable when the second actually bears the word's stress. Perhaps the advertising agency left that error as a subtle signal that people whose English is less than perfect can find a place in the CIA (and, by extension, other U.S. intelligence services?), given that the Nation long ago ('round about September 12th, 2001) realized that it didn't have enuf speakers of, for instance, Arabic on hand to serve our present needs. But nobody seemed to know how to recruit more Arab-Americans and other people with the language skills and cultural nuance to spy on, sorry: gather intelligence from, areas of the world now hugely important to us. They apparently now think a good way to reach these new groups is thru advertising on television, including cable television — including Comedy Central, of all places! — home of the 'subversive' Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
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Will new recruits from different cultures change the 'culture' of the CIA? One can only hope.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,682 — for Israel.)

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- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:49 PM

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