Qualities of a Great CIA Agent

[Music] what makes somebody a prolific CIA agent if my husband was here this is this is the question that he would he would love to answer one of the qualities that you need to have as a CIA officer well there's that there's a dichotomy because the people that we search for we're talking operational now we're talking sake case officers we want big personalities we want gregarious people we want people with really strong interpersonal skills it's a big part of their job that they be able to approach people all over the world and convince them that they want to be our friend and they want to work for us we can't even teach this stuff to them we have to find those people or they have to find us and they are usually larger-than-life personalities that's why we hire them we know them when we see them and then we have to say to those guys it's almost always guys by the way you could almost save the world tomorrow and you can't ever tell anybody what you did you can recruit one of these Soviet agents that's going to give us billions of dollars worth of intelligence but you can never acknowledge the fact that you were involved you can never ever expect to get any pat on the back any anything your ego has to be big enough know just swallow this and you have to have this this approval that comes from within and you have to be able to think that that is enough that's a very hard thing and a lot of people that start out wanting to work for us they say no thank you now I can't do that I can't do that home I just thought about a bunch of personalities let me bring in a type personality that's good to talk to people and it's driven and competitive goals gets the job done but there's no celebration that's right baby you won't believe what I did today I was dealing with this Russian guy but I can't tell you what I did oh that's hot that's the pinnacle that's the high quality yeah Tony thought that that was a sort of a romantic quality that that your approval comes from within you

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Keywords: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, valuetainment, patrick bet david, jonna mendez, cia, cia secrets, chief of disguise

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Length: 2min 13sec (133 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 11 2019